OK, so lets cut to the chase. the Ritz-Carlton's buffet at "The Greenhouse", was the most disappointing. I should have probably clued in because they promoted this particular night of the week as "Oyster Night", when other hotel buffets as aforementioned, all had oysters every night of the week....making this special night rather un-special, in context.

The restaurant itself was rather uninspiring in its decor, aside from an amazing piece of Dale Chihuly glass sculpture which you can see in green glass high up on the wall at the back of the restaurant in the picture below.



The vibe was of a hotel restaurant rather than an exciting buffet feast. Many of the guests appeared to be regular hotel guests rather than buffet guests. I was also particularl disappointed with the selection of dishes. Although there were many, I was hard pressed to find any, other than sushi, that were particularly attractive.











The oysters were good however, and I managed to put a few decent plates together, but surprisingly I decided to leave unsatisfied, as the dishes, aside from the sushi and oysters, just were not tasty or attractive enough to indulge in. As a general example, many buffets seem to think that increasing the dish count by including strange salad combinations, such as potato cubes in mayonnaise, with shredded carrots, dried cranberries, green peas, and walnuts. I mean, who wants that? Who is looking forward to trying that? And why include another 20 similarly strange and disgusting dishes that nobody is demanding? It is just a cheap and relatively effortless way of bulking up the offerings....







The dishes here, aside from the seafood (oysters really, as the other stuff was not that great)were simply uninspiring, but not for lack of selection. There was plenty of it, just not anything that anybody would want. I felt like the hotel was just "going through the motions" and had ceased trying to make this a show-stopping wonderful buffet, but merely was "providing a buffet" for the hotel guests. They basically dumped whatever they could muster onto tables and called it a buffet, which it was; but by definition only. It was also rather dreary in there with the feel of a 24-hour hotel lobby restaurant. I would definitely pass on this buffet if ever in Singapore again, and it was one of the more expensive ones as well. Other buffets had oysters, but did not stop there; they also had great other dishes. I would rate this a 6.5 out of 10.