ARGO

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Item: ARGO
Rating: 5
Author: eatwai

85 Reviews

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16030

Central

$201-400

Western Wine Buffet Bar

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Level4

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The breakfast buffet is scheduled at 7:00-10:30 (buffet closes) but can stay and enjoy food until 11. Came down at 8:30 breakfast buffet at the newly opened ARGO after a night of staycation at the Four Seasons. There was also a mini queue for the restaurant but moved very quickly.

We asked to be seated in ARGO and not The Gallery and the waitress said for us to sit at The Gallery first and enjoy some food and they will escort us to ARGO when there is an available table, we waited for no less than 5 minutes in The Gallery before a table was available in ARGO, enough time for 1 dim sum 😹.

The ambiance of this restaurant is very elegant and quirky, we got seated at the back of ARGO in another open room that had frames of unique insects hanging on mirror walls. This made for a very aesthetically pleasing photoshoot 😅😝.

Had to get one of the Dim Sum to try because the mini bamboo baskets were too adorable to pass over. I got their Steamed Pork Dumpling (豬肉燒賣) and the taste was better than I expected, but the texture was very tough and meaty. The minced pork was very strong in taste and texture as it was not tender and soft, more like eating a pork meatball. The wrapper also came off very easily and had no significance to the dish. The meat is also mostly minced pork meat with 1-2 lumps of pork itself.

I ordered a Scrambled egg white for my egg option as I wanted to test if they could make a simple egg white gooey and delicious. Very pleased with the results, it was very silky smooth and rich in egg white flavor. Not too oily and buttery on the plate but still have a gloss. I also ate their regular scrambled egg that was available in the buffet. That was also absolutely delicious and creamy, no part of the egg was dry or over cooked which amazes me.

Miso baked salmon
I had 7 pieces of these, the flavor was absolutely amazing. The first few pieces I had were moist and flaky but then the last few ones I had were very dry and stale which was disappointing. But it is also rare to see baked salmon in a breakfast buffet so kudos to that 👍. The skin was not crispy at all (obviously) but very flavorful and a intense fish oil taste.

Turnip cake
Would have been better if it was fresh as the outside is a bit too chewy but the flavor is delicious and reminds me of New Years. It would also have been better if their was the sweet sauce to go with it 😬.

Greek yogurt Flaxseed cake
Taste like banana bread (my absolute favorite). Very delicious and buttery. Small slice. I recommend eating this with scrambled eggs (I know it sounds crazy) but the combination of the silky soft egg and the hearty flaxseed cake is just amazing.

Steamed vegetables could use more cooking time as quite hard to bite through.

Sautéed italian vegetables were yellow and green zucchini. Both crunchy and delicious but a bit stale as it has been out for quite some time.

Miso soup is a bit salty but the taste shows that it is definitely home made and not from a packet because of the rich umami miso flavor you can taste. The tofu blocks are soft and silky and bigger than regular miso soups. There are also small shimeji mushrooms that separates it from packet miso soup.

Other than miso soup there was also a variety of hot dishes such as plain congee, fish congee with chopped spinach and shrimp, oatmeal, stir-fried egg noodle with BBQ pork, steamed BBQ pork bun.

They also had a noodle station that I couldn’t get to as I was quite full but it had 4 choices of noodles, meat and vegetables.

They also have a small variety of pastries that included a Four Seasons Croissant, pain au chocolate, muffins (banana, blueberry, cinnamon apple), Nutella rolls and a bunch of bread selection. Also under the hot lamps were French toast, buttermilk pancake and Belgian waffle.

The service here is mostly good.There is a particular server that is always smiling when you ask him for service and regularly checks on tables to see if anything is needed. This server also helped list out every single tea that was available on the spot when I asked whereas another server just said “平時嗰啲嘢 (the regular teas)”.

The price for one adult is $408 + 10% ($448) which can be acceptable if you stay from 7 till 11 and eat a lot but they don’t really have a lot of food choices as this is still a breakfast buffet. But the food options that were available were unique and delicious. Their egg work especially is much better than any other hotel breakfast buffets I’ve had.