"open buffet" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a meal where guests can serve themselves. For example: "The banquet hall was offering an open buffet, so everyone was able to choose the food they wanted to eat."
Hyenas finish the get-this-party-started job, and after that it's an open buffet.
New Year's Eve Party, with a live band, dance floor, open buffet, open bar and a New Year's Eve countdown on TV, live from New York City.
There were about ten large pots and multiple food containers around her, and though the food quantities were large enough to be served in an open buffet at a banquet, the kitchen she was working in had one gas burner, the water was cut, and her kids ran around filling containers of water from the nearby café to help her finish the task at hand.
Gwenael and Annie Goulet first opened Buffet in 1980.
Star Clipper offered an open-buffet breakfast with omelets, eggs, potatoes, croissants, fresh fruit and salads, yogurts, a variety of freshly baked bread, jam, honey, peanut butter, nutella, sausages and cereals amongst other choices.
Ochoa, a 25-year-old from Mexico, stood in place Saturday at the Old Course, which was no easy feat considering the third round of the Women's British Open was buffeted by winds that reached 35 miles an hour.
At an oddly chaotic prize ceremony during the 2013 Delhi Art fair, with crowds jammed around an ill-lit open-air buffet, I had my first glimpse of Tallur's complex body of work as he stepped up to accept the honour from William Kentridge.
THE holidays are almost over -- and with them the Christmas feasts, the fried Hanukkah foods, the office parties, the open-house buffets, the elaborate dinners with old friends.
Mr. Middleton and his partner, Lee Hew, decided in 1997 to take a chance on stirrings of revitalization in the city's downtown and opened the buffet-style restaurant in what was formerly a beauty college.
The stylish roof terrace has a cocktail bar and breakfast is a quality buffet, open until midday (€8.95).
In the nineteen-eighties, coal companies converted part of the top floor of a hotel into a Coal Suite, where lawmakers could enjoy an open bar, a buffet, card tables, and private areas.
