The Buffet Breakfast

The best one I had was in Stockholm thanks to the additional of pickled herrings.

Also on the menu in finalnd and a nice way to start the day, especially with the slightly sweet Finnish rye bread and butter.

Bilbao also wins for the sweet tomatoey oil you could dip your bread in and cure hangover with.

In Spain I find the real challenge comes down to how many chorizo mino-baguettes you can smuggle out for the rest of the day.

hi dere, what is it I ate?

today:

Cooked breakfasts for the english, dutch and americans; Check!
ham and cheese and bread for the central and eastern Europeans;Check, except they'd run out of cheese
muesli and porridge for the health conscious; Nocheck
pastries for the latin countries; Check!
plus whatever is the local specialities (Karelian rice pastries and egg butter in Finland for instance, very nice, blood sausage and lingonberry jam in Tampere) Hmm, what's local spesh in L'pool? Nocheck anyway

Plus orange juice and coffee.

There is also the huge variation on what constitutes a breakfast sausage; fried or, even worse, boiled frankfurters do not a breakfast sausage make.

The best breakfast I had (from a Hotel Buffet) was at the Miyako Hotel in Tokyo. It was expensive, but you could eat so much! I always had the baked salmon. I would wonder how the Japanese guests, tackling at least three plates of breakfast, could remain below 100 pounds. They probably only had breakfast and nothing for the rest of the day?

The best local speciality I had was in the Pearl Continental in Lahore; very flakey puffy, buttery parathas and some sparkly orange goo that tasted like carrot halwa, but as sweet as jalabis.

xpost that's probably likely. I know I'm not eating until I get home tonight, anyway.

i haven't had breakfast yet *_*

since we met on our first date...

Two weeks ago I attended a wedding in Aberdeen and I availed myself of The Buffet Breakfast.

Five bacon
Three eggs (fried, I swapped my yolks for my partners whites)
Three hash browns
Beans
Two potato scones
Two slices of toast
One pork and leek sausage
Four glasses of apple juice

Then back to bed for an hour. I heart the buffet breakfast.

Masala Dhosa, breakfast of champions.

Runner up is probably a very nice breakfast I had in Keil which had a choice of about 4 pickled fish, something like 10 dried meats and 5 spreading sausages (including a chicken one).

Third place is probably the ful I had most mornings in Jordan - you completely fell into the hotel cycle of too runny-just right-too thick and altered the amount of yoghurt you added as a result. With a boiled egg and zatar to dip it in. Yum.

OMGZ. I had the mother of all buffet breakfasts last year in Luxembourg and even availed myself of the boiled egg machine and trendy mushrooms. They had a waffle maker and every possible kind of pork product, plus, weirdly, some peppers and chicken concoction.

finally a reason to go there!

It was mitteleuropean madness of the highest order.

Boiled egg machine???

Yes, it's like a kettle with a basket to lower the eggs into and a timer so you can set it to your liking. Conveniently situated next to a Dualit toaster in this case.

The only thing that even comes close to this - but may top it - is the buffet breakfast that was served in Disney World at the Contemporary Resort, which had links vs. patties, French toast, Canadian bacon, hams and cheeses, pancakes, all the cereals, plus tons of Florida-appropriate fruit and lashings of fresh orange juice. I think my dad even got them to bring him "breakfast steak" but I have long established that his epitaph will be 'are you going to finish that?'

Then back to bed for an hour.

This is vital for my enjoyment of the buffet breakfast and should always be factored in where possible.

See, this is the reason I weigh a stone more than a month ago. I usually enter the breakfast salon in a one-of-everything mood because if you stuff yourself in the morning, you won't need lunch and that saves money. Then, around noon you remember that lunch is on expenses so why not try that nice noodle place around the corner? And then it's full on Chinese banquet in honour of some academic for dinner.

The Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpur has an egg man, but I wasn't very impressed when he made my scrambles from stuff poured out of a plastic bottle. Also, Halal faux bacon sucks. I agree with Blueski, the best breakfasts are to be had in Sweden.

Also, in Singapore, I went down for brekkie 15 minutes before closing time and was issued a warning by my waitress that I had better eat up quickly! But that's Singapore, I guess.

I don't know, I've always been a great fan of the American breakfast. Waffles, bagels, etc.

We stayed at this place in Cape Breton and it had a lovely mini-buffet of bagels, home-made almond butter, home-made granola, and home-made yoghurt. Then the lady who owns the place arrived at our table with a sort of breakfast custard that she had made. All while we got to watch the humming birds at the feeders out the window. I will be going back there again.

Hotel breakfast buffets are stellar after you've been up all night partying. The buffet thing offers a lot of food choice and makes it so that you don't have to interact much with wait-staff and can eat on your own time. Plus, you and your friends can make a delightful contrast to the business people and other hotel early risers. This is especially awesome on Tuesday morning.