(CLOSED DOWN) Lunch Buffet at Open House (Grand Park Orchard, Level 4 - 270 Orchard Road) Reservation: 6603 8855

Visited on 30 May 2014 (Fri). Lunch Buffet at $28++ per pax = Total bill of $56 for 2 pax. (After 15% off)

(Complimentary parking is applicable from Mondays to Fridays at 12-3pm only)

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Open House is a chic and vibrant restaurant with four live cooking stations, serving a la minute signature dishes including pizzas, dim sum, laksa, claypot favourites as well as roast meat with noodles or rice. Of course not forgetting the delectable dessert station! 

Don't expect wide variety of food as this buffet only costs $28++ per pax during lunch time. I feel that the variety of food here is just nice to fill up our normal empty stomach. Let's have a look at the photos of this cosy ambience restaurant below!

First Station - Roast Meat

I do not have high expectations on their roasted meat station initially as most of the roasted meat at 5 star hotels disappoint me. To my surprise, the soya sauce chicken, char siew, roasted duck and pork belly here appeared to be one of the best that i had especially the soya sauce chicken - melted in the mouth. Maybe i was lucky to get all the tender parts of the meat on this plate! 

2nd Station - Noodles

All Time Favourite - The Laksa here never disappoint me. The coconut curry gravy was thick enough and the ingredients were fresh too!

Healthy Slice Fish Soup - The broth was light and and nice. The fried fish slice was tender - melted in the mouth!

3rd Station - Dim Sum

 Hmm.. their dim sum here doesn't look appealing at all -  Both siew mai and char siew bao... Really don't know how to describe the appearance of their siew mai here. Plain and ugly? The taste was alright, better than how it looks.. But they really need to put in some effort to make it more appealing.. 

The skin of the char siew bun was quite soft and the sweetness of the char siew was just nice. Just that the appearance doesn't look appealing as well..

4th Station - Claypot and Pizza

The Kung Po Chicken here was very disappointing..  The sauce was way too sour.. Probably too much vinegar or lemongrass...

We ordered half Hawaiian and half Margherita. The pizza that day was average, nothing special.  We used to have Otah and Terriyaki Chicken Pizza here which was super nice so was a tad disappointed on that day.

Dessert Station

Love the Mango Mirror here but have to act fast.. They have very limited mango cake so once finished, they will replenish other type of cake...

The Chocolate Royalty and Cappucino cake was average but the strawberry cake was very soft and nice! The strawberry cream puff tasted quite bad..

Oh i've forgotten to touch the pear pie and the nonya kueh!

Hmm.... None of these was nice...  :(

Photo taken in 2013 - All these shot glass desserts were so nice back in 2013....

Hot dessert of the day was Pulut Hitam!

I like their Pulut Hitam - Light and nice! You can add how much coconut cream as you like to enhance the taste. 

Nice Vanilla Bean and Chocolate ice-cream!

Sushi and Salad Station

Appetizers and Seafood on Ice Station

Top up additional $5++ for free flow of soft drinks/juices!

Overall it's quite a decent and value for money buffet. But the standard of the food and the service here has dropped quite a lot compared to year 2013. 

The service was average, not very efficient compared to last year as most of the staff was different and some of them seemed very young with no experience. We ordered 1 Orange Juice (Additional of $5++) but it was not served for very long until we told another staff. 

As the buffet prices here is not on the high side so it's still acceptable with the quality of the food and service here. But it would be good if they can improve in these two areas to attract more people.


Website: http://www.parkhotelgroup.com/orchard/dining/open-house/