In Shanghai, the high standard buffet is still therepredictableThe land is gathered in a star-rated hotel. The Westin Bund Center, Shanghai enjoys an international reputation and has hosted royalty and dignitaries such as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Crown Prince of Norway, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands and the Minister of Japan, as well as international movie stars Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Kevin Spacey and Adrien Brody. The Stage Restaurant at The Westin Bund Center, Shanghai has won many honors such as "Best Brunch" and "Most Recommended Buffet Restaurant", and was selected as one of the "50 Reasons Why Shanghai is the World's Best City" by CNN Travel Channel.
The Stage Restaurant is best known for its Sunday brunch, and the Westin Bund Center has received numerous accolades for its dining. The Brunch at Stage Restaurant has a different theme every week, and in March 2018, for example, Stage Restaurant's Sunday Brunch hosted Australian-themed brunch, St. Patrick's Day, Indian Food Festival and Hungarian-themed brunch. Sunday brunch is a sumptuous menu with unlimited Veuve Clicquot champagne, wine and cocktails, as well as foie gras, roast suckling pig, caviar, lobster and a variety of handcrafted desserts. In order to add to the theme atmosphere, there will be a number of exciting programs in the restaurant on the day, including but not limited to opera, acrobatics, dance, tango, magic, band performances, etc. On top of that, the Westin Kids Club also offers babysitting services for diners with children during Sunday brunch, with toys, game consoles, children's food, and cartoon television, so adults don't have to worry about having a full meal because they have to take care of the kids. Diners who go to the restaurant are reminded to learn about the restaurant's theme preview for next week on its official website or official WeChat, and make an early reservation.
In addition to the famous Sunday brunch, the restaurant also has a variety of dishes on weekdays, with a different theme every day, and the theme is divided by national cuisine, including American, Australian, Thai, Singaporean, Indian, Swiss, etc. The restaurant has an open kitchen with more than 20 kinds of hot dishes prepared and served, including freshly grilled lamb chops, beef ribs, beef tongue and salmon steaks. It is worth mentioning that the chef of the restaurant will also select a seasonal high-end ingredient as the main dish every night, and discuss with the hotel's Chinese and Western chefs to find the most suitable cooking method for the ingredients, and at the same time, the chef will personally deliver this carefully completed dish to each diner's table, very attentive. For seafood lovers, the all-you-can-eat seafood at the Stage Restaurant is the most attractive, with snow crab legs, sweet shrimp, cream crab, jade snails, mussels, salmon, etc. Diners are also very popular with the variety of desserts, with different flavors of ice cream balled into balls for diners to eat, macarons, tiramisu and cakes of all tastes. Although the weekday buffet is not as rich as the Sunday buffet, you can enjoy all-you-can-drink beer, coffee, juice and other beverages.
Dinner at the stage restaurant is much more hearty than lunch, and the best experience is to eat on Friday and Saturday, the restaurant will upgrade the seafood menu on these two days, all the seafood ingredients are selected by the chef, and there are as many as 15 kinds of seafood, such as black cod, red shrimp, silver pomfret, and razor clams. At the same time, diners can communicate with the chef and choose how to cook the seafood, so the flexible buffet operation can not only meet the needs of diners, but also ensure the freshness of the seafood dishes.
The Arena Restaurant is prominently located and can be seen as soon as diners enter the main entrance of the Westin Bund Center. Tall palm trees are lined up, and the stage restaurant is surrounded by a large open-air pool that, although not deep, reminds diners to be careful. Directly above the restaurant, there is a 26.5-meter-high glass ceiling, and you can see the sky when you look up. The restaurant performs on a glass staircase, and a band performs every Friday to Sunday. As a five-star hotel restaurant, the service is impeccable, the waiters are friendly, the closing time is timely, and the requests of diners will be responded to at the first time, and the overall dining experience is the best.
