Salsas Mexican Restaurant
Phone: (937) 252-5131
Hours: Mondays through Thursdays 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and Sundays 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$7.95 buffet: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
With options that range from taquitos to tamales to tacos to refried beans to pozole rojo (a zesty pork and hominy soup), it is impossible for a Mexican food lover not to find something to eat from the buffet Salsas Mexican Restaurant.
In fact, it is more likely that you will find too much to eat among the sea of eats that includes flan, fried potatoes, sopapillas and enchiladas.
The eatery at 4904 Airway Road in Riverside in the Airway Shopping Center has been offering customers the mostly Mexican, all-you-can-eat buffet from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday for more than a year, Gabriel Morales said. His father and uncle — Guillermo and Luis Morales — co-own Salsas.
The buffet, believed to be one-of-a-kind in the Dayton area, was first announced on Salsas’ website Dec. 26, 2011. It was originally just offered Friday and Saturday.
The weekend buffet is now held 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays and is awesome with a margarita or two.
That’s the way I prefer it.
Buffet dishes aren’t labeled well, but most are easily recognizable and typical.
Diners can also order from the menus. Salsas offers several $4.95 lunch specials.
The changing buffet is $7.95 all week-long at the family operated restaurant. It includes a soft and crunchy taco bar and a relatively recently added and changing salsa bar that often includes avocado, mango, chipotle, verde and tomatillo varieties.
Mexican breakfast items are sometimes available on the buffet during the week.
“It depends on what the cooks feel like cooking,” Gabriel Morales said.
His father and uncle bought the location, a former Pepito’s Restaurant, from their uncle Ignocio “Pepe” Bucio in April 2008.
The Pepito’s had been at the location more than 25 years.
Gabriel Morales said the buffet is particularly beneficial during the week to accommodate the lunch rush for nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base workers.
Amelia Robinson is one of the Dayton Daily News' Dining Divas.
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