Hopes Restaurant

The fried rice was very good and had some of the small shrimp at least. General Tso chicken was also very good. We had the regular (not sub gum) bbq pork chow mein. it didn't have much taste, it lacked bbq pork, and had huge cuts of celery.

Buffet closed (due to low staffing) until further notice. They are available for dine in and take out from their menu. With the buffet, I would usually give it 4 stars. I have been coming here since I was a kid and have been bringing my kids here for years. We have only eaten from the buffet. The food is typical Americanized Chinese food. It is a cozy atmosphere and we like to sit by the fireplace. The buffet was nice because there was a variety of foods to try--something for everyone. It is much smaller, and more affordable, than other Chinese buffets around the north metro. To me, the dishes have been hit or miss, depending on the day and the time of day we came; however, my picky teens always like it, so that says something. The staff have always been friendly and helpful. We came a month ago, but they were closed for remodeling. We have family in town, so we came today for the buffet, at their request, but the buffet was closed due to low staffing. Unfortunately, my family didn't want to order from the menu and hope they liked it. The nice thing about a buffet is that you can try a small sample of an item and, if you don't like it, you can choose something else without extra cost. If you order from the menu and don't like it, you waste food and have to order an additional dish, wait for it while everyone else eats, and have to pay double. Or you just eat it and don't want to return. We like a little bit of several items here, but not an entire dish of one thing, so we won't be back until the buffet is open. On the other hand, a typical Chinese meal has a few items that are shared among the group, so you could all order a different entree and a couple of sides to share. My group was not keen on this idea today, but maybe your group will create your own buffet. The reviews that mentioned food poisoning could actually be due to eating items with their hands without sanitizing after handling the serving utensils and immediately prior to picking up the finger food (donuts, wontons, cones, etc... ) since we naturally have a ton of bacteria on our hands and gather more from everything we touch. Hand washing only decreases the number of bacteria, it doesn't eliminate all of them. (Even antibacterial soap must be scrubbed for 2 mins before rinsing to actually kill the bacteria.) Also, only staphylococcus bacteria can cause food poisoning soon after eating. Other bacteria can take 12-72 hours before causing symptoms, so just because one gets sick soon after eating, doesn't mean that their last meal was the culprit. I used to assume that also, until I studied microbiology. Also, as I can attest to myself, some people's GI tracts are more sensitive to certain foods than others. Sometimes fried Chinese food upsets my stomach but the rest of my party is fine; it doesn't mean it's food poisoning. But, it is important to ensure foods are kept temperature controlled (cold or hot, not lukewarm) and don't sit out too long. You can usually tell by looking at them or testing their temp. If a "hot"item feels room temp, you probably shouldn't eat it.

We ordered sweet and sour chicken and chicken chow mein with wings. Everything was really hard. The celery was raw. They added the hard noodles themselves. The chicken was tough. Won't ever go back. They offered to cook our food longer! That's cross contamination!!!!!

Love this buffet!! The sweet women always remembers us and loves my child, even when we don't bring him she ask where baby? ( he's now 7!! Hehe) The food is good and reasonably priced. Yes the place is outdated but those sometimes make the best places. We have been going here for years. Never ever had a problem. Very friendly staff and good food.They have really go do chicken chow mein. Nice variety of foods.

We went to Hope's Buffet for dinner last night, I never really eat many items from their buffet but what I did eat was the Pepper Steak. It was absolutely delicious. Their pepper steak is normally better than most but they hit it out of the ball park with the steak being thin but medium rare and extremely tender. It was extremely hot and tasted like it just came off the grill

I'm not eating here again until the buffet is open. Their buffet food was good, shrimp fried rice good the vegetable lo mein good everything else is not that great. The pepper steak on the buffet is awesome but I ordered it as take-out.... not that good

I have been eating here for 13 years, never had a bad dish whether I have dined in or taken out. I am sad that due to low staff there is not buffet after Covid, but the individual dishes I have had have been FANTASTIC. As far as food poisoning no worries, I have gotten sick several times from the local McDonalds up down the street from Hopes.

I have been going here for years and always ordered the shrimp fried rice. Today I decided to order something different I ordered the chicken fried rice but it didn't look like chicken so I called the restaurant and was told that it was turkey chicken. I was like what the phone with silent and then she responded is that it. How can you use turkey when I asked for chicken. NEVER EATING HERE AGAIN!!!

Good food, good prices for the times. Not sure if they still have their buffet. But that used to be awesome!

Good food. Glad dine is available. Hopefully buffet will open soon. If you like working with food, contact them for a job.