Location: in the Costa Vista hotel, if on the 330 turn at the Yagibaru intersection (right under the IC) and drive up the hill, keep heading up taking the fork left and you reach the hotel. Parking is free, the restaurant is through the lobby and down the stairs to the right.
Hours: weekdays lunch buffet 11:30-2:30 is 1700Y (kids 900Y); per Okinawa Hai the price is higher on the weekend but the website translation does not describe a higher weekend lunch price
http://www.costavista.jp/restaurant/casa/index.html
The hotel / restaurant purport to use environmentally-friendly products and locally grown produce. It's hard to know what that really means but certainly the veggies / fruit on the buffet were fresh, ripe, and regionally appropriate.
The dining room is large and big family groups would do well here. The view is great out over Ginowan and the ocean.
The salad area offers a nice array of produce, although the marinated mushrooms and red cabbage were not to our liking. The pineapple and lychees were a welcome treat. There were about 8 different hot dishes, like sweet and sour pork, veggie tempura, pan-fried fish and veg, baked tomatoes, braised chicken and veg, stewed pork ribs, chinese-style shrimp and celery, etc. The first two of these were excellent, the rest were good. There is a spaghetti station offering a bolognase sauce which lacked some complexity. The roast pork was fine, nothing spectacular. There were two different soups and a soba station, which we didn't try. There was an array of Japanese pickles and brown seaweed, and a large dish of rice topped with sashimi. The dessert area is pretty impressive, with three types of custards (tirasimu, creme brulee, and one with a dark topping we couldn't place), mini-pastries and pound cake, a pistachio tarte, lots of colorful jellies topped with fruit, green tea/strawberry/chocolate mousse, etc. The drink bar offers three different juices (guava, veg-citrus, and applea) as well as iced/hot tea/coffee.
All in all, quite a satisfactory lunch, and great if you crave large plates of veg. And much better quality and value than the Butler O-Club brunch. But for exquisiteness of flavour in an all-you-can-eat buffet, Makan Makan is still the winner for us.
