Choose takeaway and pay by weight, or opt for dine-in that's all-you-can eat buffet. The ingredients are specified in small signs; no garlic or onion used. The buffet spread is available from 11:30am-3pm and features some house-made grains, soya sauce, and oils, plus chop suey, pies, cakes, and cookies. Previously named Bambu. Open Mon-Fri 9:00am-6:30pm, Sat 9:00am-3:00pm.
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San Jose 1060, Montevideo, Uruguay
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24 Reviews
First Review by juliotnunes
Nattø
Points +234
Conveniente, rico y agradable - Edit
He visto que las reseñas están algo polarizadas, habiendo mucha gente que detesta este lugar, mientras que otras están fascinadas con él. Me encuenteo dentro de este segundo grupo.
Read moreLa comida es fresca, deliciosa, saludable. Juega con sabores diferentes, y con la sutileza, obligándonos a trabajar nuestros paladares. Estamos muy acostumbrados a otros tipos de cocina, como la italiana o la sudasiática, que te bofetean en la cara con sabores fuertes como el ajo, el tomate, el jengibre o el limón. Y no está mal, yo mismo adoro esos sabores, esa sensación eufórica, que te exploten las papilas gustativas y se te den vuelta los ojos. Y es por eso que, pienso, la oferta de bambú puede parecerles a algunos como aburrida, "blah". La comida aquí es comida cuya finalidad principal es alimentarte, darte calor, hacerte sentir bien. Es la comida que me puedo imaginar a las familias asiáticas comiendo todos los días.
El supermercado es bueno. Generalmente barato, y cuando no, tampoco es más caro que cualquier otro supermercado. Aquí pude conseguir doenjang, gochujang, miso tradicional, salsa de ostras vegetariana y porotos adzuki, que no conseguía en ningún otro lado. También tiene buenos precios en cuanto a harinas sin gluten, especias y PROTEÍNA DE SOJA. De verdad, una bolsa enorme de proteína de soja gruesa cuesta unos $250. Verdaderamente enorme.
En cuanto a la comida ya hecha, la pronta para ingerir, debo admitir que no he tenido oportunidad de comer en el buffet. Sin embargo, he probado el sushi, los baos y tartaletas que se ofrecen en el mostrador, al igual que algunos postres de luna (mooncakes), alfajores y turrones, todo vegano. Cada cosa que he probado me ha sorprendido gratamente. Son balanceados, tienen texturas muy bien logradas, tan, tan umami. Nunca me quejé de que nada fuera demasiado dulce, o salado, o picante. Siempre parece tener la cantidad adecuada de cada ingrediente.
Y ahora, lo más polémico de todo: el servicio.
Sé que mi experiencia no es la más común, por lo que he leído en las opiniones, pero jamás me han dado nada que reprocharles. Cada pregunta que me surge los dependientes la resuelven, cada ítem que no encuentro, ellos me lo buscan. Cuando se me cayeron las cosas, las chicas vinieron a ayudarme a juntarlas. Cuando batallé con el microondas, vinieron a asistirme. Siempre con mucha amabilidad, respeto y paciencia. Nunca me sentí destratado por parte del personal.
Updated from previous review on 2024-09-21
Pros: Mooncakes (pasteles o postres de luna), Baos veganos, Alfajor vegano de ananá
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Kusakabe1
Points +40
Muy buen lugar - Edit
Los bollos al vapor y las trufas son de otro mundo!
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NathanielAltman
Points +288
Taiwanese-style buffet in downtown Montevideo. - Edit
Bosque Bambu is a combination buffet restaurant and store offering a wide variety of products. The buffer offers a good variety of both vegan and vegetarian dishes that are tasty and well-prepared. It is not an "all you can eat" buffet, but you pay by weight. Prices are reasonable for Uruguay. Best to come early for the best selection.
Read morePros: Tasty food, Comfortable seating, Friendly, helpful staff
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AndreadeAzevedo
Points +20
Desconfortável - Edit
Não há identificação dos pratos, você precisa perguntar ao atendente o que há em cada travessa. Não é você que se serve, é o atendente. Não há pratos nem talheres, apenas uma caixa de papel e talheres de plástico. Para pagar vc entra na fila com sua comida em mãos. Nunca mais voltarei.
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itsmichaeldiego
Points +1888
Nice buffet although expensive and unclear labeling - Edit
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.
Read moreCons: Uses a lot of plastic, Not labelled ingredients, Not labeled vegan options
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MeméSilgoria
Points +50
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Ideal para comida al paso.
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daydreamer4life
Points +777
Good food but the buffet closes very early - Edit
I went mid afternoon to Bosque Bamboo, and the buffet had already finished?
Read moreI know in uruguay they close shops early, but the store itself was open, so why not the buffet?
Luckily they do sell other fresh foods at the counter, I got some delicious vegan sushi, and a rice bun filled with marinated veggies, which was also delicious.
I wish I could go back for that delicous sushi again.
Pros: Buffet ends early
Cons: Delicious vegan sushi
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luzfugaz
Points +21
Tasty with big selection - Edit
Last time I went it was only midday buffet. Feeels like they have two chefs, one chinese, one Italian.
Read moreMany vegan, tofu based options, the itialina side is more cheesy and bechamel-y.
Go early for freshest selection.
Also has a little shop with all kind of health foods, mostly chinese cuisine based.
Pros: Central, Quick, good relation price/quality
Cons: food seems less fresh after 2 pm, not very cosy setting
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Larri
Points +26
vegans - stay away! - Edit
Trust me, if you're vegan, you wanna stay far away from this place.
Read moreFirst 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..
Cons: expensive, no knowledge about the food, blend taste,oily, and heavily fried food
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maynard7
Points +5212
Another buffet with good, basic food - Edit
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.
Read morePros: Good selection of food, Good location near Plaza Independencia
Cons: More expensive than similar places
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Cora
Points +34
Buffet with vegan options - Edit
Crowded place, oily but decent food, awkward and grumpy staff.
Read moreYou 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
Pros: Vegan options
Cons: Not the cleanest place, Not labeled, Staff
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EvaFrade
Points +42
Nice food - Edit
I'm a local, and found this place with some friends and returned to try the food.
Read moreThe 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.
Pros: Nice food.
Cons: Grumpy stuff, Vegan and vegetarian not identified
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NomadShane
Points +126
Great Vegan Buffet - Edit
Lovely little buffet offering eat in (cafeteria style) or take away. 250-300 Uruguayan pesos. You can make a vegan, gluten free, or vegetarian platter.
Read morePros: Variety
Cons: Ambience
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emelinn
Points +22
Open again Feb. 23,2016 - Edit
Closed for vacation sign says it will reopen Feb 23,2015.
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ViajedeunaVegana
Points +96
Good buffet with tasty vegan options - Edit
Very nice buffet with many vegan options of high quality. It would be nice if the food would be properly identified as "vegan" and "vegetarian", as you always need to ask the staff.
Read moreBesides of a restaurant, it is also a shop with many good products.
Pros: Very tasty food, Buffet
Cons: Food not identified as "vegan", Staff not very friendly
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7j7ferreira7
Points +54
Nice restaurant - Edit
Very nice restaurant. Food was a bit bland but there are some seasonings to put on the food. The staff is nice and the place was crowded at noon. It was located just behind the hostel I was staying, so the location was perfect.
Read moreI went on a saturday, so the buffet + a regular orange juice was about 400 pesos - not that cheap, but Montevideo as a whole is expensive so...
Pros: central location, good food
Cons: a bit expensive
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choogirl
Points +717
Good buffet. - Edit
This place offers a good buffet, which has numerous vegan options. If you're hungry you can choose the 'all you can eat' option.
Read moreThey also have a shop at the back where you can buy fresh vegan snacks like empanadas.
Pros: All you can eat, Good vegan options
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bia
Points +25
Great buffet - Edit
If you are hungry in Montevideo, this is the place for you. The all you can eat buffet costs 300 pesos uruguayos. The staff is aware of the (many) vegan options.
Read morePros: great value, excellent food
Cons: too much fried stuff
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sianlittle
Points +25
great if you're hungry - Edit
In a city that serves predominantly meat eaters, this cafe is great. It is close to the Plaza Independencia. The buffet style eatery is all you can eat for 300 Uruguayan pesos. But they don't speak English so touch up your Spanish before coming here.
Read morePros: delicious, wide variety
Cons: not hugely friendly , a little confusing
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anelisedecarli
Points +110
Not bad - Edit
A tracional chinese vegetarian restaurant. Is in the best option in the center of Montevideo. In saturday it is a bit expensive, 280 pesos urugayos or 14,80 dolars. Vegans can eat here and find very much options.
Read morePros: It has free-GMO soy
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blubble
Points +110
Good food - Edit
The best vegetarian food we've had in Montevideo, shame it's not open for dinner as well!
Read morePros: Good food, Helpful staff, Some English spoken by one waitress
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ImmerWeiter
Points +38
Very good all-you-can-eat buffet - Edit
My girlfriend and I ate there 2 days ago (18 Feb 2013). We had the all-you-can-eat buffet for 280 pesos, drinks are extra, e.g. a fresh orange juice for 60 pesos. It wasn't labelled which food is vegan and we had to ask, so you should be able to speak Spanish. The food was very good and worth the money when you can eat a lot, otherwise you have the option to pay by weight for the take-away food.
Read moreThey had pizza, unfortunately not vegan. Also for the dessert, only fruits were suitable, not the creams, etc. It would be nice if they offered a vegan version of the so typical dulce de leche.
Pros: Very good fake meat, Many vegan options, Clean and quiet
Cons: Vegan options not labelled, No English spoken, Limited vegan desserts
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aleta
Points +24
Bambu Restaurant & Health food shop - Edit
I just had an amazing meal there yesterday (03March2011). It is now an all you can eat buffet. It is not cheap, but it is by far the best one in the city for vegetarian food. Excellent choices both for vegan and vegetarian. If it was not so expensive I would eat there every day of this week I am here. You can also buy healthy snacks and drinks in the shop part of this place. Great meal, don't miss it!
Read morePros: excellent food, clean, relaxing music
Cons: expensive
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juliotnunes
Points +744
Bambu - Edit
This location has changed to 1060 on the same street. Although at the new location it was closed by 17.00. Hope you have better luck.
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