My faith in American hotel breakfasts is rapidly being eroded. Here is another buffet, initially seemingly well-stocked and varied. On closer inspection, fairly disappointing. Not much fruit, no vegetables, pretty sparse choice of other stuff. There is an a la carte menu which looks rather better and we ordered from…
Denny’s is a pretty standard 24-hour American diner. The breakfast is perhaps not imaginative; but you know exactly what you get, it’s well prepared — and it costs about a quarter of what your next door hotel would charge you for the same quality. The fresh fruit bowls were very…
On the plus side, a nice choice of bread and a little bit of everything (fruit, vegetables, cereal, warm dishes, pastries et cetera). The scrambled eggs were good, as were the sausages, but the bacon was not crispy. On the minus side, you had to ask for butter and it…
A small, but reasonable breakfast buffet. As readers know, I am not that keen on the “full English breakfast“. However, the scrambled eggs were good, there was a good choice of teas ( bags only, of course), fruit and cereal, and the croissants were quite nice. On the other hand,…
This was very interesting. On the one hand, there was a set menu. However, the kitchen was extremely flexible, on demand adding items like youghurt with fruit, and porridge, which were not on the menu. The cooked dishes were nice, but ‘English’ only (meaning things I am not that keen…
Another nice Swedish breakfast. The buffet is varied, plenty of different bread, cold cuts, cheese, vegetables. The fresh fruit looks a little tired, notably the oranges. The choice of warm dishes could be slightly better. Tea is bags but also loose-leaf if you want. Good selection of juice. There is…
A small but lovely buffet, with a nice choice of breads, vegetables, cheese and cold cuts. Some fruit and cardamom buns (!); and the buffet is combined with a menu from which you can order hot dishes (lovely scrambled eggs). The tea is loose-leaf. Although overall the choice is perhaps…
By rights, this should have been a spectacular breakfast. It certainly is both huge and varied. I could have had twice as many photos, and they would still not have captured everything. And yet. The bread is uninspiring. While there was cerainly plenty to choose from, the quality of the…
It says a a lot about how disappointed I have become by American hotel breakfasts over the past week, that I was pleasantly surprised today. There were bagels, sliced bread, butter, and the scrambled eggs and grits actually looked appetising. And there was fresh fruit! However, taking a more objective…
I’m not going to waste many words on this. Suffice it to say that it is what I now recognise to be the ‘standard minimum breakfast’ offered by a certain type of American hotels. And even for what it is, a disappointment. 1.5/10