Tag: Hotel Breakfasts
View All TagsKiller View / Tokyo Hotels / Peninsula Hotels / Hotel Breakfasts / → All Tags
Where to Score a Royal View in Tokyo
A quick tip for a stay at the ridiculously well located Peninsula Tokyo: pay the extra to secure a Deluxe Park View, because that "Park" bit actually means Imperial Palace gardens. They may be out of focus in the photo above, but can you blame us for being far more focused on a large Japanese breakfast spread at the moment?
Rooms on the park side of the hotel have commanding views of the Imperial Palace and its acres—bring mini binoculars to watch the processions, full of pomp, without having to even venture outside and join the throng of photo-snapping tourists.
At night the view is just as pleasant, since having all of these private gardens next door means it's one of the only areas in the metropolis to get truly dark—a luxury on its own.
[Photo: HotelChatter]
Hotel Breakfasts / Rooftop Bars / Manhattan Hotels / Hotel Deals / Hotel Food / Killer View / → All Tags
The Kimberly Will Send You Sky High For Breakfast This Month
We've never known a hotel to be modest about showing off its awesome views. Still, we usually reserve our best window-gazing for later in the evening, when skylines are a-twinkle and sunsets are killer. But guests at the Kimberly Hotel in Manhattan get to enjoy awesome views of the city first thing in the morning, with free breakfasts in the rooftop lounge, Upstairs.
A buffet spread will offer French toast, pancakes, oatmeal, pastries, omelets, bacon and hash browns. Though the usual cost of the meal is $25 per person, all guests will get it for free through the end of the month. Turns out February isn't such a bad time to stay in hotels after all.
Hotel Breakfasts / Palm Springs Hotels / Le Parker Meridien Hotels / Starwood / Hotel Restaurants / → All Tags
What is The Parker Palm Springs' 'Waz-Za?'
It's called the "Waz-Za?" and we're assuming that's because of the jealousy of other diners when this $20 Belgian waffle is deliver to you. Like a "what's that?" The menu description says only "fruit inside, fruit outside—crackly brulee top," but the magic isn't in listing off ingredients; it's in seeing the blueberries and bananas right there, glistening under the hot desert sun.
The Waz-Za is something we recently tried at the emphatic suggestion of a good friend and Palm Springs veteran. Our waitress nodded approvingly at our choice, so we knew we'd done well.
Normally we wouldn't shell out $20 for a glorified fruit waffle, but this is Norma's at The Parker Palm Springs, where regular buttermilk pancakes are $18 and a Lobster Frittata can be ordered with 1oz of Sevruga Caviar for $100, or 10oz for $1,000. In other words, this hotel restaurant isn't your average diner breakfast. But alas, there is a way to get that Waz-Za without worrying at all about the cost...
Hotel Brunch / Yotels / Manhattan Hotels / Odd Hotels / Hotel Breakfasts / Open Thread / → All Tags
Piecing Together Yotel, One Brunch Invitation At A Time
Last time we checked in on Yotel Times Square—aka the $10 hotel for ants—the lobby bathroom was suffering from some major door malfunctioning. They appear to have addressed the problem, and have since added a rather interesting moose to the lobby decor. But we were left wondering to ourselves: what is actually going on over there?
After opening to such fanfare with a mammoth performance piece that literally spanned 100 rooms, we haven't exactly heard much from them since. Oh, except for this bizarre Sunday brunch invitation that showed up in our inboxes yesterday. A baby, gnawing on a plate, with the caption: "Eat Yo! Brunch". Well, it's not a jelly doughnut pancake, but they have our attention!
Hotel Breakfasts / Manhattan Hotels / Hotel Restaurants / Hotel Pancakes / Hotel Dessert / Hyatt Hotels / → All Tags
Which Hotel Chef Is Making Jelly Doughnut Pancakes?
Few things excite us more than a delicious hotel breakfast. Sometimes, we wish we could just spend the whole day inside a swanky brasserie, gazing out the window, eating omelets and sipping tea. Chef Franklin Becker's new joint Lexington Brass, located inside Hyatt 48Lex, might be just the place for it.
The menu's winning item, no doubt, are the jelly doughnut pancakes, which borrow the concept of a baked, jelly-filled doughnut and impose it onto a regular old pancake. The result is thick, fluffy, jelly-filled and awesome. You might call it a dough-cake. Either way, it's served with berries and lemon cream, costs $17, and is the most delicious-sounding breakfast we've ever encountered.
Hotel Breakfasts / Hilton Hotels / Hotel Receipts / Expensive Hotels / Government Hotels / Hotel Conference Rooms / → All Tags
The Hilton Muffin Drama Gently Winds Down
An Inspector General report found last week that the government spent $16 per muffin at a 2009 conference inside a Hilton Hotel. The news, which spread around the internet faster than spilt coffee on a tablecloth, snowballed into a broader condemnation of both the government's extravagance and the hotel chain's greediness.
But everyone can calm down now. ABC News is now pointing out a receipt error that misrepresented the total cost of the continental breakfast, which was served each morning during the five-day conference. So rather than actually serving $16 muffins, the invoice had simply mis-labeled the entire cost of the continental breakfast (which included fresh fruit, coffee, juice, function space, tax and tips) as "muffins."
So if you were saving up for an unreasonably expensive hotel breakfast, you'll now have to look elsewhere.
Open Thread / Hotel Breakfasts / Hotel Tea / Hotel Coffee / Room Service / → All Tags
Do Tea Drinkers Get The Short End Of The Hotel Stick?
Coffee coffee everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
When it comes to standard hotel amenities, coffee makers rank up there with pillows, a working toilet, soap. Basic. But for many of us, a bowl of instant coffee packets is about as useful as a hairbrush to a bald person. When it comes to in-room tea options, we've found some hotels to be quite lacking.
Take a look at this picture of a recent Las Vegas hotel we stayed in. Plenty of coffee! But where's the tea? Nevermind the inconvenience of trekking to the nearest Starbucks for our early morning jolt—when equally-in-need coffee drinkers can simply reach across their nightstand—but it also raises an uglier question. What should be considered an essential hotel room amenity?
Surely, if someone took the time to fold the tip of our toilet paper roll, artfully sealing it with a small hotel-branded sticker, then that person probably had enough time to drop a few bags of Twining's English Breakfast on our desk. No?
Hotel Amenities / Hotel Breakfasts / London Hotels / UK Hotels / → All Tags
Four Reasons We Love British Hotels So, So Much
Try as you might, every traveler is going to suffer some culture shock at some point. It can also occur on a smaller scale when checking into a hotel and noting the amenities. One of our favorite countries for encountering pleasant surprises in the hotel extras is England, and here's four reasons why:
· Complimentary tea & biscuits: The nice spread in the photo above is what we found yesterday upon checking in at Ye Olde Bulls Head Inn in Beaumaris, Wales, but cute little cookies and a teatime setup are necessities for the British guest and thus you'll find them in-room everywhere from the 5-stars to the 2-stars. The typical offerings include two free bottles of water (one still, one sparkling), a carafe of chilled cream, a variety of tea bags, two packets of hot chocolate and four cookies biscuits total. This can vary, and if you're ever in a Brit hotel room without a tea tray, call down and ask if tea service is included.
Hotel Breakfasts / Chicago Hotels / Hipster Hotels / Hotel Restaurants / Photo Gallery / → All Tags
This Chicago Hotel Has More Brunch Entrees Than It Has Rooms
Who totally went crazy over fried chicken during this last holiday weekend? Our hands are raised, are yours?
Well we've got awesome news for you, and it's that Fried Chicken and Waffles may be a rare hotel restaurant offering, but it exists on the famous brunch menu at Chicago's Longman & Eagle. Breakfast at this 6-room hotel isn't included and doesn't happen before 9am, but trust us when we say its worth both the wait and the cold, hard cash.
For between $7 and $13, you can order up entrees like the fried chicken, Peeky Toe Crab Benedict, Bananas Foster French Toast or a Market Omelet. And for as low as $75, you can just go ahead and score a whole room upstairs for that night.
Element Hotels / Hotels Near Times Square / Manhattan Hotels / Hotel Restaurants / Hotel Breakfasts / → All Tags
Times Square's Element Hotel Gets Its Food Straight from a Farm in Vermont
Did you even think you'd find Fiddleheads on the menu at your urban hotel? Fiddleheads are the coiled leaves of a fern, and not only are they tasty but they are rare, with a short season that happens to be right now. Thanks to a new partnership between The Element Hotel Times Square and Vermont's Holton Farms CSA, more such local and organically grown produce will be on offer at the hotel soon.
CSAs are growing in popularity, especially in NYC where fresh produce is at a premium and farm-grown is desirable. CSA stands for "community-supported agriculture," and it's essentially a subscription service. You send your money to the farm for a subscription, and they send you the latest seasonal fruits, vegetables, meats, cheeses right off their land. Holton Farms is one of the most popular CSAs that serve NYC, and they'll even be expanding beyond the Element partnership to start up a food truck serving the High Line park this summer!
So, when you reach to pick out an apricot or notice a rhubarb tart in the free breakfast spread at the Element, just think about the fact that only a few days ago, those yummy things were hanging out in the crisp Vermont air, just waiting to ripen up enough to meet your mouth in New York.
[Photo of a Holton Farms Fiddlehead dish: HotelChatter]
Hotel Breakfasts / Portland Hotels / Ace Hotels / Hotel Services / Hotel Coffee / → All Tags
Why Everyone's 'Checking Into' Room 215 at The Ace Portland
For the past month now, guests at the Ace Portland have taken a particular liking to room 215, often making daily pilgrimages there in the mornings between 7am and 11am.
It might (just might) have something to do with the following: the ever-innovative Ace has converted a previous Junior Deluxe room into a fully-fledged breakfast nook, whose adorable kitchenette offers yummy, fresh nibbles like yogurt, dried cherries, and hard-boiled eggs.
Without any official announcement or heavy promotional push, the room, which offers a family-style dining table as well as bar seating, opened in early March, and is one of the healthiest hotel breakfasts we've ever had.
A single barista/waitress greets guests as they arrive, offering a choice of brioche or spelt toast. Classical music plays gently in the background, and on a recent weekday morning, we got so cozy, we could have spent hours just eating toast and stirring our coffee. Virtually every ingredient offered on the buffet table is regionally-sourced, seasonal, and, we should add, delicious.
Hotel Breakfasts / Italy Hotels / Bergamo Hotels / Design Hotels / Photo Gallery / → All Tags
What Do You Look For in a Hotel Breakfast?
Fresh fruit and cheeses and thinly sliced meats and yogurt and granola....oh my, we're drooling. Hotel Breakfasts can be almost as magical as a hotel stay itself, provided the pickings are good. So we're wondering, what do you look for in a hotel breakfast spread?
If we had our ideal continental buffet, it'd be something like what we recently experienced at the awesome GombitHotel in Bergamo, Italy. The hotel—a Design Hotels member hotel housed in a medieval tower in the elevated historic town—cost us only 88 Euro per night for a beautiful room (more on that soon) and included one of the freshest hotel breakfasts we've had in quite some time.
Popular Stories
Follow Us
Hotels In: Africa | Asia | Australia | Caribbean | Europe | North America | South America
Our Publications:
Jaunted | HotelChatter | VegasChatter
