Icehaus (Alley on 25)

Andaz hotel is a perfect place for a slow lunch and what better than a salad buffet lunch.

While most would jump at filling their bowls with veggies - my lunch style today was much more focused on the homemade velvety mushroom soup and sourdough bread ( from tbb) matched with in house Pesto and baba Ganoush ( eggplant hummus ).

Ice tea is also available at the buffet counter and I appreciate that the ice tea is unsweetened and comes with a side of fragrant homemade Pandan syrup .

The selection at the salad bar is not great but the service is efficient and accommodating .

My only issue was that while i wanted to have a quiet lunch , the sound of the ham slicer ( which sounds very much like the stapling of papers together and reminds you almost like you were in the office ) was extremely disturbing and this continued throughout my whole lunch - until I had no choice but to flag it out to the service staff .

There is always a better time to slice / pre - slice the ham right ? And not when you are trying to hold a conversation with a friend or business associates or just looking for a quiet place to lunch .

At 20 dollars before gst and taxes , this was by no means cheap (given the very limited spread ) but at least the really good sourdough bread and homemade soup made up for it.