Royal Plaza on Scotts, 25 Scotts Road, 65897799. Available: 12pm-2pm (lunch); 6.30pm-10.30pm (dinner)
The buzz This buffet gets crowded. Hugely popular with many self-professed buffetarians, the interior is divided into three tastefully spruced up spaces (the Terrace, Living Room and Verandah) – even then, a meal here can get noisy.
What’s special An eye-popping array of seafood, the crustacean station is one of the buffet’s highlights (lunch $43; dinner $58). Prawns, shellfish and a whole steamed salmon – sweet and tender, and good enough on its own - are the highlights. The appetiser section has a small mezze selection that has perennial Greek-Middle Eastern favourites such as baba ghanoush (mashed eggplant with seasonings), hummus, tzatziki (cucumber with yogurt) and pita bread.
The mains feature an exotic array of Mediterranean-inspired dishes ranging from spiced potatoes with coriander and garlic to green mussels with walnut sauce and meat from a shawarma rotisserie. There’s also an Asian kitchen offering Malay, Chinese, Indian and Thai dishes. But it's Carousel's pasta selection that impresses - the pasta is cooked al dente and doused in well-balanced sauces. The addictively spicy aglio olio is one of the best we’ve had.
Also tuck into: Across the road at the Grand Hyatt's Straits Kitchen is a daily spread of halal Chinese, Malay and Indian dishes (lunch $44++; dinner $52++) like satay, Hainanese chicken rice and tandoori chicken. Further out at the Asian Market Cafe at Fairmont, 'live' - and equally halal - action stations are fired up for pan-Asian plates; We can never resist the thick but not gloopy durian pengat (lunch $45++; dinner $55++).
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Mandarin Oriental Singapore, 5 Raffles Avenue, 68853082. Available: 12pm-2.30pm (lunch); 6.30pm-10.30pm (dinner)
The buzz This buffet gets crowded. Hugely popular with many self-professed buffetarians, the interior is divided into three tastefully spruced up spaces (the Terrace, Living Room and Verandah) – even then, a meal here can get noisy.
What’s special An eye-popping array of seafood, the crustacean station is one of the buffet’s highlights (lunch $43; dinner $58). Prawns, shellfish and a whole steamed salmon – sweet and tender, and good enough on its own - are the highlights. The appetiser section has a small mezze selection that has perennial Greek-Middle Eastern favourites such as baba ghanoush (mashed eggplant with seasonings), hummus, tzatziki (cucumber with yogurt) and pita bread.
The mains feature an exotic array of Mediterranean-inspired dishes ranging from spiced potatoes with coriander and garlic to green mussels with walnut sauce and meat from a shawarma rotisserie. There’s also an Asian kitchen offering Malay, Chinese, Indian and Thai dishes. But it's Carousel's pasta selection that impresses - the pasta is cooked al dente and doused in well-balanced sauces. The addictively spicy aglio olio is one of the best we’ve had.
Also tuck into: Across the road at the Grand Hyatt's Straits Kitchen is a daily spread of halal Chinese, Malay and Indian dishes (lunch $44++; dinner $52++) like satay, Hainanese chicken rice and tandoori chicken. Further out at the Asian Market Cafe at Fairmont, 'live' - and equally halal - action stations are fired up for pan-Asian plates; We can never resist the thick but not gloopy durian pengat (lunch $45++; dinner $55++).
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