This is the one hundredth entry on the Stein Brothers Travel Breakfast Blog since it began in late 2017! Please feel free to contribute entries. I am normally not very impressed by French hotel breakfasts (there are exceptions; after all, one of my favourite breakfasts was in France, as outlined…
I am running out of superlatives for Swedish breakfasts. So, to be brief: this one had all the ‘standard’ items (including herring and salmon). In addition, they had reindeer steak! The scrambled eggs were very nice, although the bacon was disappointing. I didn’t try the pancakes or the croissants, but…
This is yet another example of why Swedish hotel breakfasts are so good. The hotel is perfectly ordinary, nice but nothing fancy. However, the breakfast is excellent. A nice spread of breads, freshly baked of course (good croissants), cold cuts, cheese and vegetables. And in contrast with some other places…
Once again, a non-hotel breakfast in Stockholm. If I continue with these types of breakfasts, I will have to introduce a separate rating system. Obviously, they will never be buffets. However, the hot chocolate was quite nice, perhaps slightly bitter, but better than too sweet. The croissants have won a…
All Swedish breakfasts are not good. But the good ones are excellent! This is one of those. Another rich spread of warm food (the bacon is crispy!; and if you don’t eat pork, there are chicken sausages as well), cold (including smoked salmon, herring and a very nice fennel-spiced salami),…
The breakfast here is an interesting concept. It is a buffet (good marks!). But it is an “assisted buffet“. This means that you choose what you want, but it is handed to you on the plate by the staff. A good way of dealing with the vagaries of not just…
Radisson Blu Scandinavia in the centre of Oslo is an ultra modern skyscraper with 21 floors. The breakfast restaurant has seats for 350 guests. Breakfast buffets can be excessively lavish. If you look for options for carbo-loading or bright colorful fruits this is not what you get. Here the concept…
I was told that this was an attempt to show that you can have good food in airport lounges. That is indeed laudable (although some already do, eg Cathay Pacific at Chek Lap Kok, or One World Alliance at Changi; and even BA at Heathrow). In any cases, laudable aim…
Once again, a non-hotel breakfast. However, this was not only recommended, but also next door to where I lived from 1977 to 1980, and again from 1982 to 1988. So I obviously had to try it out. The pastries (which we didn’t have!) certainly looked amazing. The scrambled eggs were…
This is more like it! A breakfast buffet like in the good old days. There is everything (I think), including the ingredients to mix your own Virgin Mary. I didn’t see any vodka for making it a Bloody Mary, but, admittedly, I wasn’t looking for it. Excellent spread of different…