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Carb-Attack Buffet full of greasy pizza I made the mistake of coming to this buffet with a very tight dress and belt on I was astounded to see that this buffet consists of: I did like the food here, but it was hard to consume more than one plate without getting sick and feeling like my stomach was going to explode.
If you go here, i recommend you have a very empty stomach and not go too late in the evening or you will feel bloated for awhile. This place will give you your pizza and pasta fix if you're craving a lot of cheap food. One pizza I remember liking is the Seafood Alfredo pizza. This isn't really my kind of food but it was all good especially for an Italian buffet. Really nice salad bar along with pizza, chicken, pasta and a dessert bar no one can beat.
Some of the reviews are a little off on the ratings. How do you go to an Italian restaurant and complain about carbs? The staff is great and the place is very clean. We will be back. We had a great experience with the buffet.
Everything was fresh and very tasty. Salad bar was good. Didn't try the chicken or mashed potatoes, but they looked ok. My teen boys got plenty to eat and enjoyed the dessert bar as well. They have very good ranch dressing! We were forced to rate this "establishment" one star. However, one star is infinitely better than this shack wagon deserves. I will start with the pros of Valentino's: It had air conditioning blasting full force, allowing the party area to enter its own ice age. The red beets in the salad bar were ok.
They were firm, but ok I guess. Think of how a loaf of bread would be if you compressed it under the Earth's crust for 20, years. That's how hard Valentino's "bread twists" were. The poptarts with cheese on top that everyone kept calling pizza had the texture of grandmother's elbow skin and had as much grease as a 13 year old's face. The plastic film topping the "pizza" was cheese, I guess.
One member of our party made the fatal mistake of consuming a spoonful of Valentino's "chili". The only place this atrocity could have originated is an industrial vat in Area Valentino's claims to be an Italian restaurant, yet they don't even have basic Italian dressing. Our group was eating spinach drenched in vinegar to achieve some kind of desirable flavor. They don't even know their own menu. My fellow diner knew their menu better than the wait staff. The cottage cheese was a curdled bucket of white liquid. No cheese lumps visible. The menu claims Valentino's is a "fine dining establishment", yet the chairs have visible tears and appear to be from a Salvation Army garage sale.
If I was starving, and there was a Valentino's five yards away, and a middle class family's garbage bins three miles away, I would run across broken glass carrying my dad on my back while a midget riding a moped fires a BB gun at me all to get to the middle class family's garbage bin and eat their half eaten ribs from the week before. This place was legendary when I was a student at ISU. It's moved since I was in college and It has been ages since I had eaten here. After reading some of the reviews on here I went in with an elevated eye-brow on what to expect.
On a Friday night it was jam-packed with families. Two school buses were unloading a full contingent of teenaged kids when we left. This place is popular for a reason. It offers safe, popular favorites with a lot of options to choose from.
A great price for consistent, quality Italian foods. Vals is definitely family oriented lots of kids on some nights. The new location has a much lighter look than the old location. You cannot beat the price for all you can eat pizza They regularly have buffet specials varies by night. If you are concerned about calories, you probably should stick to the salad bar As a note to the other reviewers: If you do not like buffets Are you just trying to buff up your quantity of reviews?
Yep it used to be pretty good but now reminds me of Pizza Hut The original crust is super greasy and the cheese doesn't taste much like cheese. The food is terrible. Not worth the few bucks. If you want to carbo load for cheap, go buy a loaf of decent bread and I promise it'll taste better than the supposed pizza at this buffet here. Buffet has quite a few options for a low price but overall I didn't find anything I liked. My family loves Val's Italian restaurant. They have a great salad bar with lots to choose from, pastas you can drench in your choice of sauces red, meat, white, cheese, etc.
They delegate one large hot table to pizzas that begin with their house made crusts and fresh real cheese. There are the usual flavors along with some creative delights like Mac and cheese or cheeseburger to name a few. If you don't see what tickles your taste buds let the staff know what you'd like. They WANT to make you happy and will do their best to creat your requests.
If your sweet tooth needs taming don't worry, there is a dessert bar filled with cookies, dessert pizzas, brownies, etc. If you arrive at a slow time be sure to tell the wait staff what kind of pizza you desire and they will whip up a fresh, piping hot treat for you. Tell 'em Marcia sent you. We live in Missouri, but when we visit our ISU-student son, we frequently go to Valentino's, for the big variety of pizza and other food on their big, big buttet. Others can snark all they want, my family and I like it.
Great buffet with lots of options! Reviewed November 9, This is a great place to eat.
At the top-right hand corner of the window, click the button with three dots on it , then Settings. Useful Funny Cool Others will see how you vote! Our server was very friendly and attentive without being over bearing. Make sure you click Allow or Grant Permissions if your browser asks for your location. They had some pizza out but it was all at least an hour old I worked at a gas station so I definitely know old pizza when I see it , the salad was pretty much out and the dressing choices were ranch or vinegar or oil.
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