Best buffets and all-you-can-eat deals for a Tokyo feast

This New York-inspired restaurant at Courtyard by Marriott Tokyo Ginza Hotel serves buffet all day long. The breakfast buffet (¥3,200) includes Western classics like cereals, croissant, eggs, fruit and salads while the lunch buffet (weekdays ¥4,800, weekends ¥5,200) offers a wide selection of meats from grilled steak to rotisserie chicken, and accompanied by veggies, charcuterie platter and desserts.

Dinner (weekdays ¥7,200, weekends ¥7,600), on the other hand, brings out a fancier line-up of dishes including locally sourced roast beef and seafood, plus a range of Asian favourites like tempura and sushi. There’s also a section where you can customise a bowl of noodles to your liking.

Where: NY Grill & Buffet Fiore, Courtyard by Mariott Tokyo Ginza Hotel
When: Breakfast 6.30am-10.30pm, lunch 11.30am-3pm, dinner 5pm-8pm (dinner is temporarily suspended)
How much: Breakfast ¥3,200, children ¥1,600; Weekday lunch ¥4,800, weekend lunch ¥5,200, children ¥2,400; Weekday dinner ¥7,200, weekend dinner ¥7,600, children ¥4,200

Restaurant Grande Ale is serving a buffet filled with Japan’s favourite autumn ingredients. For starters, we recommend going for the spice marinated mackerel, seafood ceviche and taro root with sesame sauce. Then move onto main dishes like pumpkin and mushroom pasta, oxtail beef noodles or the takikomi gohan rice seasoned with dashi and soy sauce and mixed with seasonal fish. Then finish off with some hearty chestnut and pumpkin desserts, including a metre-long chestnut roll cake that will be on offer during lunch.

Throughout October, the buffet foods will be Halloween-themed, so expect some spooky surprises.

Where: Grande Ale, Villa Fontaine Ariake
When: September 9-November 30; Breakfast 6am-10am, lunch 11.30am-2pm, dinner 5pm-10pm
How much: Breakfast and lunch ¥2,500, children ¥1,250; Sun-Thu & hols dinner ¥4,500, children ¥2,250; Fri, Sat & day before hols ¥5,500, children ¥2,750.

Celebrate autumn with a buffet of delicious Italian food exclusively at three Salvatore Cuomo Bros locations in XEX venues around Tokyo. You can feast on pizza, pasta and antipasto featuring seasonal ingredients like mushrooms, cheese and chestnuts. Make sure you come hungry – the buffet includes unlimited cheesy risotto with black truffle shavings, matsutake mushroom pizza and even a decadent cheese fondue.

The Atago Green Hills venue has a superb view of the Tokyo Tower from the 42nd floor, while the Nihonbashi location overlooks the entire Tokyo Station.

Where: XEX Atago Green Hills, XEX Tokyo, XEX Nihonbashi
When: From September 13; XEX Atago Green Hills 11.30am-3pm (last orders 2pm); XEX Tokyo 11am-4pm (3pm); XEX Nihonbashi 11.30am-3.30pm (2pm)
How much: XEX Atago Green Hills ¥4,800; XEX Tokyo weekdays ¥3,800, weekends ¥4,500; XEX Nihonbashi ¥2,980

Enjoy a spread of 60 kinds of Japanese and Western dishes for breakfast at Mitsui Garden Hotel in Kyobashi. The Japanese food here focuses on meals from the Edo period (1603-1867) including fukagawa meshi (a rice bowl topped with clam and veggies) and stewed pork bones.For those feeling less adventurous, the Western dishes include classic breakfast foods like French toast and scrambled eggs.

Where: The Lounge, Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyobashi
When: 6.30am-10am (last orders 9.30am)
How much: ¥2,200