Cayo Coco - NH Krystal Laguna Villas & Resort - Food

One of the important component of a resort vacation is great food. NH Krystal has 5 a la carte restaurants and 2 buffets. All the restaurants are fancy but the foods are medicore. You may call me picky but I am not. My requirement is simple - just better than or at least equal to what I usually have in Toronto. Later on, I am told by a few friends that all Cuban resorts serve medicore food. (LP, traveling with you, I don't mind eating pastas every day. 鹹魚白菜也好好味.)

• Steak house. The services and the decor were really good. The steak was cooked to coal while I ordered medium. The cake dessert was good though.
• Italian. The veal was seriously overdone and the pasta was under cook. We looked at our neighbors and our neighbors looked back at us. We laughed out loud and decided to go to the buffet to have some pastas.
• Seafood. What a beautiful restaurant on the lagoon!
• Cuban. The restaurant was closed but the front desk was not even aware of that. The staffs insisted that the restaurant was open.
• Moonlight. It is the poolside grill restaurant. The view was charming. The fish and seafood soup were too fishy.
• Buffet. To me both buffet restaurants are the same. I love the pastas. However, there was always over 10 minute lineup for the cook-to-order food such as omelet and pasta, partly because of under staff and partly because of the talkative Canadians. What can we do about that!?

We were very lucky that the buffet restaurant served lobster on the day that we don't have a la carte reservation. Haven't had huge 2 lbs+ lobsters for a while. I just couldn't eat the cooked to coal steak at the steak restaurant... The seafood restaurant is a open patio on the lagoon. Both the view and the dishes were gorgeous. The Italian restaurant does not have filet mignon. All it got is pastas, Parmesan and pizza. The bread were really good. We loved it! The house wine and the Crystine beer were great and really strong! After this trip, we have decided not to drink any alcohol for a month. The coffee at the buffet was terrible. Be sure to ask for cappuccino fresh from the machine instead.