The Orchid Cafe located in the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel in Bangkok offers both a buffet and a la carte menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The buffet features eight rotating menus with various international dishes, soups, Thai dishes, and seafood. In addition to the buffet, the extensive a la carte menu includes options like sandwiches, burgers, pastas, noodles, vegetarian dishes, and steaks. Both the variety of foods and their quality make the Orchid Cafe one of the better buffet restaurants in Bangkok.

1. The Orchid Café, in the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel, is one of the better buffet restaurants in
Bangkok and it also does double duty by offering an ala carte menu as well. The buffet has all of the
usual sections that you would expect plus a few more and it has its own menu that changes
continually. In fact, there are eight different buffet menus so you’d have to visit this restaurant a lot
to ever get bored with its offerings.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner all have buffets and ala carte menus with the ala carte menu presenting
a wide variety of international choices at each meal. The better value is the buffet, of course, unless
you’ve got a small appetite and can’t take advantage of the many types of food on offer. I’ve eaten
here on quite a number of occasions and there are some favorite sections of mine that don’t change,
like the sushi/sashimi bar, the salad section and the cheese board, most of the dishes are part of the
daily menu that rotates continually.
For instance, each day the soups, Thai dishes and international entrees will change. A typical day’s
menu could contain something like this: Dauphine potatoes, Sautéed beans with bacon, baked
snapper filet with tomato and capsicum relish, Andaman seafood in bouillabaisse broth, lamb tikka
masala (roasted lamb stir-fried with onion, capsicum, tomatoes), yellow dal tadka (yellow lentil
curry), pla nueng siew, Massaman Nuea (beef and potato in peanut curry), Kao pad “nasi goreng”
(fried rice Indonesian style ) and lamb saltimbocca heading up the international section along with
Som tam gai yang (spicy green papaya salad with chicken), larb moo( spicy pork salad with mint),
Pophia sod and Yam talay(spicy seafood salad) in the Thai section. The soups would be wild
mushroom cream soup and Tom saep (northeastern style clear hot and sour soup).
There’s more, though, as these additional dishes add to the international selections: beef tenderloin
mignon marinated with rosemary, Lamb chops sentenced with thyme, chicken teriyaki skewers, river
prawns, salmon medallions infused with lemon zests, Zuiee fish filet, prawns and scallop skewers,
tuna steaks seasoned with fresh oregano and lime oil, pork chops decorated with caraway seeds and
garlic, pork tenderloin mignon infused with tarragon, chicken satay, beef satay , garlic marinated
chicken breast and rock lobster. That doesn’t include the fresh carvery section which typically has
two roasted meats, the appetizer section and the desserts. And, as I said before, the above dishes
change every day so you’ll probably never have to eat the same thing twice here (unless you want
to, like me) no matter how many times you come.
And the ala carte menu adds many other dishes in its nine different sections including a vegetarian
dishes and low-carbohydrate dishes. There are also burgers, sandwiches, soups and salads and even
steaks, prime rib and lamb chops. Asian food includes Thai and Indian dishes and there’s also a
noodle and pasta selection.
Suffice it to say that the variety here and the quantity of food is outstanding. And it’s not just
quantity here either as the quality at Orchid Cafe, like all of the Sheraton Grande’s restaurants, is
quite high. I don’t have space to get into all of the different special promotions that this place holds
but there is usually something going on regularly. The Orchid Café is also part of the Sunday Brunch
promotion where all of the hotel’s restaurants take part in one giant brunch. It’s something worth
checking out in and of itself.