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Originally Posted by work2fly
(Post 16758385)
I'm not doubting your experience. I was simply setting the record straight re: the below, which is not the norm for a FT Do.
Why don't you loosen up a little. I'm sure people will still come to the do's. Stop fretting. For the record ..... I've only attended one "do". There were three organised meals. All three were buffets. |
Rarely enough to justify it, which is why I tend to avoid them. Sometimes we'll go as a family to the brunch buffet at the country club near us and I will usually get an omelet, something from the carving station with a side, some shrimp and dessert. I tended to do the same when staying at the Las Vegas Hilton too.
I did go to the Carnival World Buffet at the Rio in Vegas a few years back (and paid like $39 to do so) and I had a bunch of crab legs, some carved meat and sides, some random things (sushi maybe?) and a little dessert and that was it. I can't eat like I used to when I was in my teens so I don't really enjoy buffets much. I'd rather have a good eggs Benedict any day. |
Originally Posted by CMK10
(Post 16758575)
Rarely enough to justify it, which is why I tend to avoid them. Sometimes we'll go as a family to the brunch buffet at the country club near us and I will usually get an omelet, something from the carving station with a side, some shrimp and dessert. I tended to do the same when staying at the Las Vegas Hilton too.
I did go to the Carnival World Buffet at the Rio in Vegas a few years back (and paid like $39 to do so) and I had a bunch of crab legs, some carved meat and sides, some random things (sushi maybe?) and a little dessert and that was it. I can't eat like I used to when I was in my teens so I don't really enjoy buffets much. I'd rather have a good eggs Benedict any day. Usually before I could pack it in.. nowadays I eat for fuel, and make sure I try not to overeat.. I've done the simply lunch buffets to Four Season seafood grill and sushi type dos.. Fairmont Breakfast Buffet are somewhat common for us when travelling.. |
Although as previously stated - a complete buffet aversion .... we have two Sundays when we're in Singapore and I'm tempted to research and find the best Sunday hotel buffets which seem to be a bit of an institution ...... and might be a bit more civilised ....
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I love the buffets of Bangkok luxury hotels, such as the Four Seasons and the Peninsula. I usually try to select a few items I want, so as not to overeat, but I usually succumb to temptation and eat quite a lot...
Here in Tokyo some of the big Japanese hotels have buffets that are not bad, but they're not nearly as good as they are in South East Asia. I tend to avoid them. |
Originally Posted by uk1
(Post 16761596)
Although as previously stated - a complete buffet aversion .... we have two Sundays when we're in Singapore and I'm tempted to research and find the best Sunday hotel buffets which seem to be a bit of an institution ...... and might be a bit more civilised ....
It was fairly refined, calm atmosphere. Though I suppose it depends on how many families with screaming kids decide to attend. :D |
Originally Posted by uk1
(Post 16756727)
Circle the wagons, circle the wagons .... FT do's under attack!
I don't know what's wrong with you two - I wasn't complaining about the number of FT do's that are buffets - the point of my post was to talk in my view light heartedly about my experience at an FT do buffet. Don't be so blo*dy touchy! I think Sweet Willie is more used to the type that he typically organizes where a smaller group of people go to a restaurant and dine together at a table (on or off the menu). |
Originally Posted by uk1
(Post 16758563)
Why don't you loosen up a little.
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I am not the biggest buffet fan - I generally find 90% boring / bland at best, inedible at worst, and 10% edible, sometimes good. I despise seeing people using their hands, or children grabbing and putting back! Ew! I also like my hot food hot, not lukewarm.
However, we recently attended an engagement brunch at a small restaurant (for clarification it was a group of tables in a set aside area, but the food was the standard sunday brunch menu, along with other guests) and it was lovely! Salad and seafood bars, fresh cook to order brick oven pizza, 8 different entrees prepared by a chef as you waited (everything from gnocci to prime rib), yummy puddings, and free flowing champagne, bucks fizz and kir royals :D They did the full range of breakfast items as well. Really lovely food, all very fresh, very clean, I guess the patrons (well mannered) helped too. I am tempted to go again! |
Originally Posted by uk1
(Post 16761596)
Although as previously stated - a complete buffet aversion .... we have two Sundays when we're in Singapore and I'm tempted to research and find the best Sunday hotel buffets which seem to be a bit of an institution ...... and might be a bit more civilised ....
BI Mauna Kea was excellent Sunday Brunch.. Banff Springs put on one of the nicest in Western Canada imo
Originally Posted by emma69
(Post 16764220)
I am not the biggest buffet fan - I generally find 90% boring / bland at best, inedible at worst, and 10% edible, sometimes good. I despise seeing people using their hands, or children grabbing and putting back! Ew! I also like my hot food hot, not lukewarm.
However, we recently attended an engagement brunch at a small restaurant (for clarification it was a group of tables in a set aside area, but the food was the standard sunday brunch menu, along with other guests) and it was lovely! Salad and seafood bars, fresh cook to order brick oven pizza, 8 different entrees prepared by a chef as you waited (everything from gnocci to prime rib), yummy puddings, and free flowing champagne, bucks fizz and kir royals :D They did the full range of breakfast items as well. Really lovely food, all very fresh, very clean, I guess the patrons (well mannered) helped too. I am tempted to go again! We like the Empire Brunch at Hotel MacDonald in Edmonton.. We attend this brunch whenever we are in YEG.. |
I can only do about two large plates myself without killing myself. But as others have said, if we go, it's more about the variety than the "all you can eat" aspect of it. Usually won't get our money's worth per se. (Hence, why we're more drawn to small plate dining such as tapas, dim sum, food cart hopping, etc.) While quality is always a concern, we do consider things such as items that usually work well & don't in a buffet setting, turnover, and "action" stations that do made to order.
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The difference between all-you-can-eat and a buffet seems to be lost to many people. Those plates stacked to overflowing are ludicrous. Neither all-you-can-eat nor buffets limit one to a single trip to the food trough.
Brunch buffet is the worst of the lot (unless it's free, in which case it's okay but I'd rather pay $5-7 for two fresh-cooked eggs and toast I don't have to toast.)
Originally Posted by uk1
(Post 16742949)
I squint every time I hear the word "Buffet".
I hate them. What finished me off was going to my first (and only) FT "do" (we happened to be there at the same time) and buying my first buffet for mrs uk1 and me and I hadn't realised the importance that some of our colonial brothers place on the table they choose and it's proximity to the food. In hindsight, it was as though they had developed some sort of mental tape-measure that could calculate each seat and it's approximate travel time to the table. .................:) But those events are not really buffets with a large variety of food, they are a cheap (for the venue, not the people footing the bill) and easy way to serve crowds a limited choice of sub-par food. And what is a buffet? The restaurant putting out a bunch of stuff so they don't have to take orders and deliver food and charging about 3x what anyone would pay to order off a menu. Sometimes variety isn't the spice of life. I don't even want to think about the sanitation, the sneeze screens, the restaurant dumping old product ..... But if you have teen-age boys an all-you-can-eat buffet can be a very good family night out until they learn better :cool: |
Originally Posted by lili
(Post 16767015)
The difference between all-you-can-eat and a buffet seems to be lost to many people. Those plates stacked to overflowing are ludicrous. Neither all-you-can-eat nor buffets limit one to a single trip to the food trough.
Brunch buffet is the worst of the lot (unless it's free, in which case it's okay but I'd rather pay $5-7 for two fresh-cooked eggs and toast I don't have to toast.) This sounds like that last few weddings and company Christmas parties I've attended. Being polite (er.. drinking) we usually wait until the truly starving have cleared out and invariably discover there is no food left or the main courses are gone and dessert is being put out. But those events are not really buffets with a large variety of food, they are a cheap (for the venue, not the people footing the bill) and easy way to serve crowds a limited choice of sub-par food. And what is a buffet? The restaurant putting out a bunch of stuff so they don't have to take orders and deliver food and charging about 3x what anyone would pay to order off a menu. Sometimes variety isn't the spice of life. I don't even want to think about the sanitation, the sneeze screens, the restaurant dumping old product ..... But if you have teen-age boys an all-you-can-eat buffet can be a very good family night out until they learn better :cool: but the breakfast buffets we frequent at Fairmont hotels is first class.. currently at the Mayakoba.. each day is a breakfast buffet.. but the best we've ever had, as there are spanish dishes and 7 variety tables as well as cook to order stations.. so best we've ever had in terms of breakfast.. for brunch, supper.. different story.. the Four Seasons Surf Sand and Stars Hualalai.. incredible supper buffet of all you can eat lobster tails, sushi, sashimi, ribs, steaks, seafood.. you name it.. The best meal we've ever had.. So some high quality buffets out there.. but then there are the bottom feeder types too.. that is gross and inedible.. |
Granted, we're all a parcel of paunchy piglets, but ...
But, on FT "dos" the organiser often gets a private room and gives a finite number to the establishment. You dissagree with the word "often"?! the point of my post was to talk in my view light heartedly about my experience at an FT do buffet consistently disagree with anyone who starts a sentence with the word but followed by a comma. Especially when what follows is an idiotcy. For the record ..... I've only attended one "do". There were three organised meals. All three were buffets. number of monkeys typed the word "buffet" and have decided to run around shouting "here's Act II of the Comedy of Errors." Why don't you loosen up a little. |
Im a quantity guy when it comes to buffets.
I like to pound food until I get so stuffed I need a nap. Buffets are a big reason why I like being elite in with hotel chains. Also my favorite thing to do in Vegas is eat buffets. |
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