Hermanus · South Africa
The Marine
Delicate hollandaise with a citrus note, perfect egg, good muffin. Only the ham gets completely lost.
Notebook
The Eggs Benedict
Eggs Benedict with ham. Very well executed. Delicate hollandaise with a light citrus note. Good English muffin and perfect egg. Lovely creaminess. The ham is the only drawback, it gets completely lost. Otherwise a lovely dish.
Translated from my German notes.
The Marine is Hermanus’s traditional grand hotel, right on the shore of Walker Bay. The town is considered one of the best places in the world for land-based whale watching. Breakfast on the last day of the year means the classic.
On the plate
Two eggs on an English muffin, ham, hollandaise and a few pea shoots. The execution is very good: the hollandaise is delicate with a light citrus note, the muffin is good, the egg perfect. Together they create a lovely creaminess.
The only deduction goes to the ham. It gets completely lost in the dish and adds nothing to the flavour. In a classic made of just four components, that matters.
Go
If you are on Walker Bay anyway, you’ll get a lovely, well-crafted Eggs Benedict here. With a more robust ham it would be more.
Guide text written with AI assistance, based on my notes.