Berlin · Germany
Hotel de Rome
Perfect egg, good ham, lovely brioche. Only the sauce hardly tastes like hollandaise.
Notebook
The Eggs Benedict
Actually a lot done right: brioche, good ham, PERFECT egg, nice foaminess to the hollandaise. Unfortunately, clear deductions because the sauce tastes little like hollandaise.
Translated from my German notes.
The Hotel de Rome stands on Bebelplatz in Berlin-Mitte, in a building from 1889 that housed the Dresdner Bank until 1945. Today it belongs to Rocco Forte Hotels. A place where you can expect quite a bit at breakfast.
On the plate
A lot is done right. The base is brioche, the ham is good and the egg is perfectly poached. The texture of the hollandaise is right too: nicely foamy, as it should be.
And yet there are clear deductions, because in terms of taste the sauce bears little resemblance to hollandaise. In a dish that lives on its sauce, that weighs more than any other flaw. The look promises more than the taste delivers.
Go
A solid stop if you are nearby anyway. If you come for the hollandaise, you will be disappointed.
Guide text written with AI assistance, based on my notes.