One again, an excellent breakfast. Very nice spread at the buffet, good breads, different cold cuts, a lot of fruit. Also, a nice touch, local specialties like Karelian pies, and other warm stuff like pancakes. Tea was bags only, unfortunately, but that is usually the case. Also, the breakfast room…
In my previous post I mentioned that I am biased in favour of the Swedish hotel breakfast. Similarly, I have probably been biased against airport lounge breakfasts. But, as readers of this blog know, I have recently had some very pleasant experiences in Vietnam. Today I had another pleasant…
My bias in favour of Swedish hotel breakfasts also means that I judge them somewhat more harshly than perhaps I should. This airport hotel has a perfectly nice buffet breakfast, including loose leaf tea, pancakes, Swedish sausages (prinskorv), herring, salami and everything else you would normally expect. Also vegan…
As I noted in the introduction, the Israeli hotel breakfast is one of my favourites. Last December I was a bit disappointed by the two I reviewed then. This one, by contrast, is excellent. A large spread of bread, cheeses, herring, various yogurts, fruit and fruit concoctions, and loads of…
I am biased in favour of Swedish hotel breakfasts, but — I would say — justifiably so. Here we have a fairly cheap, no-frills hotel (e.g., no window in the room), admittedly well located. In other countries,this would mean a sparse breakfast as well. Not so here. A decent spread…
I noted in my previous blog that New York hotels nowadays are less likely to offer breakfast. The Chambers on 15 West 56th Street, does and so I thought I’d try that since we are staying with them. A very nice shakshuka with a mixed chorizo-tomato sauce and decent granola.…
New York is a problem when it comes to breakfast. Hotels don’t usually offer it anymore (a rule with lots of exceptions, of course). But, on the other hand, there are so many places to go for a nice breakfast that it doesn’t matter as much as it might elsewhere.…
Not quite sure what I would have expected here, but I was more than pleasantly surprised. A very nice spread, including cold cuts, fish, cheese, vegetables, various kind of nuts and dried fruit for your cereal and a good variety of bread. A poster with an apology for…
I am not quite sure what to say about this breakfast. We had an excellent dinner here the preceding evening. I therefore had quite high expectations. However, I must say that I was a bit disappointed. The bread choice is poor (although what there is, is very nice), as is…
OK, strictly speaking I didn’t have breakfast there, just a quick sandwich. But I still want to mention it, as it is the second quite nice airport lounge I’ve seen in Vietnam. Again, a nice spread, mixing local and western food, not perhaps a very big buffet, but I’ve…