we bought a groupon for 2 to the friday iftar at the seasons and called ahead to reserve our table.for starters, they do validate parking which was convenient and a nice touch to avoid paying an extra 30aed.now moving on, we made our way up to the restaurant which is located on the first floor and were directed to our table. our table was located on an outdoor deck that was completely sealed and air conditioned. now this would've been great had it been a sit down dinner, but since it was a buffet, it didn't make much sense. however it wasn't that big of a deal.at a first glance, the buffet seemed very impressive, with a wide range of desserts as well.
off we went for our first fill, the first fill was the usual cold mezza items such as hommos,tabboule,baba ghannouj,kebbe,sambousek... the only thing worth mentioning is the kebbe as it was great, the rest of the stuff was average at best.moving along to the hot dishes, with a wide variety, i started off with some lamb and again it was nothing special, as a matter of fact it was rather cold too. also from the hot selection is the spicy potato which typically is a can't miss, however again it was cold and some of the potato pieces were undercooked, same for the kafta with potato, extremely cold again. the pasta was good but again too simple and nothing special about it.finally the dessert section, visually it looked very impressive, a wide variety of both arabic and international sweets, however the taste is nothing like the looks.again, the umm ali was rather cold, so was the knefe and the creme brulee as you could taste some of the burnt bits. other than that the knefe was highly disappointing, same can be said for the atayef and the halewet al jeben, the achta was bland in taste, and so was the cheesecake. the tiramisu cup however was rather good and so was the chocolate cake.i was very disappointed with this visit, and to think the regular price is 258aed for this? plenty of things need to be addressed, most important the temperature of the food.
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