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Ichiban-Taiwan

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😠 Very poor variety of food. Super expensive for one hotpot (meant for two people) to be shared between three ppl. Not worth the money. 83€ in total with just one drink each. People often mention buffet, good, restaurant, hotpot, Taiwanese, sushi, service, worth, Taiwan, menu,


Address

Düsseldorfer Str. 11, 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Website

ichiban-taiwan-buffet-restaurant-frankfurt.de

Contact

+49 69 252267

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

3.90 (723 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Tuesday: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, 5:30 to 10:30 pm
  • Wednesday: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, 5:30 to 10:30 pm
  • Thursday: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, 5:30 to 10:30 pm
  • Friday: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, 5:30 to 10:30 pm
  • Saturday: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, 5:30 to 10:30 pm
  • Sunday: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, 5:30 to 10:30 pm
  • Monday: Closed

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Frequently mentioned in reviews: buffet (24) good (14) restaurant (11) hotpot (9) Taiwanese (9) sushi (8) service (8) worth (7) Taiwan (7) menu (7)
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  • 1/5 Ro R. 2 years ago on Google
    Very poor variety of food. Super expensive for one hotpot (meant for two people) to be shared between three ppl. Not worth the money. 83€ in total with just one drink each.
    5 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Philip L. 1 year ago on Google
    Sad to give one star. Today I received the Taiwanese Dan-Dan-Mian as photo showed, no minced meat no bean sprouts no chilies no peanuts but with Lobah from buffet on top: OK this is it. The waitress's answer to my question is: "This is TAIWANESE Dan Dan Noodle. Are YOU from Taiwan?" Guess per her logic, a Frenchman can never question why his pizza has been changed to bruschetta because he is not Italian. The cook refused to talk with me. Chef's explanation by obfuscating Ta-a-Mi with Dan-Dan-Mian made me feel even worse, b/c he assumed I have zero knowledge about Taiwanese food. I witnessed the taste of Taiwan fade away year by year here, but they're not even trying now and started to lie. Running a restaurant is never an easy job, but serve what's written on the menu is a must, and lying to customer is a no-go. Stop claiming it's a Taiwan restaurant.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Danning Y. 2 years ago on Google
    Have been there 2 times for the Chinese style brunch “all you can eat”. First time was still so-so, but this time the chef improved the menu and is really cool: very delicious side dishes, home made soja, lamb soup and rice soup, tofu, pancake, etc. And good price vs quality! Would come back again with friends!
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Starlight 5 years ago on Google • 134 reviews
    Best hotpot restaurant in Frankfurt as far as I know and I've been to a few before. Also great to see that they offer a great variety of fresh and delicious buffet food which is not only restricted to hotpot ingredients. The place is more spacious inside than from how it looks outside. Great quality, really nice staff and good prices. Grab an Asian beer of your choice, go for a spicey hotpot with shabu shabu and have a great time! 😊✌️
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 MINYOUNG L. 1 year ago on Google
    The picture shows perfect food including sushi, but when I visited there, the selection of food was very limited, no sushi, no food with noodles, and the brunch buffet 12.80 euro plus watermelon juice(this is not an option they just give to you and charge- not that sweet watermelon juice....)3 euro. Total per person is 15.80 euro. not worth for money... bit expensive..and limited food. and they don't refill the food quickly
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Livia G. 1 year ago on Google • 376 reviews
    Super nice weekend Taiwanese breakfast buffet: Chinese baozi, tea eggs, pancakes, fried dough and many cold dishes, offers also Taiwanese braised pork over rice. Soy milk /porridge/tea/ice tea/ice cream also included. It’s not Michelin star or fine dining, but if you want some homey comfort Chinese breakfast, for 15.8 per person cannot ask nothing more, great place. German friends also loved it. Spacious seating, good place to sit together with friends. Very friendly service, accept both cash and card payment. Definitely come back and recommended

  • 2/5 Duc K. 10 months ago on Google • 52 reviews
    Very kind service, but the brunch buffet cannot be recommended. It was cold, tasted mostly like warmed up frozen food and sushi consists of hard dry rice and frozen fish.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Gueddach N. 1 year ago on Google
    Delicious food, lovely staff and excellent value for money. Highly recommend and will definitely come back next time I am in Frankfurt
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Charly 1 year ago on Google • 53 reviews
    We tried lunch buffet for €12.8 per person. It’s quite cheap if you consider it’s a buffet. However, the choices are not much and food doesn’t taste like authentic Taiwanese cuisine.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Min-Chun W. 11 months ago on Google • 3 reviews
    The owner is super friendly and passionate. Me as a vegetarian had very very limited options for the lunch buffet. As for meat eaters, my friends recommended the spicy Peking soup and the steamed spring onion buns. Not so sure why it's named as Taiwan restaurant, considering most dishes doesn't tastes like Taiwanese style but rather Chinese. It's just NOTHING Taiwan at all.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 M. 7 years ago on Google
    We tried the a la carte menu and were disappointed. The green onion pancake was deep fried (as opposed to pan fried as one would normally expect), and were so greasy we didn't finish them. However at least that was cooked: the prawn in the prawn rolls was still raw, and although after complaining they did manage to bring us the dish cooked, they didn't have the courtesy to take the item off the bill. There are many vegetarian stir fries on the menu; perhaps we didn't choose well, but both dishes we tasted were rather similar and lacked flavour. Worst of all, water was €3.20 a glass. Sure the prices are stated in the menu, but they brought us the bigger size glasses without asking, and unlike the mineral water served in other restaurants, they didn't bring out any bottle so it's likely this was straight from the tap. Interestingly they took some convincing to show us the fully itemised bill, so suspect they knew they were being underhand. Overall, we didn't enjoy the food and felt ripped off.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Jack O. 10 months ago on Google
    Best all you CANT eat buffet in frankfurt. This place is totally disgusting. Back in the UK this Dump would be closed down. Absolute waste of time and money. Please I beg you don't go there, go somewhere decent. Buffet ran out of food within minutes, the man didn't replenish the buffet at all. We only had 1 plate each. Very expensive for what you get.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Effy W. 4 years ago on Google
    I’m writing this review based on my Asian buffet experiences in Europe. That means I’m not like some people that compare this restaurant with the restaurants that are actually in Asia. I had all-you-can-eat buffet. They offer lots of options including Chinese salad (cold dish), vegetable, meat, soup, sushi, rice, Taiwanese pork rice, dumping, dim sum, dessert, fruit and ice cream. Drinks are not included, just like all other buffet. Of all the Chinese restaurants I tried in Europe, only the food here is not extremely salty but just fine and tasty! They also have pork belly and sauté shrimp which are very similar to what we have in Taiwan ! There are also kinds of sushi to choose from. Will definitely come visit again. I’m thinking of opening a branch in the city I live, Ulm. 🤣
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Jiahao 1 year ago on Google
    We had dinner yesterday here and all of us found it disappointing. All the dishes were too salty. Really funny is, the Dan Dan Noodles didn't even come with chilli! It's like they are not even trying. The service was also horrible, we waited for 10 minutes for the menu, and the staff forgot our order. Not worth visiting.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Debanjan M. 2 years ago on Google
    Not worth the price you pay for. Limited options in a evening buffet. No sushi was served. Service and hospitality is good. May be this day menu was a simple one. Nothing extraordinary. Chicken and meat options were there. In sea food, prawns and squid was there. May be the expectations of the spread was more. Dimsums were good. Soup was good too. 4 flavours of Ice cream was good. Overall, the spread could have been more diverse with few more options considering the 18€ spread buffet price.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 J W. 8 months ago on Google • 10 reviews
    Pretty good tasting Sunday brunch. Not sure it was all authentic Taiwan style but definitely Chinese enough. The Peking soup was a first I never tried in America. Place wasn't spotless clean but presentable enough. Didn't see any mice. Watermelon wasn't super fresh which is why the food gets 4 stars. Unlimited tea or soda also included. Self serve. Compared to how much everything else at restaurants now cost I consider this money well spent when you go in hungry and eat all that variety. 15,80 euro/ person.

  • 5/5 onyu w. 11 months ago on Google • 6 reviews
    super authentic! Very good price for huge varieties of choice! very sweet owner! highly recommended ❤️

  • 1/5 Andrew K. 1 year ago on Google • 6 reviews
    Used to be fairly decent with other Buffett restaurants in Frankfurt all going out of business (which was a year ago). Now they only gives us Beef and Pork option ( which I kinda find ethnocentric if not racist). They charged 26,80 euro per person. What a rip off

  • 5/5 Sharon C. 2 years ago on Google
    We were with kids in the restaurant. The foods were very authentic and the owner and waiters are very friendly. They also give us some side dishes (包子steam bun,猪耳朵 stew pig ear) for free. They provide not only normal meals which you can order in the meun,but they have also Hot Pot and Buffet. It was a delightful lunch we had.

  • 4/5 John F. 1 year ago on Google
    Had lunch buffet... Was nothing special but i had a craving for buffet... Would i ever go back? Undecided at this time Hot food offered was ok but nothing out of this world. Server was very nice 😏🙂

  • 5/5 Tzu-Heng L. 2 years ago on Google
    I really miss Taiwanese food in Europe, so once I figure out this restaurant, I told my gf to try it out. The all-you-can-eat buffet worth the price, the 鹽酥雞 is really good. I suggest every tourist drop by this place and have a wonderful meal

  • 5/5 Larry K. 1 year ago on Google
    A very satisfying dinner in Frankfurt city with decent buffet spread of Taiwanese food and hot pot ingredients. Will come back again.

  • 3/5 Allen H. 5 years ago on Google
    This restaurant offer quite variety of my hometown food. It’s pretty interesting to have hotpot outside of Asia. I would comment that hotpot wasn’t authentic; flavor was adjusted to local flavor. Meat wasn’t good as well. It’s very low quality frozen meat that they are provided. But as expected, they wouldn’t have that many resources like in Asia, so don’t expect good meat for hotpot section. As term of buffet, it very good. Authentic flavor with many choices and also sushi, ice cream, fruit....etc. I can tell that local people like their buffet section. Kind staff, good service. Always crowded during the fair. Good beer, indeed, here we are Germany.

  • 1/5 Beatriz R. 2 years ago on Google
    Very poor buffet service . Not many options. No sushi in sight. We paid extra for hot pot, not worth it. Good service but food and flavour is not worth the money. We paid 20€ per person to eat nothing

  • 1/5 Sonam Paldon L. 5 months ago on Google • 2 reviews
    "Hey everyone, I recently visited a restaurant and wanted to share my experience. Unfortunately, the service was quite slow, and it took us a whole hour just to get a coke! 😫 On top of that, the prices were quite high, which was a bit disappointing. I hope the restaurant takes this feedback into consideration and works on improving their service speed and pricing. I spent 107€ for nothing. They charged pro person 26 € and hotpot soup was so small in portion plus they added 5€ separately for that. Just wanted to share my honest experience with you all. 🍽️"
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Vinicius Ferraz F. 4 months ago on Google • 2 reviews
    First we had to wait 5 minutes and sit ourselves even though the restaurant was almost empty. The buffet was cold. Very little choice of food. Never got our 4 softdrinks even tho our table was the only one that had to be served. They « offered » a hotpot and made it seem like it was included with the buffet but we had to pay extra for it in the end. The ambiance wasnt bad and other customers were enjoying themselves so maybe we did something wrong (doubt it).


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Amenities


  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Spirits
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ All you can eat
    • ✓️ Healthy options
  • Accessibility
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible car park
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Takeaway

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