Las Olas - Grand Sirenis

Bamboo is located next to Portofino on the North side of the market - dining area of White Sands Grand Palladium Resort. It appears to me that Bamboo is one of the larger restaurants in this complex.You begin your dining experience overlooking a lovely Koi Pond and the large swimming pool, wooden walking paths with bridges over the water. You are served a light beverage consisting of a Mojito mix with green tea. This begins your Asian fusion cuisine. We ordered a plate of spring rolls, wonton and salmon toast to share. (We ordered the soup of the day, but our waiter was new and not very experienced, and the soup was not served to us, so I can not comment on that.) We ordered the teriyaki beef for the entrée. I love teriyaki. This was very good, served on a bed of steamed vegetables with white rice. The salad bar is plentiful with veggies and fruit choices. Meat on the salads included Thai seasoned chicken, turkey and Ahi Tuna to choose from. The sauces on the salads are very flavorful. No need to add the flavored soy sauces offered as dressings, but they are there for you to try to add variety to the taste. The sushi bar is fresh. Wonderful flavors. The desserts were disappointing. One of the dessert selections is ice cream. The night we dined there, the choices for ice cream were chocolate and strawberry. That's less than stellar. The other desserts were types of mousse and gelatins. I ordered the chocolate tart with lemon cream. I'm not sure what I got, but it wasn't a tart. More like a dense mousse of chocolate and a lighter mousse of a very light lemon. My husband ordered a banana chocolate dessert, but was served something different - another mousse type dessert. (Again our not experienced waiter. Not his fault.) The service was exceptional, even with the inexperience waiter. For a busy restaurant, we received lots of special attention. I recommend that you go to dinner early if you don't want to stand in line. The Italian restaurant, Portofino, shares the same entrance with Bamboo. You will have to wait in line for the people ahead of you who might be going to Portofino instead of Bamboo. That was a little irritating ~ Portofino is a smaller restaurant, so people are waiting to be seated. You can get right into the larger Bamboo restaurant with no or very short waiting, but you have to stand for a long time waiting for the Portofino customers to get out of your way. Management should think of a better way to get he Bamboo customers out of the waiting line and into the restaurant.

Desayunamos muy rico, el bufet es muy amplio. Las comidas también son muy sabrosas. El servicio es muy atento.

La atención es excelente como en todo el hotel, pero este lugar fué uno de mis preferidos, ahí comí excelentes platos con pescados, y frutos de mar, EL MEJOR: El atún. Nunca comí atún tan bien preparado como ese, volvería solo para volver a probarlo!

I should start off by saying although I gave it a rating of four it should actually be 3 1/2. I'm not going to go into the details about its location as the other reviewer has covered it very well. The ambience of the hotel is very good. The service is also very good despite it being busy. The appetizers as well as the drinks are also very good. The salad bar was above average I would say. This sushi was definitely subpar. It was hilarious when the person serving the sushi was slicing one at a time. We had to ask for how many sushi slices we would want. I thought that was amusing.I had the shrimp with noodles and the flavor was excellent. Now coming to the worst part of the restaurant is the desserts. Should I just say they absolutely sucked. Though only thing worthy of eating is probably the fried banana with ice cream or the fried ice cream. It was mind blowing how certain things are very good and certain things were absolutely horrible for our restaurant of this caliber. So in all fairness the rating should be 3 1/2 out of five. There are other restaurants on the resort property which are better. I hope this helps.