In 2017 and before, the name of the city's best buffet restaurant rarely changed hands, and it was always held by D'cafe buffet restaurant at the Wong Long Hotel. For many years, it has been selected as the designated dining venue for major summit events as an industry benchmark, and it should have been firmly on the laurels. Unfortunately, the D'cafe has become more and more inconsistent in recent years. For example, the variety of dishes has decreased, and the quality of some products has declined, which has disappointed many repeat customers. Despite this, relying on the qualifications and reputation accumulated for more than ten years, there are still many loyal diners who guard this world and continue its popularity.
The restaurant has the longest buffet table in Zhejiang at 88 meters, and is known as the aircraft carrier of the buffet restaurant of Hangzhou Hotel. It is divided into five areas: Asian cuisine area, seafood area, Western food stall, Japanese sashimi sushi area, and dessert area, and the open kitchen concept that is popular in Europe and the United States is introduced. The Asia Zone is the largest and most varied of the five stalls, offering traditional Chinese dishes such as braised pork, Dongpo pork and duck soup, as well as Southeast Asian dishes such as curry dishes and tom yum soup.
The Japanese sashimi sushi section serves a variety of sushi, sashimi and tempura. In the seafood section, freshly cut oysters, mussels, scallops and long-legged crabs are available, but the quality is sometimes unstable, such as the ingredients are not fresh. Western food stalls offer pasta, classic pizzas, grilled meats and seafood dishes. There are many types of desserts in the area, and classic pastries such as tiramisu and puffs are exquisitely shaped, and the overall production is decent and there is nothing amazing. Although the dining table is long, the spacing between each area is large, and the variety of dishes is not too large. D'cafe, a buffet restaurant dedicated to international cuisine, often holds food festivals from France, Southeast Asia and other countries, and also launches themes such as crab feast and crayfish according to the season of seafood ingredients, and the prices will be adjusted accordingly.
However, what is special about the popular buffet in the city is that you can taste special snacks in the D'café buffet restaurant. For example, the well-known Jinyun baked cake has a crispy skin, soft and glutinous pork paste filling with inner quality, and the wheat fragrant meat and sesame aroma are melted into one gas, which is suitable for saltiness. In addition, there are Shaanxi biangbiang noodles, Huangshan special small wontons and fried dough sticks from Huanglong Restaurant, which is a must-eat for foodie Shen Hongfei in Hangzhou, but the fritters are only served for breakfast, and the rest of the snacks are not available every day.
The restaurant is divided into two dining areas: an indoor and an outdoor terrace set in a water garden. Due to the high reputation of the restaurant, there are still many diners who come to the restaurant and are more popular. As a result, tables and chairs are placed as much as possible in the indoor dining area, resulting in narrow spacing between adjacent tables and more crowded during peak dining hours. As a cafeteria that does not set up a group purchase price and charges a 15% service fee, the service staff is slow to respond to the needs of diners, and the closing is not timely, and diners are often required to take the initiative to ask for closing, and the overall service quality cannot match the cost.
Overall, although the current level of the restaurant is not comparable to its high level. But on the whole, D'cafe still has a place in the city's sluggish buffet environment. Diners who come to dine are advised not to have high expectations because of their past fame.
