In fact, if I had been blind folded and asked to guess where I had been taken to lunch, my likely response would have been a buffet-style restaurant, rather than London's St Bartholomew's Hospital.

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Cosmo, an Asian-style buffet restaurant, sold the statue in aid of the Derby Evening Telegraph's Give Us a Break appeal.

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Wicked Spoon, the all-you-can-eat operation at the relatively new Cosmopolitan (every casino hotel in Vegas has a buffet restaurant) actually changed the paradigm of this pretty standardized dining style.

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