Now you might say that those grill items sound like lunch menu items, but when you get to the hot servers you will find all of the same hot meats and dishes that are found at dinner. There was beef brisket being carved, there were hot dogs, Angus beef burgers and cheeseburgers, and marinated chicken breasts all being grilled, along with pizza at the grill station. On Wednesday afternoon at lunch you are not going to get Prime Rib, however, there was a lot to be found on the two grills. The Prime Rib is featured on two of the grill areas. Wednesday night is Prime Rib Night with full Prime Ribs of Beef cut to your order. This $9.99 lunch buffet was offering us everything that we would find had we been there on Wednesday night for $15.99 with the only exception being found at the grill area. We went up to the buffet servers to find that both sides were completely full of food - and all of the serving trays had items that would usually be found at dinner. On this Wednesday afternoon there were two grills running. At dinner there are two to four grills running with several different items on each. There are two very long buffet servers that spread out to each side of the center of the serving area with four separate grills to the front. Shady Maple is a very large buffet restaurant - and that is all that it is - buffet. There were also a few tour bus groups seated in a separate dining room. Our lunch at Shady Maple was on a Wednesday afternoon. So if you are paying that much less you must be getting a lot less - right? Wrong! BUT during the week at Shady Maple, the lunch buffet is just $9.99 and that includes the beverage! This is from $4 to $9 less than the evening dinner buffet prices. At Shady Maple the Saturday lunch buffet is just one dollar less than the dinner buffet price - $15.99 instead of $16.99. ![]() Saturday lunch buffets are often set to be the same as Saturday dinner buffet. I have had lunch there only once before, and that was on a Saturday. I have had dinner there many, many times. ![]() It is one of the best - wait - not one of the best - THE BEST buffet. I have written here many times about Shady Maple Smorgasbord in East Earl, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was not going to chance the 150 plus miles in the dark on icy roads so we decided to have our buffet dinner for lunch. I generally save my buffet dining for dinner but, while in PA for the day on my way back home the weather turned to snow and my original plan to drive back at night after dinner was quickly changing as the light snow turned to ice on the roads.
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