Food promotion at the Grand Hotel
Built in French colonial architecture in 1930, the Grand Hotel in downtown HCMC offers a range of cuisines as well as frequent food promotions.
The ground floor Cheznous Restaurant with capacity for 300 guests is impressive with its modern design and is known as a place for good European food. Its office workers’ daily lunch special with different dishes each day is VND60,000 per person. Weekend buffets of over 30 Vietnamese, Chinese and European dishes are accompanied by elegance and classical music.
The Belle Vue on the twelfth floor specializes in traditional Vietnamese food with all the typical dishes of each region. This restaurant affords wonderful views of the Saigon River and the city below.
The Cheznous and the Bell Vue are frequented by tourist groups and are favorites for birthday parties and family and company get-together parties prepared to the wishes of the guests. Wedding parties start at VND3.5 million per table including a wedding cake, champagne, drinks, live music and dance troupes.
The Grand Hotel also caters outside parties.
On the occasion of making the list of the 100 most exciting things in HCMC, the hotel is offering “valuable and interesting gifts” to guests who book parties, conferences or seminars before April 30. (By Dat Tien in HCMC - The Saigon Times - March 26, 2010)
Majestic promotes Vietnamese breakfast
A staff member of the Cyclo Cafe Restaurant prepares authentic Vietnamese dishes - Photo: Minh Duy
The five-star Majestic Hotel in HCMC has launched a Vietnamese breakfast program at its Cyclo Café Restaurant with prices from VND50,000 to VND80,000 per dish.
Every morning, from 6:30 to 10:00, the restaurant will offer Vietnamese dishes such as Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, Sauteed Beef with Onion & Fresh Noodles, Fresh Rice Noodle Soup with Pork, Chicken & Egg, and others.
Nguyen Anh Vu, general director of the hotel, said the Majestic aimed to be a convenient venue for office workers and other people to enjoy breakfast or hold a morning briefing before starting the work day.
Vu said guests of the hotel could enjoy a Vietnamese breakfast at Cyclo Café as an option to the Sky Bar Restaurant on the fifth floor.
According to Vu, offering Vietnamese breakfast in the hotel is a start for the Majestic to open a Vietnamese restaurant in the near future. “We want to promote Vietnamese food to international visitors.” (By Minh Duy in HCMC - The Saigon Times March 24, 2010)
Lion Brewery & Restaurant offers wedding promotion
Any couple seeking a place for their wedding may consult with Lion Brewery & Restaurant at 11-13 Lam Son Square in HCMC’s District 1 which is now offering a wedding promotion from VND2.25 to VND3.95 million per table of ten.
Couples who book their wedding party at the restaurant will enjoy free German beer and soft drinks, fresh flowers and candle decorations, a champagne fountain, a signature scroll, a PG team to welcome guests, a wedding cake, a food tasting table for six, a band, a dance troupe and more.
Located in the heart of HCMC, Lion Brewery & Restaurant consists of two ballrooms with capacity of 530 guests each. Each ballroom is decorated in warm, elegant colors in European style. The restaurant’s menu features a wide range of reasonably priced Asian and European cuisines prepared by professional chefs. (By Kieu Giang in HCMC - The Saigon Times - March 23, 2010)
For more information, call the restaurant at 3827 5944 or 3823 8514, email sales@lionsaigon.com or
access www.lionsaigon.com
Celebrating Women’s Day at Bong Sen Saigon
For the International Women’s Day celebration, the Buffet Ganh Restaurant and Lotus Center on level 7 of the hotel is offering a wide range of delicacies in a cozy and elegant atmosphere.
At the Buffet Ganh, there are two special dishes including sauced shrimp and chicken teamed with four kinds of beans, excellent for maintaining health. As well, guests can enjoy the free wine. At the Lotus Center, lunch will feature Vietnamese cuisine and an a la carte dinner. Each woman who comes to the hotel will receive chocolate.
The lunch buffet is available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for VND130,000 per adult and VND65,000 per child. The dinner buffet is available from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. for VND220,000++ per adult and VND110,000++ per child.
This month, the Green Leaf Café will introduce a program named “Smoothies in March” featuring a collection of drinks combining fruit juice, yogurt and honey for VND40,000 per drink (take-away is also available). (The Saigontimes - March 3, 2010)
The hotel is located at 117-123 Dong Khoi St., Dist. 1, tel 08 3829 1516.
Van Thanh to bring traditional foods, festivities to Saigonese
The Van Thanh Tourist Park of the Binh Quoi Tourism Village will organize a food and culture program called Ngay Hoi Que Toi (Festive Day in My Homeland) this weekend to introduce special dishes and traditional festivities of the North, Central and South regions to Saigonese.
The program will take place from 5:00 p.m to 9: 00 p.m on March 5, 6 and 7. Along with more than 100 dishes made by chefs of Binh Quoi, other chefs of tourist service providers in localities such as Can Tho, Ben Tre, Dong Thap, Gia Lai and Khanh Hoa will bring their special foods to the city’s people during the program.
Chiem Thanh Long, director of Binh Quoi Tourism Village, said this year’s program would add new dishes to the North region’s menu. For dishes of the Central region, Van Thanh will focus on dishes from Danang and Hoi An instead of promoting too many dishes of the whole region.
“We not only want to promote delicious dishes but also want to bring charms of rural markets, funny folk games, traditional music performances and images of trade villages to the city’s people,” Long said in a meeting to promote the program in Van Thanh on Friday.
The organizers will prepare colorful rural markets of the three regions. Via the rural markets, visitors will see the customs of the people of the regions, and the daily life of floating markets and vendors.
Visitors will have a chance to enjoy cheo (Vietnamese popular opera), gongs, Cham dances and Hue folk songs. Children and young people can try folk games such as making boats by arecas of banana, making toys by coconut and bamboo leaves, climbing the greasy pole and the bamboo pole dance.
Long said the food program would introduce craft villages, including villages to make wide baskets, or panniers, deep bamboo baskets and rice paper.
“Guests can see craftsmen of the banh hoi (steamed rolls made of rice-flour) Phu Long in Binh Thuan Province to make banh hoi in Van Thanh and then buy the food,” he said.
Tickets are VND170,000 per adult and there are coupons for guests to buy food and drink. (Dao Loan - The Saigontimes - March 3, 2010)
Contact Van Thanh Tourist Park at 48/10 Dien Bien Phu Street, Ward 22, Binh Thanh District, tel: 08 3512 3025.
Sheraton Saigon Hotel (88 Dong Khoi St., Dist. 1, tel: 08 3827 2828)
To celebrate International Women’s Day customers can choose a scrumptious buffet at the Saigon Café, featuring fresh crabs, prawns, scampi and oysters, alongside prime cuts of meat and live cooking stations. A welcome glass of bubbly and a rose will be given to every lady on this special occasion. The buffet is available on March 8 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. for VND930,000++ per person.
To taste German food, foodies should make their way to Saigon Café every Monday for authentic German delicacies such as sausages, roasted meats and sauerbraten with cabbage. The buffet is served from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. for VND725,000++ per person.
Especially, not to be missed is an authentic Greek buffet at Saigon Café every Wednesday this March. Guests can sample over 52 dishes, including seared calamari with olive oil, traditional Mousaka, Yiouvarlakia me Avgolemono, rabbit with onions and Ouzo to name a few as well as a selection of Greek cheeses. The buffet’s price is VND725,000++ per person. (The Saigon Times - March 2, 2010)
Vegetarian buffet festival at Van Canh
Van Canh Restaurant is offering a vegetarian buffet to mark the first month of the Year of the Tiger called Vui Xuan, or Enjoy the Spring, until March 16 featuring nutritious and healthy foods in artistic and beautiful shapes.
Many new foods such as bun mam (noodles with broth made of fermented fish), bun ca Nha Trang, bun bo (beef noodles), bun thang Hanoi (noodles in chicken broth), hu tiu mi, hoanh thanh and more are included. The restaurant is also introducing for the first time a dish called pho chua Hai Phong (sour noodle soup of Haiphong) with a unique flavor.
Taking part in the buffet, guests have a chance to taste many kinds of Givral cakes together with a special gift from the Luckiness, the Prosperity and the Longevity as the best wish of Van Canh Restaurant to customers.
The buffet is available from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets are VND130,000 per adult and VND70,000 per child and are on sale at Van Canh Restaurant, 184 Calmette Street, District 1, tel: 08 3829 4963 and at A Dong Restaurant, 301-303 Hai Thuong Lan Ong Street, District 5, tel: 08 3855 7737.
There’s one complimentary ticket for those who buy ten tickets. (February 24,2010 - The Saigon Times)
New World Hotel Saigon (76 Le Lai Street, District 1, tel: 08 3822 8888 ext. 2200
The hotel is offering a selection of Cantonese specialties from now until February 13 with three different family menus. The special family menus start from VND462,500++ .
There will be a Lion Dance on February 14 starting at 11 a.m. and a romantic Valentine’s Day buffet at Parkview. The Valentine’s dinner buffet on February 14 is VND888,000++ (US$48++) including free flow of Rosa Regale (Italian sparkling wine from the famous Banfi vineyard), house wine, draft beer and soft drinks.
Caravelle Hotel (17-19 Lam Son Square, District 1, tel: 08 38234 999)
On February 14, the Caravelle’s Restaurant Nineteen is offering a Tet buffet dinner and a Valentine’s Day Buffet Dinner with a wide range of cooked to order smoked and marinated seafood, appetizers, soups, cheeses, main courses, barbeque and desserts. Both buffets are VND864,000 per person.
Reflections Restaurant on the third floor is offering an eight-course menu, candle light and live piano music for VND864,000 per person. Menu highlights are marinated duck liver, almond bread crusted deep sea scallops, sweet temptations and chocolate truffles. (February 24,2010 - The Saigon Times)
