LOCATION
The international Cafe Mix is located on Level 1 of the Shangri-La hotel in The Rocks.
PROFILED BY DE GROOTS MEDIA
The interior is an eclectic blend of colour and texture, while the entry to the restaurant is a jimble jumble of coloured flasks encased in lit glass displays – the bright red and orange intended to stimulate the appetite. Once inside there is no need to trouble yourself with a menu, dive right into the exquisite buffet selections that are fanned about the room like a tasting menu come to life: small spoons hosting tuna tempura with Ponzu dressed sashimi, theatre chefs tossing hot woks, a hot buffet bar and a seafood bar featuring sizable prawns and shuckable oysters.
There is an a la carte menu for those who feel like a lighter repast with offerings such as brioche fried fish and chips with chilli and lime aioli, and smoked tomato and forest mushroom arancini with roast pine nut pesto. You won’t want to eschew the dessert buffet, a Willy Wonka-esque paradise where skewered strawberries beg to be dipped in the chocolate fountains (one white, one milk chocolate), and mini cakes are stacked alongside cups of lavender pannacotta and feather-light French macaroons.
Jennifer Miller, May 2007
DETAILS
Voted “Best Brasserie / Café 2005” by the Australian Hotels Association (NSW). Café Mix is a novel 190 seat all-day-dining restaurant: a lighter, brighter, interactive dining environment with the focus very much on ‘fresh’. Mixed aromas of freshly cooked cuisine from all corners of the globe are enhanced by the skills of Café Mix’s theatre-chefs working their magic at live cooking stations. The mouth-watering dessert selection and chocolate fountain are impossible to resist!
Lunch Buffet
Monday to Friday $48
Saturday & Sunday $58
Dinner Buffet
Monday to Thursday $58
Friday & Saturday $85
Sunday $68
* Cafe Mix has wheelchair access.
