Andrew B.
Yelp
We are staying in Miami Beach at the Nobu Hotel, which seems to have been a makeover of the original Eden Roc Hotel, while the Eden Roc built a larger, modern tower that operates as the Eden Roc Hotel. The two hotels are separate in some ways and joined at the hip in other ways. One way is this on-site restaurant, Ocean Social.
Ocean Social serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner for both hotels. We booked our accommodations at the Nobu Hotel to include breakfast, which was only available with certain room bookings.
There are two breakfast options for this included with our daily room breakfast. One is the lobby location of Cafe Inez, which we have not tried, as that breakfast is basically pastries and coffee, or a full and very extensive buffet at Ocean Social, where the dining area is close to and elevated above the beach strand and with seating that's open to the beach and provides lovely views from morning through evening. If you wish, they also have an adjacent indoor dining area, which is where the buffet is set up.
While our hotel room included this buffet, it would otherwise run about $50/person once tax and mandatory tip were added (and about $60/person on weekends due to the more extensive serving time and additional offerings). The buffet breakfast has pretty much all you could ask for in a buffet. There's a charcuterie board, fruit salad, yogurt parfait, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, bacon, chicken sausage, breakfast potatoes, pancakes, French toast, an omelette stand for custom omelettes, breads and bagels (with a toaster), assorted pastry, a variety of accoutrements, and I'm likely still forgetting something. You also get coffee or teas and a variety of juices, all served at your table by friendly staff
On weekends they extend breakfast to brunch and add many additional, heartier food choices, including a beef entree (it was a brisket today), fried chicken, baked fish, rice, macaroni salad, empanadas, and more. All we've had was very good by any measure, especially by buffet standards. My single disappointment was on the weekend they replaced the daily pancakes with waffles, which were not so hot, as they were hard.
We also had dinner here the day we arrived, due to being tired and short on time, so we dined on premises. We had the bbq ribs and the shrimp tacos that night. Both impressed.
Frankly, this is a pretty good and reasonably priced option, at least reasonable by resort standards. If you can get a room the includes the breakfast option, we can highly recommend taking that deal. You will not regret it!
Having had breakfast buffets elsewhere, this one was well worth the additional cost of the hotel booking.