The first buffet I remember enjoying was a 2004 visit to the InterContinental Bangkok. Coconut jam, omelets, lots of seafood…good times.
Whether they introduce me to a local dish I had never heard of, provide the day’s only reasonable clean source of raw vegetables (looking at you, China), or merely exist to inspire personalities for screenplays, I’m a fan.
No matter what time of day you went to a given buffet, let’s see what choices you made.
n.b. for those of you who don’t like buffets, oh, no, anyway…
To start, here’s what I had at the lebua Bangkok last month.
I have fond memories of going to the Sunday ‘family’ buffets at the American Embassy Club, where I would usually stack up on prime rib & salad (simple tastes as kid), whereas I was relegated to get extra oysters for my mom at their seafood buffets, since she didn’t want to seem a glutton & I didn’t care for them.
Breakfast buffets will have me go for the uszh — eggs in various preps, sausages, bacon, cheeses, breads or rolls, meats, etc.
THE best brunch buffet I’ve gone to was at a now defunct Italian restaurant in Berlin: tables bursting beneath the usual breakfast fare, plus various pasta dishes, grilled/marinated/roasted veg, meats, seafood… all at an unbeatable price at the time. And there’s a Turkish place that offers a large variety of warm mains and veg dishes on top of the Western breakfast options.
Then there was the famous brunch buffet at … the Wynn? Some LV hotel many years ago. While there was a lot of variety, I wasn’t all that impressed with it.
Perhaps the most impressive appetizer buffet was at one of those Brazilian steakhouses in NYC. I had to stop myself from overeating to save room for tha meatz.
