What’s the best part of a hotel breakfast?

[ABowlOfPorridge]

Assuming that you like them.

I very rarely eat breakfast as I’m not hungry until around 1pm, sometimes later but I will make the occasional exception for a hotel breakfast.

One of the best I had was in a hotel in Jersey which offered many choices including an entire side of hot smoked salmon. I ate so much of the salmon that I’m surprised that I didn’t die of sodium poisoning.

I’m going away this weekend and curious to see what’s on offer. More often than not I usually just have fruit juice and coffee, occasionally cereal but I still enjoy seeing if they have any interesting options.

For some reason those tiny glasses of fruit juice taste incredible in the morning and the pack of 2 wrapped Weetabix tastes better than it does at home.

So what are your favourite hotel breakfast items and which hotels offer the best?

Then please come back and tell me if you have a similar experience when you stay 😁

Little boxes of Frosties, we never have them at home but so good.

I do my bacon in the oven 200° it comes out crispy.
Hotels generally half cook it in bulk, then crisp it up a tray at a time. Former caterer here.👋

It can be quite exciting playing with the little egg boiling machine when you're slightly hungover and haven't had a coffee yet.

Apart from that, I do like the omelette station.

Breakfast cava !!

Food wise usually very little - as a vegan hotel breakfasts aren't exciting unless staying in a vegan hotel.

Black pudding, fried bread and really good quality sausages. Oh and grilled tomato and baked beans. Maybe a hash brown.

Oops, you said one item!

oasthouse unlimited hot breakfast they bring fresh and kids kids eat free every day

Feel free to list as many as you wish.

I dont need to make it and I dont need to clean up after!

Kempinski anywhere is usually good. We’re at one at the moment and there isn’t much that isn’t there. Personally I like a choice of freshly pressed juices, seeds/nuts, honey on a honeycomb, low/full fat yoghurts different breads, smoked salmon/cc/capers, fresh pastries.

🧏‍♀️ I second the breakfast cava, prosecco, etc. 😋

Seems to be a central European thing.

We used to regularly stay at a hotel in Norfolk that did utterly delicious 'cold porridge', which I now know to be Bircher muesli. I lived for that stuff!

What was the hotel please? I’m going to Cardiff for a night in November and need a hotel.

The hotel we stayed in in Berlin last year had wine and prosecco as a breakfast offering! I did of course have a glass on our last morning, just to say I'd done it .

I always feel short changed at these places because I'm not a breakfast person and don't enjoy forcing myself to eat for the sake of it. I usually have about a quarter of what the rest of the family eat (and no, I am not teeny tiny).

Mini pastries so you can have a few different ones without feeling like a glutton.

I once stayed in a London hotel that catered very much for international business travellers. They did amazing noodles among many other options 🤤

I actually like to try their porridge, @ABowlOfPorridge

Because it's one of those things you can do really well - or not. Had a fantastic one with separate little jugs of honey and clotted cream at a bed and breakfast years ago ...

I was about to say everything on offer at the scandic chain. I could spend all day at breakfast!

Good poached eggs. I'm "ok" at doing them at home but a hotel that can do a lovely runny poached egg with a slice of crispy bacon and some sour dough toast. Maybe a grilled tomato too (properly grilled, not a warmed half of a tomato)Yum ! Fresh orange juice and a good breakfast tea.

Yes to Scandic hotel breakfasts and any scandi hotels. Taste gorgeous and the aesthetic is perfect!

Croissants, kippers and fried bread if you can get it, and making sausage and/or bacon butties from the self-serve

I love steampunk-style toasters that take your bread at one point, flip it over and spit out toast at the other.
Full fat milk, little jam pots and honey with loads of butter. All things we don’t have at home.
Cant stand small coffee cups- I need a jolt of caffeine and if it’s dishwater strength I need more quantity, preferably without having to go back to the buffet.

I’m about to go into 10 days of complimentary cabin-service breakfast so I have to decide on the best combo. As long as there’s coffee I’m happy and we can always go to the buffet for second breakfast…

I love a hotel breakfast buffet.
I go for lots of crusty fancy bread, butter and honey and a bowl of fruit. Also with bottomless jugs of coffee. I seldom eat bread at home so it's a real treat.
I do find that UK hotels don't tick any of my boxes. They do huge fry ups and toast. I've paid ££££ in UK hotels only to find no bread at breakfast other than sliced for toast.

.....and the herrings!

Oooo I grew up in Boston and for our birthdays we always asked to go to one if the big hotels on the waterfront for brunch. Just the sheer amount of choice and quantity! Of course our eyes were bigger than our tummies. Pancakes, bacon, eggs any which way, as well as meats and pastries and fruits and all sorts. Yum!
Bonus being no cooking or clearing up!

Oh, I'm remembering (with stomach rumbles) a hotel breakfast at a very nice hotel in Perth (Australia, not Scotland) where there were breakfast foods from every continent available. So you could have steamed dumplings and fresh fruit and rice and bacon and eggs and fabulous yoghurts and eggs in every format known to man and...

Excuse me, I think I might have to go for a little lie down.