Like Rickshaws, this was another regular for me with clients and franchisees, I've been to the…read moreseafood buffet a number of times because it was convenient, a set price makes it easy to work out company entertainment costs, and quite plain and simple, it's all delicious. The prawns are wonderfully fresh, I've got to say I've probably consumed the price of the buffet in prawns alone once or twice. There's an array of oysters, mussels, fresh fish and smoked salmon out on Friday & Saturday nights, the rest of the week there's no seafood, but the carvery and other dishes more than make up for that. For those with the Entertainment guide there's a healthy discount available - they've never scratched my card although that could have been representative of the amount of times I've been there. The staff, as you'd expect at a top level hotel, are all very friendly, and service orientated. There's parking available in the Stamford car park, I've put my car in there once or twice, but my recommendation is parking across the road in the convention centre carpark.

Excellent breakfast, friendly staff and a wide range of choices to set you up for the day. If you…read moreget a room rate that includes breakfast, then make the most of it! r

I came here for the novelty factor. I love styles of dining that involve moving trains, sharing,…read moremake-your-own-dish-options, and unidentifiable foods on small plates. Hot-pot is designed for people like me, arseholes who can't just order off the damned menu. There used to be a really crap sushi train place on these premises and when they shut down, Go-In Hotpot entrepreneurially set up a Hot-Pot train. You don't want to floudner when you walk in, so this is how it works. You take a seat at the train, or at one of the booths with your group of friends (in my case just one other friend). From the menu you order your choice of hot-pot base - I would recommend going for something simple like a pork broth. You wanna let the flavours of mysterious meat balls and lotus roots emerge. Then you order a selection of meat/fish plates from the menu - these (thankfully) don't go round the train. I stupidly chose the intense 'chicken and beancurd pudding' base. This was sort of like drinking a bottle of chilli oil. It wasn't bad, but I'd much prefer a lighter, clear broth. Anyway, so the waitress brings out your hotpot and sets it on a teeny-tiny little fire in front of you. Then you cook shit in it. Yeh, I know right? FUN. I would recommend going with a big group of people so you can order loads of little plates of thineys to cook in your pot. Or go with one other person, order way too much and blow a bit more cash than you intended (like I did). Advice on cooking in your hot-pot: if you're running out of broth get them to do a little top-up with hot water. If you're cooking something that might get soggy quick, like delicate chicken balls, just hold them in the bubbling hot broth, don't let them swim off. Use your second bowl as a cooling area - your soup is like Mount Vesuvius right now you don't want to try and drink it straight from the flame. Get the lotus root - that that looks like sliced potato with big holes in it. Get the egg chicken dumplings - the wrapping is made of a wafer thin omelette. Imagine that! Oh and handmade noodles - trust me.

I've been here once. Food is not expensive, it is a fun…read moreplace to talk to friends (maybe just one or two as everyone sits in front of the train). the broth is ok but gets amazingly revamped with the add ons, both vegetarian and the flesh kind. I wish there were signs for the ingredients passing by, but other than that it is a nice, fun, and tasty experience (depends on your skills - no cook to blame but yourself - aha!), . Give it a try!

Caesars Cafe was one of those places I avoided like the plague, I went once when it was under a…read moredifferent name, and I had a "why would I bother" attitude. There were plenty of other choices, and I didn't want to waste my time here. But after a failed attempt to eat at Deep Blue Cafe down the road (they don't feed you to well when they're closed), and a quick drive around to see that most other local places are closed on a Monday night, we settled for Caesars. On top of being open on a Monday night, they also have an all you can eat pizza and pasta buffet for just $12.90. Kids eat free. It wasn't our type of thing, but a lot of people seemed to be enjoying it. Instead we picked from the specials menu, a Mediterranean lamb tasting platter and a reef and beef. Both meats were cooked perfectly, and the meals were far better than we expected, but they also didn't blow you away. With the lamb platter things like slightly too dry bread, cheap tasting olives, and an overly garlic yoghurt sauce meant that it was a perfectly nice meal, but just not something to rave about. It seems they have people in the kitchen who know their stuff, but perhaps not the best quality produce. The place itself has that real $9.90 cafe feel. It actually wouldn't have seemed out of place with a giant kids playground A la Wiggley Worms or Play and Fun. But it's a great place for families. There's plenty of room so you're not all squished together, and if the kids end up making a bit of extra noise no body really minds. One of the fun things to do is try and spot the famous faces morphed onto the gladiator mural they have along one all. So far ones we've spotted include Tom Hanks, David Duchovney, Osama Bin Laden (seriously), and a possible Mark Twain. Caesars is nothing special, but it won't be the worst meal you've had, in fact it might actually be quite nice.