Welcome to The Travel Breakfast Blog.
Here we review breakfasts all over the world, mainly in hotels, but also breakfasts on airplanes and trains, at airports, train stations or just breakfasts eaten somewhere on the road.
The motto of this blog is Never travel without checking out the breakfast!
Why? Because breakfasts are important.
But there are other reasons too. As no doubt your mother told you, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This was brought home to me when I was doing my army service (Royal Gotland Anti-Aircraft Battalion, 1978-79) and breakfast was the only meal you could be sure was decent every day. I still can’t believe the amounts I would eat then.
The importance of breakfast is also obvious to anyone who has to travel and do a series of daily meetings. It is the only meal you are likely to have without rushing to catch up with the next meeting.
I should have started this blog years ago when I did more business travel. But I didn’t. However, for the record, the four best hotel breakfasts I have ever had are:
- The Metropole Sofitel in Hanoi. The first breakfast to be awarded The Travel Breakfast Blog’s top rating, 10/10.
- The Epic restaurant in the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Possibly the best hotel breakfast in the world in terms of choice and quality.
- The Auberge Ostapé outside St Jean Pied-de-Port in France. Beautiful view of the Pyrenées combined with the best of French breakfast.
- The Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong. A sumptuous mix of European/American and Asian.
On a more general point, I find that the four parts of the world that do the best hotel breakfasts are the Nordic countries (waffles, herring, lots of different bread and cheese); the Middle East (olives, pita, various cheeses and vegetables); North America (waffles, eggs, bacon, bagels); and East Asia (a cornucopia of breakfasts from different parts of the world, including obviously local).
Benedict, Tel Aviv, Israel, 8 August 2025
This A chain that specialises in breakfasts, offering breakfast 24/7. As the name implies, the specialty is variations of Eggs Benedict. With four people in the party, we were able to sample quite a few dishes. On the positive side, everything was very tasty, clearly freshly prepared and nicely presented.…
El Al Business Class, Israel, 3 August 2025
The sacrifices I make for my readers. Two breakfasts in one day. Actually, as any reader, or indeed anyone who knows me, is well aware, I love breakfast. So I’m happy to do this. And it was certainly worth it. Because after famine comes a feast. This was probably the…
Blush Lounge, Terminal 4, Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom, 3 August 2025
At first glance, this seems like quite a decent breakfast. Not very extensive perhaps but quite varied. Unfortunately, the first glance turns out to be somewhat misleading. Yes, it’s a nice little spread. However, the scrambled eggs are not particularly nice; the sliced bread is not toasted; my tea mug…
Haymarket by Scandic, Stockholm, Sweden, 29 July 2024
This hotel was once the Paul U Bergström (PUB) department store. One famous customer was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. On his famous journey to Petrograd (in a “sealed“ carriage), he briefly stopped in Stockholm and bought an umbrella here. PUB also employed a young sales girl called…
The Crown, Hailsham, United Kingdom, 14 July 2025
A mixture of buffet and a menu from which you can order. The buffet is relatively plain (croissants in plastic), the menu is fairly limited. The only warm dishes are the Hotel (English) Breakfast, but it was possible to order parts of it for those who don’t fancy the whole…
Hotel Føroyar, Torshavn, Faroe Islands, 24 June 2025
An interesting breakfast buffet. On the positive, a nice spread of Nordic breakfast. Good choice of bread (including waffles, but unremarkable Danish pastry), some fairly standard hot dishes (but the scrambled eggs were very nice indeed and the bacon was crispy) and a variety of salmon, cold cuts and vegetables.…
Clarion Hotel, Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 June 2025
A fairly large and varied buffet. Good choice of hot and cold dishes, cereals, fruit (cut and uncut) and yoghurts. Herring, of course. A small egg station. Nice variety of breads. The Danish pastries (known as ‘Viennese bread’ in Denmark and Sweden) looked delicious. There was a choice of gluten-free…
Pavyllon, Four Seasons London at Park Lane, London, UK, 5 June 2025
I always find it more difficult to rate a la carte breakfasts than buffets. With buffets, I can (and do, purely out of dedication to my readers!) sample lots of dishes. With a la carte, it’s obviously more a hit and miss story, where you are dependent on your one…
Appetito, Rome, Italy, 19 May 2025
Having decided that I’m not into preparing breakfast for myself when I stay in a relatively expensive hotel (see my previous posting), I went to a nearby café. It was perfectly fine, friendly staff, very good service. I will not say that it was outstanding, but, given the type of…
Hotel Barrett, Rome, Italy, 19 May 2025
For more than £200 per night, ”breakfast included”, this is what you get. Make your own breakfast. I did not and went to the nearest café instead. 0/10.