All-you-can-eat raclette at Loluk Bistro, Surry Hills

What's better than grilled cheese? ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT GRILLED CHEESE. Imagine a landslide of molten cheese, scraped onto a plate of potatoes, bread and charcuterie. With endless cheese. Yep. Unlimited. Non-stop. Never-Ending. Unrestricted. You know you want it.


Melted raclette cheese

Live out all your wildest cheesy dreams with the all-you-can-eat raclette at Loluk Bistro, a quaint French bistro in a converted terrace in Surry Hills. The front dining room is tiny but the courtyard out the back - accessed by a scenic walk through the kitchen - is much more airy.

The all-you-can-eat raclette menu costs $49 which is pretty darn reasonable. That includes unlimited raclette, boiled potatoes and salad. You also get a serve of bread and charcuterie. And friendly staff to serve you all night. And do the dishes. Not bad considering raclette itself costs $55/kg.

It happens every Tuesday and Wednesday night and, unlike most other raclette offerings in Sydney, runs throughout the year.


Raclette cheese under the grill at Loluk

Raclette is a Swiss cheese by origin, popularly melted by a campfire or grill and scraped onto bread. It began as an easy and mobile meal for cow herders, but today it's enjoyed as more of a social event, much like fondue.


Boiled potatoes (unlimited)

At Loluk, the carriage of choice for your melted cheese is the humble potato (unlimited as part of the raclette all-you-can-eat). While the cheese is melting in the kitchen, diners are instructed to start cutting up the boiled potatoes on their plate.


Scraping melted raclette cheese onto potatoes

Staff will then come around and scrape lashings of gooey molten cheese all over your potatoes. It's wondrous.


Melted raclette cheese on potatoes

There's a nutty, slightly acidic flavour to raclette, not dissimilar to Gruyere. It languishes with ease across the potatoes. The potatoes, I have to say, are impressive too, with a waxy lusciousness that makes them ideal for melted cheese.


Charcuterie plate for four

Alongside your potatoes, you'll score a charcuterie plate - a selection of prosciutto, saucisson, coppa, white ham and bresaola served with pickled onions and cornichons. Additional serves of charcuterie are available for $8 but we don't need any more, especially since we're intent on filling our stomachs with cheese.


Salad (unlimited)

Salad is unlimited too. Sure it's only a simple salad of leaves tossed with dressing, but trust me, you'll be relishing a mouthful of greens as a much-needed palate cleanser between all the cheese.


Grilled raclette cheese

"More cheese?" The staff are super keen to keep on plying you with cheese. I'd expected the restaurant to try and discreetly restrict cheese consumption, but the staff on the floor merrily oblige you with as much cheese as you can stomach. Literally.

And there's seriously something so mesmerising about watching the cheese river slide off the half-wheel and cascade onto your plate.


Gooey and golden raclette cheese on potatoes

Glorious cheese. Our table is divided over whether people prefer their raclette all soft and melty or tinged with golden and caramelised edges. I'm all about the latter.


Potatoes and raclette cheese

How much cheese can you eat? It all depends on your greed. And lactose tolerance. I manage five serves of raclette before I have to wave the white flag. And loosen my belt.


Profiterole with ice cream and chocolate sauce

Dessert is included, a profiterole with ice cream and warm chocolate sauce. I wish I could say it's incredible. It isn't. The pastry feels forlorn and the ice cream is low in butterfat.

Not that we needed any more dairy products at this point.



But the raclette is good. And plentiful. And the staff are a friendly bunch too.






Loluk Bistro
2/411 Bourke Street, Surry Hills, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 7900 6251

Opening hours
Lunch Friday - Saturday 12pm-3pm
Dinner Tuesday to Saturday 6pm-10pm


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All you can eat mu kratha Thai bbq hotpot at Capital Thai, Sydney Chinatown

What do you get when you cross Korean barbecue with Chinese hotpot? Meet mu kratha. It's a mash-up commonly found across Thailand, and guess what. You can get it in Sydney too. And it's all you can eat. Yeah, baby.

Get it at Capital Thai, the restaurant located next door to the Capitol Theatre. I bet you've walked past it a million times and never even realised. Sure they have a la carte options but head deeper into the dining room and you'll find the mu kratha buffet set-up. It's here you'll find groups of Thai uni students in the know. And now, you.


Banana prawns

The buffet is a veritable bargain. Just $29.80 for all you can eat meat, seafood, vegetables and desserts. It even includes a self-serve soft drink station, so you can pump all the post-mix soda you please.


Marinated beef

Stackable trays mean you can bring back the motherlode of ingredients for your table. Proteins include chicken, beef and pork - marinated and plain.


Tripe and intestines

If you love tripe, you're in luck here. Bible tripe and intestines are both available. Cook them in the soup for maximum deliciousness.


Fish tofu, fish balls and meatballs

Soup aficionados will want to load up on fish balls, meat balls and more.


Fishcake slices and meatballs


Green bean vermicelli noodles, egg noodles, enoki mushrooms and mussels

Grab all the noodles you want as well. We went nuts on the enoki mushrooms.


Water spinach, Chinese cabbage, baby bok choy, Thai basil and fresh corn

Don't forget your greens either. We ate tonnes of kang kong water spinach and baby bok choy. The corn cobbettes worked a treat on the grill.


Cooking pork on the mu kratha

The mu kratha is genius in design. Imagine a Korean barbecue grill surrounded by a trough filled with clear soup stock. The grill - greased with hunks of pork fat - is slightly domed so as your meat cooks, all the juices run down into the soup. That means grilled meat with a bonus of meaty vegetable broth. Nothing gets wasted here!


Drinking soup from the moat filled with enoki mushrooms and water spinach

In Thailand the mu kratha vessel is much bigger and fueled by charcoal. Here you'll have to contend with a portable gas flame, and a significantly smaller moat, but it's still a heap of fun.


Moo kratha party

There's no limit to broth refills. And everyone gets two types of nam jim dipping sauces, providing a spicy, salty sweet and sour baptism for the protein of your choice.


Fried rice and fried chicken wings

Too hungry to wait for your food to cook? They have cooked dishes too. A massive tray of fried chicken wings was hard to resist, coated in a golden batter.


Fried prawn crackers and fried wonton crackers

The prawn crackers are particularly good too. They're the proper prawn cracker type with real prawns and extra crunchy.


Chicken skin crackling

But wait until you clap eyes on the chicken skin crackling. You read that right. And there's a mountain of it!

Self-serve nam kang sai shaved ice dessert station

Your 90-minute buffet time limit includes unlimited desserts. After the heaviness of grilled meat, you'll relish the relief of the self-serve shaved ice station. Here you'll find jackfruit, grass jelly, toddy palm seeds, basil seeds, palm seeds, sweet corn and soft white bread. They even have fruit salad mixed through with chilli salt.


Adding grass jelly to basil seeds and jackfruit

Choose whatever fruit you prefer...


Adding condensed milk to shaved ice

add a mountain of shaved ice and then drizzle with condensed milk or flavoured syrups.


Coconut jelly and fresh watermelon

Need more? They have banana and sago soup, fresh watermelon and rockmelon, and my favourite - coconut jelly.

Go with friends. Go hungry. Go now.






The all you can eat mu kratha hotpot buffet costs $29.80 for adults and $15 for children under 11 years old. A 90-minute time limit applies. Additional charges may be applied for excessive food wastage, so only take what you can eat. Bookings are highly recommended.

Capital Thai
21A Campbell Street, Haymarket, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 9211 1130

Opening hours
Lunch daily 11am-3.30pm
Dinner daily 5.30pm-1am


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All you can eat crab and prawn buffet at Mojo Restaurant, Sydney

It's back. And bigger than ever. Last year's all-you-can-eat crab buffet has expanded to include prawns as well. That means menu choice has more than doubled from ten to 22 dishes. It's in a new venue too, running upstairs at Mojo Restaurant, on the former site of Scruffy Murphy's (RIP). Did we eat our money's worth? You bet we did.


All you can eat prawn and crab menu $49.90

The new prawn and crab buffet means a price hike from $39.90 to $49.90, but to be honest, we're not complaining. It's still incredible value given the quality of food provided.

The set-up remains the same. Your table has 90 minutes to order as much as it can eat from the special buffet menu. Each dish is cooked to order, and yes, you'll be expected to eat everything or risk being charged a penalty fee for food waste.


Som tum prawn papaya salad, Thai-style

We kick off with som tum papaya salad. You'll be asked whether you want it Thai-style (clear with fish sauce) or Lao-style (darker brown with salted crabs). They'll also ask what level heat you're after - remember they're talking on a Thai scale. We asked for mild and it still tasted pretty fiery.


Som tum crab papaya salad, Lao-style

The som tum crab only comes in Lao style. Here you get to relish the salty fishy pungency of salted crab.

My biggest tip? Bring your own gloves. I'm not joking. Sure you may feel like a fool packing them into your handbag, but you'll be having the last laugh as you rip apart those crab legs with unbridled glee. And trust me, you are going to get messy.


Raw prawns with chilli sauce

Raw seafood is one of my favourite indulgences. Its glassy sheen yields a silky sweetness that is immediately lost upon cooking. And if you're worried about freshness, you shouldn't be. You should know straight away if a raw prawn is less than fresh, both in taste and texture. Here the raw prawns are simply peeled and dressed with a pounded chilli sauce, raw garlic slices and raw bitter melon.


Goi goong raw prawn spicy salad

If you like larb, you'll like goi goong, raw prawns marinated in the same fish sauce and roasted rice dressing you find on chicken or pork larb. Again it's hotter than we expect, but that doesn't stop me wiping the sweat off my brow and going in for more.


Blue swimmer crab omelette

Too hot in here? You'll want to load up on the crab omelette. The pockets of blue swimmer crab flesh are a little hard to find, but we appreciate the hit of protein anyway, especially as this is one of the few dishes that don't require crab extraction.


Steamed blue swimmer crab

Steamed blue swimmer crab is also ideal for those who prefer their chilli sauce on the side. There's a fair amount of meat in the claws. Make sure you share those crab crackers around.


Raw blue swimmer crab

I'm all over the raw blue swimmer crab though. There's something amazing about pulling the meat out from the claw and admiring its blue and uncooked hue.


Grilled king prawns

Grilled king prawns are a crowd pleaser, aromatic as it hits the table and easy for everyone to peel.


Prawn tom yum goong

We hoe into the tom yum goong soup with prawn...


Pad thai with king prawns

and decimate the pad thai with king prawns. This is a dish you'd happily eat on its own, with noodles that are sauced to expert sufficiency, without heading into soggy territory.


Prawn tom yum noodle soup

And if you didn't know the Doo Dee Paidang crew are behind this joint, you'll immediately realise it upon first taste of the tom yum noodle soup. It's got all the spicy, sour, salty and sweet addiction of your cheap eat favourite, upsized of course.

Picture a bowl that'll feed four people, and you've got some idea of how huge this serve will be.


Crab fried rice

The crab fried rice isn't as good as the one we had at Yok Sod but it's still tasty enough for us to order a second plate. Did I mention you should come in a group? I just did. We had a table of 11 adults that enabled us to eat through most of the menu. Go as a table of at least four people so you can plow through a variety of dishes.


Stir fried prawns with black pepper sauce

The fried rice comes in handy to soak up the black pepper sauce surrounding the stir-fried prawns. You'll probably appreciate the handful of green beans in this dish too.


Prawns in curry sauce

The curry sauce prawns is one of the richer dishes, a dish that's like curried scrambled eggs colliding with prawns.


Blue swimmer crabs in curry sauce

Curry sauce crab is even messier. You'll be licking that curry sauce off every crevice of that carapace.


All you can eat crab and prawn feast

Between eleven of us we managed to polish off 29 dishes. That's an average of 3.8 dishes per person. We haven't lost our buffet mojo.






Mojo Bar & Restaurant
43-49 Goulburn Street, Haymarket, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 9211 2002

Open daily 10am-2am

The all you can eat crab and prawn buffet runs for the duration of crab season. Staff have indicated the buffet should run until the end of April 2019 at least, but call ahead to check. Bookings are essential. 


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