text: This review is for the weekend brunch buffet - it gets high marks for presentation but low marks for food.  I always think that for the money the food should be better.  \n\nIt is a really nice looking buffet - the main courtyard atrium is lovely and the dessert room is stunning but I find that most of them don't taste as good as they look.\n\nThere are some really standout items at this buffet - the lox is yummy and plentiful, the super thick cut bacon is fantastic, and the soy gelato (raspberry and mint chip flavors) was outstanding.  The warm mini sticky buns in the desert section next to the bread pudding were great. The fresh squeezed orange juice is fabulous!  My friends really enjoyed the congee but congee isn't my thing so I can't comment on that. \n\nThere are also things that are just ok - the pancake station doesn't actually allow you to put the various options IN the pancakes - just on top. The chocolate chips were good and melted properly but I had my heart set on some blueberry pancakes and they didn't have any fresh blueberries.  The lobster quiche had some nice pieces of lobster but the quiche itself was just kind of Blegh.\n\nI always look for chocolate croissants (one of my favorite food items on earth) but they have a surprising lack of breakfast bread/ pastry items (considering the giant room of deserts which I think go hand in hand).\n\nNo oysters, no crab legs, the salmon filets were dry as a bone and tremendously over cooked.\n\nOur waiter wasn't around much but our busboy was very obliging in bringing us more orange juice. If it weren't for him I would have subtracted another star.