Buffet vs Resteraunts?

I would have included the "other" option as well but let's keep this topic focused on buffets and resteraunts. ;)

Buffets:
--You can eat as much as you want whenever you'd like, as soon as the waiter shows you your table, its munching time!
--With a buffet, you can surely know that you will be leaving the place will a full stomach, a stomach filled with delicious foods that you picked on your own according to your tastebuds.
--If you you don't like a praticular food you do not have to take it as opposed to a resteraunt. You can try new things, instead of just having one focused meal like a resteraunt.
--You can leave the place whenever you'd like to.
--As for a tip, don't feel bad if you tip low because in a buffet, the waiters hardly serve you!

Resteraunts:
--For all you lazy people out there lol j/k you can have a waiter serve on you hand and foot.
--Yes, in a resteraunt you do have to wait for your food but hey at least it gives you time to feel hungry and then enjoy a decent meal when it arrives.
--Yes you get one plate of food as your main course, but hey it does give you a chance to judge the food and the resteraunt based on that one dish and whats on the menu.
--You do tip alot but hey...be nice :)
---You can relax and view the decor ;)

If you were on a special occasion or just hungry and want to get out the house and you had these two choices, where would you go.
Also, if you'd like to share some of your dining experiences with us or tell us about some good places then that's cool too.

Buffets ftw!!

a restaurant .. especially this one which i go to and has a lake view (you are almost hanging over the lake) and the food there is exquisite!

Restaurant, buffets sually have very little food. and it's mostly cold. Restaurants are like.. cooked to a better quality ^_^

Yea restaurants have higher quality food and more social, whereas if you take friends to a buffet it's more of an eating contest :)

Sure its more pricey, but you get your moneys worth.

Restraunts, i find buffets nasty, people picking up food setting it down, coughing all over it and what not. You dont know how long the food has been sitting there either. But maybe im just wierd.

i like buffet... but when it has indian food lol.... i LOVE indian food!

Resturants. More romantic and fitting for certain occasions.

Although.. if you find a good buffet.. *drool*

Hmm another good point actually, if i went to a buffet where you pick up the food yourself.. you dunno how many people have picked it up and put it back down. I'd rathe rhave it served to me still... kinda like subways ^_^

I like Mongolian grills though, pick out your own raw shizzle and they cook it for you XD

dont go to many, kebab after the pub is all good for me, hehe. Nah resturant for me...dont get people running and filling their plates up to the roof like slobs. its a buffet you can always go back for more...idiots

BUFFET!!!!

Its called buffet, how can it not win?

Resteraunts are boring, you cant go in drunk oryou look a fool.
But buffets are full of fools anyway so nobody notices :D

BUFFETS FTW!

P.S This thread made me hyngry, so i had 2 chocolate spread sandwiches!!! FTW!!