The First Truly Beautiful Buffet

Latitudes Cafe`& Martini Bar
Anderson Town Center 233-9888

In concept the all you care to eat buffet is an awesome idea. Who doesn’t want to sample new things, get seconds of favorites and not worry about sending back a disappointing dish? All of us enjoy a beautiful buffet.
The problem is the words buffet and beautiful rarely share the same sentence. Most buffets simply stock big pans of bottom dollar bullsh#t they pass off as “a good deal for the money”It isn’t good or a deal if it’s just cheap crap.

Latitudes doesn’t have 75 ft. of steaming pans, nor do they have a 7 foot Sof-T ice cream machine whirring out frozen chemical cream twists. No Red #40 strawberry pie either.
Chef Dan Starkins decided to go with quality over quantity... but it’s a buffet you say! No worries, there’s more than meets the eye with this spread.

First, you start with a caesar salad. Fresh romaine lettuce, greek olives, pepperoncini, rustic handmade caesar dressing and buffalo mozzarella can be combined to your tastes.
Oven warm bruschetta and polenta with spicy pepperoni is served along side.
Next, you move on right to the main attraction. Pasta.

There are enough choices to sample many completely different individual meals. Start by choosing your pasta from cilantro lime linguini, lemon tarragon linguini, chipotle fettucini, mushroom sage fettucini, egg macaroni or angel hair. The scratch made pastas are excellent just by themselves, but if you feel the urge you can top them off with leeks, olives, eggplant, porcini mushrooms, red & yellow pepper, golden beet or caramelized onions.
Meat eaters can add grilled chicken, Italian sausage, beef meatballs, pink shrimp, king crab, or Mako shark. Next you can add your sauce, you can choose from marinara, pesto curry cream, porcini mushroom, white wine alfredo, dirty martini, pink vodka or buffalo blue cheese. After you make your selections Andrew & Alex take over and sauté it up piping hot right before your eyes. Fresh parmesano reggiano, basil, green onion, wheat grass and lemon infused olive oil are available for garnish.

There are so many choices and combinations one might a bit intimidated at first. No problem. The sauté chefs will steer you right with suggested combinations. Personally I chose to pair similar flavors like chipotle fettucini with grilled chicken, peppers and onions with a pesto curry cream sauce. Later I went for the mushroom sage fettucini with Italian sausage, mushrooms and onion, topped with traditional marinara and parmesano reggiano.
Be sure to leave room for the amazing ravioli. They offer four cheese and jalapeno black bean. Lest not forget the gnocchi. It’s hot in top kitchens and Danny’s sun dried tomato or spinach gnocchi is competition worthy.

The aromas of sizzling sausage, fresh herbs and flavored pastas sing across the room to get the juices flowing, the closer you get to the buffet table the hungrier you seem to be. No worries, this is a buffet after all, you can create as many dishes as you care to eat. It’s also a great place to help the kids try new flavors, plus with each paid adult ($15) the child eats free! You can dig it every Tuesday from 5-9pm.