The best breakfasts in the world

Whether it is the most important meal of the day lately is in question. What no one can doubt is that breakfast is not just one of the meals we eat throughout the day, but a real ritual which has millions of unconditional fans. Whatever country they are from. We go around the world in ten breakfasts and, incidentally, we collect some clues about where and how to taste them.

This is how the day begins in Spain

Café single, espresso, cappuccino, croissants, muffins, fruit juices. But most of all Churros with chocolate, toast with tomato and coffee with milk. Sunrise in Spain is a concentrate of energies. On The Velazquez 17In the heart of the exclusive Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca, various formats of Spanish breakfast are served: the Andalusian, with coffee, tomato bread and fruit juice; the Spanish, with coffee, fruit juice, toast with crushed tomato and tortilla skewer and the Madrileño, with churros, coffee and fruit juice (in all three cases, orange, passion fruit or blackberry).

On Sunday, the best option is brunch at the Hotel Único, designed by the bestselling chef Ramon Freixa. Detox juices, homemade jams, yogurt, seasonal fruit, salads, pastries, macarons and a brunch classic: Eggs Benedictine with smoked salmon. Its price, 49,50 euros per person.

Sunrise in japan

In traditional japanese breakfast You can never miss rice, tsukemono (pickled vegetables), fish, eggs and, above all, miso soup or shiro-miso. This recipe is prepared by diluting the miso paste in dashi, a kombu seaweed-based broth and katsuo-bushi (dried bonito) grated.

La miso soup It is part of the breakfast menu of The Rotunda of the Palace Hotel from Madrid. For those who want to dare with this exotic awakening in the most elegant surroundings.

New York: the real diamond breakfast

El breakfast in America it is usually abundant and varied. Eggs, bacon, cereals, toast, potatoes, roast beef, orange juices, milk, tea, coffee and so-called quick breads, such as muffins, scones, waffles and the famous pancakes with maple syrup, jams and sausages.

It is likely that at this time the most TOP place to have breakfast in the United States is the Blue Box Café, the first foray into jewelry Tiffany&Co. in the world of catering. Located on the fourth floor of the flagship store on Fifth Avenue (yes, the one whose windows reflected an outdated Holly Golightly), this cafe serves classics of American gastronomy.

The breakfast, which costs around $ 29, consists of coffee, tea, croissant and seasonal fruit and can be completed with a waffle with cream, smoked salmon, bagels, truffle eggs or toast with avocado. The dishes are also made of Tiffany&Co. Of course, for now, getting a table in this cafeteria is difficult, if not impossible.

The Italian ritual of the cappuccino

In Italy you have breakfast twice. The first, just after waking up, with a coffee made with Moka (strictly Bialetti) and something sweet. The second breakfast is made in the bars with cornetto (croissant) and cappuccino.

Born according to legend during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the cappuccino is the benchmark of any barista. It is made by frothing the espresso with milk. A good cappuccino it must have a caramel aroma and flavor and the foam must be light, thick and elastic at the same time.

Well hidden in the alleys surrounding the busy Navona Square, Is Coromandel, perfect mix between comfort food and refined details. Here you can take some of the best breakfasts and brunch in the capital. Croissants (in addition to pancakes, scones, and tarts) are made by hand every day.

Antipodean Breakfast: Vegemite and Flat White

En ‘The little book for breakfast lovers’, published in 1987, Jennie Reekie He describes the typical Australian breakfast like this: “a big beef steak with one or more fried eggs” and, in the interior of the country, a fried lamb giblets.

Tommy Tang, Australian and co-founder of Federal Café, defines his compatriots as the “Kings of breakfast”. He doesn’t talk about steak and offal, but he does defend a good coffee with fresh milk, eggs with toast and avocado toast.

In the stores of Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Girona and Valencia of Federal Cafe, the classics are also served vegemite toast, a spread made with a yeast extract, and Flat White, a cappuccino originating in Australia and New Zealand, with a thinner foam layer. With grapefruit, orange and fresh passion fruit juice.

A legendary breakfast: the English breakfast

Pudding (blood sausage), toast, coffee and, of course, tea. The great british breakfast (Full English Breakfast), it seems, became fashionable in Victorian times. Today it stands out as one of England’s most iconic customs and a challenge for any self-respecting breakfast lover.

En Mür Cafe, one of the most ideal corners of the capital for breakfast, a Full English Breakfast consisting of coffee, tea or infusion, sausages, bacon, tenderloin, blood sausage, white blood sausage, eggs, Baked Beans and toast. It is also available in “Veggie version” with mushrooms, roasted peppers, eggs, baked beans, potatoes and toast.

Breakfast perfection: the French croissant

Each filtering bag breakfast lovers They owe much to the battle of Vienna in 1683. It not only led to the appearance of the cappuccino, but also that of the croissant.

Legend has it that this bun was created to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Ottoman army, hence its crescent shape, symbol of the Turkish Empire. Then the French made it a global hit. The ‘croissant’ es imprescindible in the authentic French breakfast, along with bread and butter and jam, pain au chocolat (puff pastry with chocolate) and coffee.

In Spain, there are several temples of the croissant: the pastry shop Chocolate Millthose of Oriol Balaguer and the French pastry shops Fonts, located in two elegant Madrid streets: Juan Bravo street and Castelló street. Its pain au chocolat, its classic Parisian croissant with pure butter and a good coffee will make you feel like in Paris.

Like in Caracas: arepas and melon juice

Gastronomic journalist, businesswoman and gourmet with double passport (Italian and Venezuelan), Antonella Ruggiero Sansone tells how people eat breakfast in Venezuela. A coffee with milk, some natural fruit juices and, above all, arepas, the Venezuelan bread. These are cornmeal muffins that can be filled with endless fillings: meat, cheese, cold cuts, avocado.

In the case of breakfast, the perfect duo It is made up of arepas with ham and cheese or just cheese and the Perico, an onion scramble with tomato. His advice is to go to The Apartaco, where every Sunday a typical Venezuelan brunch is served.

It is composed of three arepitas (one sweet, one roast and one with pork rinds or torrezno), a portion of caraotas (black beans with cheese), grated white cheese, shredded meat or dogfish. To drink, a papelón with lemon (a lemonade sweetened with panela) or passion fruit juice. It costs 20 euros.

Under the Stockholm sky

A home is a small luxury hotel located in Stockholm, in a building built in 1910. Those who have the happiness of staying in one of its twelve rooms, will be able to start the day with breakfast in the library or in the kitchen served at the table. buffet.

As it explains Jeanette Mix, owner of the hotel, the traditional Swedish breakfast served in A home Includes coffee or tea, freshly squeezed orange juice, homemade bread, butter and jams, freshly sliced ​​cheese and ham, vegetables, fresh fruit or seasonal berries, yogurt with homemade granola and egg dishes.

Caviar in the most special corner of Moscow

There are few places in the world with as much charm as the Café Pushkin from Moscow. Every corner of this timeless place deserves a photo, including the traditional Russian tiled toilet. Everything is luxury here: the homemade jams, the natural juices, the typical blinis with caviar, the cakes, the pancakes.

It may not be the most appropriate place to eat a typical, abundant, Russian breakfast – based on kasha (rolled oats cooked in milk), eggs, pancakes with cream, butterbrod (white or black bread with cheese and cold cuts) and dairy – but it is undoubtedly one of the most special establishments where start the day in Russia.

One thousand and one breakfasts

Each filtering bag breakfast lovers more travelers can’t unfollow the Instagram account Symmetry Breakfast, which has become a viral phenomenon and a book that will also soon arrive in Spain. The account is an amazing sample of the variety of breakfasts around the world and a declaration of love for this ritual.

For those who prefer not to move and experiment in their kitchens, the book ‘The Breakfast Journey’ is an anthology of forty recipes of the dishes that star the breakfasts from different countries: from Belgian gaufres to Bolo de Fubá from Brazil, to Baked Oatmel (cake made from oat flakes and fruit) from Canada.