‪the Panorama Restaurant‬

Had an opportunity to dine in twice at this restaurant and both of the times I must say that the all the dishes suited our tastes. Been here with my family - kids included.. Decent setup and variety of food at the buffet.

Was really sceptical about trying this place as saw only one review for this place. We had made a reservation prior for the Iftar Buffet package, so our table was set. Dates and bottled water were placed on our tables. The restaurant seemed neat and clean. Their lightings are dim and have candles lit on each table. And as for the food some tasted good some were just fine. I had previously checked with them regarding their menu, so sort of knew what would be there as to double check because some eat only chicken while some eat only meat in the familyp. They had mentioned butter chicken but wasn't there in the buffet items so they made sure they got it for us on the table. Its gravy was good but the chicken in it was flavourless. As to open our fast there were different drinks- sweet lassi, lemon ginger, jallab and the other one was mango I believe. The lemon ginger was so refreshing. For starters there was only pakoray (fritters) which was tasty but they were cold.
Next to the juice was kept the Mediterranean mezze like hummus, muthabbal , stuffed vine leaves and some cheese, I dint taste anything that was kept in that area as there was some foul smell. My family said it was from the vine leaves. The salad had varieties-chicken ceasar salad, fattoush, beef salad, sausage and egg salad, salad with salmon, Russian salad. All tasted good. There was a bread corner with khubus, bun, etc.
There were Lentil and tomato soup. Honestly speaking I forgot to try the soups but some of the family members had tried and mentioned that the Lentil soup tasted nice.
Coming to the main course I really loved their Seafood Biryani (squid, Fish, prawns). The Biryani rice was just perfect and you could actually taste all the spices. Their Lamb kofta was yummy too it didn't look very appetising though. Beef steak was fine probably not my thing. There was Sultan Ibrahim small fish like wholly batter fried. The lamb saloona tasted good basically lamb and vegetable stew like. There was steamed rice and vegetable curry and steamed green peas.
There was a live station for pasta with white sauce and that was really really good if you want to have a creamy Penne Pasta for iftar.
For desserts there was Qatayef, Basbousa and few other Arabic sweets along with upside down pineapple cake, Blackforest cake. Their Umm Ali was sweet enough and creamy and melt in the mouth. There were fruits as well if you are not wanting to eat heavy desserts.
Their service is good and the restaurant is not that crowded. They even had arrangements for prayer for both ladies and gents in the 4th floor.