The Oak @ The Pines Melaka – Marche Buffet Dinner with fresh oysters!
It was just a few evenings back that I feasted happily on kilograms of seafood and meat at The Pines Marche Buffet Dinner, all for the fair price of RM88++/pax.
Sunday Brunch at Oscar’s, Conrad Singapore – London ducks, suckling pigs & excellent salad bar
Oscar’s newly launched Sunday Brunch buffet is set to be one of the best brunch buffets in Singapore.
It doesn’t try to impress in numbers, but focused instead on quality and exclusivity in terms of ingredients.
MOSAIC – All day dining (halal) at Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur
Mosaic is Mandarin Oriental’s all day dining venue.
Offering a diversified mix of local and international cuisine, Mosaic’s lunch and dinner buffet are complemented by interactive live cooking stations including grill, wok, noodle and tandoor, plus a large dessert bar.
Afternoon Tea & Valrhona Chocolate Buffet @Thirty8, Grand Hyatt KL
3 tiered cakes stands and warm scones plus a pot of tea gets boring after a while. There’s frankly nothing much to differentiate each high-tea offering from the others in the Klang Valley. Dry scones, insipid sandwiches and pieces of limp pastries. I think my tea of crispy fried bananas satisfies better and cost me way less too.
And thus Chef Brett Muller and his team at Thirty8, Grand Hyatt KL, decided to jazz things up a bit.
Sunday Roast – The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur
What better way is there to spend your lazy Sunday afternoon than to indulge yourself with fabulous food? As a reward yourself for the prior working week and in readiness of the week that looms ahead? I think Sunday brunches are fabulous for specifically that purpose! 🙂
I have written about Renoma Cafe Gallery’s brunch and today, here are my thoughts of the Sunday Roast in Ritz Carlton; the only Sunday Roast in the country that I know of that are of such extravagance. I visited 2 years ago and had loved it then.
Recently, there was a change in menu as well as a new chef in helm. A re-visit is in order obviously, and after my afternoon tea here recently, I stepped back in on a fine Sunday morning for a taste of the Sunday Roast.
A Sunday Roast is all about the traditional British treats; the yorkshire pudding, the roast lamb and beef, the seafood and the desserts. Now this is where this buffet shone from the others; an absolutely different treat from the usual of Japanese, hot wok, Chinese, Indian, Italian and dim sum corners.
If you’re looking for a buffet with a difference, then this is it.
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Chinese New Year Menu 2013: Latest Recipe, Le Meridien Hotel KL
I was quite curious as to what The Latest Recipe in Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur could possibly offer in their upcoming Chinese New Year’s buffet menu considering that Le Meridien doesn’t have a chinese restaurant per se. The last I visited was in 2011 where I reviewed their Ramadan buffet (You can read about it HERE) and even back then I had thought that their buffet food to be decent though nothing out of the ordinary. Nevertheless it has remained as one of the leading buffets venue in KL and one can’t deny from its consistent crowd that the Latest Recipe buffet is rather popular.
And in a clever marketing move, it turned out that Le Meridien KL is offering Chinese New Year feast buffet-style, banking on the popularity of The Latest Recipe buffet and is adding to their daily buffet spread certain items that reflects the auspicious festival.
Renoma Cafe Gallery – Sunday Brunch @ RM85++
UPDATE: 28th January 2013.
After the comment left by Ryan as below (comments section) as well as some comments I’ve got from a few friends who went, I have decided that there are enough FACTS for me to update my post here. According to the reports, the food standard has dropped tremendously due to the popularity of the brunch. Service was incredibly slow too. I had somehow foreseen that this might happen once the brunch gets popular and taking into consideration of menu; which as you can see, are dishes that needs great care to cook and time to prepare.
I’m sad for those who have read about this brunch (whether from my post or others) and had went in good faith to be disappointed. As such, I am now updating my review and would not personally recommend this buffet to anyone UNTIL I have again, firm reports that things have improved. I’m sure once the kitchen found its footing again, food would be as stellar as I have remembered it. Until then.
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I just had Sunday Brunch at Renoma Cafe Gallery today and I’m very impressed with the food! For RM85++, I daresay it’s one of the best buffet in town.
Prepared upon order, everything came beautifully plated, in satisfying portions and most importantly tasted fabulous!
Here’s the menu:
