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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Nicola Brady

‘Start the day with a treat’: an ode to hotel breakfasts

Couple in bathrobes drinking coffee while enjoying breakfast at hotel
One of life’s great pleasures: the room service breakfast. Waldorf Astoria Berlin pictured. Photograph: Maskot/Getty Images

A good, diverse breakfast buffet is one of the few meals that can please any taste bud, from the fussiest eater to the greedy lover of food in all its forms. If you can’t find something you want to eat at a hotel breakfast, then the fault probably lies with you.

But while an abundant breakfast buffet is a thing of beauty, the ideal scenario is a combination of DIY stations and an à la carte menu. And that’s the case at Conrad Dublin. At the buffet, symmetrical displays of mini chia pudding pots are lined up over fanned slices of cantaloupe, pineapple and watermelon. Hefty slices of soda bread sit next to a tower of homemade scones, with blueberry muffins and mini croissants on the side. There’s even a giant slab of honeycomb, so you can spool off some raw honey for your toast.

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