Macau has a range of dining options to suit all tastes and budgets but if you truly want to indulge in a smorgasbord of delights, head for one of Macau’s buffet restaurants. Macao’s rapidly changing city skyline has brought new luxury resorts that take pride in their buffets and the Macau buffet scene serves up a smorgasbord of sumptuous spreads. Our team has compiled a list to help you choose the best buffets in Macau. Going to Macau soon? Here are the best Macau buffet choices to make your mouth water.
Contents
Choosing The Best Buffet in Macau
Choosing the best buffet in Macau can be rather difficult as there are so many excellent Macau buffets to select from. The good news is a buffet meal in Macau is excellent value. You can expect to pay between MOP 150 to A$30 to $50 (So if you’re looking for a delicious meal with many choices, you’ll be rewarded in Macau.
Macau Tower Buffet
Easily the best view from any of the buffets on the list, 360 Cafe, on the 60th floor of Macau Tower, rotates once every 90 minutes, giving you the full Macau experience.
Highlighting Macau’s past with a range of Portuguese and Indian food as well as noting Macau’s history of seafaring and fishing with a range of seafood.
In addition to lunch and dinner buffets, there is also high tea for a lighter option.
Besides 360 Cafe, Macau Tower is also home to Tromba Rija Buffet, where you can dine for lunch or dinner.
Belcanção
Four Seasons Macao buffet
With a reputation synonymous with quality, it should come as no surprise that the Belcanção at Four Seasons is one of the best places in Macau for an indulgent breakfast, lunch or dinner.
While not a traditional Macau Portuguese restaurant, Belcanção is Portuguese for Beautiful Sound.
Belcanção offers a wide range of expertly prepared meals that bring together East and West on a plate (or two).
With various themes, the food on offer range from classic Asian and Western to a few innovative combinations of the two.
Current favourites include the tandoori salmon, the unorthodox (in a good way) sushi, sashimi and the abalone congee.
The Portuguese egg tarts, a Macau must, are an absolute must-try at Belcanção.
Prices: Lunch is MOP 228 per person (Monday – Friday) and MOP 328 per person (Saturday – Sunday). Dinner is MOP 538 per person (Monday – Thursday) and MOP 638 per person (Friday – Sunday).
Spotlight
Studio City
The homage to the opulent and golden age of film that is Studio City, with its Art Deco-inspired interior, has Spotlight.
The buffet restaurant, with a gold medal from the Hong Kong Restaurant Interior Design Awards (HKRIDA) no less, offers breakfast, lunch and dinner and has everything you would expect from a Macau buffet – oodles of fresh seafood, a wide range of expertly-prepared Asian food, and all manner of international creations along with plenty of decadent desserts.
It’s a popular choice for a relaxed Sunday brunch with friends.
Urban Kitchen
JW Marriot Macau buffet
Another all-day buffet experience, Urban Kitchen inside the JW Marriott offers international and regional cuisine housed in six different “zones” that each has a different chef.
Breakfast is a somewhat predictable affair with all the classics, while lunch is a little more involved thanks to the aforementioned zones that offer a seafood bar; Macau, Portugal and Tuscany; Cantonese, Beijing and Sichuan; Japan and Korea; a juice station; and desserts.
Dinner offers freshly-prepared main courses that are delivered to your table.
Expect Portuguese chorizo, Peking duck, and hand-pulled noodles, among other things.
Feast
Sheraton Grand Macao buffet
Feast is the Sheraton Grand Macao’s buffet restaurant on the other side of the Cotai Strip in the gargantuan Sands Cotai Central complex.
The restaurant, as do many, if not all, showcases the best in international cuisine with a range of stations showcasing all kinds of fabulous food.
Feast is particularly proud to offer a good selection of Portuguese and Macanese food and from across Asia.
There are also frequent special additions like the Feast Crab Bash, which brings buckets of Louisiana-inspired seafood to tables for guests to enjoy at no extra charge.
Five Great Deals
Looking for more buffets? These 5 are worth a try:
- Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau – lunch or dinner with seafood options.
- Cafe Azure Buffet Restaurant at Crowne Plaza Macau – craving a fresh oyster dinner buffet?
- Royal Kitchen at Grand Emperor Hotel – good value!
- Sofitel Macau at Ponte 16 – Mistral Restaurant – a mouthwatering array of choices.
- Praha Restaurant at Harbourview Macau – an option for afternoon tea.
Cafe Esplanada
Wynn Macau
If you’re craving Hainanese chicken rice or African chicken, Cafe Esplanada serves a menu of staple Chinese and Macanese fare.
Breakfast and dinner buffets are a spread of Asian and Western cuisines.
Cafe Esplanada has breakfast and dinner buffets.
Festiva
Galaxy Macau buffet
Galaxy Macau’s buffet restaurant serves up a host of specialty food from around Asia as well as all kinds of innovative meals from around the world.
Of all of the Macau buffets on this list, Festiva prides itself on bringing in ingredients from around the world to ensure quality as well as authenticity.
Seasonal specialties are also on offer at Festiva, meaning each visit will differ slightly from the last.
Fontana
Wynn Palace buffet
With 10 different stations, Fontana buffet at Wynn Palace has tried to reinvent the buffet experience.
With seasonal produce in the hands of expert chefs from around the globe, the range of meals at Fontana is a sensory delight.
Also, the family-friendly restaurant has been designed to ensure every seat in the house has a fantastic view of the Performance Lake so no matter when you visit – breakfast, lunch and dinner options are available – you will get a great meal and a great show.
Le Buffet
The Parisian Macao buffet
With a distinctly European atmosphere, Le Buffet at The Parisian Macao offers gastronomes a chance to sample some of the continents most iconic meals.
Food is prepared a-la minute so you watch as chefs create your meal right before your eyes with fresh ingredients.
Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Le Buffet is an epicurean adventure in the heart of Macao’s famed Cotai Strip.
It’s a good excuse to see the lights of the Eiffel Tower, which is one of the dazzling new landmarks in Macau.
Mezza 9
Grand Hyatt Macau
Inside the Grand Hyatt Macau is Mezza 9, the hotel’s buffet concept.
Currently available for just breakfast and dinner (to give the staff time to prepare everything without needing to compromise) the concept is “Dining from the Kitchen” which essentially means everything is prepared freshly as and when you ask for it.
Focusing on quality and freshness, Mezza9 is hoping to elevate buffet dining to another level, which has been helped by its interior, which was created by Japanese design firm SuperPotato.
Of course, there is also an element of theatre as diners watch chefs take ingredients from display cases and cook up dishes right then and there.
You can watch and wait for your dish or request it be delivered to your table.
This also means dishes can be tailored to your preference.
So whether you love or loathe something, it can be added with abandon or left out entirely subject to your taste. Mezza 9 also has three private dining rooms.
The Manor
St Regis Macao buffet
Sunday Brunch at The Major at St. Regis Macao is a lavish affair with dishes that exemplify the brand.
Chilled seafood – think lobster, shrimp, mussels, razor clams, and half a dozen kinds of oysters – is an excellent place to start to get your palate acclimatized for the feast to come.
Start slowly with an a-la-minute Caesar salad, lobster rolls and a cup of lobster bisque. Follow that with foie gras and steak from the teppan and hunks of roasted pork and beef.
Finish with dessert – macaroons are a must – and, if you have room, some cheese.
Oh, and there are also pass around dishes that will be delivered to your table. Add bottomless wine and beer if you like or stick with the juice and sangria that is included.
For more things to see and do in Macau read these posts:
Plan Your Trip
Rent A Car – Find the best car rental rates at Discover Cars. They compare car hire companies to provide you with the best deal right now.
Find A Hotel – If you’re curious about this article and are looking for somewhere to stay, take a look at these amazing hotels.
