Originally Posted by
Kacee
Yes, it's always been the buffet for Globalists, not the menu, though you are free to sit in the restaurant, and the servers will bring hot beverages and water.
The property gives coupons so it's easy to bring a guest.
Actually it compares quite well w/GH Berlin, though it lacks an eggs to-order option. After your glowing review of Centric Santa Clara's breakfast, there's just not much credibility I'm afraid.
Hahaha - you haven't read the thread. I didn't do a glowing review of the current awful breakfast at the HC SC, I reviewed the old full service restaurant breakfast. And no, it's not always been the buffet for Globalists. I have stayed at this property many times on business trips, always ordered off the menu, and had the entire thing comped (until last week, when the menu option was gone). I don't recall there even being a buffet in the past, but now there is ONLY the buffet, for everyone, which I only realized because after I sat down no one gave me a menu nor came to take my order (they didn't know I was a Globalist yet - it was the same thing for everyone). I sat there waiting (in what used to be the restaurant) until I realized they had turned what had been a perfectly good restaurant breakfast into a train wreck of a buffet. If you think "it's always been a buffet for Globalists" I'm not sure we're even talking about the same property.
I have had a theory about why you think the SOMA buffet is so great, and you confirmed it just now. You can't tell the difference in *quality*, your evaluation is based primarily on *quantity*, as in number of different options, etc. The GH Berlin has German breads all around, which are light years ahead of the pedestrian American bread options - it's not remotely comparable. But the thing you focus in on is how many different options there are. For me, every different type of bread at the GH Berlin is a revelation of flavor; to you, they're just "bread".
This also explains why the fruit selection at SOMA is so impressive to you; when it's nothing more than the same fruit you can buy at a US supermarket pre-cut (or a Hyatt Place). You don't perceive a difference. Also explains how you could say Italian food in Italy isn't better than in the US, etc.
Of course, chacun a son gout - you don't perceive quality differences which to me are astounding, who am I to tell you you're wrong? We can never come to an agreement. But at least to me now I understand why we differ so much. It's rather amazing, to me, and just shows how radically people's taste buds differ.