The Royal Palm Hotel, located on Palm Blvd, New Town Centre in Umhlanga Ridge, is delighted to announce the launch of their new menu. The hotel was relaunched in early 2018 where all of the hotel’s 94 rooms were revamped adding much colour, energy saving lights and air conditioning systems and now has an equally tantalising choice of meals to choose from, for the hotel guest as well as for non-guests and locals.

The menu for lunch features ever popular salads that of Greek salad, smoked chicken or try their famous blue cheese and fig salad. You can enjoy one of their gourmet toasties of bacon, cheese and egg, chicken mayonnaise or cheese and tomato served with French fries or side salad.

Light meal options are all served with French fries or side salad and choices include that of beef salsa wrap; grilled beef fillet, grilled chicken fillet or Cajun chicken in a whole-wheat tortilla.

Gourmet baskets include tender pork ribs, crumbed chicken strips, crumbed mushrooms or tempura hake goujons. You have to try Royal Palms spicy chicken livers simmered in their world famous house made creamy peri-peri sauce or munch on some Buffalo wings served with a choice of sweet and sour or blue cheese dipping sauce.

For the main course, there is English beer battered fish & chips, beef rump, traditional Durban mutton curry bunny or grilled quarter chicken.

For the true sweetie lover, there is ice cream & chocolate sauce, chocolate brownie, decadent dark chocolate brownie served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream OR fresh cream, home-made waffle and seasonal fruit salad served with vanilla ice cream, toasted almonds and mixed berry coulis.

The new dinner menu features starters of salads, spicy chicken livers and Buffalo wings.

Mains are extensive with lots to choose from; chili and prawn linguini, grilled queen prawns, linefish of the day, grilled half chicken, mutton curry, chicken and mushroom alfredo or mushroom alfredo and Asian vegetable stir-fry, as a vegetarian options.

From the grill, there is lamb loin chop, beef rump, beef sirloin or fillet served with a choice of sauces; mushroom, peri peri, creamy cheese, pepper or monkey gland.

You also have the option of ordering dinner for two from the grill, either a grilled T bone or whole roast chicken served with two side dishes being chips, potato wedges, salad or sautéed vegetables.

After a lip smacking dinner, dessert includes cake of the day, crème brule, ice cream and chocolate sauce or seasonal fruit salad.

So make a booking and enjoy a lunch or dinner with your besties, significant other or the whole family.

We all love a good competition. So, if you need to rejuvenate your team at your next conference, why not add some fun team building activities? Not only do these activities add a fun element to any conference, but they bring out the creativity in your team.

We recently chatted to Royal Palm general manager, Simon Bailey, who commented – “As a city-based hotel and due to our location, we are uniquely positioned to compile a host of team building activities for our conferencing clients that really flip the traditional conference vibe on its head.”

Located directly across from Gateway Theatre of Shopping, in the heart of the Umhlanga New Town Centre, Royal Palm’s location allows for some of the following team building activities:

1. An Amazing Race: This race-around, action packed team building activity can be really great for larger groups as they select a team member to complete the task at hand to secure their next clue. Given Royal Palm Hotel’s location, this can easily be activated on foot with activities such as wave riding, bowling, arcade games and shopping, to name just a few.
2. Be the chef: Whether you like cooking or have zero skills in the kitchen, teams of three or four find themselves on the chopping block. They have to either prepare one course or one of the courses of a meal, for their colleagues. Under the watchful eye of executive chef, Guy Gorrie, and embracing their wine knowledge, “be the chef,” includes selecting an appropriate wine to accompany the dish.
3. Room Escape: This amazingly fun activity will find each team locked in a room where they will have to solve a number of clues, within a set period of time, to unlock the door. They will need to use all of their intellectual and lateral thinking to make it out before the clock runs out.
4. Green team building: Given the hotel’s proximity to the beach, your team can take part in a beach clean-up, helping to remove some the debris that constantly washes up on our beautiful beaches. Not only will this bond your team, but it will add a real sense of purpose to your next conference.

These are only some of the ideas that are available to you when you book your next conference at Royal Palm Hotel, so contact the team today on (031) 581 8000 or email events@royal-palm.co.za