Pretty much every hotel has one: an all-day restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and usually offers buffets and ala carte items. At the Ambassador Hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 11 in Bangkok, the restaurant is the AM Café and it does indeed serve buffets and ala carte items and also has a few surprises for its guests.
It’s not open 24 hours like some restaurants in this category but almost; it opens at 5 am and closes at 1 am. So you can get a very early breakfast or a late-night supper after a night out. I’ve eaten quite a number of times at AM Café’s lunch buffet and I must say that I’ve never sampled the ala carte dishes although I suspect that some of them must be featured on the buffet at times. And although the price here is rather modest, 399 baht++ at lunch and 495++ at dinner, the selection is good with some live cooking stations.
This is a trend that has been going on for some time now as hotels try to make their buffets more appealing to guests. Gone are the days, in most places anyway, where the only hot selections are in chafing dishes slowly drying out unless there is a very large volume of diners in the restaurant. Now you’ll find chefs in open kitchens and at cooking stations s preparing everything from pastas to grilled meats to stir-fried items and other things. The AM Café offers a pasta cooking station and a sushi/sashimi chef preparing fresh Japanese delicacies along with all of the other varieties of food on offer here.
There are plenty of fresh salad ingredients and a good selection of prepared salads, both western and Thai. I always head to the Japanese section and get some sushi rolls and wasabi to start things off along with the soup of the day. Then it’s salad time and after that the main dishes. You’ll find a dozen or so main dishes each day for lunch and they change all the time. Standard western-type dishes based on beef, pork and chicken dominate but there are also some Thai dishes and the occasional Indian curry pops up. And if you’re in the mood for something different, like a sandwich or burger, for example, then you can always skip the buffet and order from the ala carte menu.
Or if you’re just not a big eater then the ala carte menu makes sense. You can get a good-sized hamburger here for only 190 baht++ so it’s easy on your wallet as well as your waistline if you don’t want to hit the buffet line. There are many other reasonably priced western items on the menu as well a large selection of even lower priced Thai dishes that are quite good. So when you come to the AM Café make sure you check both options — buffet or ala carte – before you make your choice. One or the other is bound to satisfy you.
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