PUBLISHED November 6th, 2013 02:12 am | UPDATED June 6th, 2016 01:48 pm
After somewhat of a revamp over the past few months, it was a pleasure to check out the new concept that has become ‘Edge’ at the Pan Pacific Hotel.
As you might expect from an enormous 300+ seater hotel restaurant, selection here is king. Walking around the well-spaced dining destination takes more than a few minutes, and it certainly is a feast of the eyes before you even begin the eating part. Hopefully you’ll even burn off some of those pesky calories that you are about to gorge on tenfold!
Edge brings together cuisine from all around the globe, prepared by the hotel’s top Chefs. Like any hotel buffet, you need a strategy of sorts…otherwise you’ll just walk out feeling so bloated you might roll off down the road.
With that in mind, we decided to go straight for the cheese. Not exactly the lightest start, but since I often make the mistake of leaving no room left for a cheesey finish, I decided to reverse my usual strategy. With over a dozen cheeses on offer, there were definitely a few favourites.
Round two was a staple trip to the seafood station – all the usual suspects were preset; juicy prawns, a selection of oysters with mignonette sauce, and some rather sizeable clams and mussels. Not too shabby for a lunch-time indulgence at all.
Moving around the ‘world’ at Edge, I ventured over Japan for some sushi (which while being decent, sadly offered a pretty minimal selection over the lunch hour). The Indian however was much more robust and I soon filled my belly with some excellent biryani and tikka dishes. After a quick visit westward, a grand return to Singapore was in sight with an epic selection of local delights…everything from fish ball noodle to popiah and mee siam. Niiiice.
With barely enough room for dessert, we crammed in some cheesecake and gooey carrot cake before calling it a day, and resigning myself to sitting for the rest of the afternoon.
The Edge at the Pan Pacific might not seem like the most obvious choice for a buffet gorging session, but with a healthy variety of worldly cuisines and a spacious, unintrusive atmosphere, it is well worth a visit.