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The buffet’s carving station served up delicious porchetta and whole turkeys, and Sabatini’s, the Italian specialty restaurant, offered gorgeous views and standout fresh pasta.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025

We sit down at the restaurant on a recent weekday evening, and a few seconds later the table is populated with a buffet’s worth of dishes containing salad and banchan.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2019

Keep yer eye on the buffet's my maxim, look out for the "jam" and the laugh, And you'll collar the pick o' the basket, the rest is all sordust and chaff.

From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various

Most of all pleased Liubka the universally familiar Armenian couplets about Karapet: "Karapet has a buffet, On the buffet's a confet, On the confet's a portret— That's the self-same Karapet."

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

Not when a gilt buffet’s reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside; Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll, And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.

From An Essay on Man by Morley, Henry