[Apgujeong] - Ashley Queens World Gourmet Buffet (애슐리퀸즈 압구정점)

Cold weather added that we didn't eat much in the morning, causing our tummies grumbling while we're waiting for doctor's appointment.

 Ashley Queen (애슐리퀸즈).

I found out this restaurant because of Korean Drama 'She Was Pretty' (그녀는 예뻤다). If you remember the scene when Kim Shin-hyuk and Kim Hye-jin having a meal here where the background was the above photo showing lighted sign 'Ashley Queens'.

Googled to check this restaurant in Seoul, and found out that Ashley is chain restaurant. Ashley Queens is one of them, which operated since Dec 2014.

Ashley Queens, Ashley W, Ashley W+ and Ashley Queens, Ashley Marine are Salad Buffet Restaurant. The number and type of dishes serving on each restaurants resulting the difference in the prices. Besides that, they also have two premier restaurants: Ashley Brunch and 83Grill by Ashley.  

Ashley Brunch serving ala carte brunch set, salad, sandwich, pizza, pasta, cake and dessert. And for 83Grill by Ashley is classy complete course for lunch or dinner with amuse-bouche, appetizer, soup, main course (pasta / steak / fish), dessert, coffee or tea.

From the website, this restaurant looks pretty romantic, but it's located at E-World 83 Tower in Daegu. If I have a chance to go there, after my meal I'd like to top up 15,000 won for wine course. I bet the 360 degree view of entire city from 78 floor will be super awesome to enjoy it with a glass of wine or two.

 

But, the moment we arrived at the building, my hubby and I were 

wondering why this restaurant was so similar to 

 D'Maris Buffet Restaurant.


 We remembered that D'maris also located on the basement,
on the right after came down from the escalator.

Hhhmm weird! But at that time, we concluded that maybe some of the building
just look similar, and buffet restaurants like to rent the whole basement area!

The waitress led us to our seat, and it's actually quite crowded though from outside it seems like not so many customers. Great that we didn't have to wait because this restaurant is super spacious.

Posh grayish black blended well with eye-catching red color
especially under the bright luxurious lighting. Simply love the
tasty and outstanding decoration in this spacious restaurant.


Felt like stepping into fashion exhibition hall with
so many collection of dresses worn by famous celebrities.

 

'Queens' photos were artistically displaying on the walls.

Without wasting much time, we went one round to see, and we're sad to see the spread! It's too much food... and our main concern was how to select and eat them in such a short time!

Ashley Queens is really serving world Gourmet Buffet, as you can find signature dishes from Korea and others countries:

 

Korean Food - Bossam (보쌈) |
Bibimbap (비빔밥) | Tteokbokki (떡볶이).

Bossam steamed Pork was served with Fermented Salted Shrimp (새우젓), Fermented Salted Oyster (어리굴젖), Young Radish Kimchi (열무김치), Radish Kimchi (보쌈무김치 ), Spicy Paste (쌈장), and leafy vegetables.

DIY your own Bibimbap with stirred fried pumpkin and mushroom, marinated Octopus, Seasoned spinach and laver.

Japanese Food : Sashimi | Sushi | Miso Soup

Italian Food : Pizza | Tomato pasta, seafood pasta, mushroom cream pasta

Grana Padano Hard Cheese, one of the most famous cheeses of Italy.


 
Others : Salad | Clam Chowder Soup | Mushroom Soup |
Pumpkin Soup | Indian Curry | Tandoori Chicken | ...

 Grill & BBQ corner : Pork Ribs | Sausages | Burger

 

Fried Food : Honey Potato Chip | Fried Rice | 

Fried Chicken | Japchae | Sweet and Sour Pork |... 

This is my kids favorite counter. My son was so addicted to eat Honey Potato Chip, and kept walking back and forth to refill his plate.

If you noticed, there were chefs or staffs behind every stations. They prepared, cooked and refilled the foods. It's really really fresh and delicious!

 

Bossam & Sushi.

  Assorted Fried Food & Mushroom Soup.

 Hubby's choice...

Actually, just sampling a bite size of 50% of the buffet spread enough to make us 3/4 full. So we skipped a lot of food such as fried rice, pasta, noodle, pizza, bibimbap, curry, salad,... some because we can easily find them elsewhere.

The other reason was we're rushing... only spent about 1 hour there as we need to arrive at Kidzania latest by 15:30 pm. Else we can enjoy and indulged more dishes. 

Let's go to Desserts corners for something sweet!

   

Hot from oven~~~ French Crêpe!

ups I mean hot from the pan ~!^^

 

Cheerry: "Mummy, this is Momo's Crêpe...

Don't steal it~!!!"

 

 

Brownie | Carrot cake | Mango Fresh Cream Roll |
Milk Cake | Oreo Pudding | Passion fruit jelly |
Lemon Jelly | Cheese Cake | Walnut Tartae |
Chocolate Cookies.

 

Yippee... It's my Main Course, as it's impossible for me to leave 

all buffet restaurant without eating cakes & desserts!

Ashley Queens Gelato Ice cream : Mango | Strawberry | Green Tea | Vanilla.

Toppings for Patpingsu : Sweet Red Bean (단팥), Tteok / Rice Cake,

Nuts, Cherry Jam and Condensed Milk.

Tadaa... here is your patpingsu~^^

 Free Flow of Dry or Sweet Wine with additional
KRW 3,000 / person. Only available for dinner.

You can order Espresso | Americano | Cafe Latte | Cappuccino |
Cafe Mocha | Hot chocolate from Queens Blending Cafe Barista.


Cappuccino and Hot Chocolate prepared by professional barista.

Please use coffee machine to make your own Espresso, Americano
or Dark coffee ifyou don't wish to queue at Cafe Barista.


Carbonated drinks at beverages corners: Miranda Pineapple / Orange /
Grape, Chilsung Cider, Mountain Dew and Pepsi.
Water, Iced Tea and Grapefruit also available.
 

Tea Tower with 20 types of tea including: Rose Flower, Mango,
Strawberry, Lemon, Cinnamon, Apple, English Breakfast,
Darjeeling, Earl Grey, and other herbs teas.

That's ended of our buffet session, and will sure go there again and again for the next trips. Super satisfied... It's really worth with such a sumptuous and quality spreads, yet so affordable and not making a hole to the wallet.

Price (Weekday Lunch) : KRW 7,900 (Child) | KRW 12,900 (Child) | KRW 19,900 (Adult).

Price (Weekday Dinner / Weekend) : KRW 29,900  (Adult).

Actually, while dining half way my HP was beeping... notifying that it's light snow. So I delegated my hubby to check outside. He confirmed it, and four of us ran out of the restaurant like it's earthquake!

  

"눈이 봐요... 밖에...~!"

 Our first time seeing snow!^^

I'd to use sign language climbing up and down using my fingers to let the cashier know that we're going to see the snow outside. I was afraid that she will call police if she suspecting us eating and running out without paying. Hahaha... 

Tourists can pay nominal fee and hop on this Gangnam Trolley Bus

that will bring you around Apgujeong Rodeo Street, Bongeunsa Temple, 

Sinsadong Garosu-gil Road and other tourist spots in Gangnam. 

After checked and rechecked my photos and naver map.

I hereby confirmed that D'maris was located at this building, 

it's just they renamed the streets.

 

Nature Kitchen (자연별곡) Hansik Buffet.

Oh yeah, beside Ashley Queens is Nature Kitchen Hansik Buffet. VIP Member Invitation Tour members' first meal were at this restaurant, but at Hongdae branch. Please click the above link for the food review.

http://www.myashley.co.kr/

강남구 압구정로 152 극동스포츠센터 지하 1층

152 Apgujeong-ro Basement 1, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

(From Apgujeong Station Exit 4 or 5)

Phone: 02-3446-1033  

Related Posts:
~  D'Maris Buffet Restaurant

~  Nature Kitchen (자연별곡) Hansik Buffet

~  nTable (n테이블) Shabu Shabu Buffet
~  Todai International Cuisine & Sushi Buffet

Visit Korea Special VIP Tour [Day 3-5]

Thought I arrived early as no VIP Tour members waiting outside Todai Restaurant. Actually most of them were sitting comfortably in front of the cashier while waiting for the waitress to arrange the tables for us.

 Todai International Cuisine & Sushi Buffet (토다이).

Todai branch at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands (Singapore). 

I went there once with my family for my birthday dinner in 2012 knowing that they're one of Korean’s biggest buffet restaurant. But, quite disappointed when expecting to see more varieties at Korean Zone, but to my surprised they only have simple spread of bulgogi, seaweed soup, japcahe, pajeon, kimchijeon, haemuljeon, few types of kimchi and sikhye. The taste of the food was not that fabulous too and it's quite expensive. Dinner was about SGD 60.00++ / adult.

Ok, let's check out how's their buffet restaurant in Seoul, which is much cheaper than in Singapore. Dinner (Weekday): Lunch ₩26,000 (SGD 32.00) | Dinner ₩37,000 (SGD 45.00).

 

VIP Tour Gala dinner at Todai to mark our last night in Seoul.
We're sad because Sera eonni won't be joining us for the next day.

The restaurant is very spacious and we sat inside the 

private room with long table that fit for 20 person.

Most importantly the buffet spread here was abundant with choices from Korean, Japanese and American cuisines.

As usual, I patronized sushi section first and happy to see various nigiri sushi others than tuna and salmon.

 

Nigiri sushi with thinly sliced raw fish (sashimi) over pressed vinegared rice.

 

Maki and Gunkan Sushi.

 

But only have 4 types of sliced sashimi.

My oishi sushi!^^ 

She even shocked when I took wasabi and ginger.

Shuki was surprised to see the whole plate full of sushi, but the fact that she's not eating wasabi shocked me more as she's Japanese... How could that even possible?!! 

Cold corner with green mussels.

Assorted fried and grilled Korean and International cuisines.

Pizza | Fried mini crabs | Chicken & Fries | Grilled lamb chop.

 Fried Tempura (튀김) | Spicy Pork Bulgogi | Chicken Teriyaki | Fish cutlet.

 Kimchi and banchan including Cheon Song-Yi's favorite 

marinated soy sauce crab (간장게장).

 

Sorry~ Salad is forever untouched unless nothing else for me to eat.

 My second plate after sushi and sashimi.

 Desserts and Fruits shelves.

 My favorite and yummy desserts: brownies, Hokaido cupcake,
macaroons, green tea rolls, mango cheese mouse, and cookies.

 

Free beverages: Coffee, Tea, Strawberry Punch, soft drinks.

Wine is not included in buffet.

Korean Traditional Fruit Punch: Mulberry Punch (오디 화채) | 

Sweet Pumpkin Rice Punch (단호박 식혜 = Sikhye) |

Persimmon Punch (수정과 = Sujeonggwa) | Jelly (젤리).

I thought that Mulberry Punch was Black Raspberry (복분자). 

It said that it has good benefit for skin brightening, anti-aging and lose weight. Therefore I often drink the juice after dinner. I even brought 4 packs to Seoul and back to Singapore because I forgot to drink them. :P 

 

I'm actually fans of Korean drinks and snacks.

See my stocks of Sikhye, Banana Milk, Makgeolli, Milkis, Fruit Juices, Cider, 

Korean seaweed and Popcorn that I'd to buy shelves just to store them!

 

My love... my Bingsu!

I wrapped up this dining session with a bowl of 

bingsu with cakes and ice cream.

www.todaikorea.com

Add: 14 Myeongdong-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul.

Noon Square (눈스퀘어) level 7.

It's definitely more worth it to dine in Seoul than Singapore. However, if judging from price wise with the food quality and quantity, ambiance and services of others buffet restaurants in Seoul which I patronized, my recommendation will be...

 

 D'Maris Buffet Restaurant and

 Ashley Queens (will post this soon).

Related Posts:

~  Nature Kitchen (자연별곡) Hansik Buffet

~  nTable (n테이블) Shabu Shabu Buffet

 This trip was made possible by VisitKorea organised by Korea  Tourism Organization.