The Van Der Valk hotel in Tilburg is relatively new, opened around a year and a half ago. So what could we expect from this breakfast? As you enter the food area there is a most comprehensive selection of breads, rolls and pastries of all kinds. As it is Carnival time…
A very pleasant surprise. This charming hotel offers an excellent breakfast. Good choice of bread, nice spread of cold cuts (meat and fish) as well as cheese and vegetables. The tea is looseleaf and there is a small but adequate choice of hot dishes as well. In addition, the quality…
A decent, if unspectacular, breakfast. Nice choice of warm dishes, a good spread of vegetables and fruit, as well as cold cuts and cheeses (including some local). However, the bread selection was disappointing and the tea (one kind only) was of course only bags. 5/10.
A good variety of cereals with yoghurt and milk as well as fruits in their juice. Sliced ham and salami of ordinary quality. Sweet spreads individually packed as well as the cheese. Definitely hard boiled eggs. Coffee is excellent, orange juice good. Toast comes in wheat and whole grain. Overall…
Another example of why the Swedish hotel breakfast is so good. The hotel was perfectly adequate, but nothing special yet the breakfast was excellent. Good choice of bread, nice spread of cold cuts, plenty of vegetables. Waffles of course and warm dishes. Only one type of cheese, admittedly, but a…
Yet another very nice and varied buffet. As befits a more cosmopolitan city, the Western/Eastern balance was more even. The bread is still somewhat disappointing, and the fact that the tea is only bags, and only two kinds at that, is also unimpressive. On the other hand, a good spread…
Another quite extensive breakfast buffet. However (and as was only to be expected), the Western component, while somewhat larger than in, e.g., Kaifeng, was still relatively limited. The bread selection was disappointing and the eggs were pre-fried, although otherwise it was a reasonable spread, including a decent choice of fruit…
I had to stop myself from taking more pictures. But I probably have not covered everything there is. So, in summary, a fantastic breakfast. Needless to say, Western food as well as East Asian (at least Chinese, Korean and Japanese). Lots of fruit, vegetables, bread of many different varieties, cold…
As I have written in the past, the one meal where I consider Western food essential (and I freely admit this is a very subjective view) is breakfast. Here, there was a very nice breakfast buffet, quite extensive, but almost exclusively Chinese. The one concession to the west walls white…
I am not sure what I had expected here, but the result was considerably better. A very large spread of both Western and Chinese food. On the plus side, lots of different bread, the tea was all loose-leaf, and a very nice egg bar. The fruit was sparse (two types…