Orchid Cafe in the Sheraton Grand Sukhumvit -- Bangkok, Thailand

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The Orchid Café, in the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel, is one of the better buffet restaurants in Bangkok and it also does double duty by offering an ala carte menu as well. The buffet has all of the usual sections that you would expect plus a few more and it has its own menu that changes continually. In fact, there are eight different buffet menus so you’d have to visit this restaurant a lot to ever get bored with its offerings.Breakfast, lunch and dinner all have buffets and ala carte menus with the ala carte menu presenting a wide variety of international choices at each meal. The better value is the buffet, of course, unless you’ve got a small appetite and can’t take advantage of the many types of food on offer. I’ve eaten here on quite a number of occasions and there are some favorite sections of mine that don’t change, like the sushi/sashimi bar, the salad section and the cheese board, most of the dishes are part of the daily menu that rotates continually.

For instance, each day the soups, Thai dishes and international entrees will change. A typical day’s menu could contain something like this: Dauphine potatoes, Sautéed beans with bacon, baked  snapper filet with tomato and capsicum relish, Andaman seafood in bouillabaisse broth, lamb tikka masala (roasted lamb stir-fried with onion, capsicum, tomatoes), yellow dal tadka (yellow lentil curry), pla nueng siew, Massaman Nuea (beef and potato in peanut curry), Kao pad “nasi goreng” (fried rice Indonesian style ) and lamb saltimbocca heading up the international section along with Som tam gai yang  (spicy green papaya salad with chicken), larb moo( spicy pork salad with mint), Pophia sod and Yam talay(spicy seafood salad) in the Thai section. The soups would be wild mushroom cream soup and Tom saep (northeastern style clear hot and sour soup).

There’s more, though, as these additional dishes add to the international selections: beef tenderloin mignon marinated with rosemary, Lamb chops sentenced with thyme, chicken teriyaki skewers, river prawns, salmon medallions infused with lemon zests, Zuiee fish filet, prawns and scallop skewers, tuna steaks seasoned with fresh oregano and lime oil, pork chops decorated with caraway seeds and garlic, pork tenderloin mignon infused with tarragon, chicken satay, beef satay , garlic marinated chicken breast  and rock lobster. That doesn’t include the fresh carvery section which typically has two roasted meats, the appetizer section and the desserts. And, as I said before, the above dishes change every day so you’ll probably never have to eat the same thing twice here (unless you want to, like me) no matter how many times you come.

And the ala carte menu adds many other dishes in its nine different sections including a vegetarian dishes and low-carbohydrate dishes. There are also burgers, sandwiches, soups and salads and even steaks, prime rib and lamb chops. Asian food includes Thai and Indian dishes and there’s also a noodle and pasta selection.

Suffice it to say that the variety here and the quantity of food is outstanding. And it’s not just quantity here either as the quality at Orchid Cafe, like all of the Sheraton Grande’s restaurants, is quite high. I don’t have space to get into all of the different special promotions that this place holds but there is usually something going on regularly. The Orchid Café is also part of the Sunday Brunch promotion where all of the hotel’s restaurants take part in one giant brunch. It’s something worth checking out in and of itself.

See http://bangkokdining.ning.com/profiles/blog/list for info on Bangkok restaurants.