Groupon Review: Holiday Inn (The Atrium)

Grabbed another Groupon deal to solve our headache on where to head to for dinner last Saturday and we choose this international buffet at The Atrium Holiday Inn which was priced at $36.50 per person inclusive of GST and service charge. Drinks not included but iced water was made available. 

The restaurant seats are pretty well spaced, though I would still consider it a little packed. The waitress got to us pretty quickly at the entrance and politely got us to our seats. 

Here is the buffet spread: 

Appetisers 

My salad serving with some cold sides 

 Salad bar has quite a lot of salad dressing available for selections (thousand island, mayonnaise, low fat dressing etc) and the vegetables are fresh and crispy. The salad bar and cold sides ingredient never runs out since the staff did a good job to keep it stocked up. 

Seafood spread

My  (first to be exact) plate of seafood

This is all that is available for their seafood spread (pretty reasonable for the price). All their seafood are pretty well done especially for their prawns and clams. Fresh and chewy. Really had lots of it. Scallop and mussel is just average, a little overcooked but is not that bad. The crabs over at this seafood section is way fuller than the ones used in the chilli crabs. 

Sushi spread 

Only had a mouth of their shrimp sushi which I found was average because the rice feels a little sticky for me. But Keith found it nice so yea. I think it is really dependent on individual. The sushi spread changes every time each plate is cleared which I thought was really nice!

Chinese cuisines available too 

Chili crabs 

 Other cuisines like steamed fish, salmon otak etc are made available for selection too! They also have a soup corner, but I only had one mouth of the soup cause I thought it isn't really good. (Thanks Keith for taking it so at least I can have a short review). Their chili crab sauce and buns are well done, but you can hardly find any meat in the crab, regardless which part of the crab you choose. I have no idea why, but yea, that is the case. It isn't constantly restocked too. There are several times when we head over and there is only crab shells left and the chef stood there and watch us flipped through the shells and did nothing about it. 

Thought they had a kids corner which is pretty interesting to mention lol. 

My serving of dessert. Almost one of each. 

Choices of cake and mousse. 

Ice cream with toppings

Me and my ice cream 

Desserts served here is awesome! The cakes does not only look pretty but is also soft and fluffy. The chocolate cake isn't too sweet which makes it perfect cause you can definitely get more than one without getting sick of it. Yoghurt cake is my second favourite since it has cheesecake as the base and the yoghurt was a perfect match with it. Ice cream is ordinary. They also have a shave ice machine for you to make your own ice kachang and also bo bo cha cha is also made available in a pot. 

Fruits included of course but I forgot to take a picture. It has watermelon, grapes,, papaya, honeydew ad 2 more others which were all pretty sweet. 

In general, it has a good atmosphere to have a dinner on a weekend and if you want to have something not too fanciful like other international buffet. The staffs are really polite and helpful when you request something from them. Definitely a place worth dining in at the Groupon price!