Apex Hotel Coffee Shop

The dining area is large and can accomodate 200 - 300 customers for breakfast. You can choose to dine either poolside, which allows the convenience of smoking, or you may sit inside the open-air covered area with ceiling fans that keep the place cool. The buffet breakfast offers about 20 hot selections that includes; eggs made in many styles, boiled and fried potatoes, some choices of beef (which is obviously Thai by the tuffness and lack of flavor), pork that is almost as tuff as the beef, and some fat bacon that is barely fried well enough to eat. There is a selection of cold-cuts, pancakes (sometimes), french toast, cereal, about a dozen choices of salad, lots of bakery goods and fresh fruit. More than half of the breakfast items are what is on the dinner buffet and appears to be left from the previous evening. For drinks, coffee, tea, juices and milk are available. There are Thai favorites served along with steamed, sticky and brown rice. Unfortunately, the food appears more tasty than it is. The steam table is often disregarded and not wiped clean, food is warm at best until a couple of hours has passed when the food can finally heat up and the breakfast seems to be an attraction only for the price rather than the quality. Although the buffet is only 110 baht, value is determined by the quality of food for the price and the quality is fair at best, so I wouldn't call this a good value even at the apparently low price. As far as service, it is minimal, if you get any at all. As a matter of fact, I saw a couple arrive with a baby and ask if they had a high-chair for the infant and the staff member pointed in the direction of the chair and then walked away to sit and finish his soup.

We visited the buffet again at dinner. The evening begins at 6:00PM, and we arrived around 7PM.

We started our meal with a bottle of Australian red wine from a very limited selection. Prices for drinks are more than reasonable, with wine starting at only 450 baht per bottle and the house wine at 80 baht per glass. Heineken is 40 baht and a coke is only 20 baht. The list of dishes for dinner is extensive with some changing nightly. Some favorites include grilled chicken or pork, chicken shish-kabob, fillet of pork, beef & chicken plus fish. There are approximately 15 hot dishes, Thai & Japanese salads, spaghetti with 2 sauces, sausages, cold-cuts, soup, a host of breads, fresh fruit, cake & desserts.

Unfortunately, dishes of food were cold and then placed into warm server trays on the buffet line, only to sit until they warmed up, so we recommend that you not come too early as you may find the pancakes at breakfast, or the pork or fish at dinner, to cold to enjoy. Also, the beef was more than tuff to eat on our visits for dinner so we suggest trying pork or chicken in dishes where the meat is cut into smaller pieces. Potatoes, it seems, go from breakfast to dinner and dinner to breakfast. They no longer offer the whole fish on the buffet that was once very popular nor will you find shrimp offered on the grill any longer as is found next door at Diana Inn.

This buffet is not for everybody as there are flies often diving around the bread and other uncovered items but the buffet breakfast is only 110 baht and the dinner is 180 baht. NO ++ is added. Note: The sister hotel "Lek Hotel" offers an almost identical buffet, while installing "tip boxes" thruout the dining area expecting you to reward them for the service that is practically non-existent.

• Roasted Pork in Red Wine Sauce
• Fillet of Red Snapper in Lemon Sauce
• Steak in Brown Sauce
• BBQ Chicken

Dress: Casual
Set Meals: No
Buffets: Lunch & Dinner
Vegetarian Dishes: Yes
Use MSG: No
Smoking Section: Yes
Mobil Phones: Yes