A relatively small but adequate buffet. Good choice of cold and warm dishes, including herring and fish roe (though this variant not really to my taste). Excellent bread. No croissants, but very nice Danish pastry (known in Denmark as ‘Viennese bread’). A special section for people with allergies/intolerances. On the…
Another mixed breakfast, although the best so far on this particular trip visit (visiting Swedish battlefields). As usual, a nice buffet with a lot of variation. Interesting omission: no fish, neither salmon, nor herring. However good choice of vegetables and cold cuts, and a nice hot bar. The scrambled eggs…
Gyllene Uttern (the Golden Otter) is one of the classical hotels of Sweden, the first “motor hotel“, built in 1933. The view of Lake Vättern is to die for. Unfortunately, the breakfast is not. Again, a decent spread, good on the cold cuts and cheese side, waffles, warm dishes, yoghurt…
This breakfast disappointed me – and I cannot exactly pinpoint why. Normally, I would rave about Swedish breakfasts, so this is an unexpected situation. On the positive side, a nice spread. Lots of cold cuts, also cured salmon and pickled herring. Good choice of warm dishes, including non-pork meatballs. Excellent…
One of the strengths of a stay at an Israeli hotel is its breakfast and the Nevo hotel at the Dead Sea in Israel’s south is no exception . Where can one start to describe an amazing smorgasbord of salads, cheeses, breads,varieties of eggs , sweets even pizza for breakfast.…
This is a street café, with both outdoor and indoor seating. Let me start with the drawbacks: menu only and teabags only. That being said, the menu was certainly varied and with a party of four we managed to sample a number of different dishes and drinks. The hot chocolate…
A fairly limited breakfast, although there was also a menu from which you could choose cooked dishes. On the negative side, the dishwasher had not managed to clean up the cups available. More positive, the toasters were both fast and good. The food was fine, but nothing special (bag tea…
Another phở breakfast with some of ‘thee bike gang’. They told me that they hoped that today’s version (beef) would taste better than last week’s (chicken) 4/10. I thought it was fine, but the others, with palates honed by decades of eating phở, said that it wasn’t so great and…
Another bike ride with the bike-and-breakfast gang in Hanoi. The routine is always the same: meet at 6.30, bike around Tây Hồ (West Lake) and stop somewhere for breakfast, which invariably is phở, the Vietnamese noodle soup. (There is also a coffee break later on.) With plenty of places serving…
I often say that, when it comes to breakfast buffets, size does not really matter. This is usually to rate a small buffet highly. In this case, however, it is for the opposite reason. This is a very large and very varied buffet. There is Vietnamese (of course!), Japanese, Indian,…