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The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Gets Jazzed About Brunch
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has a long and checkered history that well pre-dates today’s celebrity tantrums and “Super Sweet 16” parties. As a way of hearkening back to that golden-hued heyday, the hotel has started offering a new ”Jazz Brunch” on Sundays from 11:00am-3:00pm.
Since the special brunch starts at $18 per person, it’s actually a pretty good deal, especially for a Thompson Hotel, and especially considering that overnight parking will run you around $30, and the standard rate for a stay at the hotel starts at $225 a night.
If you’re anything like us, you’re naturally dubious about any meal that is accompanied by live music. What is this, the shoe department of Nordstrom’s? But we checked up on it, and here’s the scoop.
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Skip The Continental Breakfast and Order the Good Stuff at The Vintners Inn
There are no shortages of good places to eat in Sonoma and Napa so we're pretty sure that if you find yourself heading there one weekend, you will be well-fed. But since we're always asking what you did over the weekend, we thought we'd fill you in on what we did this weekend.
We headed up to Santa Rosa in Sonoma County for a family wedding and shacked up at the so-so Flamingo Resort which is essentially an old 60s motel that has been renovated for the 21st century. Room rates were $109 a night and the sheets were extraordinarily crisp and clean. Other than that, we have really nothing to rave or rant about.
But on Sunday morning, we found ourselves at the Vintners Inn, a hotel on a proper vineyard.
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Le Meurice Has The Ultimate Chocaholic Breakfast
What's a sure way to get us interested in a hotel promotion? It's pretty easy, especially on a Friday – just include some kind of chocolate in the deal. That's exactly what the fine Le Meurice in Paris has done, by letting us know about the Choc'Alléno special breakfast they've got going at the moment.
Put together by the hotel restaurant's head chef Yannick Alléno, the breakfast special includes original Choc'Alléno pain au chocolat and croissants, as well as a chocolate baguette, chocolate chip butter, jam and honey, fruit juice and a choice of tea, coffee or hot chocolate. It already sounds good, but listen to how those special pastries get made:
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Westin Superfoods Breakfasts Are For Superguests (Like Us)
Westin Hotels like to impress us with the kind of amenities other hotels don't usually think of, and we've been wondering for a while about the SuperFoods idea that we sometimes see them advertising. It's all part of Westin's SuperFoodsRx breakfast menu and while we are always a bit wary of stuff that's too healthy, in case that means it's not tasty, the SuperFoods menu doesn't look too bad at all.
Westin has picked ten foods that various experts put in the superfoods category- blueberries, tomatoes, broccoli and salmon to name a few – and created breakfast dishes with these ingredients. They include a blueberry banana smoothie, organic eggs benedict with salmon and an egg white omelet with broccoli.
The Westin SuperfoodsRX breakfast deals are apparently now available in Westins everywhere in the world and since our mothers always told us that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, we might pay it some more attention next time we stay in a Westin.
["We love broccoli" photo: wnko]
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Kegs and Eggs at the Fairmont Miramar’s FIG Restaurant
First we told you about the delightful dinner service at FIG, the restaurant at Santa Monica’s Fairmont Miramar Hotel. Then we told you about their new lunch service. Now it’s time to let you in on Chef Ray Garcia’s Sunday “Kegs and Eggs” brunch, launching this Sunday, June 28.
For $37, you get a bottomless pint of specialty draft beer like the Koningshoeven “Quadrupel” Trappist, and any egg dish (usually stuffed, filled or sided with the latest seasonal ingredients) like the Frittata Verde with green veggies and avocado tomatillo salsa. Beer not your thing? You can also order a la carte.
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The Ceylan Intercontinental Is a Decent Hotel with An Excellent Breakfast Buffet
Last week Shira Levine spent a few days getting her Turkish Delight on in Istanbul, Turkiye ("Turkey is a bird; Turkiye is the country") and checking out the transcontinental Eurasian city's hotel scene. Any questions about where to stay in Turkiye? Send 'em to us and we'll have Shira answer them for you.
First Impressions
It's nice when a medium hotel surprises us with doing things right we weren't even expecting. That way there is some balance to our disappointment when something isn't right. Istanbul's Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel is one of those hotels. While it's been awarded five stars, our feeling is that it has a five star quality in a very 1992 kind of way. Nevertheless, the lobby is classic. It's wide open and bright with shiny and gilded decor and dramatic stairs that lead to some good early morning dining.
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Breakfast is Poppin' Up Wirelessly at The Westin Dubai
Imagine for a moment that you have just awakened to a bright Dubai morning, called up room service, and ordered a very leisurely breakfast to be served on your terrace. It arrives, and you follow the scent of pancakes and syrup onto the balcony where, unbelievable as it sounds, there is a toaster warming up some bagel halves and no power outlet in sight. Yes, you have just discovered one of the secret amenities of the Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Resort.
The "Flexi-Toast," as the portable unit is affectionately dubbed, ensures hot and crisp toasted awesomeness no matter your location. However, we guess that maybe somebody overlooked adding outlets on the terraces and the Westin didn't want to lose the ability to offer breakfast with toast out there.
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Kimpton Knows We're Easy: $1 Breakfasts or Cocktails
While it's not a $1 Hotel Room offer, Kimpton Hotels new promotion does give guests either a cocktail or breakfast for just $1 more.
Naturally, we'd be inclined to pick breakfast since that can be a hefty charge each morning. But that $1 cocktail is also available every day of your stay. Can't decide? Don't worry. Kimpton will let you choose a $1 cocktail one day and breakfast the next.
There are restrictions like you must be 21 or older to receive the cocktail voucher and the drinks must not be priced more than $13 at the hotel's restaurant or bar. The breakfast voucher is also good for a continental breakfast only. And the vouchers are not good for room service or the in-room mini-bars.
The $1 More promotion is valid for travel from May 1 through Dec. 30, 2009. Make your reservations online by entering DOLLAR in the rate code box or by mentioning the “Cocktail OR Breakfast for Just $1 More” package when making a reservation on the phone.
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SLS Hotel's Superstar Bazaar Restaurant Now Serving Brunch
Despite whatever we may have thought about the recent gushing review of the SLS Hotel restaurant, Bazaar, from LA Times food critic S. Irene Verbilia, we are extremely happy to hear that the restaurant is serving the meal most important to Angelenos, after the Hollywood power lunch--brunch.
Tasting Table, a new foodie e-newsletter, lets us know that starting this Saturday, chef Jose Andres will unveil his brunch menu from 11am to 3pm.
On the menu are your favorite brunchy cocktails along with sangria and Irish coffee, eggs benedict with Iberico ham, 12 quail eggs sunny-side up, and bagel and lox. There's a tasting menu for $40 that's available but sorry, no french toast or waffles.
[Photo: Eater LA]
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Get Your Breakfast On In Beverly Hills
Listen. We know you're a breakfast person. You feel strongly about the breakfasts offered at budget hotel chains — and we know you get cranky when you start off your days paying out the nose for a decent meal to keep you going through the morning.
And when you're in Beverly Hills at a hotel that is, say, one like The Beverly Hilton or the Crescent, we're pretty sure you're not expecting a Hampton Inn-esque free first meal o' the day — but thanks to the BH Conference & Visitors Bureau, even the most luxe hotels in Beverly Hills will be offering free breakfasts this spring. Oh — and free nights too.
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Marriott Will Throw In a Free Breakfast If You Book Soon
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such thing as a free breakfast — if you book with Marriott, in the latest throw-free-things-at-you-during-the-recession promo. No better way to start a day away from home than with some free stuff!
If you book a stay at a Marriott or JW Marriott between by January 26th for a weekend stay between January 15 and March 29 (got that?), you score a free breakfast buffet for two adults as long as you stay over on a Friday or Saturday night.
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Which Budget Hotel Chain Has the Best Free Breakfast?
We've all seen the commercials: from Holiday Inn Express to Hampton Inn, budget hotel chains around the country — the nice kind marketed to business traveler-types and road-tripping families, not pay-by-the-hour joints — all claim that their free hot or continental breakfasts will blow you away.
But are any of these breakfasts actually any good? We got excited when we heard Hilton Garden Inn was serving up a healthy new breakfast menu put together by former Top Chef contestant CJ, but reader jeffcodee let us know we'd be much happier with good ol' bacon and eggs. Courtyard made a big to-do about their Eggs Are It buffet in '07, and who could forget that awkward-funny Holiday Inn Express ad that encouraged hotel breakfast-eaters to act like they were at a singles mixer?
There's a whole lotta hype and a whole lotta competition, and we need your help to cut through it all: which budget hotel breakfasts are actually worth our time, and which hotels should we check into with our own granola bars in tow? We're not expecting custom-prepared omelets and white-truffle bagels here, we just want some non-rubber eggs and a decent glass of OJ. Where can we find 'em?
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