So it’s no secret that I loved my stay at the Hyatt Centric Hotel Kanazawa. I’ve already talked about the amenities and customer service but the food might just be my most favorite thing about the hotel.
Hyatt Centric Hotel Kanazawa Breakfast: Everything From Traditional Japanese Food to Western Cuisine
Since I wasn’t too familiar with the city yet, I decided to try out the hotel’s food. So for my first morning there, I immediately headed to the breakfast buffet at the Five – Grill and Lounge Restaurant.
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One of the first things that managed to catch my attention was the tempura and what looked to be chicken nuggets and fried rice. I immediately realized that I’m definitely gonna pack on a lot of calories if this is the kind of food that awaits me every morning. But thank God there’s a gym here at Hyatt Centric Kanazawa, I can easily have the workout I need.
No Japanese breakfast is complete without natto and Hyatt Centric Hotel Kanazawa has these in spades. Now I’m of the opinion that people who turn their noses up on natto are just uncultured. Seriously, it’s one of the healthiest food you can eat for breakfast. Definitely try it until you acquire a taste for it!
If you’re not too keen on fried food then maybe these grilled fish might interest you. I personally had some of these and they were really good.
For even healthier options, you could also go with some vegetables. The stir fried komatsuna, shiitake, and ohitashi were quite tasty. And while it doesn’t look appetizing in this picture, the simmered eggplants were nothing but when I tasted them.
Tamagoyaki and sweet potato are quite possibly the oddest pairing I’ve seen. Despite my reservations about them though, people seem to like the pairing.
I soon found myself in the grains and cereals corner of the buffet and was actually impressed by what I saw. I know cereals and grains are advertised as healthy but I’m pretty sure you’ll pack on the pounds if you had these for breakfast every day.
Thankfully there are also fruits available to balance everything out. I personally am not a big fan of fruits but I do appreciate seeing them in buffets like this.
After seeing all those fruits my meat eater eyes needed a palate cleanser and fortunately, I came across just what I needed to see. Here we have smoked duck, bologna sausage, and lots of smoked salmon.
To compliment the smoked meats, I then took some camembert from the cheese section. There was also some gruyere and cheddar but settled on camembert since it’s creamier and generally not as salty as the other two.
Here we go with the greens again. Joking aside, if you’re health conscious then you’re going to love this section. The lettuce was fresh and the cucumbers seemed like they were as well.
The Japanese really love their vegetables as evidenced by these carrot rapes/rapee (a French carrot salad) and an assortment of shredded radishes.
No salad would be complete without dressing and here we have a nice selection of them. The Yamato soy sauce or the Gynura bicolor dressing was probably what I would’ve gotten just because it was my first time seeing either of them. Other than that, the restaurant also offered the classic French dressing as well as just olive oil.
At this point I was actually feeling a little overwhelmed by the diversity of the food that I wasn’t able to ask what the item in the middle of the yakitori and hollandaise sauce was. It looked fluffy and I’m pretty sure it was tasty but there were a lot of things grabbing my attention that I decided to just take a pic and ask about it later (which I never got around to doing by the way).
I love almost everything about Japan. ALMOST. If there’s one thing the Japanese need to work on it’s their bacon. The sausage is whatever but the bacon doesn’t look like the bacon that I’m used to. Thankfully I still enjoy the taste. Other people might not though so you might want to consider that if you’re considering going to Japan.
Roasted (or is it fried) mushrooms, tater tots, and some fried vegetables. Outside of the mushrooms, I wasn’t really that high on the other items on here.
After what seemed like an eternity in the meat section, I managed to drag my feet to the breads and pastries section. Pancake is without a doubt a quintessential breakfast food and you’ll find plenty of it here. While not visible, you can opt to slather your pancakes with maple syrup or chocolate sauce.
If the pancakes (with their syrups/sauces) are too sweet for you then you might want to consider getting a baguette. In my experience, these were still fairly warm which means that they haven’t been out of the oven for long.
One surprising tidbit of knowledge that I gleaned while traveling Japan is that the country, for some reason, really likes their bread. Reading up on the topic, it seems the cause for this might have something to do with how the Japanese just like visually appealing food. I have to agree with them though. French bread and pastries are arguably the prettiest looking in the world.
The croissants here looked absolutely scrumptious. If not for the fact that I was already stuffed, I might have taken a piece or two. On a side note, the bread rolls and milk bread were probably the least appetizing in this whole selection.
Correction, the English muffins look the least appetizing. Looks can be deceiving though. I noticed people get a few since they really pair well with almost everything else in the breakfast buffet.
Here’s a selection of yogurt to cap off my first sojourn in the Hyatt Centric Hotel Kanazawa’s breakfast buffet. Like I said earlier, the food here is just great(you can also read my article about the foods I tried in Kanazawa). I liked that there were options from international as well as Japanese cuisine. Produce like the salads as well as the bread seemed like they were fresh and the meats were all delicious.
Overall, the breakfast at the Five – Grill and Lounge Restaurant was well worth waking up early for. How about you? Would you have your breakfast here?
