Hyatt Regency Irvine 2009 Review Part 3: Breakfast and Conclusion

Welcome to part 3 of the Hyatt Regency Irvine review. This part isn't much of a "review" of any sort but experiencing the breakfast buffet they had set up the next day for us. If you have not read Part 1 or 2 yet, they are here:

Hyatt Regency Irvine 2009 Review Part 1: Check-In and Public Spaces
Hyatt Regency Irvine 2009 Review Part 2: Rooms and Conclusion

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Anyway, after waking up, I left the room to go down for more of the conference activities. While waiting for the elevator again on my floor, I looked around and found this plant. Usually, these plants symbolize good things for the Chinese, so I was interested to find it here.

Downstairs, although it was almost three hours until we would even have breakfast, the Hyatt crew was already busy setting up. Here you can see the tables.

They brought in plenty of prepared items such as the fruit you see above as well as things like small glass jars of Hero jams, lots of plates, and lots of glasses. These were all on rolling carts, as there were so many of them!

Look what they did with the butter too! Piped nicely in a tray, this was not the final product yet. They still had to place these pieces of flower shaped butter onto plates. By the end of the breakfast, they had run out of these. Looks like a lot of butter here right? But it was just the perfect amount. Approximately 140 of these per tray :).

When it was about an hour to serving they placed everything onto their respective areas while not opening the plastic wraps just yet.

It was not long until they finished the preparations and the buffet was open for use. Go, people, get your food!

After getting some of the hot items available in the line, I took a picture of the pastries, which then of course came another yell of "you take pictures of food?"

So here was my first jumbled plate of everything. There were not that many things to choose from- you are seeing all the hot items available: sausage, scrambled eggs, homestyle potatoes, and bacon. All of these items were okay, other than the sausage which was too oily and quite hard to cut with a knife with the oily casing. With some ketchup the scrambled eggs were even delicious, although it was already fluffy and nicely cooked. The croissant was crispy on the outside and buttery on the inside with multiple layers of dough. Not that it needed it, but the butter went great along the the croissant as it was not salted. I like unsalted butter after all. All the fruits were fresh and thus I got more.

And of course, the orange juice was fresh and not pasteurized. I got oh, 5 cups of the orange juice? It was tasty! Besides, it was not cheap either at the Cafe- one large plastic cup for 6 dollars.

Overall, a simple but pretty good breakfast buffet of good quality ingredients. The funny thing is that other people from the hotel who were not part of the conference would come and take some items for their own breakfast. That's the problem when you set up breakfast in a public area. :) Free continental breakfast for everyone!


Hyatt Regency Irvine
17900 Jamboree Road
Irvine, California, USA 92614
Tel: +1 949 975 1234


Other posts in this series in order:
Hyatt Regency Irvine 2009 Review Part 1: Check-In and Public Spaces
Souplantation- Irvine
Hyatt Regency Irvine 2009 Review Part 2: Rooms and Conclusion
California Pizza Kitchen- Irvine
Hyatt Regency Irvine 2009 Review Part 3: Breakfast