Park Place Gourmet II

I’ve been coming here on-​and-​off for years, mostly for the lunch buffet. «gourmet» may be a misnomer, but the food quality’s decent, and I appreciate the fact that I can choose from a good selection of fruits/​vegetables while at the same time having a small amount of «guilt» items from the hot bar. The few times I’ve ordered sandwiches, they’s also been fine.

A nice hot/​cold per pound buffet located on Farragut Square. They specialize in asian type of food and it is usually fresh. I like their hot and sour soup on a cold day. Be careful, like many places like this you can end up with a $ 15 lunch if you pile on too much.

I love this place and the food is always good. I even try things when I don’t know what exactly it is. Only thing I haven’t liked was the tofu. But I’m not a vegetarian so. The breakfast is awesome (and cheaper). When I want healthy, they have endless fresh fruit and oatmeal. When I want to pig out I can do that as well with the omelet, potatoes all ways, scrapple, different sausages, grits, you know the good breakfast food we love but our cholesterol hates lol. Their deli sandwiches are deliciously meaty, I never feel skimped. Dinner buffet is also good with ample options, tender meat/​fish, well seasoned sides and desserts. I’ve learned to pass on the meats (unless it’s the teriyaki), because the weight of the meat alone can make you walk out with an $ 11 food box. My go to is a couple sides (spinach & mac n cheese) with a slice of meatloaf and I’m paying about $ 7. The Reuben is my favorite.
Not five stars, because the bathroom is really smelly and kind of gross and I think the buffet is a bit pricey for [delicious] food I wouldn’t consider «gourmet».

Beware! They double charged me for lunch claiming that the first transaction didn’t go through. Well, it did go through and I ended up with a duplicate charge on my credit card. When I contacted Park Place Gourmet II, the person I spoke to said they would refund me via check. Guess what, they never did.
AVOID this place, or watch your credit card bill closely.

Great food at a great price! My fiancé and I were on vacation checking out our nation’s capital and got on the metro to downtown D.C.found this place immediately exiting the metro at Farragut.

The teriyaki chicken on the stick is AMAZING! I usually get the lo mein noodles, the delicious beef and broccoli, and a little bit of the vegetable fried rice. I have been here about 3 times in 2 weeks already, but it hurts my pocket when I do! ($ 14-​$ 16 each trip), The staff are very nice and always have a smile on their face when I check out.

I have been eating here for the last 5 years on and off for breakfast and lunch. Within the last few months has really improved a lot. They might have gotten new cooks but definitely got new customer service folks. The buffet bar really is tasty. The made to order grill is just that. In fact, today I had a patty melt made for me and it was delish!

I stopped by Park Place Gourmet for lunch this afternoon and after surveying the hot bar and made to order grill options decided on the hot bar. Park Place offers a large selection of food items from fried rice, lasagna, macaroni and cheese, baked chicken, fruits, salads and more. I decided to pick up some fried shrimp, macaroni, mashed potatoes and baked chicken. I paid $ 9.58 which based on all the food I got thought was a decent price. The food however, was sub-​par. The fried shrimp were decent (nothing to write home about) but the baked chicken was very dry. The mashed potatoes and macaroni were my least favorite. I’m pretty sure the mashed potatoes are a combination of real potatoes and the boxed variety. The macaroni and cheese just wasn’t good. It also had some weird spice in it that’s not detectable from looking at it.
In the end, I won’t be back here for lunch but I may try breakfast one day based on other Unilocalers reviews.

This has been my go-​to for breakfast for years, more than a decade. They have a great hot breakfast and fruit buffet as well as a grill that will make anything you want. The place is clean and the people are very friendly. If I was traveling with kids in DC this is the kind of place I would want to find, but it’s hard to know that from the street. They play nice Christian music which is pretty unique. Best thing on the breakfast bar is a layered Western omelet. Only steps away from the Farrgut West Metro, 17^th Street exit. On the south side of Farragut Square. The statute of Admirial Farragut contains steel from the prop of the USS Hartford, his ship in the Battle of Mobile Bay.

Very basic breakfast place that confused me a lot at first, but which has its virtues. Hint: you enter on the right, go through the buffet but NOT back to the checkout guy you passed on the way in, but around to the left.
It’s all buffet (or nearly all) and we had breakfast, for which they charge you by the pound. It has an odd mixture of American favorites (sausage, eggs, potatoes, etc.) with sweetened Asian dishes. They had decent fresh fruit and the coffee was acceptable if standard Columbian blend.
Seating is ample, I suggest you go to the window side if you don’t want people with to-​go orders shoving by you all the time. Restrooms are there, but a bit disgusting.
Very much recommended if you want a hearty breakfast very quick, which is mostly undistinguishable from your average Denny’s, and you happen to be in Farragut Square. Otherwise nothing to write to the folks at home about.
I will give you this tip: if a discipline has to call itself a «science» (political science, computer science), it isn’t really a science. If a restaurant advertises itself as «gourmet», it isn’t. That said you can still pull something useful out of all of the above.

Dc has a lot if great places to eat, especially delis, but this place is a classic dc deli and what it represents. Food is not 20 dollars a plate for lunch, go in grab a quick sandwich and a plate of fries good to go. I’ve been in Philly for about a year, and ate at over a dozen cheese steak places (their bread is their signature, not the hoagie itself). Most meaty sandwiches I have gotten, and its like they season it with crack (so effing good –_​-​).
Best salad bar in town, hands down, only reason I say this is I hate salad, but my girlfriend enjoyed it and did not complain to me so cheers on that.

I really like this place. There is a great selection of hot bar food and of food made to order. It is about the same price as any other type of DC lunch. A lot of people don’t like it because the food is weighed (which can be annoying if you have heavy food and not a lot of it). Everyone is really friendly and they take credit card. A good place to get a quick lunch. There is seating inside and outside.
Will go back again.

Standard buffet fare but I like coming here for a warm, not very good, breakfast when I’m hungry for tater tots and corned beef hash. Not my proudest moments. The other morning I was too late for breakfast and they had just put out lunch. I got four pan-​fried dumplings and they were so good! They had great flavor, were huge, and still had that crispy-​chewy texture that makes a pan-​fried dumpling so wonderful. I’d go back just to get an order of those.

This place has great customer service, ample indoor seating and a few tables for an alfresco lunch.
However, the Chicago burger was one of the worst burgers I’ve ever had. The patty was super-​thin and tasteless. Toppings were fresh enough, but there were no seasonings. It made me wish that I had gone to one of the nearby food trucks.

This is a great place to stop in for a quick bite to eat. They serve everything but my favorite thing to do when I run in here is to do their buffet table where you pay by the ounce. I can collect a little bit of everything and it never disappoints.

7 years. That’s how long I’ve been coming to Park Place for breakfast and/​or lunch. I’ve got to be closing in on 1,000 meals at this place; the financial implications of which are making me rethink bagging lunches more.
It’s perfect for what it is; a solid buffet with a lot of selections that rotate moderately throughout the week, and a solid assortment of sandwiches you can order. My only gripe is that they used to have great coffee, but changed it a few years back. It’s the only thing the carry that is sub-​par. Everything else is reliably good.
Not much starts my morning off better than one of their ‘Sunny Sandwiches’ and their cheesesteak hoagie is pretty decent (Philly native here). Fried shrimp and sesame chicken on Thursdays? Yes please, I’ve been meaning to gain weight for winter.
Anyway, I have a deep and profound love for Park Place. It may be difficult to understand in our current environment of food-​truck options, chopt, roti, blackfinn etc etc. But long before those options brought some variety to Farragut, there was always Park Place. Never forget. Never forget.

Excellent spot for a quick breakfast. There’s a nice assortment of breakfast sandwiches. The prices aren’t the cheapest in the world, but the quality is definitely there.
There’s also a hot bar which is priced by weight ($ 6-​$ 7 per lb). Nothing extraordinary, but certainly not bad.
Customer service can definitely be hit or miss depending on who you ask. The young guy I talked to was super helpful so I have no complaints.

Hey there you terrible, guilty pleasure you.
Park Place is one of those places that I pretend I don’t know, and I pretend I’ve never been to. But then I go and write a Unilocal review of it, so my innocence is gone.
But really, this is one of the best places to go in the general Farragut area after a really long morning… or a really rough morning following a really long night, or a sad morning, or a pregnancy craving morning.
I find myself making the two block walk most usually after having some guilty desires for a fattening, fried, hodge-​podge inside of a styrofoam container. Some fried dish, with a scoop of bright orange mac and cheese, with two rolls of canned tuna sushi rolls? Sure, why not?
Or how about some low mein noodles with sweet and sour sauce on top, garnished with a spoonful of fried clams? You know you want it.
Kimchee on top of my spinach pie, duh. And darn, that dessert is just going to have to share a corner in the box with those french fries, it all goes down the same anyway, right?
I like to consider myself to be an aficionado of buffets, although this whole pay-​by-​weight system really cramps my style. But of all of the pig troughs scattered around downtown to make all of the office-​goers fat and happy, Park Place is one of the better ones.
Their variety is wide, and refills come aplenty. It’s rare to see dried out, crusty dishes which are all too common at many of these places. Here, the food is fresh, albeit, not as creative as I may normally go for.
On top of the salad bar and hot bar, they have a full deli sandwich area in the back where they whip together just about anything you can imagine between two slices of bread.
Drink wise, the soda fountain tends to be my next stop, but the whole back wall is filled with beverage coolers, having just about any bottled soft drink you could want.
Price wise, I of course, always end up spending way too much. How the heck am I supposed to limit myself of fried things at lunch, when it’s up to me to decide on portions? Yeah, I have no idea either.
Another highlight is their condiment bar. After you pay, there is a station with your utensils, etc. and here they also offer a huge variety of packaged sauces/​condiments. Maybe you just got some french fries, but why wouldn’t you put some plum sauce and Chinese mustard on top of them before dipping into a soy sauce, ketchup infusion? You have no reason not to indulge.

I’ve never had any of the actual cafeteria style food they serve, but I do stop in for a cliff bar and a diet snapple some mornings.
They always have my favorite diet peach snapple, so that makes me happy.
The staff is super friendly and they always are very quick to check out.

A great place for a quick deli sandwich in DC.
I recently met someone for a CraigsList ticket exchange and decided
to meet here since it’s close to Farragut West Metro.
They have a great selection of deli sandwiches with all your favorites
on your choice of bread. Everything looked very good. They have a daily lunch special as well.
This particular day I decided on the Deli 21, which is turkey, roast beef, ham and provolone on your choice of bread. Not bad for $ 6 and change.
The order and pay system is quick, easy and efficient.
If the weather is nice you can sit out on their covered patio & people
watch on the streets of DC. You might even see the guy who does his sit ups on the corner of I & Connecticut. Yep, welcome to the big city!
There are many two and four top tables inside as well as stools and a bar if you prefer.
Right across from Farragut Park, you can wander over and see a statue dedicated to the first American Navy Admiral.