Champagne Brunches

Brunch and Champagne happen to be two of my most favourite things and it is even better when they are combined.

I first came across a Champagne brunch at The Savoy Hotel in London a few years ago (pre-refurbishment). On Sundays you could have a leisurely brunch with accompanying piano music and the waiters would circulate and top up your glass from magnums of Laurent Perrier. Unfortunately, I think they no longer do these brunches. It is hard to find a similar one in London. Please let us know if you have tried any!

The Champagne brunches in Singapore and Hong Kong are legendary. I like to try and get a Monday flight if I have a weekend stopover in Singapore, with the sole purpose of being able to make it to a Sunday brunch. So far, I have made it to a brunch at the Grand Hyatt and one at the Mandarin Oriental (that was actually on a Saturday). There is a long list of ones that I would still like to try as well.

Last weekend myself and MP met up with our good friend in Frankfurt, Germany. We all live in different countries and only usually get together once a year. On this occasion, we had just one full day to catch up, so we got up first thing on Saturday and went to a Champagne brunch at the Grandhotel Hessischer Hof (as seen in both pictures above).

This was a brunch on a much smaller scale than those that you find in Singapore - it was really more of a breakfast and most of the diners were guests of the hotel. However, it was a really lovely way to start the day and catch up on the past year over a few glasses of Champagne, coffee, some salmon gravlax and an omelette. The room was very traditional and formal, and the service was relaxed and friendly. We stayed for nearly three hours then headed out to have a look around the city. At €29 per person, we thought this was excellent value. I was trying to push for us to return the following morning before we left for the airport!

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