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[QUOTE=Travel Spirit]I am looking for the finest buffet in Bangkok.
What is your recommentation?
Maybe Orchid Cafe at Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit?[/QUOTE]You do all the night hunting and action in the room. So basically your awake full night.
(at least I was)
So never had a chance to eat my free buffet breakfast most of the days. May be you can eat breakfast and then retire.
[QUOTE=Barko]2350++ Baht pp, and...worth it.[/QUOTE]Sorry , no amount of bacon and eggs are worth $80
Interesting article in the Bangkok Post today about a proposed increase in the minimum wage, presently at a paltry 206 baht per day. Many low level workers would have to work 12 hours per day, 30 days per month to make wages of less than 6000 baht per month … even in BKK … that’s less than $200 USD even at today’s lousy exchange rate. This means that all the shop girls and waitresses we see busting their butts for long hours every day are earning barely enough to stay alive.
No wonder the brave ones turn to hooking to make ends meet. And no wonder they’re all looking for a rich farang boyfriend.
[url]http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/200698/44-baht-a-day-rise-unlikely-to-win-nod[/url]
[QUOTE=Daddy07]Wage 206 baht per day.[/QUOTE]How many hours?
[QUOTE=Daddy07] And no wonder they’re all looking for a rich farang boyfriend.
[url]http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/200698/44-baht-a-day-rise-unlikely-to-win-nod[/url][/QUOTE]Not so sure about the "all" part.
[QUOTE=Mealticket]Sorry , no amount of bacon and eggs are worth $80[/QUOTE]
Well, its not for massive quantities of bacon & eggs – there are plenty of cheap buffets for that. Its for quality!
Haven’t been to the Four Seasons yet but based on Barkos rec. I’ll have to try it. I stay at the Peninsula and they have a very good buffet for about 700BHT (though their dinner buffet is off the charts but expensive). The other 2 hotels in the triangle are the Shangri-La and the Oriental. Yes, the Oriental is very good and I haven’t tried the Shangri-La yet but they are all on the river, have free shuttle boats to each others piers and the Thaksin skytrain station and the whole experience has NEVER failed to impress the ladies and you get some great food as well.
I would imaging that the other "real" 5 star hotels like the DusitThani and Plaza Athenae will have great buffets as well. Lastly, the State Tower (Lebua) with thier top floor open air restaurant on the 80th floor is probably pretty good as well as they have a great view.
[QUOTE=Mealticket]Sorry , no amount of bacon and eggs are worth $80[/QUOTE]You funny farang. But, good point. Egg drop pork "jok" with diced chilies, slivered ginger, & rice vinegar anyone? There's a great place down off Soi 24, I'll do that any day of the week! 40 Baht.
I was simply answering a fairly objective question with a fairly subjective answer. Hell, it's what most of this board is based on! Heh.
Countering remark: A lot of people make more than that amount of money in a half hour, (maybe not so many around here though.) So now, if you just sit and eat good caviar and drink decent champagne in a place full of beautiful women for an hour, you're way ahead of the game, right? (But, that's just for starters at the Four Seasons!) Beats the shit out of flying first class on any airline in the world, that's for sure. Fuck it, I easily spend that much money just fooling around with the babies in Soi Cowboy on Friday night.
It all depends on how you look at it.
Lots of basically normal people spend more than $80 on THEIR Friday night in the US for a really lousy steak & a stupid ass crap movie, both instantly forgettable. And, lots of people lose more than that in 1 minute at a Black-Jack table in Vegas any time, any day of the week, again, instantly forgotten at the next round of cards. Retarded? Yep, but, there it is.
I guarantee that you will NOT easily forget the Sunday brunch at the Four Seasons. Sometimes you can spoil yourself a little, you really can. And for $80? You could do a lot worse.
Justification: I mean really, think about it, these people are so serious about this food thing that they fly the ultra gourmet "Echire butter" for their Bearnaise steak sauce in from La Rochelle France every Saturday morning. And, yes the sauce is absolutely completely insane, something that interrupts and reorganizes your entire thought process about the way you think of food. Everything there at the Four Seasons brunch is at this level. And, all for eighty smackdogs? It's a steal, it really is. Dude, it ain't eggs n' bacon.
Again, it all depends on how you look at it. :D
Fuck, now I'm starving.
[QUOTE=Natty Bumpo]The Oriental buffet is really extraordinary. It is on my top ten list of last meals before I die. You should try it at least once even though it is très beaucoup expensive.[/QUOTE]The dining information page on the Mandarin Oriental hotel's web site shows several different buffets in several different restaurants:
[url]http://www.mandarinoriental.com/about_mo/media/press_kits/bangkok/bangkok_voyage.aspx[/url]
Perhaps Mr. Bumpo (or other gourmands) might recommend a specific buffet at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
Getting peckish just thinking about it.
Bunky
[QUOTE=Barko]These people are so serious about this food thing that they fly the ultra gourmet "Echire butter" for their Bearnaise steak sauce in from La Rochelle France every Saturday morning. And, yes the sauce is absolutely completely insane, something that interrupts and reorganizes your entire thought process about the way you think of food. Everything there at the Four Seasons brunch is at this level.[/QUOTE]The hotel's web site has a page devoted to the Sunday brunch:
[url]http://www.fourseasons.com/bangkok/dining/sunday_brunch/[/url]
And if you click here, you can see a sample menu. It sure looks to be everything Mr. Barko promises and more:
[url]http://www.fourseasons.com/bangkok/menu_2121/[/url]
Bunky
[QUOTE=Bunky]The dining information page on the Mandarin Oriental hotel's web site shows several different buffets in several different restaurants: [url]http://www.mandarinoriental.com/about_mo/media/press_kits/bangkok/bangkok_voyage.aspx[/url]Bunky[/QUOTE]
I was thinking about Lord Jim's Buffet Lunch. I was very impressed with the joint when I dined there. 5* plus. Buffet Lunch - 12am-2:30pm
Recently I had the pleasure of dining with David_33, who treated me to a fantastic lunch buffet at the Majestic Grand. Many thanks for the excellent food and even better conversation, David.
The buffet is superb, IMHO. It costs 300B, and has some of the best buffet food I have had in a long time. The room itself was mostly filled with locals, which tells you something. In addition to the buffet typical options (you know, the steamed crab, the yellow curry, etc.) there were loads of seafood options, a satay grill, several options of bread, lots of dessert options, and excellent coffee to follow. The thing is that the food didn't taste like buffet food - it wasn't the usual bland, stale kind of food that has been mass-prepared. It tasted pretty damned good, IMHO. All for a paltry 300B. David did insist we arrive as close to 11:30am as possible though, and he was right - by 1pm (when we left), the place was full and the food was running thin.
[QUOTE=Barko]good point.[/QUOTE]Thanks. I know.
The thing / trick is to have the money to spend on $80 breakfast buffets but NO inclination to do so.
But, you're right, on occasion, thoughts of the bearnaise at Ruth's Chris do sweep through my mind.
[QUOTE=Mealticket]Thanks. I know.
The thing / trick is to have the money to spend on $80 breakfast buffets but NO inclination to do so.
But, you're right, on occasion, thoughts of the bearnaise at Ruth's Chris do sweep through my mind.[/QUOTE]Groan. You can lead a horse to water, but.
Comparing the Ruth's Chris chain to the Four Seasons Bangkok is like trying to compare that "really cool" diamond ring you bought at Zales to a "D, E, Investment Grade, Exceptional white, River, Princess cut pure white" 3 carat stone that you specifically flew to Antwerp to purchase. We are talking two COMPLETELY different frames of thought. The former is worth less than 15% of the purchase price the nanosecond after you plunked down your Visa debit card. The latter, however, not only worth the intense rush it gave you when you first bought the thing, that little rock is so rare that it will be worth 100% more 5 years down the road, and 100% more 5 years after that, (or 16 times more than what you bought it for after 20, or 64 times the original cost after 30.) The longer you own it, the more it is worth, (and of course, the more you enjoy it.)
It's just like a great memory.
My 1980 Porsche has been a great delivery system for some incredible memories that I will cherish and take to my grave. I can't take the CAR with me, of course, but the memories, I can, (and will.) Fortunately, the car is worth far more now than the day I bought it. On the other hand, the 1980 Mustang Ghia that I bought for my (long since ex) wife 30 years ago, the one she just HAD TO HAVE, is long gone, dead & buried, or, possibly, a little teeny tiny part of the stainless steel in your disposable razor blade that you used to shave with this morning. Virtually worthless.
Memories are everything, and the Four Seasons does a really great job of providing them. If you are still a non-believer, just try the place this Sunday to know what you are talking about. It's not about throwing away money at all, it's about creating memories.
[QUOTE=Barko] Memories are everything, and the Four Seasons does a really great job of providing them. If you are still a non-believer, just try the place this Sunday to know what you are talking about. It's not about throwing away money at all, it's about creating memories.[/QUOTE]
If I had to choose Ruth Chris or Four Seasons BKK Sunday buffet, I would choose without hesitation the Four Seasons. I stayed at the Four Seasons BKK the year it changed over from the Regent. They gave me a great deal back then: $140 for an upgraded deluxe room with a pool view. The Sunday buffet was impressive.
It is my experience that not all Ruth Chris’s are of the same quality. There is a real good one in my home town in South Florida where I have had consistently excellent meals although I think I prefer the Capital Grill. I have tried other R.C.’s elsewhere that were downright mediocre.
I am originally from Chicago and I remember back in the 70’s & early 80's how great the steaks were at Morton’s, years ago before they got bought out and franchised. That was a foodie memory! I think Lord Jim’s is at that level or higher for seafood.
In any case, there is no denying that BKK is a food paradise among other things.
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