Ask any legitimate
foodie in Doha for the city’s must try dining experiences and Brunches would
inarguably figure in the top 3 recommendations of every list. However beware these
brunches are not like those in the rest of the world to which you usually roll
out of bed !
In GCC, these
are more like events for which you dress up in your Friday best. They are Grand, Teeming and even sometimes a tad Extravagant.
So generally the brunches in
the city vary from being a family brunch to the drinkers' brunch to the cuisine-centric brunch to the one with the view and more. St Regis Grand Brunch can be named as the Brunch with a Map. Comprising of a gargantuan spread and a countless number of dishes
and stations, you would genuinely be "lost" without a map.
The buffet ranges around an area of 2500 sqm and is made up of 16 stations including live cooking and dishes from the hotel's flagship restaurants such as Opal by Gordon Ramsay, the Raw Bar, Astor Grill, Vine, Sultan Ibrahim. Dishes offered vary from Sushi to Shawarma to Fish and Chips to Beef Wellington to Pizza
to Foie Gras to Burgers to Indian to Pot Roasts to Tapas and much more. I really
was not joking when I called it “gargantuan”. And as if that was not enough, you could also grab your drinks from the live cocktail stations ranging from sangria to
mojitos to margaritas to martinis.
For those with uncontrollable overzealous kids like ours,St Regis offers the perfect antidote in the form of a supervised play area with a jumping castle, face painting and other activities equipped with a special kids' buffet. I was a happy mommy cruising through the buffet and yet being able to see my deeply engrossed little one through the corner of my eye.
The brunch patrons
included groups of families, friends, all girls to all boys, all who
seemed to be glad to be outside after being confined to the indoors for too long.
On receiving
the invite and reading upon the details of the brunch,I had decided to
conquer the buffet by
