Macao Buffet Bible – How to choose the best buffet in Macau

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Macau has a range of dining options to suit all tastes and budgets but if you truly want to treat yourself to 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. 

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

Cafe Macau Buffet
Macau Tower Buffet is one of the most popular Macau buffets for its amazing views.

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 dishes as well as noting Macau’s history of seafaring and fishing with a range of seafood dishes.

In addition to lunch and dinner buffets, there is also high tea for a lighter option.

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Besides 360 Cafe, Macau Tower is also home to Tromba Rija Buffet, where you can dine for lunch or dinner.

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Belcanção

Four Seasons Macao buffet

Four Seasons Macau 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 dishes that bring together East and West on a plate (or two).

With various themes, the dishes 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, 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).

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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 dishes, and all manner of international creations along with plenty of decadent desserts.

Prices: Breakfast from MOP 228 per adult and MOP 114 per child, lunch from MOP 278 / MOP 139, and dinner from MOP 498 / 249

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Urban Kitchen

JW Marriot Macau buffet

Urban Kitchen Macau Buffet
JW Marriot Macau buffet is a top spot to entertain.

Another all-day buffet experience, Urban Kitchen inside the JW Marriott offers international and regional dishes 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.

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Feast

Sheraton Grand Macao buffet

Feast Macau Buffet
The Sheraton Macao buffet is a seafood-inspired feast.

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 dishes.

Feast is particularly proud to offer a good selection of Portuguese and Macanese dishes and dishes 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.

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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 (MOP210) and dinner (MOP 388) buffets. 

Festiva

Galaxy Macau buffet

Festiva Macau buffet
The Galaxy buffet is a smorgasbord of fresh food from around the world.

Galaxy Macau’s buffet restaurant serves up a host of specialty dishes from around Asia as well as all kinds of innovative dishes 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

Fontana Macau buffet
It’s difficult to choose the best buffet in Macau. How about testing your taste buds at the Fontana 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 dishes 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.

Prices: Breakfast from MOP 220 per adult and 110 per child, lunch from MOP 268 / 134, dinner from MOP 488 / 244

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Le Buffet

The Parisian Macao buffet

Le Buffet Macau
The Parisian Macau buffet dishes up Euro-Asian flavours in a stylish European atmosphere.

With a distinctly European atmosphere, Le Buffet at The Parisian Macao offers gastronomes a chance to sample some of the continents most iconic dishes.

Dishes are 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.

Le Buffet offers breakfast buffets from MOP 208 per adult and MOP 104 per child, lunch buffets from MOP 238 / 119, and dinner buffets from MOP 388 / 194.

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Mezza 9

Grand Hyatt Macau

Mezza 9 Macau Buffet
Another awesome contender for the title of the best buffet in Macau is Mezza 9.

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. Mezza 9 also has three private dining rooms.

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The Manor

St Regis Macao buffet

The Manor Macau buffet
When choosing a buffet Macau has no shortage of choices.

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.

 

Macao Buffet Bible

Macao Buffet Bible

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