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…
Hotel Polonia Palace, Warsaw, Poland, 18 April 2025
An excellent breakfast. A good choice of warm and cold dishes. The warm dishes include the standard ones, but also some Polish specialties, such as roast apples or dumplings with apricots (very yummy). Cold dishes or a nice, with varied spread of salads, cheese, cold cuts including both herring and…
Iceland Parliament Hotel, Reykjavik, Iceland, 8 April 2025
This is an excellent breakfast. Very good choice of fresh bread, cold cuts, vegetables and cheeses, as well as jams and condiments. There is also a menu from which you can order warm dishes, mainly but not exclusively egg, and including to East Asian optionsThe smoked and marinated salmon were…
Motel One, Dublin, Ireland, 30 March 2025
A mixed bag. The two main negatives are no warm dishes (except a basket of hard boiled eggs) and very weak in terms of fruit. The latter is the more surprising since the hotel proudly talks about the “many organic and fair trade products” they offer at breakfast. On the…
täCH, Madrid Airport, Spain, 14 March 2025
There is good and there is bad. This is a small airport hotel. The buffet has a decent choice, with some warm dishes. Unfortunately, the quality is rather uneven. The bread is nice. But the cold cuts and the cheese are fairly tasteless. The tortilla was unimpressive, although the small…
Villa Dagmar, Stockholm, Sweden, 17 February 2025
The environment: Surprisingly comfortable oasis – luxurious and elegant – in a nice part of Stockholm. Comfortable chairs and conducive to conversation. Staff: Friendly greeting on arrival. Later somewhat difficult to order. Correct, but weak knowledge about the menu and its contents. The food: Nicely presented in, as already noted, a…
Hotel Adlon, Stockholm, Sweden, 3 December 2024
I was rather disappointed by this breakfast. Partly, this is because I am spoiled by the general excellence of Swedish and indeed Nordic hotel breakfasts. (The average rating for Swedish hotel breakfasts on this blog is 6.6, compared with global average of 5.7.) This one was merely all right. A…
Hotel Ruth, Stockholm, Sweden, 12 October 2024
Unbelievably charming och personal, with an incredibly good, varied and delicious breakfast. I have breakfasted in many places in the world, and this one is one of my top 3 – ever! (The other two are in Sun City in South Africa, and in Singapore.) Excellent variation, with pleasant and…
Gloucester Luk Kwok Hotel, Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., 14 September 2024
A fairly basic buffet, heavier on the Chinese side than on the western. Plenty of warm dishes, not so much on the cold side, which was mainly a small cheese selection and some vegetables. No cold cuts, no cold fish, limited fruit selection. The scrambled eggs were decent. The bread…