Originally Posted by
beachfan
The more one argues the breakfast is terrible, the less credibility they have.
its a very good buffet. Who even bothers with French toast at a buffet
the fruit is well above median for European hotels in this class. Bread is pre sliced , so there could be improvement. A cooked to order egg station would be an improvement. But the Alsatian tart flambees, always available, are excellent, as is the bacon.
"The fruit is well above median" - this is one of the funniest things I've read. The fruit is EXACTLY the same quality as the pre-cut fruit you'd get in any Ralphs supermarket. It's not any better or worse than that.
Again, the mere fact you would say this, to me, just indicates the wide chasm between our taste buds. There's obviously no objective way to compare it, but we're just not even speaking the same language.
As for "bread is pre sliced" - come on. The bread is just some mediocre packaged bread again just the same level as Hyatt Place. If you cannot even recognize the giant gap between that kind of bread and any sort of half decent buffet in Europe or even Asia for that matter - or even in the US - to me that is really wild. I mean the fact it is "pre-sliced" doesn't even scratch the surface of the cheapness here. A decent loaf from Trader Joe's would be 10x better.
Also I'm not saying it's "terrible". I'm saying it is mediocre. But for me food quality is an exponential curve. Hyatt Place is a 1, SOMA is a 7, what I would call good is 30, an excellent breakfast is a 100. That's my subjective impression of food quality.
7 is perfectly okay, but it is below what I like to get at a hotel. But great food for me tastes more than 10x better.