Lawry's is THE place to go to for roast beef! I've been coming here for a while now, though less so in recent years - my whole family loves it because it's delicious food, great service and the ambience of the restaurant is super cosy. My last time here prior to today was actually well over a year ago, but my mother recently collected enough points on Asia Miles to redeem a two-person brunch here - so here we are!
On weekends, Lawry's does a set lunch where there's a salad buffet and a dessert buffet, with your choice of main course in between. You also can pick between a glass of red or white house wine, juice, soda or sparkling wine, and then coffee or tea to finish off. All this leaves me pretty full at the end and I just feel like I'm comfortably sinking into a food coma!
The salad bar is one of the highlights of a meal at Lawry's. They've got different types of lettuce and four types of dressing, and to go with it, there are carrots, beets, cherry tomatoes, raisins, croutons... Need I go on? If you come here, definitely get a load of croutons to go with your salad. They're nice and crunchy, and are easily some of the best croutons I've ever had! They also have smoked salmon - I had five or six pieces, no problem, and could have gone on but didn't want to have used up all my appetite before my roast beef!
For the main course, you can pick between a few including their roast beef, beef burger and crab meat linguine - I don't doubt the quality of the other dishes, but it doesn't make sense NOT to get the roast beef here! The roast beef is extremely tender and the sauce that goes with it really brings out all the flavor in the meat. It's accompanied with some mashed potato that has its own gravy - it may just be a side dish to the roast beef, but don't underestimate it - it's delicious too! You also get some Yorkshire pudding to go with it all. The Yorkshire pudding has a really unique taste - it's crunchy and soft at the same time. Take it from me - eat this while it's still hot and have it with a generous amount of gravy! It's really good that way. If you leave it till the end, it'll be cold by then and won't taste as great as it does when hot.
Lastly, there's the dessert buffet. This, to be honest, isn't wonderful. There's really just fruits and a small selection of cakes. When I was there today, it was melon and watermelon, and both were actually quite sweet. The cakes were disappointing though - firstly, there weren't many, and the chocolate pudding was just strange. It was literally half cream with a little bit of brownie bits at the bottom. The little bits of mangoes on top of the mango pudding was good, but the pudding itself tasted artificial. I did like the matcha swiss roll though.
Overall, the highlights of meals at Lawry's are anything but the dessert. Everything else, though, is great, and a side note - the seating at Lawry's is super comfortable! I'd definitely recommend coming here if you've never been before! read more