Dad's Ultimate Buffet SM Megamall

One of the first and longest running restaurants to offer the smorgasbord to the Filipinos is the triumvate, Saisaki, Kamayan and Dad's, now more popularly known as the Dad's ultimate buffet. Of course you still have a choice whether you want to go full throttle and get from all the three stations or just one. The difference in price from the ultimate buffet and the single station is minimal so you will be getting a much better deal by choosing to go all the way.

Because of the competition from Korean and Japanese owned buffet establishments cropping up all along the metro, Saisaki has at last come out with more modern offerings. It wasn't enough that they hire a Japanese sushi consultant who is very visible in most of the branches of saisaki but they also modernized and seemingly standardized their fare across all branches so you get almost the same kind of dishes whichever branch you visit or prefer. Though their turkey leaves much to be desired (always as dry as a cardboard) and their Dad's station is really unimaginative, their prices are still pretty competitive and you can always find something enjoyable amongst all those dishes.

Dad's Ultimate Buffet
4th Floor SM Megamall
Lunch Monday to Thursday P520
Lunch and Dinner Friday to Sunday P620

Buffet Alerts - 145 Fahrenheit and Cafe Juanita

145 FAHRENHEIT
upper ground flour of the Il Terrazzo Building
#35 Tomas Morato corner Scout Madrinan, Q.C.
Lunch and Dinner
Friday, Saturday and Sunday

They are offering a US prime roast beef all-you-can eat for P1,399/adults and P899/children. The buffet includes soups, salads, side dishes and desserts.


CAFE JUANITA
#27 United Street Cor West Capitol Drive
Barrio Kapitolyo, Pasig City
Lunch 11:30am to 2:30pm
Sundays

Sunday lunch buffet for P485/person. Includes starters, main course and some dessert.

CQ Chef's Quarter Sunday Buffet at the Megamall

There’s a wonderful place in Megamall where you can literally have your cake and eat it too. The wait staff are all warm and friendly and the buffet price is reasonable. For P600 you get more than 1 kind of salad greens, one of them usually always a ceasar’s salad and to complement all of these is their excellent salmon carpaccio. The escargot salad, creamy balsamic dressing and fruit dressing are all something to watch out for. Their soups are always freshly made and delicious. For the carving, it’s usually a tender and flavourful beef plate, though there was one Sunday evening that they served turkey instead of beef. To go with their carving are roasted vegetables. They usually offer two kinds of seafood dish, a fowl concoction, a pork dish and a beef stew offering. Their beef bourguignon is divine and always something to look forward too. They offer two kinds of rice to go with all these viands plus a pasta section where you can order your choice of sauce. When they first opened their doors to the public a few years ago they offered their buffet on a daily basis, and it became almost a daily treat for us until then they whittled it down to just the week-ends, and now the buffet is only available for lunch and dinner every on a Sunday. The items from their menu are pretty special too and the prices are reasonable, considering that they offer 2 sizes for most of the items and the portions are larger than you might expect from a fine-dining establishment. They do give you your money’s worth and is certainly worthy of wading through the maddening Sunday crowd at the Megamall.


CQ Chef’s Quarter Buffet
2/Floor Atrium of The Megamall
Sunday Lunch and Dinner Buffet
P600 net per person