Silja Serenade is a cruise ship mainly trafficing Stockholm-Helsinki via Mariehamn. The ship can host 2500 passengers. One might expect a breakfast restaurant on such a place to be very noisy. We had paid a little bit more in order to book seats at a smaller restaurant named Tavolàta. While not…
A very nice breakfast buffet, with plenty of choice. Excellent spread of cold and warm dishes (the scrambled eggs were particularly nice and the choice of cold cuts was extremely good), lots of fruit and vegetables as well. Good choice of breads as well. The tea was bags only (of…
This a reasonable breakfast. There is a modest continental buffet featuring pastries, bread for toasting, some cereal and fruit. No cold cuts, no cheese, no vegetables, no fresh fruit, but there is fruit salad and a berry compote for your yoghurt. There is also a menu from which you can…
I don’t normally upload as many pictures as this, but it was difficult to capture the entirety of the breakfast. After the breakfast at their sister hotel in Stykkishólmur, I was apprehensive that this would would somehow disappoint. It did not. Again, an excellent choice of bread, cold dishes, warm…
Another example showing the quality of Nordic hotel breakfasts. This is what I would call a medium-size buffet. Very nice choice of bread, including freshly baked and nice croissants and Danish pastry. A good selection of warm dishes. The scrambled eggs could have been warmer, but were well prepared, the…
A very nice and surprisingly varied buffet. Good choice of warm dishes, both local and Western, and an egg/Pho bar (no stale fried or scrambled eggs here!). Also a good selection of fruit and vegetables, as well as jams and a variety of breads. On the slightly negative side, only…
This was truly a spectacular breakfast, easily one of the best I have ever had. Its only possible recent rival was another Vietnamese breakfast, that of the Allegro in Hoi An. So, details: there is a la carte, but for me, the attraction was of course the munificent buffet. There…
A very sparse buffet: a couple of warm dishes, white bread for toasting, a little fruit and vegetables. To be fair, there was plenty of food and varied at the other meals on this cruise; and they served a nice brunch a few hours after breakfast. But this is a…
Not a buffet, apart from the fruit, but a reasonable, if unadventurous choice of dishes on the menu, fairly evenly divided between local (i.e., Vietnamese) and Western. The party sampled different dishes and generally agreed that the quality was good. The banana pancakes were rated extra highly. A menu only…
Not a buffet, but an excellent menu with plenty of choice, ranging from the healthy (yoghurt, granola, fresh fruit, avocado) to the somewhat less so (bacon). The party of seven chose widely different dishes, which enabled us to get a good overview. Everything was top quality. Of course, the tea…