Unbelievably charming och personal, with an incredibly good, varied and delicious breakfast. I have breakfasted in many places in the world, and this one is one of my top 3 – ever! (The other two are in Sun City in South Africa, and in Singapore.) Excellent variation, with pleasant and…
It is safe to say that the moment I walked into this amazing French colonial style hotel (at 3:30 am!), I thought, ‘they will have a great breakfast’. Fortunately, my instant impression was fully borne out. This is a very nice, very large buffet. Vietnamese and western only. Plenty of…
A fairly basic buffet, heavier on the Chinese side than on the western. Plenty of warm dishes, not so much on the cold side, which was mainly a small cheese selection and some vegetables. No cold cuts, no cold fish, limited fruit selection. The scrambled eggs were decent. The bread…
In my introduction to this Travel Breakfast Blog, I write that one of the best hotel breakfasts I have had the pleasure of trying, was at the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong. Although I have been back to Hong Kong a number of times, I had not revisited this breakfast…
I have to declare an interest. I am a part owner of this homestay just north of Dien Bien Phu, site of the spectacular defeat inflicted on the French in the spring of 1954 by the Viet Minh, commanded by general Vo Nguyen Giap, one of the great military geniuses…
I often point out that even a small breakfast can be both varied and very good indeed. This one, is an example of the opposite, namely that bigger isn’t always better. Not that it was bad; it wasn’t. But even so. The first thing that struck me was that on…
This grill doubles as the breakfast restaurant of the hotel Somerset Hoa Bình. The buffet is small and not particularly impressive. A reasonable choice of warm dishes (and the bacon was very crispy). However, the choice of bread is uninspiring. Likewise the fruit and other offerings such as cheese or…
Quite an extensive buffet, since I needed eleven(!) pictures to capture it. And a view of Hanoi’s Tay Ho (West Lake) to die for. And yet… On the positive side, excellent choice or Western and Asian, primarily but not exclusively Korean cuisine. The croissants were very nice, as was the…
The first picture showed the packed breakfast that the hotel provided when I set out at 5 a.m. It was quite nice and I felt it deserved a picture. As for the main breakfast, two weak points. First, the tea is bags only. Second, no buffet. But, the menu is…
This was a rather unexpected experience. The tour of Angkor Wat began at 5 am. No one mentioned that there would be a breakfast break. Nevertheless, there it was, and I feel bound to review it. Not a buffet, but a very extensive menu with a rather eclectic mix of…