Minado

Minado, Natick Ma
I went to Minado expecting it to be typical American stype Asian fare, with general tsaos chicken or fried shrimp dried to a crisp under heat lamps, but instead was met with a menu that (aside from the extensive sushi bar) had B.B.Q. pork ribs blue crab in oyster sauce, calamari rings w/ paprika sauce, fluke in wasabi sauce, a make your own udon soup bar, multiple seaweed salads, ceviche , giant stuffed shrimp, baked shrimp on skewers, a whole array of dumplings and tempuras, etc etc etc. This in addition to a teriyaki bar, and a plethora noodle and rice dishes. Everything is rotated out -constantly- to the point where I can't even figure out how this place is profitable, since they seem pretty stringent about not letting food sit out on the buffet for very long. In addition to all of that, they have a sushi buffet which includes all the standards, plus a battalion of sushi chefs behind the bar who will take orders for items not in the buffet. It's not the best sushi I've had, but it's good, though I typically go there more for the hot food.