[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  

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~  nTable (n테이블) Shabu Shabu Buffet
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[Jeonju] - All That Barbecue (올댓바베큐) Salad Buffet

JIFF Street is an iconic of Jeonju, where you can experience vibrant shopping that Jeonju has to offer. Besides endless branded and local latest trend fashions, there are also plentiful big and small restaurants, cafes and stalls selling street foods.

Korean / Western / Chinese / Asian cuisine.

Thanks to my sister for introducing "Tolak Angin" (Expel the Wind), Indonesian herbal syrup when I told her not sure whether I can survive the cold in Korea. She said it's good to keep body warm from inside. This is her little weapon to kill the chilly weather, as she often traveling.

 

Though quite skeptical, but since my sister asked my friend 

(and also her friend) to buy and bring them for me from Indonesia...

I slipped them at the corners... totally forgot about it on the first 2 days. I want to share this because when editing the video of JIFF street for previous posting, I heard 2 ladies complained that it's so cold (추우), but we didn't feel it... We only wore normal longsleeves tee with pants / leggings with outer jacket. Normally I'm afraid of cold, and wrapped myself with scarf wherever I go. 

This small sachet really worked wonder! It said that it's good to treat common cold and its symptoms, such as: fever, headache, sore throat. Maintain body defense mechanism during hard work, staying up all night and traveling. However, not sure where you can buy it outside of Indonesia.

Couldn't decide among all the choices of foods available. We went to a shopping mall to look for  washroom. Then, we decided to go up as we saw the banners of few restaurants near the escalator.

 

  All That Barbecue Buffet.

Decided to have buffet since it's almost 2 pm and we're really hungry. But, we still need to wait about 10 minutes before we're guided to our table...

 

Is it because small restaurant with limited seats?

 

  Nope, you're wrong! The other side is also part of this restaurant.

It's a super big restaurant (with 2 wings).

 

 Buffet spread is at the middle of the restaurant.

a a-la-carte menu available on top of salad buffet.

This should be their signature dish. We didn't order because it's in huge portion~!

 Wine selection...

Noddle & soup corner.

You can make or create your own Bibimbap at Korean food.

Mixed Salad corner have pumpkin, silken beancurd, noodle, and mixed vegetables salads.

Simple salad with superb and special taste.

They failed to attract me at the first sight! I just took a bit for the sake of trying. To my surprise, they really exceeded my expectations. I might fail to express or describe them, but trust me they really taste delicious! The best salad I ever had!

I remember the first taste of mashed pumpkin salad... so smooth, but they purposely added some small bite sized pumpkin and nuts for you to exercise your mouth a bit. 

Simple but perfect combination of cold silken tofu with bonito flakes (and mayonnaise?) tasted heavenly in my mouth. 

Go for maple mango for fruit salad.... this sweet-savory salad will sure delight your taste bud!   the t  and at that moment I knew that I'll be missing this taste and cry to have them again! If you’ve ever been there, you would know why I said so...

I think they're really specialise in creating salads. No wonder it's so crowded even just salad buffet.

Maple Mango Salad.

 

Green Salad bar.

Yogurt, Lychee, Banana and Rambutan 

(I'm quite surprised to see rambutan in Korea!)

Juicy and sweet rambutan.

But sadly, my most favorite corner for buffet (dessert corner) only have brownies and cookies with whipping cream and cream cheese.

More brownies and cookies to go with ice-cream to satisfy my sweet tooth!

Actually they have chocolate fondue beside coffee dispensers to dip marshmallow and banana. But, I don't like marshmallow, and too troublesome to peel the banana as it might get messy or mashed banana because there's no 'head' to peel off the skin (they're cut in bite sizes like those in fruit corner).

Colombia Patio Bonito | Brazil Cerrado | Guatemala Antigua coffee.

Coffee lovers must be happy to see these 3 types of coffee. My hubby tried them, but it's useless to ask him how's the taste, as he'll simply reply: "OK lor" or "I forgot ler!"

No tea selection, I only found tea cookies.... at least they're aware that some of their guests are tea and dessert lovers (like me) :P

Beverage: Ice cream, juice and carbonated drinks & Churrasco corner.

 Sweet and sour meat, Garlic soysauce chicken, Chicken cutlet,

 Fried Rice, Wedges, Cajun mac & cheese, and Jajangmyeon.

Everything on the plate tasted delicious. Love the real taste of garlic and soysauce flavor in almost every bite of this Korean-style fried chicken! The second place: Crunchy meat with a tangy sweet and sour sauces. 냠냠냠~!!!

 Soba noodle condiments, soba sauce & sushi rolls.

  

Potato Bacon soup with toasted bread.

Buffet Lunch - 10,780 Won (SGD 13.00) / person

Isn't it lovely price for fresh salad buffet with variety foods and desserts to tame your tummy?! Some more, it's inside shopping mall with air con and nice clean environment. 

Where can I find it in Singapore? A bowl of simple vegetable salad (without meat) with normal salad dressings will cost you at least $5.00 or more. ㅠㅠ

 Lunch 11:30 - 16:30
Dinner: 17:00 - 22:00

All That Barbecue (올댓바베큐 )

Novelina (노벨리나) Level 4

 412-2 Gosa-dong Wansan-gu, Jeonju-si,
Jeollabuk-do, Korea
 +82 63-282-9229

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