Palace Garden — Restaurant in Cotai Landfill Zone

It’s an excellent meal at Palace Garden Cantonese restaurant at Grand Lisboa Palace御花園. I wanted to come for a long time, after swinging by quickly without sitting down few years back. Finally made my visit last weekend and the experience definitely lives up and beyond my expectations. I would say its quality is way ahead of many other Chinese restaurants listed on Michelin Starred or Asia top 50 restaurants in Macau I tried.

We came here for a dinner before the Alan Walker concert. Hence, we picked few dishes from the a-la carte menu due to time constraint. We ordered four dishes in total.

Amuse bouche: we were greeted with a roselle-based cold drink and a crab tarte with some mint mixed in it and salmon roe on top. Both were refreshing to start the meal. The mint added to the crab tarte added freshness to the small bite.

First course: Peony King Tiger Prawn 牡丹虎蝦球. This is the 玻璃蝦球 recipe, added red prawn bisque as sauce to amplify the overall prawn flavor of the dish. The dish was beautifully presented. The tiger prawn was cooked to the perfect temperature. I have a slight preference on the more traditional way of using a thin slice of Jinhua ham to 提鮮 without sauce, so that the focus of the dish remains at the center tiger prawn piece instead of the sauce. However, the red prawn bisque was a nice fusion way to present the recipe with more layers of prawn flavor, although it did compete a bit with the tiger prawn 玻璃蝦球 in terms of flavor.

Second course: yellow croaker bisque欖仁菊花黃魚羹 / double boiled herbal fish soup 藥材龍躉魚湯: we ordered different soup dish. My portion was the fish bisque, it’s quite interesting, like a fish version of Cantonese snake soup 蛇羹, a lot of natural flavor from both the fish and herbs cooked to a perfect thickness for Cantonese bisque. My partner’s portion of double boiled soup tasted soothing too.

Third course: Lamb rack roasted with Sichuan pepper. It’s a very generous portion for a fine Chinese restaurant (perhaps we only had 2 pax sharing the dish). It’s nicely seasoned and tendered. We particularly enjoyed the first few pieces as they were so juicy and tendered, though the subsequent pieces dried up a bit after idling on the table in an aircon room.

Fourth course: homemade beancurd simmered with sea urchin and other seafood. The dish was soooooo good! It’s a simple dish with with many good ingredients combined. The homemade beancurd was freshly made from the kitchen from scratch, packed with intense soybean flavor (like a nice fresh soymilk - solid version). And the chef went all in with bufen uni, local 水蟹 meat, scallop, etc.

Lastly, we finished the meal with a small bit of black sesame roll to complete our dinner

I would definitely come back again to try other dishes on the menu. It’s a very enjoyable dinner, the beautifully decorated dining room and very nice food. I must say the service at the Palace restaurant was impeccable, from booking, reception, food ordering and explanation. I will definitely come back next time when I...

Palace Garden is an amazing dining experience. While Macau has many exceptional restaurants, this is my favorite (having dined at all the 2 and 3 Michelin star restaurants in town). The fact that this restaurant does not have greater recognition from organizations like Michelin or World's Top 50 is somewhere between a joke and a crime.

From the moment you enter the restaurant, you really feel like you are in a Palace. The interior is stunning. And the service level is exceptional. You feel like an emperor or empress dining here. All the staff work hard to make every detail count. I cannot name everyone, but I would like to recognize Jessica, whose kind and caring service makes you feel extra special. She also gave us great advice on the menu.

But what sets this restaurant apart most is the food. I challenge you to name another restaurant (that does not have at least 2 Michelin stars) that offers food as delicious, and as perfectly executed as Palace Garden. Sometimes in fine dining, you find that chefs do certain things just to show off their skill, or certain aspects of their cuisine. But here everything is done perfectly, and with a purpose - to give you the perfect flavor, aroma, and texture. This is more than a one time wow (though it is that as well). This is a restaurant you do not just want to visit once or twice, but one that you want to visit again and again.

I am probably doing myself a disservice writing this review, because it is already harder to book this restaurant than it used to be. But the entire staff at Palace Garden deserves far more recognition than they are currently getting, and I wish their hard work was...

Palace Garden is one of the most elegant high end oriental cuisine restaurant we have had the pleasure of dining at. Absolutely gorgeous interior, exquisite and faultless. Palace Garden is the new crown jewel of the Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau. An populently designed restaurant serving exceptional Cantonese cuisine. A magnificent fusion of East and West.

It was our vegeterian day when we visited that evening so we had the vegetarian tasting menu. Each item were strategically placed and seasonally-driven. It was indeed a magnificent culinary experience that was a pleasant surprise and especially on our special dietary occasion.

《Vegetarian tasting menu 》that we had ~

-Lotus root filled with glutinous rice in rose flavour, matsutake mushroom wrapped with rice paper -Superior Bird nest braised with winter melon puree and bamboo fungus -Yunan matsutake mushroom double boiled beancurd in chrysanthemum shape Taro steamed with homade spring onion and sichuan pepper sauce Asparagus wokfried with fresh lily bulb topped with caramelised walnut Whole tomato stuffed with superior broth braised seasonal vegetables in pumpkin sauce Ten grained fried rice with egg white and assorted mushrooms Sweetened mango and passion fruit cream with homemade...