# LA Downtown Buffet, Los Angeles: an asian restaurant in Los Angeles (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/la-downtown-buffet-los-angeles-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-09-01. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/la-downtown-buffet-los-angeles-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti80y3701kiye6bom65hsq1%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti80y3701kiye6bom65hsq1%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti80y3701kiye6bom65hsq1%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti80y3701kiye6bom65hsq1%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti80y3701kiye6bom65hsq1%2F4.jpg) ## In short LA Downtown Buffet is an asian restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Asian restaurant | | Address | 1901 W 7th St, Large Free Parking at, 674 S Westlake Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 11 AM to 9 PM | | Phone | (213) 263-9815 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.2 across 144 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Thursday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | August 31, 2026, 10:22 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1901 W 7th St, Large Free Parking at, 674 S Westlake Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Description | All you can eat fresh Chinese food, Japanese Sushi, B.B.Q.grill, salad and desert. Nice dinning area and banquet room. Large free inside parking | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Name | LA Downtown Buffet | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (213) 263-9815 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting LA Downtown Buffet Address: 1901 W 7th St, Large Free Parking at, 674 S Westlake Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA. Phone: (213) 263-9815. Hours: Mon to Sun 11 AM to 9 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:22 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by LA Downtown Buffet on its Google Business Profile: "All you can eat fresh Chinese food, Japanese Sushi, B.B.Q.grill, salad and desert. Nice dinning area and banquet room. Large free inside parking" ### When to go Quietest day: Thursday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Rincon De Los Sabores Restaurant | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | R.A.R.E EATS | American restaurant | 1 min walk | | 7th & Westlake Auto Park | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | ABC Express | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk | | 7th St & Bonnie Brae St | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Langer's Deli Parking Lot | Parking lot | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.2 average across 144 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.) (AI guess, from 144 reviews.) ### What people like - Variety of food options - Affordable pricing ### What people do not like - Staff monitoring food consumption - Food quality inconsistent - Mandatory service fee complaints ### Press No press story about LA Downtown Buffet found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from LA Downtown Buffet LA Downtown Buffet hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### best asian restaurant in Los Angeles No answer yet ### what time does this place actually open? No answer yet ### points or member pricing at LA Downtown Buffet, worth signing up? No answer yet ### LA Downtown Buffet or King Buffet? No answer yet ### do I need to book LA Downtown Buffet in Los Angeles or can I just turn up? No answer yet ### Busiest day at LA Downtown Buffet, anyone know? No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to a restaurant in Los Angeles? No answer yet ### the good stuff about this place, what is it? No answer yet ### is there parking at LA Downtown Buffet or is it street only? No answer yet ### somewhere cheaper in Los Angeles that is not a risk? No answer yet ### walk ins, or is it booked solid No answer yet ### anything new from LA Downtown Buffet lately? No answer yet ### people keep recommending LA Downtown Buffet, what for? No answer yet ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? No answer yet ### Are there any special features here? No answer yet ### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves No answer yet ### killing time on 7th, any ideas No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about LA Downtown Buffet We ask ChatGPT about LA Downtown Buffet. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 34 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Los Angeles asian restaurants run 25 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. LA Downtown Buffet scores 34, above the Los Angeles average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | LA Downtown Buffet | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 1 answer we hold, so there is nothing to score. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 79 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about an asian restaurant When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose an asian restaurant in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including LA Downtown Buffet if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to LA Downtown Buffet | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | LA Downtown Buffet | LocalBusiness | #business | Nothing found | Subject of this page | | Los Angeles, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City LA Downtown Buffet is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the asian restaurants in Los Angeles, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best asian restaurants in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles/asian-restaurant - Best businesses in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles ### Nearby - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno - /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own LA Downtown Buffet. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJyzyCZwDHwoARYTwdJBav-m8 (accessed Aug 31, 2026)