Solaire boasts that everything they serve at the buffet is fresh, hence the name Fresh, and that "the only thing frozen is the ice cream."
OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH.
Appetizers
Seafood Station
The lobsters were huge and aplenty but also too sweet and rubbery
Cured meats and cheeses
Terrines and Iberico
Dimsum Station
Grilling Station
Carving Station. Look at that BEEF!!!
More carvings
The Japanese Station could use more imagination
Korean Station
And my favorite part of any buffet - The Dessert Station!
What I ate:
Crabmeat avocado temaki, hamachi (daw) and salmon sashimi
Lobster, king crab legs (so sweet and yummy!), fresh oysters, pickled herring with onions,
crabmeat and mango salad
Brie with walnut, fig and strawberry
Blood orange, blackberries, starfruit, arugula salad with figs, parmesan and pine nuts
Assortment of cheeses and cured meats
That's foie gras inside!
Desserts!
My favorites were the Solaire chocolate cake, churros and choco pistachio cake.
But apparently, my most favorite that night (aside from the king crab legs)
was "the only frozen thing in the buffet!"
Hazelnut, pistachio and chocolate ice creammmmmm…mmmmm…mmmmmmmm…… :)
My Auntie Natalie's favorite was the bread and butter
#LugiSaBuffet
Strawberries and blackberries for the table
Of course we still brought birthday cakes to the buffet.
Clockwise from top left: Tous les Jours Kiss Strawberry, Becky's Kitchen Prune Walnut Cupcakes,
Solaire Chocolate Cake, Tous les Jours Chocolate Forest, Fleur de Lys Best Kept C-Cret Cake,
Delicakes by Joly White Choco Matcha Cake
Happy Birthday, Uncle Dennis!!! :)
Good luck blowing out all the candles!
Overall, I'd say the dinner spread at Fresh was not bad considering its P1,888++ price tag is lower than many other hotel buffets.
Five things I wish Fresh would improve on:
1. Food labels. It would be nice to know what we were eating.
2. Corkage. OMG!!! It was P3,000 per bottle!!! We were almost 40 people eating that night and they wouldn't waive even just one bottle!
3. Coffee or tea. Please just include it already.
4. The Japanese Station. Because it's my favorite station next to dessert. :P
4. The chairs.
They were really heavy, making it difficult to get in and out. Plus the single skinny support
system was not enough to balance our weight
But it was really our fault, because, well, we're all sumo champion heavyweights! :P
(We did NOT dress to match the carpets.)
Fresh: Solaire Resort & Casino, Solaire Boulevard, Entertainment City, Manila. Tel: +632 888 8888
