Monday, November 11, 2013

The Great Breakfast Challenge: Interlude

This week, my wife and I went away for a long weekend alone to kind of recover and get ourselves grounded again before the holiday madness commences, so there was no town breakfast place to review.
That being said we did go to a B & B for a few days so I will instead review that.  We stayed at the Waldo Emerson Inn in Kennebunk, ME.  On to breakfast.  Coffee was started at about 7:30 AM with an 8:30 breakfast.  The innkeepers were good enough to keep refilling my cup whenever I brought it back to the kitchen where they were preparing breakfast.  The coffee, while not particularly good, was drinkable and refills were as I said plentiful.  At 8:30(ish) we headed to the dining table.  All of the guests sit together at one table and there was fruit, juice, and granola on the table waiting for us.  The fruit was out of season and not great, but I can't really fault them for that.  The granola was homemade and excellent. 
The first day we were told that the main course was going to be three kinds of crepes, apple, blueberry, and chocolate.  We were pretty excited it sounded good and thought this would offer a great start to our weekend.  They were disappointing.  Only one of the three was a crepe.  The apple was basically two thin pancakes around a slice of apple, and the blueberry was basically just a blueberry pancake.  They also put whipped cream and chocolate chips on all three.  When you add in the fact that then the plates waited before being served, all three varieties basically tasted like chocolate.  Which wasn't bad, but when we were expecting multiple varieties, it was disappointing.  In addition, one of the other guests had emailed the innkeepers regarding a dietary need, based on her gestational diabetes.  She was limited in the amount of carbs that she could eat.  The innkeepers did not have anything available to accommodate her needs.  Fortunately she had brought her own Greek yogurt, so was not going hungry, but still it was not a great start.  The second day breakfast was much better, eggs Benedict, in addition to the fruit and granola.  The hollandaise was good, as were the eggs, my wife thought they were a little underdone, but for eggs Benedict I thought they were fine.  No overall rating today, but if they had been part of the breakfast challenge, I doubt they would make it to round two.  Breakfast here was disappointing, and overall I do not think that we will be returning to the Waldo Emerson Inn.  We expected better from the B & B.  Ah well.

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