Bosque Bambu - Montevideo

This is another Buffet that had good food. Nothing out of the ordinary but it was filling and relatively inexpensive compared to other sit-down restaurants in town. I arrived at 1 p.m. on Saturday before going on the walking tour. I got a plastic to-go container and put a decent amount of food and my total was 135 pesos. There's also an all-you-can-eat option that allows you to sit down in the dining room but I think that's close to the 300 pesos which was too expensive in my opinion. There were probably 30 items on the cold salad bar and 40 items or more on the hot food bar. This staff seems indifferent but at least they weren't unfriendly. I would go there if in this part of town although there are less experience expensive alternatives in other neighborhoods.

Crowded place, oily but decent food, awkward and grumpy staff. You have to ask for vegan options. So I asked for vegan options and, instead of just pointing to the food, the girl actually touched some of them with her big nails with no gloves. Ew. She was nice and helpful, though unlike the rest of the staff. The food IS good but I just wanted to get out of that place. I can only recommend this restaurant to people who don't worry so much about cleanliness. Updated from previous review on 2016-08-16

I'm a local, and found this place with some friends and returned to try the food. The food is tasty, a little oily for my taste, but good anyway. When I went and asked how the system was, they said it was by weight, and it was a little expensive, so I would recommend to go for the all you can eat option which I now know of! Great variety of salads and vegan options, sadly, they are not identified and you have to ask to know, which kind of annoys me, also, that day, the stuff who were there were so grumpy! Maybe a bad day for her, but... it's not an excuse... Overall, nice food.

Trust me, if you're vegan, you wanna stay far away from this place. First of all, they dont have an all you can eat buffét option, only pay by weight and its expensive! My plate landed on 534 pesos! Second, the first thing i do is that i ask the girl working there what is vegan and whats not, she sighs and has a very bad attitude and make it seem she's doing me a huge favour but points it out to me and i double check so i repeat and ask her twice just to make sure because im not only vegan but also lactose intolerant. The first section of the buffét was supposed to be all vegan, but the first thing i dig into turns out to have cheese inside for that they give me my money back. I continue eating, the taste is blah and the food is super fried and oily. Then before i knew it i dig into another thing and i notice it has cheese in it aswell, so I call her again and tell her this is not ok i asked you twice, but she had to go to the cash machine, because turns out she works in the store section and obviously knows nothing about the buffét so up comes the chinese girl and starts yelling at me and says yes this dish has cheese yes i can see that but thats not what i was told, I asked her twice about the food and drama breaks out. Up comes another worker who says that the other thing on my plate has egg, and says its my responsibility you should know that has eggs And there i just hit the roof, im not from here how the hell am I supposed to know anything, thats why i asked i mentioned a swedish dish to her and asked her if she knew whats in it, because its the exact same thing! I say im not paying for the things I refuse to eat but of course Im not asking for the money back for the other stuff, yet hey refuse to give me my money back so there we stand arguing. They speak no english whatsoever and my spanish is very poor, and the whole thing was just a big mess luckily a local comes up and handles the situation and I end up getting some money back but the whole thing is still just horrible. Expensive no knowledge about what the hell they are serving and no service minded staff whatsoever. Not a good combination if you ask me. Gets 2 stars just because I have to rate and 2 is the lowest, so..

Food is good, they’ve a nice variety. Its a bit expensive and the main problem is that ingredients are not labeled so you’ve to ask what’s vegan and what’s not, which is annoying for both sides. Also allergens are not labeled. They use a lot of plastic as well.