Cook and Indi’s World Buffet

I’ve been here a couple of times and the average of my ratings is a 2. The recent visit was closing in on a 3. This surprised me because I really thought it was below par the first time. Luck of the draw I guess cos this time the food seemed fresher, warmer and tastier. The range of cuisines and the price brings the punters in, and as such on a good day you do get good value.

Went here recently for lunch and I’m pretty sure I won’t be back.
Despite claiming to offer a wide range of food choices, in my opinion the only tasty options were the pizzas and some of the Indian food. The ‘sushi’ was barely passable as sushi and there were only one or two fresh veg options — and these looked a bit wilted! They do have a Mr Whippy machine for dessert though — worth 2 stars alone.
The drinks (only sampled soft drinks) were nice and reasonably priced — draft is a bottomless cup — and the staff were lovely, looks of cooing over baby A!
I’m sure they do a good enough trade being on Sauchiehall street between students and people out for a boozy night out but in my opinion this place is one to be missed.

I’m only giving this place one star because I *have* to, in order to review it. And this isn’t at all about the food, to be honest, but more the service (or appalling lack of it).
As far as buffet, eat-​all-​you-​can deals go, it’s not too shabby actually. £9.99 on a Sunday for as many rounds your tummy can handle. At this price, it’s not going to be top notch food but for lunch, it’s good enough to keep a rumbling stomach at bay. With a selection of mexican, indian, chinese and european food on offer, you’ll end up with the weirdest selection of food all on one plate — but sometimes it’s nice to eat a potato smiley face with a chicken korma.
Therein my positive comments end. The service in this place when I visited last was so bad it was almost laughable — had it not been annoying. We were sat right by a 2 foot (or so) glass partition between us and the bar — although according to the staff behaviour, they seemed to think it was a 7ft soundproofed wall of invisibility. Not only did they hover over us as we were eating — as someone a bit funny about being watched as I eat, this was particularly frustrating — but they then proceeded to talk loudly about staffing matters.
I’m now *lucky* enough to know when this particular establishment holds its monthly staffing meetings, why one waitress missed this week’s meeting, and that the staff are now no longer to have glasses of juice unless they’re on break — as the glasses keep going missing and the customer’s then have to wait for drinks.
This conversation only ended when Gordon had to ask the offending staff members to stop talking over us — they were both at either end of our table, having their conversation right over our heads and our food.
I don’t particularly like having to write bad reviews of places — but even while we were there we witnessed another table making a complaint and nothing was done about it. I won’t be coming back here again.

I’m a big believer in going into a place with my expectations adjusted accordingly. As such I wasn’t expecting amazing food from this place, and the food we had (a wonderfully weird mix of chinese, indian and some pizza) was ok. It wasn’t great, it was mostly bland but as I said, my expectations were low going in.
But there is more to a place than the food it serves, and this is what puzzles me. This kind of buffet dining could be fun, cheap and cheerful, but here it’s a horrible mix of a grotty establishment with awful, awful staff.
I will not eat here again.
I’ll spare you the details about my trip to use the toilet, down slippery dirty stairs, an unmopped floor and all.
As for the staff, they seemed blissfully unaware that there were two diners having a meal. Our seats were over by the drinks station although it seemed more like the staff gathering place, and on more than one occasion they held conversations directly over our table like we didn’t even exist!
Shocking. But at least we now know that their staff meetings are at 10am on a Sunday and that members of staff can no longer take glasses of water for themselves because they’ll get into trouble… apparently some of the staff weren’t returning the glasses to the restaurant. Terrible, I know.
Mediocre food, rude staff, and a general lack of care.
The only upside would be the price, £10 and you can eat as much as you want.
But, as ever, you get what you pay for.

I wouldn’t even give this place a star. It looks nice but the food is awful. You couldn’t pay me to come back here.
Not a great selection of food to start off with. Everything was dry and cold. Don’t attempt the seafood because you don’t know how long thats been lying there. Dessert was just cakes and ice cream.
The only decent thing about here was the music. Defo not worth the £27 quid for 2.

This is the second trip I’ve made to this place within the space of a month. The first occasion was for Harry’s 30^th birthday, and most recently we took my wee mammy and daddy there to celebrate their birthdays, being that they are mere days apart. Tis one expensive month! Weekday dinners are cheaper by a few pounds, which I wasn’t expecting, so that was a definite bonus!
There is a drinks deal for two for one cocktails on any day but Saturday, and while they are alright, you can get comparitively priced cocktails nearby for much cheaper. Stick with the soft drinks, my friends!
Now on to the food! There was a great mix of many nations cuisine, but depending on when you go there may be more nations than others. I did love that there was a whole Italy station to itself — the pizzas were actually very nice, with a good selection of interesting toppings. There are only a couple of pasta options, and on each occasion both were super-​dairy, so I avoided them.
There was a great selection of chickeny things, like Chaat, Gyoza, pakora, and more. I sampled a little of everything small and nibbly, and I found the food very pleasing. There was a small selection of sushi, all of which were vegetarian apart from the sake nigiri (salmon). Their tamago nigiri was very nice too.
The salad station was a bit disappointing. Not really any dressings to speak of, but and the prawns were drowned in a very bland mayonaise dressing. For someone who’s keen on a salad and /​or prawn cocktail, my tastebuds were very sad pandas.
Dessert time was a little bit special because I just love asian sweets! There was kheer, jalaibi, gulab jamun… and there was also a very nice selection of ice cream, which my other half let me sample. There were various little pastry dainties, and a fruit station by the big chocolate fountain! I do so adore a good chocolate fountain. Lovely stuff.
The staff were very friendly, organised, and generally unobtrussive at this location. The servers each have a radio and earpiece, very much like some sort of military special ops team, and the floor manager directs them. I didn’t have to walt long for drinks, and any questions I had were very quickly seen to on both occasions.
As Glasgow buffets go, this was definitely one of the better ones. And if you have fussy eaters in your party, if they can’t find something they like in here, despair!

Not sure why there is two pages up for this one?
I’ve been here twice and in over a year nothing has changed with the exception of another word added to the signage outside above the door.
The food is to a poor standard in taste and looks, they have had «now open» sign on the window for over a year now, can’t understand why it’s still up.
This place should be on a list of places to avoid in a year the food has got worse than better, definitely avoid.

So I went here for my birthday the other day and was pleasantly surprised! I expected it to be usual fare but nothing amazing. Their curries were lovely. A nice mix of indian, chinese, thai with some italian, Spanish and japanese options. Some options were great such as chicken tikka, chicken fajita and pakora were great. Other things were ok such as paella and the sushi which were a little dry but none the less tasty.
Good little selection of desserts on offer too such as ice cream, tiny cakes of awesome, gulab jamun and jalebi to complete the lot!
All the staff were lovely and kind especially the girl who I believe was called Katie who was especially lovely. Veey attentive, genuine and helpful.
Id definetely go here again!