We had passed, or more accurately been waiting at Sports Roundabout, the Grand Regency Hotel and one night in June 2011 we decided to give it a go. It is difficult to find the car park that is under the hotel and the entrance is round the back. The entrance and exit appear to be the wrong way round and you enter in the left lane and the car park is also laid out UK style rather than for the Doha traffic that drives on the right. The car park was baking hot too but there are lifts there into the hotel.
The receptionist was very helpful pointing out that there are three restaurants (a Moroccan and a Chinese as well as the Grand Gourmet we went to). The reception area and most of the hotel is dark brown marble and disappointingly in the cafe in reception they allow smoking and this goes into the Moroccan restaurant adjacent too.
The Grand Gourmet is on the first floor. The staff were very attentive and helpful, showing us all the dishes in the buffet (164 Riyals each) that was Arabian theme on Friday evenings. It is not licenced so we had water only. There was plenty of choice to eat and I had salad, some chicken and lamb (both a bit dry) and my favourite dessert, Umm Ali.
There was plenty of choice of where to sit as there was hardly anyone else in the restaurant.
We enjoyed our meal, but unfortunately there was little atmosphere to the place. We will only go once but cannot quite put our fingers on why?
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