"buffet" can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a meal where people serve themselves from a variety of dishes laid out on a table. For example, "We had a delicious buffet at my graduation party".
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The happy hour aperitivo runs from 5.30pm to 7.30pm, and although drinks seem expensive at €4, you have to see the mega buffet that is served at the same time - huge plates of smoked ham, salami, salads and either a steaming risotto or pasta.
An hour south of Austin, in the lobby of the Westoak Woods Baptist Church convention centre, morgellons sufferers from the US, UK, Spain, Germany and Mexico gather by the breakfast buffet.
A greater contrast with the hangars of Mipim can hardly be imagined: no lavish buffet, just a kettle and some instant coffee; no PowerPoint slides but a dungareed bloke scribbling on a flipchart.
Feeling rather social after our picnic, and keen to spy on our fellow travellers, we popped into the buffet car.
Breakfast is a buffet of fruit, eggs, scones, iced tea and homemade custard tart, taken on the terrace.
We didn't have time to look for the novelist's villa in Anacapri, but we did have lunch - a buffet of tasty antipasti - at his favourite restaurant, Gemma, in Capri Town, which is reached by a quaint, crooked alley bored through the rock, and where his photograph is proudly displayed, pasted to the ceiling of the tiny lobby along with those of many other celebrities.
The conditions are ripe for a series of storms to gain strength and buffet middle America over the next two days, with hail and tornadoes possible in parts of the nation's geographic heartland, forecasters warned on Wednesday.
Throughout that week, both during the Queen's tour and the 24-hour whirlwind visit of the Obamas, Failte Ireland were never far away, hosting a series of lavish parties for the world's media, putting on a superb buffet (with the same menu the Queen was enjoying) and handing out freebie goodies including free Irish food recipes.
Call the pousada for prices tommytoofresh Aquabarra, Búzios, Rio de Janeiro state Fantastic boutique pousada near to (probably) the best beach in Búzios with a lovely hippyish, calm feel and a fantastic buffet breakfast on the eclectic terrace.
We caught the train up to Edinburgh the day before, overwhelming the buffet car and sending other travellers fleeing under a withering assault of shouted anecdotes and braying laughter.
