Ever had a cooked breakfast, of course you have! Was it any good? Well for a long time me and my brother have rated cooked breakfasts. Now we have started to record them so we can remember the good, and the bad!
Our wedding anniversary was on the 19th Sept, yes i know a year already!
Well to celebrate, we decided to splash out and go to a posh hotel for the night. Now i think we have been lucky in where we have had the opportunity to stay and visit since we have been together, and this hotel has to be high on our list, and thankfully the breakfast did not disappoint!
As usual, with a hotel, this was a buffet style breakfast set up, which is never going to score a 10 out of 10, but it was damn close!
The choice was fantastic, the only item missing, so they miss a bonus point, was marmite!
As well as the usual line up, sausages (choice of two different types), bacon (crispy and streaky bacon!), freshly cooked eggs to order, toast and fried bread, they also had a choice of black pudding and white pudding. Now i am not sure if it want too know what white pudding is, but i enjoyed it!
The location, although not a sea view, it was nice, overlooking the gardens and spa area (which was out of this world!).
So, to the all important score .. a very impressive 8 out of 10.
Following our disappointing breakfast experience last weekend we were hoping that this breakfast was going to be an improvement, and i am pleased to say it was!The breakfast dining area was nice, clean and good staff. As norm with hotels, it was a buffet style breakfast and the choice was excellent. Fruit, cereal, meats and of course the cooked breakfast range. I decided to start healthy and had some grapefruit first before hitting the main course! Orange juice and coffee was brought to the table and was ok, not a particularly strong coffee, but again that is normal for hotels.The range for the cooked breakfast was good: eggs (fried and scrambled), sausages, tomatoes, beans, mushrooms, hash browns and bacon. The food was warm and apart from the fried eggs did not look as if they had been warmed for too long.The hash browns were the type that had a heavy onion taste which is not my favourite but still with a bonus point for having them on the menu. I have also added another bonus point to the system, a bonus point is now added if Marmite is available!So to the score, well i am going to give them a good 8 out of 10!
Oh dear. Well i guess it had to happen, yes, you have guessed, a really bad breakfast!
We stayed at the Thistle Hotel in Brighton and liked the hotel. It looks like a 70's lump of concrete and spoils the sea front view, but if you have a sea view room like we did, it was great, apart from the air conditioning has seen better days and struggled to cope!
The best thing i can say about the breakfast is that the view was very good, apart from that it went down hill.
The food was buffet style, like most hotels, but i would guess that it had been under the heated lights/heaters since about 5am. The beans were well baked, the hash browns, that would usually get a bonus point, were over cooked and far too crispy. The sausage was under cooked and the bacon that you would of thought would be too crispy was just greasy!
We were very jealous over everybody eating there nice cooked breakfasts on the sea front after our poor one!
We were away from home over the last April weekend, and a stay away from home means an opportunity to have a cooked breakfast!
This breakfast was at the Oakley Court Hotel just outside Windsor, Berkshire.
It was a buffet style breakfast.
On the plus side there was a reasonable choice, hash browns were on the menu, which for me is always a bonus point. Two choices of eggs and proper English sausages. But can you notice from the picture, or what is missing from the list i have already given!
Beans, beans is the answer! How on earth can you have a cooked breakfast without the choice of having baked beans.
I know shocking, but there was no beans in sight. Tomatoes, but no beans!
Ok, so you get the picture. It was never going to get 10 out of 10. The only other down side would be cost, although this was part of the deal and we did not have to pay, but hotel breakfasts are never cheap.
Following our short 'fuel' stop at the Little Chef we headed for Exeter and met up with the rest of the clan and headed for central Exeter.
Now having visited Exeter on our last trip, we were hoping to have a rough idea where to head, but in the end we ended up having a little wander and finding an independent cafe.
When you are looking the for the ideal cooked breakfast you cannot beat a independent cafe. This one, Drakes Coffee House, was just off the main road in a little alley with just a sign outside. It was small and cosy, probably only able to seat 20 people or so, but it was ideal.
There was a good choice of breakfasts and the one being reviewed here was the 'Brunch'.
So what did we get. Well it was a good range, 2 x fried egg (runny - extra point) hash browns, beans and two sausages and bacon.
All the correct ingredients!
And too the score, well it hits a very good 8 out of 10. Why not ten, well no view, no drink included.
An excellent start to the week with a high scoring breakfast that did not leave you too full up and ready the for the lunchtime Guinness !!
We had a trip to Cornwall in January, a full family outing, and of course this included an early start and a breakfast stop. Well in fact, two breakfast stops for us!
We set out at about 6am, heading for Exeter with the plan of meeting up with the Berkshire Butler's to find a suitable breakfast establishment. However along the way, at around 7ish we got a little peckish and decided to squash in a 'small' breakfast to keep us going.
So we stopped at a Little Chef en-route to Exeter. Now i have reviewed Little Chefs before, and they are never going to score high on the breakfast scale so we kept it simple. It was toast and two poached eggs. Healthy eh!
As this is not a true 'cooked breakfast' it does not really deserve a rating, however it would of scored a 5 out of 10. Very average all round!
Not true, i have sampled a few breakfasts since our last post, but have been extremely bad at posting them online, so breakfast followers, sorry if you have been starving, waiting for your next breakfast tip ... here they come, i am trying to catch up now!
