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What shall I have for breakfast? Kitchen isnt open yet but I have half an hour to decide.
Fruit and Cereal?
Regional? (Burrito or eggs benedict etc)
Full Ameican or Corned Beef Hash
Or maybe French toast or pancakes?
Not sure...
When I was last in LA, I was disappointed with the food at main outlets. I walked away from the main road and found a mexican dinner, they did not speak english. Freshly made hash browns ham and eggs, really enjoyable
Ontbijtspek is just smoked bacon that's cut too thin to be worth bothering. I buy it at the butcher and ask him to cut it to 2 or 3 mm. If a butcher won't do that, I won't buy anything. Likewise Dutch bakers; DO NOT slice my bread; it ruins the taste and makes it go off after 2 days. If they act funny about not slicing the bread, I don't buy anything. You have to be assertive in educating cloggies about food; they're clueless.
As for Okura, maybe I'll try that next time I'm in AMS; most hotels in NL, even the 5 star places, treat breakfast as an afterthought and thoroughly ruin the impression they've made after a good night's stay. Again, clueless about food. If I've paid for a room and then you fob me off with your most clueless, feckless crappy staff at breakfast, scrambled egg that's been kept warm to the point of going dry and some nasty self service coffee machine spewing out that grotty coffee concentrate then I will not be visiting again and I will not be recommending you to my friends and associates. Although I think you will know this if you studied at Leith's.
I have spent more money on bad food in cloggers than I'd care to
Thankfully made friends with a local chef and local cafe owners so have been pointed in the direction of where to get the good stuff
Do try Gartine, as the food is fantastic, all home made, even the eggs come from their own hens and they have their own garden for the veg.
I've had some great ontbijt here. Going there for high tea tomorrow.
Though I'm not so sure what this Ontbijt spek is all about
Ontbijtspek is just smoked bacon that's cut too thin to be worth bothering. I buy it at the butcher and ask him to cut it to 2 or 3 mm. If a butcher won't do that, I won't buy anything. Likewise Dutch bakers; DO NOT slice my bread; it ruins the taste and makes it go off after 2 days. If they act funny about not slicing the bread, I don't buy anything. You have to be assertive in educating cloggies about food; they're clueless.
As for Okura, maybe I'll try that next time I'm in AMS; most hotels in NL, even the 5 star places, treat breakfast as an afterthought and thoroughly ruin the impression they've made after a good night's stay. Again, clueless about food. If I've paid for a room and then you fob me off with your most clueless, feckless crappy staff at breakfast, scrambled egg that's been kept warm to the point of going dry and some nasty self service coffee machine spewing out that grotty coffee concentrate then I will not be visiting again and I will not be recommending you to my friends and associates. Although I think you will know this if you studied at Leith's.
I'm sure that's possible in London but I've yet to find anywhere in Amsterdam or even anywhere in NL that does Eggs Benedict, let alone good Eggs Benedict. This annoys me.
The Okura does a nice eggs Benedict.
I've had some great ontbijt here. Going there for high tea tomorrow.
Though I'm not so sure what this Ontbijt spek is all about
Speaking of breakfast, where's a good place to go for the full English in the smoke?
I'm sure that's possible in London but I've yet to find anywhere in Amsterdam or even anywhere in NL that does Eggs Benedict, let alone good Eggs Benedict. This annoys me.
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