Food at Marriott Cafe on the 21st of June, Thursday, was rather disappointing. The oysters didn't taste fresh, the crayfish tasted old and didn't have much sweetness, the hot food was meh.
I think Marriott's saving grace is really their service though. The waiting staff and receptionist give extremely good service - they're really polite and hospitable. Really nice smiles from some of them too ahha.
All right some of their cold food was actually quite okay, such as their salmon and tuna sashimi. Fresh slices that were of just enough thickness. Their prawns were also huge and yummy.
I was frankly very disappointed with the freshness of the oysters though. I was actually excited that there were actually gonna be oysters until I started trying to scrape the oysters off their shells. They stuck to the shell like no one's business and some even tasted and smelled strange. :(
Cold food
Their hot food was not great. Carving station's beef doneness was medium but it was quite tough still, not very juicy and had unpalatable fat chunks at the sides. They had quite a good selection of sauces although the mushroom sauce was probably left to set for some time and looked awful. I liked their apple sauce and teriyaki.
It was quite a joke that I had to keep waiting for the roasted pork. "Could you wait for ten minutes?" And it became "could you come back five minutes later?" when I went back fifteen minutes after. Haha I kind of gave up on it after that. Kind of embarrassing to keep going back to beg for pork yknow. My sis said some parts of the meat was tough but some other parts were delectable. Crispy skin. Good taste.
They had other food like.. Beef lasagne, costachino with barley (omg this was so gamey and salty), chicken, dumplings (my sis said the skin was so thick and tough and the meat was bland), otah and stuff didn't taste very good. Didn't try their laksa, chicken rice, mee goreng or pastas because I don't believe in eating much staple food during buffets heh.
Oh well. Dessert was another disappointment. Maybe all except this passionfruit thing and the mango ice cream. There was chocolate fondue which I had with meringue and honeydew.
Desserts
More desserts
My ice cream scooped on a cone with a cute gummy bear sitting against hahaha.
My father, sis and I at the start of our meal.
Well I've once had better food here during their buffet dinner years ago. It's either their standard of food quality has dipped or they serve better food during their dinners? No idea, but I won't be going back for a while.
Rating: 2.5/5
Marriott Cafe
Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel
320 Orchard Rd, Singapore 238865
Opens 6AM
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