Panda Garden Buffet - Cookeville

Solid Asian buffet. My favorite items are the butter cabbage and the black pepper chicken. I'll probably just get that next time. Service was on top of our drink refills. Employees wear masks. Hand sanitizer and gloves are provided for customers to use at the buffet. Only negative is that it could be a tiny bit cleaner but it was really busy when we were there. We'll definitely be back.

Huge variety and the food was continually being replaced so it was all fresh. What's good about this location is that it stay busy enough to keep the food moving, but not too busy to find a seat. Best Chinese buffet in Cookeville.

Actually 3 1/2 depending on when you go. When food is fresh, it's pretty good. Standard for Chinese buffets. DO NOT EAT THE ICE CREAM!! I cannot stress that enough. While heading up towards the ice cream, I personally saw a young kid around 6 or 7years old getting ice cream for his 3 or 4 year old sister and himself. He could barely reach the ice cream and had to have his face and head right down in the opening of the cooler to reach it. You guessed it; He SNEEZED RIGHT DOWN INTO THE ICE CREAM COOLER. The damage was done. I watched to see where the parents were. Yep. They were back at the table stuffing their faces. Oblivious to the rest of the world. Obviously no one at my table had any ice cream and, as for me, I haven't eaten ice cream there since. I won't unless they change they way they do it. Go to Panda Garden. As I said at the beginning, it is pretty good food. Everything else is as well protected as any other buffet style restaurant. Just don't have any ice cream.

The food was really good today. I had seconds of some items. There was sanitizer available as you went in and left. There were gloves available on the buffets. The seating spacing was ok. We were able to pay the waitress.

Food was fresh staff was very polite Good selection