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Unfortunately underwhelmed by the Sunday breakfast. When at the Hilton, or any 5-star hotel, you expect a certain standard, especially when it comes to the service. However, when we we arrived, instead of being led to the table, it was free seating and you couldn‘t really tell which table was still available, available again and not yet cleared up, or still taken by people at the buffet. There was no instruction on how drinks and buffet were handled, you had to figure it out by yourself. When you are then seated at the table, instead of a waiter coming to you, you had to get their attention by yourself and they seemed almost annoyed to attend to you. Towards the end of our breakfast, we were already approached by somebody who seemed like the head waiter to tell us that the next round of people will come for lunch at 12pm and that we would need to leave. Since it was still only 11:25am, this felt like an unnecessary rush.
The buffet is continental, lots of options regarding bread, cut cheeses and meats, sweet and savory spreads, a surprisingly large selection of vegetarian, vegan, lactose- and gluten free options. The warm options are almost all ingredients for an English breakfast plus pancakes with maple syrup. Also a large muesli/cereal buffet, plus a lots of yoghurt/quark and fruit options.
So one star definitely for the selection and quality of the food.
The other star is for the setup of the buffet, there is enough room to walk around even with lots of people and with 2-3 points for getting coffee, water and juice (but this is also brought by the waiters if you ask them).
I took off two stars for the definite lack of service of the reception staff at the beginning and end of our visit to the restaurant, which taint the very good impression of the food.
Another star taken off for the quite generic design of the restaurant. Don’t be fooled (like me) by the one nice alcove with the bay window - the rest of the restaurant reminds you more of a Holiday Inn than a 5-star hotel.
