Desayuno

Part of a series recapping our 2012 trip to Cancun, Mexico!

Breakfast at our resort was only served at World Cafe, the place where we had gone for our lunch buffet the day before. (You could also order room service if you wanted.) Breakfast was a buffet consisting of several stations: kids station, "American" breakfast food (waffles, french toast, etc.), omelettes and eggs, fruit, cereal, yogurt, sausages and meats (including meat carving), grilled vegetables (tomatoes, etc.), juice machines, fresh juice bar, and in the back, the station which would be our favorite - the Mexican station. There were a lot of options.

A sampling of the buffet stations (clockwise from top left): chilaquiles at the Mexican station, tostadas freshly made at the Mexican station, corner of the fresh juice bar, interesting shapes for waffles, more of the fresh juice bar
We overdid it a little bit for our first breakfast at World Cafe, since we didn't know what was good or what we would like.

Left side - the two halves of my first plate; right side top - the yogurt we both got; right side bottom - A's first plate
For my first plate, I got chilaquiles, refried beans, pico de gallo, a grilled tomato, one piece of hash browns, 2 sausage links, and grilled plantains. A got a smaller portion of chilaquiles, the same sausage links and hash browns, a fried cheese empanada, and some smoked salmon with onions and capers. We both picked up a small container of Yoplait peach yogurt.

The yogurt had a fresh and clean flavor, just like Yoplait yogurt at home, and it didn't taste dramatically different. We found the non-Mexican food to be just okay - the hash browns were the same fried thing we could get at home, the sausages were fine but nothing special, the plantains were a little heavy but fine, the grilled tomato was a grilled tomato, and A found the smoked salmon so salty that I didn't even bother trying it. The Mexican breakfast food, however, was amazingly delicious. The chilaquiles were creamy and like comfort food, and topped with the pico de gallo and mixed with the refried beans, it was so full of flavor and refreshing. It was all so good.

(If you don't know what chilaquiles are, they're lightly fried tortilla pieces topped with salsa, cheese and sour cream, and garnished with raw onions and cilantro.)

Looking at our second plates, you can tell what we liked best:

My plate (left side), A's plate (right side), choco zucaritas cereal that we took back to the room for snack but never ended up eating
I got more chilaquiles, more refried beans and more pico de gallo, with a little bit of fruit for dessert. A got more chilaquiles, more refried beans and more pico de gallo, with papayas and the pork stew (also from the Mexican station). A also got another bowl of papayas after that. Clearly, our favorite items were Mexican breakfast dishes.

We also loved the fresh juice bar:

Gorgeous colors for the juices
We tried a lot of the fresh juices. Two of them were orange - orange/carrot and orange/papaya. Between the 2, we preferred the orange/papaya. But that came in second to what turned out to be our favorite juice from the fresh juice bar - beetroot and orange juice (the reddish purple colored one). The green juice there is celery, cactus, pineapple and orange juice. I didn't try this one but A said it was a little salty and you could definitely taste the celery.

I'm not really a big fan of breakfast, as I've mentioned before. (Unlike me, A likes breakfast.) But until the last full day of our trip, I found myself saying that breakfast at World Cafe might be my favorite meal of the day! I think it's the chilaquiles. I could eat chilaquiles for breakfast everyday.

Next: we explore the resort... and then it pours.