Good Burger Find...Hilton Lunch Buffet Sandwich And Burger Day

[OMGImInPattaya]

People often post and ask about a good burger in Patts...some hotels offer good ones but can be up to 500 baht and at the fast food end many recommend Burger King and now Carl's Jr. I had the opportunity to dine at the Wednesday Hilton lunch buffet at their Edge restaurant which features a sandwich board and burger grille as well as their normal selection of sides, bread and salad stations and the dessert table.

The sandwich station had roast beef, chicken club, and I think grilled veggie and cheese for the vegetarians. Each sandwich is one very large French roll and they slice you off a piece as big as you want. The burgers are fresh grilled and you can build your own with the sides offered including cheese (including blu), bacon, grilled/raw onions, and other condiments. The burgers are not large...slightly larger than an American slider and were very juicy and tasty. The meat was high quality...maybe they even grind it fresh but cant confirm that. I would put them up there with the best burgers I've had in pattaya. I went with someone who has one of those Hilton discount dining plans so I paid B300 all in. At that price, it was a good value for all the burgers one could eat as well as the rest of the buffet. I also shared a bottle of water with a fellow diner.

When I need a burger fix, I will definitely ring up my friend and make a date for the Wednesday burger day at the Hilton.

Edited December 12, 2013 by OMGImInPattaya

[Gone]

300 baht for a burger and that was with a discount card? WOW !

What was it without the discount? Even at 300 THB that is still $10.00 CAD

As far as all you can eat burgers go, I figure if they are good burgers one would only be able to eat 1 (for me for sure).

Great post for some folk but for me I will sure pass.

PS: You shared a bottle of water with another customer? Is water THAT expensive?

PPS: I have never heard of a 500 baht burger here.

Edited December 12, 2013 by Gone

[OMGImInPattaya]

300 baht for a burger and that was with a discount card? WOW !

What was it without the discount? Even at 300 THB that is still $10.00 CAD

As far as all you can eat burgers go, I figure if they are good burgers one would only be able to eat 1 (for me for sure).

Great post for some folk but for me I will sure pass.

PS: You shared a bottle of water with another customer? Is water THAT expensive?

PPS: I have never heard of a 500 baht burger here.

Yes believe it or not, B300 for as many tasty juicy grilled burgers one can eat with fresh trimmings and condiments would be good value for that alone. I could easily eat 3-4 of them and then hit the desserts and consider it good value. When you throw in the sandwiches (they had more too like finger-sized tuna, Ruben (with sauerkraut), and others), pastas, Thai foods, bread board, salads, cake and ice-cream station it's a steal IMO. I don't know what the cost without the dining card is but someone will surely post it. I don't know what this kinda buffet at a Hilton would cost in Canada...I guess I could Google the Hilton Vancouver and find out but something tells me it be more than $10 Canadian 55555

There is a well known hotel on beach road that has one...it's very big and rated highly by many but it is costly.

As for the water...I think it's like 60 baht or so so not too bad for this type of venue...we just like to be as cheap ass bastards as we can...my friend even asked for bucket of ice with the water and as it melted would refill our glasses!

[Gone]

Ok I didn't realize the 300 was for a buffet. I thought it was just the burger sorry.

Now I have heard of cheap but drinking the water from the ice bucket !!!!! lmao

[96tehtarp]

What would the price have been without the discount? Carl's Jr. is overpriced IMHO.

[fakename]

Wow, using someone else's discount card, and sharing a bottle of water! I thought that was only another group of people that liked to share.

[OMGImInPattaya]

Wow, using someone else's discount card, and sharing a bottle of water! I thought that was only another group of people that liked to share.

It's not using someone else's discount card...the card gives various discounts amounts depending on how many diners are at the table, one of whom is the card holder. Most higher end hotels in Thailand have these discount hotel dining schemes.

[OMGImInPattaya]

Ok I didn't realize the 300 was for a buffet. I thought it was just the burger sorry.

Now I have heard of cheap but drinking the water from the ice bucket !!!!! lmao

It's kinda a game...I think Warren Buffet does this as well

[ThaiBob]

I agree the burger lunch buffet at the Hilton is a good deal for really good burgers. If you go to the Elements at the Sheraton, a burger and fries with a soda will put you over 500 baht. The burger there is the best I have had in Pattaya.

[Gone]

I make the best burger in Pattaya on my BBQ for around 50 baht. My own spices, bacon, cheese, BBQ sauce, onions and tomato included.

500 baht for fries and a burger is just outrageous !

[ThaiBob]

I make the best burger in Pattaya on my BBQ for around 50 baht. My own spices, bacon, cheese, BBQ sauce, onions and tomato included.

500 baht for fries and a burger is just outrageous !

The condiments are a personal thing, the key to a great burger is the beef. So where do you get your beef?

[Gone]

Foodland. But actually you might be wrong my friend. I can take a fairly crap Roast Beef and through simmering, brining, spices etc. turn it into a fall-apart roast.

Best way is to buy beef from OZ and grind it yourself but as I have said before, NOTHING beats a good Canadian Beef Steak !!! (or any beef cut).

[fredob43]

I now live outside Pattaya thank Buddha where I can get an 8oz imported Rib eye with all the trimming's for 199bt + a large Leo for 56bt paying 300bt for a burger sorry is out of the question. But enjoy anyway.

[thrilled]

I don't have trouble finding A good cheeseburger in Thailand,I go to Mcdonalds.As far as A good filet mignon,that's another matter

[KittenKong]

I like the Hilton for lunch very much but the one day I would never go on is Wednesday. It's just too boring.

If I want a sandwich I can do a better one for less than half the price at home, and my home-baked bread is at least as good as the Hilton's.

[SheungWan]

I remember the guys from years ago who used to proffer their home-made beers which they thought was wonderful, only cost pennies, but in reality tasted like dishwater. They always threw a fit if there was the slightest criticism. Mostly in the end they gave up as they discovered friends just stayed away.

[KittenKong]

You've never eaten home-baked bread? Wow. You really are missing something.

My mother used to bake all our bread, and millions of people do the same all over the world every day. I bake all the bread I eat at home.

Bread baking is easy (if you can follow a childishly simple set of instructions) quick and cheap, and requires no equipment at all apart from an oven (even an outdoor BBQ/pizza oven will do), a baking tray and some sort of container for mixing. That's why just about every supermarket in the world sells all the basic ingredients for home baking (bread flour, yeast and salt). You can find machines for under USD50 that do it all for you if you prefer and there must be a million websites and TV programmes and cookbooks telling you how to do it by hand. Home brewing isnt any near as well supported.

I doubt that the number of home brewers add up to even a fraction of one percent of home bakers. It's much more difficult to brew than to bake and it's hard to find the right ingredients and equipment outside of specialised shops. So it's little wonder that the end result is often dire. I wouldn't even try to do it.

[OMGImInPattaya]

You've never eaten home-baked bread? Wow. You really are missing something.

My mother used to bake all our bread, and millions of people do the same all over the world every day. I bake all the bread I eat at home.

Bread baking is easy (if you can follow a childishly simple set of instructions) quick and cheap, and requires no equipment at all apart from an oven (even an outdoor BBQ/pizza oven will do), a baking tray and some sort of container for mixing. That's why just about every supermarket in the world sells all the basic ingredients for home baking (bread flour, yeast and salt). You can find machines for under USD50 that do it all for you if you prefer and there must be a million websites and TV programmes and cookbooks telling you how to do it by hand. Home brewing isnt any near as well supported.

I doubt that the number of home brewers add up to even a fraction of one percent of home bakers. It's much more difficult to brew than to bake and it's hard to find the right ingredients and equipment outside of specialised shops. So it's little wonder that the end result is often dire. I wouldn't even try to do it.

Thanks for that Kitty...but the topic of this thread is the Hilton hamburger buffet and not how many daft people stay at home all day and bake their own bread products.

The subject of home baking sounds fascinating and as you're such an expert at it, maybe open a thread in the food/cooking sub-forum about it.

[i claudius]

How do you get a dinning card and how much?

[Pattaya Pat]

What a cringeworthy read, my toes were curling, I just guess that some people have no shame.

On the topics of burgers, I think the best one I have had in Pattaya is the Southwestern burger from Sunrise Tacos. Yes, it's a Mexican joint but the burger there is outstanding. Give it a whirl.

Just Burgers on Jomtien beach rd use to be good but have gone downhill somewhat.

[OMGImInPattaya]

How do you get a dinning card and how much?

It's called the Hilton Premium Club card and it's B7500 a year. It actually comes with a whole raft of benefits and restaurant discounts at most (all?) of the Hilton hotels in Thailand. You also get free nite stay vouchers for a couple of the properties that basically make the card free. There is a membership office at the hotel to buy memberships and to answer any questions.

All the details are explained here:

http://www.premiumclubasia.com/hilton_millennium_bangkok/MemberBenefits.html

Edited December 13, 2013 by OMGImInPattaya

[Ulysses G.]

Now I have heard of cheap but drinking the water from the ice bucket !!!!! lmao

I rather drink melted ice from an ice bucket than pay 60 baht for water. What a rip-off.

[KittenKong]

Thanks for that Kitty...but the topic of this thread is the Hilton hamburger buffet and not how many daft people stay at home all day and bake their own bread products.

And comments about home-brewing and you telling me what to do are both on-topic, I suppose? I don't think so.

The subject of home baking sounds fascinating and as you're such an expert at it, maybe open a thread in the food/cooking sub-forum about it.

There are already several, but they aren't related to the cost and quality of sandwiches at the Hilton.

[champers]

Must say that the best "chain" burger I've ever had was a Wendy Burger in London many years ago.Also, like a place in Sheffield, UK, called Uncle Sams, they make burgers to order like one would expect with a good steak: rare, medium or well done. Anywhere like that in Patts? Quality costs; happy to pay good price for good food. The cheaper the burger the more dubious the ingredients and, ultimately, the quality. Been to Maccy Ds, BK and Carls Jr and none of them are anything to write home about. Anything off the street: you pays your money and takes your chance, though can certainly hit the spot after a few pops, there's no denying.

[KittenKong]

I rather drink melted ice from an ice bucket than pay 60 baht for water. What a rip-off.

Water at the Hilton is 50B (or it was about 10 days ago when I last went). For this you get a larger bottle than the usual size. Previously it was 30B for a regular size bottle.

This may sound like a rip-off but it pales into insignificance when compared with a small bottle of water at Dicey Riley's which costs 80B.

[UncleJ]

Now I have heard of cheap but drinking the water from the ice bucket !!!!! lmao

I rather drink melted ice from an ice bucket than pay 60 baht for water. What a rip-off.

Since it's served in a 5 star skyscraper with a beachfront location, it's expensive.

Amazing. Price sensitive people going into a Hilton then moaning about the price of drinking water.

Yesterday, I had a bottle of water with my lunch and it was only 10bt.... but I was sitting in an alley, on a filthy plastic stool, next to a sewer, eating contaminated food on plates washed in a bucket, nearly getting clipped by passing motorbikes.

Edited December 14, 2013 by UncleJ

[craigt3365]

The buffet at the Hilton is pretty nice. I've been several times for the seafood one. And the view is awesome. Go early before the tour groups show up!

What's the normal price now for the buffet? I heard it went up a bit.

[ThaiBob]

Two friends have returned from Bangkok and declared the burger at El Gaucho (?) the best burger they ever had, Burger/fries, 850 baht, excludes VAT, drinks, and service. Posted this for the cost conscious.

[OMGImInPattaya]

Must say that the best "chain" burger I've ever had was a Wendy Burger in London many years ago.Also, like a place in Sheffield, UK, called Uncle Sams, they make burgers to order like one would expect with a good steak: rare, medium or well done. Anywhere like that in Patts? Quality costs; happy to pay good price for good food. The cheaper the burger the more dubious the ingredients and, ultimately, the quality. Been to Maccy Ds, BK and Carls Jr and none of them are anything to write home about. Anything off the street: you pays your money and takes your chance, though can certainly hit the spot after a few pops, there's no denying.

If price is not a factor and you just want a good burger, the one at Hard Rock Hotel's restaurant is very good. It costs almost B500; its also been mentioned that the Sheraton Hotel's is also very good but no personal experience with that one.

Of the chains, Carl's Jr is the best, and there their milkshakes, at B60 are a steal.

[KittenKong]

What's the normal price now for the buffet? I heard it went up a bit.

The prices went up a few months ago to 420B Mon-Thu and I think 40B more for Friday and Saturday. Water went up from 30B to 50B at the same time for a larger bottle.

They did improve the quality of the ingredients quite significantly at that time but since then the quality of the ingredients has dropped off again (chicken kofta instead of lamb kofta, for example).

They seem to do this systematically: raise the price and the quality, drop the quality progressively, then raise the price and quality again and repeat the procedure. Still good value though (except on Wednesday ).