I have tried this place for lunch and dinner a number of times since last year. Apparently they are quite different as dinner has more spread and with seafood counters. So I will focus on the dinner. (lunch is normal with local delights)

They do have quite a good spread for seafood and cooked food items. For the former, you have be able to taste big Sri Lankan crabs prepared with Black Pepper Sauce or Chilli Sauce, very good! Its really good value for money for that, without forgetting you get to try the Alaskan Lobster, King Prawns and Oysters etc. They are very fresh and there is a counter for you to cook your seafood much to your preference.

They have have a counter to serve roast duck, indian food and noodles. Generally not bad! The salad bar consists of a good variety of fresh veges and dressings, to much of your taste!

On the other side, is the dessert counter with chef preparing waffle for you and a good spread of desserts, including ice-creams, pastries and cakes, chocolate fountane. Among all, the tirimisu placed in small but unique glasses and waffle with ice cream are perfect matching!

What I like best is that they have a chef who will go around from tables to tables to cut the different types of BBQ food for you (i.e. special marinated chicken wings, lamb, beef, sausages and BBQ pineapple etc). You get to taste good food! The other issue is that the 'route' of this chef vary (depending of his preference) and so if you are sitting at the side/behind tables towards to end of the dinning area, you may not get these BBQ food as they would have all taken up by the tables in front and left you fustrated!!!) By the time the chef comes back again, he would likely to take on another type of BBQ food and you will miss the former ones!!!

The food items which I felt were not outstanding or normal is the Dim Sum (I believe they may be leftovers from their lunch or high-tea) as they don't seem to be very fresh and of course not tasty. The sushi are also ordinary and if you don't have a big stomach, you are forgo these but save it for the seafood and other cooked dishes.

As the cafe is located at the main lobby, opposite to the main entrance and so it can be quite noisy at times when there were big groups of tourists arriving and checking in! Generally it is ok. The cafe has the upper and lower sitting section, somehow I feel the toursits usually get to sit on the upper section (more comfortable with sofa like chairs) as compared to the normal but quite classy chairs at the lower section!

Service wise, quite good. Before you sit down and get up to get the food, the crew will place a bowl of water on your table to allow you to use your hands without your request. They will also pass you the clongs (to eat the crabs) and provided napkims without you asking! They are quite attentive too and will collect the used plates regularly and asked you if you need any other things or beverages after a while.

Coming on weekends, you will see big family gatherings here and also lots of tourists eating there.

For those not driving, the hotel provides shuttle bus to Orchard MRT but the frequency is only up to 8.30pm (last bus) and if you miss that, you can only go to the Tanglin Mall side to take a bus. Of course, if you are very full after having a delicious dinner, you can have a nice stroll along the night but quiet Orchard Road and enjoy the night lights. In fact, I enjoyed it very much during the Christmas Festive Season where you get to see the nicely decorated Orchard Road!!!

The price for the dinner is about $55+++ and that adds up to be about $65. Its quite on the steep side but considering the type of good and high end food (especially the seafood items), its definitely worth it and you will not regret over it!

Of course, some credit cards have promotions such as the UOB where 3 pay for the price of 2, will be a good bargain for you! (but the only problem is that this promotions will only be applicable between Sundays to Thursday)

Its a good place for good food for sure!!! Should give it a try!

Local delights not special.

A little overpriced.

Luckily used the DBS AMEX for 1-1

Went on a Sat night, abt 75% full, mixture of locals and foreigners.
Nice atmosphere and open spaces, next table was quite far and we could have our own conversation privately.

Salmon sashimi, alasakan crab legs, baby lobster, tiger prawns was what we started on... everything was nice especially the salmon sashimi, thick and fresh... yummy !

had creamy baked cheese with crayfish, scallops, roast lamb/beef, pepper crab next... scallops was nice, i like the roast lamb/beef too.. crayfish was nice for the first 4, then a little too much for me b'cos of the cheese, not that it is not good, but wanted to save my stomach for the rest..

they had some chinese /indian food but didnt try them since we can have those outside... decided to skip their lok lok stuff too...

next had spagetti, fried sea bass fillet, chef came and gave us sausage, roast beef, chicken wings and lastly desserts, had their durian pudding was ok with real durian , durian puff was made of
durian cream... skip it.... chocolate fondue and ice cream, have
other small stuff too... waffle looks nice but was too full to try
it...

Used DBS for 15 % discount

Went there for the usual monthly anniversary celebrations a.k.a food galore and i was astoundingly amazed :]

The atmosphere was rather quiet that night & the overall feel is very corporate [it being a business hotel] and most of the other people present were businessmen. Thus it did feel abit 'uptight' compared to the buzz at carousel & the line etc.

Loved these the most;

a. seafood/cold starters/soups & salads [ huge and fresh crayfish, sashimi, prawns and the cold alaskan crab ! my goodness ]

b. italian/western section [ pasta & creamy seafood was addictive ]

Gb had most of the asian section and there were chefs walking around serving/slicing roast/bbq chicken,pork(char siew) and chinese sausages. It was so funny as one particular chef was so alert that he kept coming back to our table whenever he noticed we had finished our chicken ! What efficient service - maybe because there was not many people so they were more free than usual :] We did not find it irritating at all because it became more of a joke than anything else.

They also had this very unique, healthy brewed chinese noodles soup dish with red dates,sliced chicken swimming in a herbal and refreshing broth (picture 3) that made me feel i was in hk or taiwan as it really tasted like no other chinese noodle dish that i came close to eating.

Overall, the variety was sufficiently splendid; they had multiple fruit and leafy salads, two types of soups, cold starters & seafoods, a plethora of western, italian, chinese & indian cuisine and last but not least desserts !

Cant wait to go back there again :p Plus there is 15% discount for certain cards though i cant rmb which ones we used; either citibank or DBS.

We had buffet dinner at Cafebiz to celebrate my mum's birthday last evening. The buffet spread was not considered good as compared with Carousel, Checkers Brasserie and Plaza Market Cafe. There wasn't much variety of cooked food and the curry yong tau foo looked so pathetic, with only tou fu and fish cakes inside it. The rock oysters were quite fresh though there wasn't much choice on the seafood counter with only prawns, clayfish and mussels to go along. The salmon sashimi and sushi didn't look presentable but I tried, and it was not fresh at all. As for the dessert counter, there wasn't much variety as well though ice cream and ice ka chang were included. However, I would say the ambience is good and quiet for private gathering. The layout is very comfortable and cozy too. I think it's not value for money without any credit card promotions i.e. UOB dining promotions - 1 free with 4 buffets ordered.