I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a buffet breakfast (= one in a hotel, where you serve yourself )
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A buffet breakfast is served in the hotel's elegant dining room.
buffet car
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
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The cold buffet lunch, of high standard, included a large cake in the shape and colours of Searcher.
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Occasional special evenings are held for guests' entertainment and on Fridays a cold buffet is served.
■ NOUN
breakfast
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Hard-boiled eggs are sneaked from breakfast buffets to be scoffed for picnic lunches.
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For a mere $ 10 more, enjoy all of the above and a late-night breakfast buffet after the midnight balloon drop.
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Meals are excellent, with a large breakfast buffet and a four-course dinner with a choice of main course.
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A lavish breakfast buffet , included in the room rate, is served on a patio overlooking the beach.
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There is an excellent breakfast buffet , and service is of a high standard.
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Meals include breakfast buffet , and dinner is three courses.
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On the Tuesday, the visitors moved to the Brisbane Hotel at Largs and found the breakfast buffet always included fresh fruit.
car
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Most trains are steam hauled by one of the railway's extensive collection of tank engines and include full buffet car facilities.
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He travelled in the buffet car , leaning against the window with a drink.
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The buffet car was up ahead; there was a young woman buying a drink and some sandwiches.
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By then the tireless extroverts had gravitated to the buffet cars and were cracking jokes.
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There will be traditional refreshments and buffet cars on the trains.
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As she passed the buffet car her stomach rumbled, as if to remind her she hadn't eaten since lunchtime.
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Ffestiniog's Railway's buffet car No. 114 which incorporates refrigeration equipment and a carriage heating system.
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Proper buffet cars are economic on only a small handful of their routes, notably Waterloo-Bournemouth.
lunch
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The restaurant offers a choice at dinner, and a lunch buffet is served on the terrace or from the bar.
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There are many others, including some actually decent ethnic food lunch buffets .
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At $ 3. 99, a weekday all-you-can-eat lunch buffet proved a resounding success.
salad
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Evening meals consist of excellent traditional dishes, and always include an extensive salad buffet .
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Breakfast is a buffet , and there is a salad buffet and choice of dinner menu in the evening.
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Breakfast is a buffet , dinner is three courses with a choice of main course and a salad buffet.
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Breakfast is buffet style and inner is three courses plus a salad buffet, with a choice of main course.
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A splendid buffet breakfast, and a four course dinner plus salad buffet are served in the rustic style dining room.
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There is a buffet breakfast and a wide choice of main courses at dinner, plus a salad buffet.
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Dinner is three courses with a salad buffet .
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Every day, there is a starter, dessert or salad buffet .
style
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Breakfast is buffet style with a choice of menu at dinner.
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Breakfast is buffet style , and there is a choice of menu for evening meals.
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I prefer serving cold started and desserts because then all the food can be put outside at once buffet style .
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Breakfast is buffet style and dinner three courses with a choice of main course.
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Breakfast is buffet style and dinner is three courses, both serve din the very attractive wood-panelled dining room.
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Breakfast comes mainly buffet style and is ample enough for even the heartiest of appetites.
supper
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After the visits, guests and Faculty members will join together for a buffet supper .
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Tickets to include champagne reception and buffet supper £57.50 from At Logiealmond Lodge, Perthshire.
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A buffet supper was served and a lot of goodwill was generated.
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A buffet supper will be served from 6.45 p.m.
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Tickets, to be bought in advance, are £4.50 and include a buffet supper .
table
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The dining-room was crowded as she made her way to the open buffet table .
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There was a mob around the buffet table .
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One was for voting; the other was for the buffet table .
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I crossed to the buffet table that had been set up on the far side of the room.
■ VERB
eat
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Cramond Brig Hotel Dine in style in the restaurant, or choose to eat in the bar buffet .
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They also cater, bringing their all-you-can-#eat buffet to offices nearby.
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All-you-can-#eat buffet 5-9 p.m.
include
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Evening meals consist of excellent traditional dishes, and always include an extensive salad buffet .
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Cost is $ 50 per person, and includes a buffet brunch and transportation.
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Most trains are steam hauled by one of the railway's extensive collection of tank engines and include full buffet car facilities.
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Meals include breakfast buffet , and dinner is three courses.
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Tickets to include champagne reception and buffet supper £57.50 from At Logiealmond Lodge, Perthshire.
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The cost of £20 includes a buffet lunch.
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Vouchers cost £78 for a double room and include a buffet breakfast.
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Meals are served in the intimate restaurant and include a sumptuous buffet breakfast.
serve
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The hotel's restaurant serves a buffet breakfast and a substantial and well-prepared choice of meals at other times.
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And the couch won, serving up an October buffet .
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The restaurant serves a buffet breakfast and dinner with a choice of menu.
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There you will be served with a buffet breakfast and a three course evening meal.
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They will be served a small buffet , drinks and a very early breakfast.
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The hotel serves a buffet breakfast and a four course dinner.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sleeping/dining/buffet car
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Even on long journeys early trains had no corridors, lavatories, dining cars or heating.
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Every seat in the dining car filled up and still people were coming.
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He kept getting up and going to the window to look down on his sleeping car .
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I was watching the scene from the kitchen end of the dining car , standing just behind Emil, Cathy and Oliver.
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In the warm yellow light of the dining car windows I caught a glimpse of a woman raising a wine glass.
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Luxury for first class travellers: a sleeping car attendant delivers hot water bottles on the London-to-Inverness Express, January 1935.
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The buffet car was up ahead; there was a young woman buying a drink and some sandwiches.
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The dining car had oak woodwork, potted palms and sumptuous meals.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The restaurant offers a fabulous buffet lunch.
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Try out all-you-can-eat buffet - only £5 per person
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We'll have a buffet lunch at about one o'clock and a sit-down mean in the evening.
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We're not having a big formal meal at the wedding - just a buffet .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large mahogany mirror hung over the buffet .
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Breakfast is buffet style, and there is a choice of menu for evening meals.
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Evening meals consist of excellent traditional dishes, and always include an extensive salad buffet .
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I crossed to the buffet table that had been set up on the far side of the room.
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Most trains are steam hauled by one of the railway's extensive collection of tank engines and include full buffet car facilities.
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The cost of £35 per person includes a buffet lunch and all refreshments during the day.
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The first class restaurant offers an excellent buffet breakfast and a choice of three dinner menus.
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They also cater, bringing their all-you-can-eat buffet to offices nearby.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Local businesses have been buffeted by the troubled economy.
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The coastline was buffeted by strong winds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before I could examine them, I was buffeted by a gust of wind and rain.
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But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts: it is in the south-east and in the services sector.
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Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar.
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Not every small business has been buffeted by General Dynamics' downsizing.
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Since last fall, the stock market has been buffeted by contradictory influences.
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Then the prime minister's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog.
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Tossed and buffeted for six hours, and caught in an eddy in the vortex, she died of suffocation.