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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 is about 22 meters in length and breakfast offers about 20 hot selections, scrambled eggs (that are not the best), potatoes and usually french fries and bacon that is barely fried. There is a selection of cold-cuts, pancakes, french toast, cereal, about a dozen choices of salad, lots of bakery goods and fresh fruit. For drinks, coffee or tea is available while fresh juices and milk is also offered. 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.
We visited the buffet again at dinner. The evening begins at 6:00PM, and we arrived around 7 o'clock.
We started our meal with a bottle of Australian red wine. The wine selection is limited but satisfactory for an inexpensive casual buffet restaurant. 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 …these prices are unheard of at most restaurants. The list of dishes for dinner is endless 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, some food items were again cold that should have been hot …dishes of food were cold and then placed into warm server trays on the buffet line, only to sit cold until they hopefully 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 2 visits for dinner so we suggest trying pork or chicken. 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, however, they have cut back on service while installing "tip boxes" thruout the dining area expecting you to reward them for the service that is practically non-existent. |
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