Yes,Yes excellent buffet and you are seated at shared tables with others...that is if your party isn't big enough to fill the table. I was always leary of the shared seating but it is always really enjoyable.
I don't mind sitting with other people. There are 5 of us anyway..besides DH is from a big Italian family - we've been married for 15 years and sometimes at family functions I still sit with people I don't know
I just wanted to prepare my kids that it is a buffet and they WILL hold their own plates. Sometimes at buffets (at weddings and such) my youngest 2 get all shy and weird about going through the line and holding a plate