Hotel buffet breakfasts. Your strategy...

Hotel buffet breakfasts. Your strategy...

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talksthetorque

10,815 posts

135 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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You'll probably have to ask for full fat milk.

It seems that hotels think the people who go to a hotel with all you can eat five course breakfasts also want skimmed milk.

You might find semi if you're lucky






( one for the juvenile things that make you laugh thread at the end there)

otherman

2,191 posts

165 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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I like a cooked breakfast, but I'm not a big eater so I have to select carefully. No room to be wasted on toast and cereal. Scrambled eggs, but careful in case they're the instant ones. One slice fried bread if present, else hash brown. One or two rashers bacon depending size. Fried tomato. I love a good sausage, but dislike a crap one, so again, careful assessment needed. Coffee. Juice if my g/f is around to reinforce my healthy credentials.

JKRolling

537 posts

102 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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I've got to admit to loving a Premier Inn / Brewers Fayre breakfast.

£7.95 for all the cereal, juice, pastries and coffee which you help yourself to. Then for the main course you order everything you want from a full English and as much as you want plus you can keep ordering.

So i go for 3 bacon and 3 sausage (both decent quality) 2 eggs fried, mushrooms, beans, hash browns and fried slice. Advantage with this is that everything is cooked to order with waitress service and at the price I think it represents very good value for money

David A

3,606 posts

251 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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No one mentioned the waffle station yet?
Then onto the eggs and omelet guy.
Then some fruit for balance

In other parts of the world a random try of the unidentifiable.


FiF

44,080 posts

251 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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One thing to mention, a strategy of something to avoid, Swedish breakfast buffet, Kalles Kaviar, that awful fish spread in a toothpaste tube. Shudder.

p4cks

6,909 posts

199 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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KungFuPanda said:
...Maybe I'll go for a bowl with ice cold milk next time I'm at a hotel.
Ice cold milk, in a hotel??? Aye right.

HOGEPH

5,249 posts

186 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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When I stay in a hotel for work, one of the simple pleasures is a massive fry up in the morning.

Invariably I am required to be at work either before the breakfast service starts, or within 10 minutes of the breakfast service starting, so either I end up having just toothpaste for breakers, or running into the restaurant, grabbing a napkin of sausage and bacon and shoving it unceremoniously into my gob as I speed to the workplace.

battered

4,088 posts

147 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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HOGEPH said:
When I stay in a hotel for work, one of the simple pleasures is a massive fry up in the morning.

Invariably I am required to be at work either before the breakfast service starts, or within 10 minutes of the breakfast service starting, so either I end up having just toothpaste for breakers, or running into the restaurant, grabbing a napkin of sausage and bacon and shoving it unceremoniously into my gob as I speed to the workplace.
That's what Tupperware is for.

KungFuPanda

Original Poster:

4,333 posts

170 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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So can I start another thread for regular buffet strategies then or would that be a bit council?

Moominho

893 posts

140 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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KungFuPanda said:
So can I start another thread for regular buffet strategies then or would that be a bit council?
I think you have to now...

Pickled

2,051 posts

143 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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I don't normally eat breakfast, but when away the wife insists - so I simply have it delivered to the room, freshly cooked and not have to share the 'canteen' with everyone else, and one can also eat it sat in pants watching the telly.

KungFuPanda

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4,333 posts

170 months

Friday 24th March 2017
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Surely then you're limited to what they bring you on your tray. You can't pig out and experience the full buffet!!!!

bennyboydurham

1,617 posts

174 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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I remember staying at Le Royale in Beirut for my pal's nuptials to a Lebanese lass. On the night of his stag do i returned to the hotel in the small hours of the morning after consuming my body weight in alcohol and decided it would be hilarious to tick every single box on the extensive room service breakfast card and hang it on the door.

The next morning as I'm lying there nursing a roofie level hangover, two waiters arrived with no less than THREE room service trolleys. i asked them to wheel them onto the balcony and went back to bed until 4pm.

git-r

969 posts

199 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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I like this thread.

And we think UK buffet breakfasts are good...

I'm currently in the middle east and it's average in terms of being able to eat your whole days food quota in one sitting. Yes, start with fruit and yogurt but then what?

Chinese?

Indian?

Lebanese?

Englishy/ americany?

From memory Korea was the best...

Suffering jet lag you wake them can't sleep because you're so exited about the utter glutton that's about to happen.

... roast beef, curry, English cooked breakfast, in fact just about every national dish you can imagine but cooked to perfection and in quantities only a true fat fku could appreciate.

They literally cover every nationalities breakfast, lunch and dinner... for breakfast smile











jas xjr

11,309 posts

239 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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I am in hospital at the moment, so I can have anything I want for breakfast. In the two weeks I have been here I have not fancied a full English.
I normally have a cup of tea with toast and porridge.
Might try a full English on Sunday, if I feel fed up.

zygalski

7,759 posts

145 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Meat. Eggs.

Lozw86

874 posts

132 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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The likes of Oberoi, Shangra La, Four seasons etc generally have a great spread of global dishes

I usually do local dishes, then fry up, cereal, pastries, and fruit at the end if I have any space!

battered

4,088 posts

147 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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jas xjr said:
I am in hospital at the moment, so I can have anything I want for breakfast. In the two weeks I have been here I have not fancied a full English.
I normally have a cup of tea with toast and porridge.
Might try a full English on Sunday, if I feel fed up.
What kind of hospital are you in? When I was in the LGI courtesy of the NHS and a blind motorist I got weetabix and toast. Cooked breakfast? Dream on.

dazwalsh

6,095 posts

141 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Stayed at a premier Inn a few weeks back for the first time and everything was foul, coukd not eat any of the hot items apart from some toast and beans. The fried eggs could have been used for hockey pucks.

There are a few good buffets out there, the royal York in erm York, and the pullman in liverpool also very good.

jas xjr

11,309 posts

239 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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I am in the queen Elizabeth burns unit in Birmingham.
I had a toasted bacon and egg sandwich for breakfast today. I must get offered 10 cups of tea or coffee a day.
I was in another hospital last year and they pretty much starved me.
Today for lunch I am having curried goat and rice with rhubarb crumble.
It could be that it is slightly better food because I am not well or its different Nhs trusts priorities.
I would rather be at home.it must be like being in jail. I have not left this doom for two weeks.
Will post up the curry. I cannot imagine a thread soley about hospital food.