All You Can Eat LOBSTER SEAFOOD BUFFET! BIGGEST BUFFET in Dubai FOOD REVIEW | Atlantis The Palm

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This is a place where they're making fresh naan, various types of beef, chicken, fish on the grill. Sushi, sashimi right over here. Chinese barbecue, what looks like duck, chicken, char siu, dim sum station. Over here, a variety of cheeses. And here, a variety of smoked fish. I don't even know where to start. As always, let's just start from the beginning. Round one, got some steak, some naan, claypot rice, yorkshire pudding, dim sum, some slices of roast beef, braised beef, some fish. Oh, this looks so good. Fresh out of the oven naan with some butter paneer. Oh, this is good. The naan is so toasty delicious. This is called a money bag. No idea what this is. Oh, oh, this is awesome. It's a little fried shrimp dumpling. Thin little crispy shell inside, juicy glistening shrimp, a little bit of veg. This is awesome. There's a wide array of mustards. So I got a blueberry one to go with my steak. That is a beautiful color. Steak is tender, not too juicy. I think the steak is saved by the mustard. That blueberry mustard is delicious. Little pop in blueberry mustard seeds. This thing just made the steak so much better than it is. Oh, Chinese pumpkin pie. Gosh, this is incredible. Chinese pumpkin pie, deep fried, golden, toasty on the outside. Super soft, delightfully sweet pumpkin inside. Oh, wow. I gotta get a bunch more of that when times come for dessert. Black bean fish is one of my favorite things in the world because I love that fermented black bean flavor. All right, this is not bad. I feel like if I get this dish right when it came out, when the outside is more crispy, that would have been really, really good. So far, the sauce is good. The outside is kind of soggy. Eat that with some claypot rice. The rice tastes a little soggy, a little too soft to have come from a claypot. Not loving that. So went to the meat carving station. This is a leg of lamb. So they had a roast leg of lamb. The leg of lamb is awesome. Zero gameyness, cooked perfectly. This is the roast. I'm a little, I'm a little worried. Wow, that's a tough piece of meat. So far, the steaks on the buffet, with the exception of the leg of lamb, has completely missed the mark. So tough, no flavor. Hopefully a hotel called the Atlantis, the fish will be better. Yeah, that's dry. That's really dry. I always want a buffet to taste good. I root for it. I come in, I'm super excited. But when it's not, I'm gonna be honest with you. The meats are not good. The roast fish is not good. I do have hope for the braised beef. That's delicious. I have to tell, really hard to make that dry. You taste the rosemary, you taste the herbs. Tons of good flavor in here. It's rich, it's deep. It's got a umami burst. Probably the best meat I had on this buffet. This I love. Ever since I went to the UK, I just love birdshot pudding. Crispy on the outside, soft and airy inside. Dunk that in some beef gravy. That's pretty darn good. Maybe this hotel just does sweet items really, really well. This is a, this is a yam bun. It's pillowy soft, silky smooth on the inside. This is a great dim sum item. So far, one round down. Honestly, kind of disappointed. None of the roasts or steaks were really good at all. The fish was not good. The dim sum was just mediocre. Best thing was probably the naan and the paneer in the pumpkin pie. All right, let's see about seafood. So, next plate got some seafood truffle tinarole. Oh man, the rice is really dense. The whole thing doesn't have much flavor. It's really hard to chew. Lobster, happy to report. Fresh, sweet, delicious. This is probably the best thing I had in this buffet so far. Oh man, that's a good lobster. Really excited for this. Lingo sting. This thing is the jewel of the sea. Gotta suck that out of the head. Even though this is frozen. Oh, still delicious. That's just like a pure umami hit. Oh wow, I almost feel like that should be in the dessert section. That is so incredibly sweet. Yeah, lobster, lingo sting, the shellfish. Best thing I had on this buffet so far. Got a laksa from the noodle stand. Wow, I really never had a laksa from a buffet that tasted good. This might be the best one. This is ridiculously good. It's thick, rich, aromatic, creamy. You taste that delicious curry grabbing onto every strand of noodle as you slurp. This does not taste like a buffet laksa. If this tastes like a laksa, I would get it from a local stall. I can't believe how good this is. I mean, everything about this. I mean, obviously the noodles are whatever. You know, I probably used the wrong ones, but wow, the soup. This is so amazingly delicious. Favorite cooked item on this buffet. So this place also has a bunch of roast barbecue options. This is the duck. Skin is good, otherwise pretty dry. Oh, the foie gras with chicken. Wow. This smoked dishes though are really, really good. Smoked mackerel is excellent. Orange smoked salmon. Fruity and delicious. The dill smoked salmon is good. The foie gras and chicken is good. That's a good section over there. All right. Went back for the best thing on the buffet. The laksa. Got ramen noodles this time. Even better. This soup is so good. Whoever they got cooking their laksa, yeah, make sure you keep them. Not just one of the best laksa I had on a buffet. One of the best laksa I've had anywhere. This is so freaking good. I saw the salad bar that I kind of missed out on. There's papaya salad, kale salad, octopus salad, and mango salad. All right. Octopus salad is extremely, extremely tender. That, also the mango salad. Sweet, tangy, sour, and spicy. It's delicious. I think the papaya salad is just okay. But go for the octopus and mango salad. That's gonna make you really, really happy. Especially after picking up a random piece of basil. Makes it even better. I tried all the savory items I want to try already. I want to save some room because that dessert bar looks massive. It looks delicious. So I'm gonna go load up on dessert. All right, dessert round. Pretty much got one of everything in a dessert bar and it took about two plates to do it. Chocolate ice cream with some vanilla sauce, some mango sauce. Ice cream here is amazing. Oh, that is just pure silk. This is some sort of pistachio cream chocolate piece dessert. This is phenomenal. Little pieces of crunchy pistachio with a citrus from the fruit. And then, of course, a sheet of chocolate. It's unique. It's delicious. This is a home run. This is, I think, a raspberry mousse. Wow. Yeah, I had a feeling dessert was gonna be this place's strong soup. Holy moly. The cream on top is like a little floating cloud. The raspberry mousse is delicious. The little crunchy bits on top provides a nice texture. Look at how cute this is. Looks like a little popsicle with flowers and raspberry. Oh, this is awesome as well. This thing is so good. Raspberry on the inside, a little cream. I think on the bottom is some sort of cake with raspberry white chocolate on the outside. Oh, I just tasted it. There's pop rocks inside. That dessert is fun. It's beautiful. It's exciting. This is the best dessert I've tried so far. 100% going back, getting more of that. This is a chocolate yuzu tart. Chocolate shell with mousse on the inside and yuzu. Desserts here are phenomenal. This place, for me, is beginning to resemble The Wicked Spoon. A couple of really good hot dishes and then just phenomenal desserts. And every single dessert item is so pretty. Look at this. This thing is a little butterfly with a peanut. The peanut is like a mousse with a little crunch. This whole thing tastes like a deconstructed peanut butter cup. And it is amazing. Looks like a little deconstructed black forest cake. It's so pretty. Cherry, the cake, bits of chocolate. I haven't had a bad bite of dessert so far. This is a vanilla orange panna cotta. And it is winning my heart. I feel like this is baked by the hands of God because I'm pretty sure the main ingredient is cloud. Wow. The texture of this on your tongue. It's just spiritual. This is a little flan with shaved coconut on top. It's good. But once you try that vanilla orange cloud, nothing else measures up. There's an assortment of cakes. This is a banana chocolate cake. Yeah. And right next to it, eggless chocolate. Oh, that eggless chocolate. I say, if you come here, get yourself some laksa, get some langoustine, get some lobster, and just go straight for that dessert bar. I mean, all of the stuff that I've tried so far. This might be the buffet with the best desserts I've ever had in my life. From the ice cream, to the tarts, to all these little deliciously beautiful cakes. It's just too much good on that dessert bar. Overall, this buffet. Tonight, it's around $70 because there's a surf and turf night. Then the theme changes all the time. Some nights where it's an Asian theme night, it can only be 50 bucks. That's of course with tip, with tax, everything included. So for a buffet of this size, the price is pretty darn good. This is the largest buffet in Dubai. There's a ton of selections out there. From salads, to cold dishes, to dim sum, to carving stations. Dim sum was just okay. Roast barbecue items were just okay. None of the carving station items were really that mind-blowing. Like I said, the most impressive thing I tried is the laksa. And that is by far the best thing I had today. Salads, I would highly suggest a mango salad and the octopus salad. Of course, the cold seafood is good. But that dessert section. That's where you should be spending most of your time if you are here. I think this is definitely the best dessert bar I've ever had in a buffet. And it's just phenomenal. Overall, nice buffet. I definitely don't think it's one of the best I've had in the world. It's solid, but I wouldn't put it in my top 10. With that said, dinner ended on a very high note with the dessert. Very high note. So if you want to come here, give it a try. I'll put the link with the information and everything in my description box below. As always guys, thank you all so much for watching. Until we eat again, see you later.