Originally Posted by
SP03
Many lounges in China call their “happy hour” dinner and its essentially a dinner buffet. Not as extensive as the main hotel buffet but it’s the same concept as lounge breakfast vs main restaurant breakfast. It has all the elements of a proper meal including bread, rice/noddle dish, veggies and cooked meal. Plus fruit, cheese, cold cuts, salad.
I’ve had several dinner there and it’s quite good. I think lounges are great when you don’t want to plan in advance or want to have a quiet/lazy evening.
Last year when we were at JWM Macao, they even had 2 chefs at the dinner time, cooking some dishes from fresh ingredients that you picked and chose.
I would also add that those lounges often have 2 separate areas - the dining area often is closed during non-dining hours, while the "lounging" setting area is opened thru the day when the lounge is opened. In the dining area the setting literally is set up like a regular restaurant, with the proper table and chairs, even booth seating in some lounges. If this is not for the "dinner" service setting, I cannot think of anything else could better described such.
The concept of "lounge" and the expectation / usages by the guests, is very different in Asia than in US.
Hence I said from the beginning, the question has no answer because the settings / offerings of a hotel lounge has such a big difference depending on where the property is located. It all depends on the reality.