Food

Holland is definately not known for its "exquisit cuisine".

For breakfast, if we eat any at all.., we have our coffee or tea, with a slice of bread with cheese or marmalade, on our way out to work, or bringing the kids to school and daycare, before that.
The luxury of making a fresh glass of orange juice, or putting on the oven to bake a fresh roll or croisant...we simply do not take time for it.
Eventhough tv- commercials try to teach us otherwise.
We only boil an egg on sundays.

For lunch, nothing better. If there isn't a cateringcompany at the workplace to provide something healthy and substantial, you bring your own lunchbox.
Yes, it will contain at least that one sandwich with cheese.

Or you go out in the street to pull your lunch out of the wall for a Euro or so.(Something typicly dutch, try it, it's fun).
Dried out burgers, and luke warm ,in old oil fried, things we call Kroketten or Frikandellen (the latter being waste parts of animals grounded in a long shape and only be eaten with a lot of sauce..)

Dinner for the Dutch is simple:
Patatoes, vegetables and meat.
Preferably all mashed together in one pot, (we call it Stampot).
The only variation is what kind of vegatable you wish to smash...

Luckily, Holland has a wide varity of cultures, so many different restaurants with kitchens from all over the world are here, so we can enjoy all their different tastes and kitchens.
A real treat!!

So what has this story to do with a hotel?
Simple..What do you serve for breakfast, with so many people being our guests from so many places around the world..?

Here it is:
Coffee,Tea, Chilled water,Chocolate to make chocolatemilk, Warm milk, 2 kinds of cereal. ,Orange Juice, Fresh milk, canned fruit, 3 kind of crackers, sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and pickels, cheese (ofcourse) and 3 kinds of sliced meats,fresh boiled eggs, 3 kinds of marmelades, honey, chocolate spread, Big fresch fruit basket,Bread to make toast. but mostly FRESH BAKED MUFFINS AND WARM ROLLS.
To get you off on a good start in Amsterdam.

If you run a 'bed and breakfast', at least you need clean sheets and a hearty breakfast.
We deliver, to all tastes!
Even serving breakfast till noon.

More about the different cultures and habbits later,

Bye

Harry