Well im not one for eating out much as her indoors has a very limited palate. But we had received excellent reports from friends of a new Cinese Buffet Restarant thats been open a month or so now. It is aptly named Restaurante Buffete Amposta and claims Cocina Asiatica e Internacional

It had been descibed as being a fantastic choice of buffet fare with the ability to select fresh vegs and meats from a separate kitchen area and have them cooked fresh on the wok or grill to your liking.

Well a surprise birthday party was in order for one of my friends and after reccomending the new place a booking for 25 of us was made for a Friday evening birthday bash, the party was a fair mix of english and catalonians.  

The premises are new and modern having a separate room for smokers the main buffet hall is a smoke free zone. To the left is the main buffet tables and to the right is the kitchen cook area open for all to see.

The choice of food on the buffet area was outstanding, if memory does this justice here are a few things i can remember.Roast Duck,Suckling Pig,Gammon Joints, Battered Chicken Full Roast Chicken,Satay Chicken , Beef in some mild Chinese Sauce   Chinese Dumplings,a plethora  of sea food to keep those that like the stuff well pleased including ells, prawns sushi and other dead aquatic fare. The snails seemed a big hit with the locals also.  For those who like simpler fare there was chips sausages every type of salad fresh pan, along with numerous pasta and rice dishes hot and cold.I would say the buffet counter is 70 foot long. I cant remember any of our party trying the freshly grilled or woked food as the choice was outstanding from the buffet alone !

Then on to Postres lots of fresh fruits, Tortes, Ice Creams , custard slice, a bit like UK Vanilla Slice, again the choice was outstanding including some very exotic fresh fruits

In our party of 25 everyone was well impressed eat as much as you want the food looked good tasted good was hot when it should be and chilled when it shouldnt.My wife who as said at the beginning is a fuddy duddy when it comes to non english fare  throughly enjoyed here evening out and was looking forward to going again.  Most of the evenings chit chat was about how superb the place and food was Catalans and us Brits

Prices If memory serves me right


Mon/Fri lunch time 8.50e
Mon/Thursday evening  9.50e
Friday evening all day SataurdaySunday lunch and all festivals 12.50e
Sunday evening 9.50e excluding festivals
Ninos de menores 8 anos 5.95e

Drinks were very reasonable so they dont sting you there either.

Adress Avga Catalunya 19 43570 Amposta Tel 977 708458

Location Nearest Landmark is the large Eroski Supermarket next to the N340 get to there then travel away from the supermarket back towards town away from the N340 and you will come to a mini roundabout turn first right and its on the left next to the tabacs l

Enjoy WoO


Opps for got opening times

Mananas 1130-a 16.00 h
Tardes de 19.30 a 24.00 h

no reverse back past the large roundabout and just left from the next mini roundabout...............no more questions on location ....dooooh

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Thank you our William of Orange. So pleasing to read an interesting restaurant review as opposed to the "arjie-barjies " of the best kebab place in town. It was also very thoughtful of you to remember pricing and opening times.

May I ask one further question please if you don't mind? Our daughter-in-law will be out in the summer and she is  a very strict vegetarian. Would you say on your recent observation that there was sufficient choices for her to eat?

The other side of the restaurant sounds a little bit like the Mongolian BBQ style of catering. You choose the ingredients off a menu and they cook it ('wok it') for you.

Is it necessary to book on  a weekend or is that just for large parties?

Sorry that was 3 questions not one.

I do think it is worth a noodle on down there!

I wouldnt say booking was necessary at the moment but if it keeps up its current standards as the word spreads maybe but at the current case in time,no.

Im not sure what a strict vegetarian , eats does it include diary products, sos for being ignorant on that but there was an enormous amount of salad, chips, vegatable samosa, pasta and rice dishes, to be fair take a visit b4 your daughter comes out and give it a test run.

8.50e mid week dinner time is a bargain i assume its the same fare but i cant guarantee it only been on an evening.

We booked bcos of our party size , birthday boys only complaint is they put the tables in one long line instead of a oblong to make it easy to chat as a group, but they probably would have accomodated that if we had asked,we went early 8.30 pm and it didnt start filling up to around 1030 pm by then we were nearly finished and it was about 60% full at that time. 

HTH WoO

Went the other day, Yes I agree the choice of food is amazing.

How can they do it for the price?

The Choose your own meat/fish and veg plus sauce of your choice and have it wok cooked in front of you was very good, and the curry sauce was better than the Sultan though that isn't saying a lot

The selection of salads and Sushi also very good, and the wasabi sauce was actually hot!!

But I think their keep hot trays of starters should have the wick turned up on the heaters, only luke warm not good for food hygene

But Generally very good would recommend a visit and go again

Went last night for the first time and had a very good meal.  Cannot agree that everything tasted of chicken but I do wish that these places would keep the food hotter - as you all know, I have a thing about food poisoning.  Also I love tripe (Midlands upbringing) but it has to be hotn not luke warm.   Surely it is not beyond capabilities and expense to provide microwaves for those that wish to use them.