Breakfast at the Mövenpick Hotel Beirut

• Violet walls
• Brown square tiles cover the floor
• Ceramic design square tables surrounded by metallic chairs make the place look close to a Mediterranean Island
• The main facing wall is all covered with brick stones and has a long sofa under it
• Every room is centered by the piece the resistance - a big metallic chandelier with soft yellow lighting
• Here and there, paintings of the touristic places of Lebanon decorate the walls
• Soft lighting, soothing and classy make you feel comfortable

• Honey, Honey with pistachio, Honey with nuts, Honey with peeled sesame
• Fig, strawberry and apricot jam
• Plain and chocolate halawa
• Dibs
• Peanut butter
• Nutella chocolate spread
• Dried fruits: banana, coconut, strawberry, grenades, mango, prunes, grapes, figs, apricot, boumali skin
• Walnut
• Corn flakes: All Bran, Coco Pops, Weetabix, Corn Flakes, Weetabix Chocolate, Rice Krispies
• Hot Section: Pork bacon, Roasted potato, Sautéed mushrooms, Grilled tomato, Beef sausages
• Organic corner: crackers rice organic cracker, oat bran, muesli no added sugar, corn flakes bio, burcher muesli, forest honey, Soya milk, apricot compote, fig compote,prune compote.
• Cheese and cold cuts corner: Pork ham, beef mortadella, emmental cheese, chicken mortadella with olive, cheddar cheese, labneh, hummus
• Vegetables: bell pepper, tomato, cucumber
• Fruit salads, red fruit muesli, plain muesli
• Fruits: Grapes, Pineapple, orange, watermelon, menon
• Pastries: Blueberry cake, chocolate muffins, chocolate brioche, chocolate cake, chocolate croissant, strawberry danish pastry, chausson, apricot danish pastry, pears danish pastry, plain croissant, cheese croissant, gouglof, donuts, berliner, almond brioche, blueberry muffin, berliner
• Furn: kounafa, black olive, green olive
• Manakish: keshek, cheese, za3tar
• Fresh orange, water, pineapple, ice tea mango

 

Breakfast started with a complimentary Mango Purée with fresh yogurt (the healthy shot or the power shot). This shot is tasty but should be served colder.

• Food is good but not great
• Makanek are deceiving, too spicy and too peppery and the same goes for the bacon. I did the mistake of starting my breakfast with these items that upset my taste buds... I had an after taste stuck in my throat the whole day
• The croissant are way too commercial and too big. Not crunchy but rather spongy like an English cake. These rolls are a meal by themselves. They should be smaller to be eaten completely and leave space to taste something else
• I like the manakish. A prepared dough is covered with cheese or ham then heated live. I liked its crunchiness and would recommend cheese ones more than Zaatar
• The fruits are fresh and mouthwatering
• The scrambled eggs are to oily and the sunny side up are undercooked. The presentation on another hand needs a quick fix

The competition is tight so I'll allow myself to compare. Just look at the eggs plates and see the difference between Mövenpick, Four Seasons and Phoenicia. The Mövenpick ones are the least appetizing. Served on a big square white plate, with no decoration or seasoning whatsoever, the plates are not appealing. The scrambled eggs with vegetables are fresh, soggy and a bit oily. I loved the chili pepper added to them, making them spicy while adding a unique touch which differentiates them from others. The sunny side up are too thin, too watery, undercooked and close to being tasteless. They should be a bit crunchy on the sides, well seasoned and thicker for sure.