Breakfast

Breakfast, they say, is the most important meal of the day. Accordingly, we place great value on the quality and origin of the food we buy. But variety is also important – we change our selection of cold cuts and cheeses daily. 

Here is an overview

• The sausage is supplied by the Duisburg butcher shop Simon Berns. This year, the butcher shop was once again chosen as Butcher Shop of the Year by the gourmet magazine Feinschmecker, and for good reason: they work with local farmers, and the master butcher regularly experiments in his workshop to develop new recipes, such as meat sausage with fresh strawberries and mint.
• We get our baked goods from a small bakery around the corner from us. In our opinion, the best bread in Duisburg is baked here, and everything is still handmade. You can see and taste it. Unfortunately, as the bakery doesn't open until 5 a.m., we can't offer fresh rolls until shortly after that …
• The apples and pears were harvested on the Lower Rhine. There is an organic apple orchard there that produces great fruit. The fruit may not always win a beauty prize - but it is definitely delicious and healthy!
• The eggs come from a chicken farm on the Lower Rhine. That is where we get our organic eggs.

In addition, there is muesli, cornflakes, organic jam, real Nutella, organic honey, sugar beet syrup (a Lower Rhine specialty!), butter, orange juice, milk, yogurt, spreadable and fresh cheese, liverwurst, homemade cake, fresh gray and black bread, and mineral water from the Rheinfels spring in Duisburg.

Of course, we also offer Jacobs filter coffee, espresso and organic teas from Althaus. 

If you want to take some provisions with you for the journey, no problem. We have prepared sandwich bags for you in which you can pack something.

We serve breakfast directly at your table, with just a few small items arranged on a separate table. Of course, you can have as much of everything as you like - always fresh from the fridge and never stale.

Our breakfast hours are from 6:00 am to 10:00 am, Monday to Friday. However, due to the bakery's later opening hours, we can only offer breakfast from 7:00 am on Saturdays and Sundays. We don't want to compromise on quality, even on weekends.

If you have a food allergy, would like a vegan breakfast or are unable to eat certain foods due to your religion, please let us know before your arrival so that we can prepare accordingly.

sustainability

We're regularly asked why we bring the sausage and cheese to the table, why the coffee pots aren't full, and why we don't serve hot meals. The reasons are as simple as they come: We practice active sustainability at a reasonable price. The food we serve you in the morning is expensive because of the rail freight. In our opinion, it's too expensive to put on a buffet that we have to throw away at 10 a.m. This saves a good 420 kg of cheese and sausage per year, which would otherwise end up in the trash.

A warm breakfast has two problems for us:
1.) We have to remodel our kitchen for food safety reasons, as we open eggs and therefore there is theoretically a risk of salmonella.

2.) We think that scrambled eggs should be made in a pan with butter and a few herbs. Besides the cost of 3-4 organic eggs, this also takes time and therefore money. Our scrambled eggs would cost around €6-7. Ham, bacon, or sausage aren't included in that price. Alternatively, we could heat liquid egg from battery cages in a Tetra Pak using a hot air system. It would look like scrambled eggs – but it isn't, and it tastes as bland as it sounds. You can easily recognize this kind of scrambled egg in a hotel when it's sitting in warming trays like a solid concrete wall. You need a knife to cut off any.

Please don't be mad at us for focusing on quality rather than quantity here.

We've also reduced our plastic packaging as much as possible. The renovations at the beginning of 2025 allowed us to make many changes and, above all, improvements. Among other things, we've switched to loose tea, jam, and honey dispensed from dispensers. Naturally, everything is organic. It took us a long time to find a supplier who met our high standards for jam and honey. We hope you like it as much as we do.