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The place was quite spacious but the buffet spread was limited.  For seafood lovers, there was everything, cray fish, crab, mussels, clams, prawns and sushi. Everything was fresh, and in small quantities, thick juicy slices of sashimi were prepared by chef on demand. The quality and freshness of food awesome.The maincourse section was quite limited about 6 dishes although the dishes on offer were delicious. The desserts section was awesome with many choices especially for desserts lover.The serv
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The place was quite spacious but the buffet spread was limited.  For seafood lovers, there was everything, cray fish, crab, mussels, clams, prawns and sushi. Everything was fresh, and in small quantities, thick juicy slices of sashimi were prepared by chef on demand. The quality and freshness of food awesome.

The maincourse section was quite limited about 6 dishes although the dishes on offer were delicious. 

The desserts section was awesome with many choices especially for desserts lover.

The service was good as my glasses get filled up and plates cleared quickly.

At $45++, we cannot expect more since now the standard of living has gone up.
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The F&B team at Amara Singapore has recently relaunch ELEMENT, their restaurant – bar concept. Element offers first of its kind, multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-occasion F&B experience. In this review, Chubby Botak Koala & Little Devil will only focus on the International buffet selections.The following are the selections available once you enter Element, Sushi & Sashimi counter, Bread counter, cold cuts and cheese (Woohooo, prosciutto with rock melon), Seafood (including lobster, c
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The F&B team at Amara Singapore has recently relaunch ELEMENT, their restaurant – bar concept. Element offers first of its kind, multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-occasion F&B experience. In this review, Chubby Botak Koala & Little Devil will only focus on the International buffet selections.
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The following are the selections available once you enter Element, Sushi & Sashimi counter, Bread counter, cold cuts and cheese (Woohooo, prosciutto with rock melon), Seafood (including lobster, crayfish, oyster, legs of Alaskan King crab, prawns, etc), live stations , roast selection, cooked food station and desserts.
The Spread
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So let's dissect the buffet range starting from the sushi and sashimi selection. In sashimi section you have the salmon, tuna, seabass for standard selection. These cuts are fresh, generous and delicious. It seems that the chef like me, and I get some cuts of salmon belly which was fatty & beautiful. The sushi variety are ever changing depending to the fresh cuts they have and the creativity of the chef.
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For the bread, cold cuts and cheese, we zoom in on our favourite prosciutto with rock melon. We skipped the bread as we don't want to fill ourselves, however my MIL who had a bite of it said that it was good. In the background you can see there were showing Jamón ibérico ham. Unfortunately, it is only for ala-carte menu instead of the buffet.
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Moving to the seafood section, we devour the beautiful fresh lobster, crayfish, oyster and leg of Alaskan King crabs. The taste of the seafood are combination of freshness and well executed cooking technique before it was chilled. The lobster and crayfish are solid and I did not taste any fishy smell. The oyster size are medium in size, however the quality is superb.
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On the night, the live stations presented curry crayfish with fried mantou, Lap Mei Fan (sausage rice), ramen and tiger prawn tempura. The crayfish are bouncy and the mantou soak up the curry nicely. Lap Mei Fan (Sausage rice) is a good carbo option, where the rice are fragrant with tasty blood sausage and pork sausage slices. The ramen has springy texture while the broth was milky, robust but slightly peppery. We did not taste the tiger prawn tempura though.
Curry Crayfish with Fried Mantou
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Lap Mei Fan (sausage rice) & Tiger Prawn Tempura
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The cooked food selection is quite limited about 6 dishes, However, the focus in Element is about quality not quantity. Most of the dishes are good, with lyonnaise potato, lamb navirin and Taiwan cabbage are our pick for the cook food.
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While we have stuffed ourself silly with the seafood and sashimi, we only have little space for desserts, which included assorted fruits, chocolate fountain with marshmallows, assorted pastries, cold deserts and asian desserts. Luckily, we made the right decision focusing on the seafood and mains, as the desserts are quite ordinary.
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The atmosphere of this place is very good and very open. We were seated near the bar section, which has an opening towards outdoor seating facing Tras street. The open air bar concept is good, but it does make you wonder if it is wasting the electricity and air conditioner. Meanwhile, the floor to ceiling wine chiller will sure catch your eyes. It works in multiple way, as wine chiller, partition and decoration.

Service is good when clearing the plate, however the staff knowledge need to be improve. When I ask them where the hidden ham come from, it took them ages to provide me with the answer.

Overall, the newly launch International buffet selections are a definite winner. The seafood are fresh, they have a wide variety of selections and the quality of the food are excellent. From the price point, it is value for money. Cheers!!

Please note that we visited Element in January 2014, so the Elements are still in Christmas atmosphere.

For the complete pictures and Chubby Botak Koala dining experience, click / copy the link below to your browser.
http://www.chubbybotakkoala.com/2014/03/Element-Amara-Hotel-Singapore.html

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Celebrating my sister’s birthday at Amara Hotel’s Element , highly recommended by an aunt of mine. They serve international buffet here, with the ambience of a clean and classy restaurant. Their salmon sashimi is fat and succulent. The star of the day is the cheese baked lobster , melted savoury and creamy cheese with a slight perfect charring adds a rustic look and blankets most of the sweet sweet lobster meat. Their hot foods section was alright, nothing that stood out. But the dessert section
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Celebrating my sister’s birthday at Amara Hotel’s Element , highly recommended by an aunt of mine. They serve international buffet here, with the ambience of a clean and classy restaurant. Their salmon sashimi is fat and succulent. The star of the day is the cheese baked lobster , melted savoury and creamy cheese with a slight perfect charring adds a rustic look and blankets most of the sweet sweet lobster meat. Their hot foods section was alright, nothing that stood out. But the dessert section was the only thing that kept me going back for multiple servings. Wide variety of choices from tarts,cakes and crispy macarons. My favourite was the smooth and silky mascapone cheese Tiramisu dusted with a fine layer of cocoa powder. Service was a little slow. Overall a pleasant experience.
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2012-10-30 119 views
I have heard all about the highly raved Elements buffet at Amara hotel. However, it was only recently that I got to try it for myself. I purchased a Groupon deal for this buffet.I was really disappointed. I had heard about the excellent quality of food provided. However, not all of the dishes promised on the voucher was available! The smoked salmon and macarons that was promised on the voucher was not available. It was a huge disappointment. The service was also bad as they took a long time to r
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I have heard all about the highly raved Elements buffet at Amara hotel. However, it was only recently that I got to try it for myself. I purchased a Groupon deal for this buffet.

I was really disappointed. I had heard about the excellent quality of food provided. However, not all of the dishes promised on the voucher was available! The smoked salmon and macarons that was promised on the voucher was not available. It was a huge disappointment. The service was also bad as they took a long time to refill the empty sashimi plate even though the chefs had already seen that it was empty. I took them about 30mins to fill the empty plate.
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This is the grilled lobster. It is served in delicious sauce and is really good and fresh. The meat is tender and this was the dish that I was really happy about.

Price: $40 with voucher
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The hotel restaurant serves buffet breakfast, lunch, high tea and dinner. My friend booked a section of the restaurant to celebrate his 1 year old daughter's birthday. He told me he chose this place because he can book from 1230pm-4pm while most hotels' restaurants only from 3pm-5pm.I guess most Singapore hotel's buffet are quite standard nowadays. They have a spread of salad bar, japanese food, cooked food, local delicacy, pastry and dessert.
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The hotel restaurant serves buffet breakfast, lunch, high tea and dinner. My friend booked a section of the restaurant to celebrate his 1 year old daughter's birthday. He told me he chose this place because he can book from 1230pm-4pm while most hotels' restaurants only from 3pm-5pm.

I guess most Singapore hotel's buffet are quite standard nowadays. They have a spread of salad bar, japanese food, cooked food, local delicacy, pastry and dessert.
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The full article and more photos are available here:http://draftsfromcoffeetable.blogspot.sg/2012/05/element-buffet-dinner-amara-hotel.htmlI guess that any search online for Amara Hotel's buffet dinner will result in numerous reviews sharing individual experience of dining there after purchasing online discounted coupons which were available just recently. So here's another piece to add to that growing list.Amara Hotel's website described the area as "a fusion of stylish minimalism and chic soph
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The full article and more photos are available here:
http://draftsfromcoffeetable.blogspot.sg/2012/05/element-buffet-dinner-amara-hotel.htmlI guess that any search online for Amara Hotel's buffet dinner will result in numerous reviews sharing individual experience of dining there after purchasing online discounted coupons which were available just recently. So here's another piece to add to that growing list.Amara Hotel's website described the area as "a fusion of stylish minimalism and chic sophistication". Not sure I understand what they mean by that, but the area is an art unto itself. How it managed to fit into its namesake of fusing the 5 Chinese elements is beyond me. What is obvious to the eye is that the place is nicely decorated.

What could one expect when dining in Element of Amara Hotel? Seafood is the main highlight here, with crustaceans, mollusks (that's oysters and mussels to you) and fish kept cool on ice. Japanese food lovers will be overjoyed to know that sushi and sashimi are available as well, though they got grabbed to the last piece quite quickly before I had to wait for the refill.Seafood aside, the main choice here is biased towards Western food, but some Asian dish is available as well. In the company of those are breads and slices of cold cuts for meat lovers. A teppanyaki kitchen is available as well, allowing diners to observe how the chef handle the lobster through a see-through partition.
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This is my first time visiting this restaurant and I am pleased to say that food is generally quite up to standard. Some of the food which I will recommend one to try:1. Chilled prawn - The prawns are very sweet and fresh2. Salmon Sashimi - Very fresh but the sashimi are snapped up really fast so do keep a look out when the chef replenishes it3. Tempura Prawn - Freshly cooked! Yummy!4. Green Tea with red bean cake - The cake just melts in your mouth and unlike most of the cakes, it is not too sw
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This is my first time visiting this restaurant and I am pleased to say that food is generally quite up to standard.
Some of the food which I will recommend one to try:
1. Chilled prawn - The prawns are very sweet and fresh
2. Salmon Sashimi - Very fresh but the sashimi are snapped up really fast so do keep a look out when the chef replenishes it
3. Tempura Prawn - Freshly cooked! Yummy!
4. Green Tea with red bean cake - The cake just melts in your mouth and unlike most of the cakes, it is not too sweet

However, I am quite disappointed with the lobster which one person is only entitled to one serving. It is not worth the calories!
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Even though it is a buffet,but there is a lobster set provided for each person only and is only limited to one set per person. Guess the lobster set is not included in the buffet as we can only order once.The salmon sashimi is fresh and doesn't has the fishy smell. But the variety of buffet is not alot for us to choose from. Just an average buffet only.
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Even though it is a buffet,but there is a lobster set provided for each person only and is only limited to one set per person. Guess the lobster set is not included in the buffet as we can only order once.

The salmon sashimi is fresh and doesn't has the fishy smell. But the variety of buffet is not alot for us to choose from. Just an average buffet only.
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Amara hotel's cold seafood is relatively not bad,is quite fresh and tasty. But the oysters are not fresh at all.Not juicy and succulent enough. The spread of the desserts like cakes and ice-cream etc is not alot. Does not have a wide variety of food though it is a buffet. Doesn't serve hot tea/coffee as most buffets serve that free. Just free flow of plain water. Paid just a reasonable price of $46 after credit card discount.
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Amara hotel's cold seafood is relatively not bad,is quite fresh and tasty. But the oysters are not fresh at all.Not juicy and succulent enough. The spread of the desserts like cakes and ice-cream etc is not alot.

Does not have a wide variety of food though it is a buffet. Doesn't serve hot tea/coffee as most buffets serve that free. Just free flow of plain water. Paid just a reasonable price of $46 after credit card discount.
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Mention “buffets” and I’m positive that Element Restaurant at Amara Hotel is not one of the first few to pop into your mind. If not for a close friend’s invitation to her birthday party, I wouldn’t have known of this restaurant at all! High tea is priced at $29++ per adult, $16++ per child on the weekends from 12 to 4pm. The spread is pretty limited and focuses on local favourites such as Roti Prata and Peking Duck.My personal favourite was the cooked salmon (no surprise!) from the hot food sect
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Mention “buffets” and I’m positive that Element Restaurant at Amara Hotel is not one of the first few to pop into your mind. If not for a close friend’s invitation to her birthday party, I wouldn’t have known of this restaurant at all! High tea is priced at $29++ per adult, $16++ per child on the weekends from 12 to 4pm. The spread is pretty limited and focuses on local favourites such as Roti Prata and Peking Duck.

My personal favourite was the cooked salmon (no surprise!) from the hot food section.

None of the desserts were outstanding enough to garner any raves even though there was a good variety from Italian panna cotta to American carrot cake.

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