Epicurean

For a 5 star hotel buffet restaurant, Epicurean didn’t deliver to our expectations.. Atmosphere : A big restaurant and too many dining tables to the proportion of the few main food stations on offer. This means long queues for the foods, it feels like overcrowded food hall. We regret and wish have spent our money in an exclusive fine dining experience, and would have satisfied. Foods: Oysters were a disappointment, worst we have tasted, creamy texture indicates it was frozen previously, we expect fresh seafoods. Sashimi salmon was okay, but not sure of the other fish sashimi. Good selection of deserts. Most five star restaurant buffet would include soft drinks,( not this one), for $130/ head you expect they would give a little. some better buffet resto provides labelling of food (nuts allergy, gluten free etc), the chef came out and points to what were okay to eat for my son who has nut allergy. Epicurean is overrated.

I was asked by the booking agent and restaurant front desk if it was a special occasion. I said yes. It’s a double birthday celebration.. thought that they asked for a reason… but was wrong.. it was usual buffet meal.. seems they ask just for general info.. service from staff excellent, food excellent, chef talking through which food was gluten free excellent.. just not sure why they bother asking if ur celebrating anything.. when we went to the Silk restaurant they asked if we were celebrating and then really made it special..