We had a total of four breakfast here during a visit to Melbourne. It is an unassuming café, with a menu that is surprisingly varied. The number of breakfasts eaten there made it possible to sample quite a few of the choices on the menu. The bagel with smoked salmon…
This is distinctly unimpressed! Very limited choice. In addition, extremely bad service. E.g., no butter available, and repeated mentions still mean about 10 minutes for it to arrive (I assume they didn’t churn it there and then, although I wonder). No one at the coffee/tea bar for a significant and…
To paraphrase Winston Churchill (about Clement Attlee): this is a very unassuming breakfast. Indeed, it has a lot to be unassuming about. Basically a menu, supplemented by a choice of toast and croissants, with jam. The scrambled eggs were disappointing in spite of being freshly made; and the ’crispy’ bacon…
The Strand is a really nice hotel with a good breakfast buffet. I would particularly like to mention the perfect scrambled eggs and the excellent chia puddings, with different fruits compotes and jams. The bread was baked at some local bakery, both fresh and delicious. I didn’t have space for…
Strictly speaking not a travel breakfast, as I only ‘travelled’ from home to High Street Kensington, a distance of about 3 kilometers. But it was a breakfast away from home, so I’ll review it. (Incidentally, this is a chain.) On the one hand, nothing special – sandwiches etc already prepared,…
I am not generally a big fan of Italian breakfasts, they tend to focus on sweet pastries and cakes. So with a little trepidation, I came to breakfast and was pleased to see some chopped tomatoes seasoned in olive oil and oregano, hard boiled eggs, yellow cheese, buffalo mozzarella and…
Another example of what you can do with a limited space in a small hotel and yet come out on top. The Little Queen Pantheon is a tiny bed and breakfast in Rome. it has only got six rooms. (It is also lovely and very centrally situated.) Breakfast consists of…
A small buffet with a reasonable choice of cold and warm dishes, western and eastern. Nothing special, but also nothing wrong, except that I think the butter was old. And for that reason, 3.5/10.
This is a small ’hole in the wall’ — but I did have breakfast there. So, here goes. A choice of banh mi (Vietnamese filled baguettes), coffe and (very limited) tea. The banh mi was very nice, the tea was far too sweet and also with ice (put that down…
Another hotel without a buffet. However, the menu was nicely varied, with a good choice of warm and cold dishes, including vegetarian/vegan options. The egg dishes were perfectly done (and the bacon was very crispy); the croissants were nice and flakey; and the avocado on toast was excellent and the…