Using such apps, tourists can get a breakfast buffet at Aloft Bangkok Sukhumvit 11 hotel for 335 baht (US$9), a lunch buffet at Holiday Inn Bangkok Sukhumvit, an IHG Hotel for 575 baht, and a dinner buffet at Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers for 938 baht.
The Post tried four of the best Bangkok hotel buffets:
1 Best value lunch buffet
InterContinental Bangkok
My plate looks like a culinary tribute to the United Nations.
Thailand is represented by a small portion of massaman curry, its sauce absorbed deep into chunks of beef.
France makes an appearance in the form of buttery Brie cheese.
I separate each of its miniature courses with a palate-cleansing sip of bottled water, iced coffee or tea, all of which are included in the cost of the lunch buffet served in Espresso, the chic, mezzanine dining room overlooking the marble-draped foyer of the InterContinental Bangkok in the central Chidlom area of the capital.
The finale is tiny tastes of marble cheesecake, plain chocolate mousse, caramel pudding, lemon meringue tart, fruit cake, bread and butter pudding, and six flavours of ice cream and sorbet.
Cost: 1,404 baht (inclusive of VAT and service charge)/as low as 804 baht through Eatigo
2 Best value buffet with a view
Anantara Riverside Bangkok Resort
Anantara Riverside Bangkok Resort owns a majestic location on the west bank of the river, opposite downtown Bangkok. Guests absorb these views, and dance moves, during Anantara’s International Buffet dinner, held on the Riverside Terrace daily from 6pm to 10pm.
The Thai offerings are similarly flavoursome, although in some instances jarringly spicy; from papaya salad, to stir-fried chicken with cashew nuts, beef massaman curry, pad Thai and pomelo salad.
There are plenty of Indian and Chinese dishes, too, but all that went before is eclipsed by an avalanche of desserts: apple cheesecake; strawberry cream cake; chocolate brownie; green tea cake; mango mousse … I could go on.
Cost: 1,999 baht/1,339 baht
3 Best value seafood buffet
Novotel Bangkok Bangna
Midway between downtown Bangkok and the city’s main airport, Suvarnabhumi, the Novotel Bangkok Bangna has several buffet deals each week, the most impressive being the Saturday Seafood and International Buffet.
Complementing the seafood are Chinese favourites such as roast duck, drunken chicken, roast red pork and steamed buns, British-style roast honey ham, Italian pizzas and pastas, and Irish lamb stew.
Also included are well-made desserts such as creme brûlée, blueberry cheesecake, chocolate mousse cake, strawberry panna cotta, lemon meringue pie, caramel custard and fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.
Cost: 1,871 baht/1,071 baht
4 Best value luxury buffet
Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok
I would gladly eat at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok buffet every night of my life if I didn’t know I’d end up shaped like a pear. So vast and appetising are its offerings that I find myself wandering and staring for the first five minutes.
In upmarket Ratchadamri district, this five-star hotel’s International Dinner buffet is hosted beneath the lofty ceiling of its Dining Room each day from 6pm to 10pm.
There are oysters ice, along with clams, shrimps, sea snails, crab, lobster and mussels. Salads include Niçoise, octopus and smoked salmon, and cheeses range from smoked and blue to Parmesan, Taleggio and provolone.
Pizza flavours change throughout the week – my two slices of chicken pizza are addictive, as are the freshly made carbonara pasta, roast pork roll, beef bourguignon, duck à l’orange, and seafood gratin.
This buffet’s dessert section can only be described as a sensory bonanza. I have double servings of tiramisu, vanilla panna cotta, mango pavlova, Biscoff cheesecake, pear mousse cake, lime basil meringue tart, hazelnut Paris-Brest and chocolate passion fruit tart.
Each is so carefully made that I have no sugary aftertaste, just a wish to return and start this buffet all over again.
Cost: 2,398 baht/1,440 baht
The writer was hosted free of charge by the above hotels.
