The Golden Corral in fargo offers a tremendous variety of well prepared dishes, and the served portions are not skimpy.

Posted By Fargo Reviews ~ 11th June 2009

Before the closing of the Royal Trough – er – Fork, a new all you can eat chain had opened in Fargo, called the Golden Trough – er – Corral.  It’s located just west of Gander Mountain, east of 45th St and south of I-94.  If the two events(the closing and opening) are connected, it’s easy to see why.

The Golden Corral offers a tremendous variety of well prepared dishes, and the served portions are not skimpy.  They have every part of the meal in fine diversity.  I’m not particularly impressed with their salad bar(I’m not sure that from what I’ ve read in various consumer magazines that eating from restaurant salad bars is a good idea anyway), but I do appreciate the inclusion of fruit in the salad bar.

The specialty dishes vary from day to day, and may include things like Italian Sausage with peppers and onions, liver and onions, chicken prepared several ways, pork steaks, various fish offerings with several choices of vegetables and balked potatoes with several other potato preparations.  Their is a grill that offers streak cooked the way you want it, and they’ll show the inside of the steak to make sure it’s done to the temperature you like.  Naturally, the steak is inferior to steak house quality, but it is good nonetheless.  There is also pizza and a whole steam table of various hot dishes.  I agree with their own description of “Awesome Yankee Pot Rost.”

Three is also a large selection of desserts, including ice cream and baked goods.  A dinner roll is delivered to your table(you can get more than one if you ask) along with honey butter.  This is, to me, the main shortcoming of the buffet.  There are no other breads or other choices for butter so, if you’re like me and sugar intolerant, you’re sort out of luck.

Everything seems to be clean, the staff hard working and eager to give quality food and service.  The price is around $10.  Admittedly the food is not the greatest, but it is good, probably as good as it can get for food prepared in mass quantities.  I think it a really good deal, and the only reason I might not there as often as I would like is there is real temptation to take way too much.  Oh, unless you go late or early, its very crowded.