Azure is a seaside restaurant, and the setting of our daily buffet breakfast.
Food
Before I describe all the food, let me just say that I did try all of this over the course of 5 days and I didn’t eat it all in one go!
Cold Selection:
- smoked salmon - the best smoked salmon I have eaten at a buffet breakfast. You can actually taste the freshness. According to the staff, the seafood is shipped fresh from Sydney every day.
- smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel - even better than just smoked salmon!
- assorted cold cuts - again, great quality
- Bircher muesli with berry compote and strawberry yoghurt - really yummy, especially the really well made berry compote
- Bircher muesli with stewed prunes, cherries and berry compote - tried it again just for the stewed fruits, and they didn’t disappoint, especially the cherry.
- mango and natural yoghurt with dried fruit and nuts - yum, the mango yoghurt had pieces of mango and was so sweet, plus they had the freshest macadamia nuts
- cheese with dried fruit - the brie was soft, the smoked cheese smoky, the cheddar and the Eden were ok, the blue was excellent, especially paired with a dried fig, but they didn’t serve it every day, and a great selection of dried fruit to go with them.
- assorted fruit - the grapefruit was quite sour, the other fruit were not that fresh or sweet, but I blame that more on the season.
- apple Danish - quite sweet, but the pastry was great. The waiter told us everything was made fresh on the premises
- blueberry Danish - beautiful custard cream
- raspberry Danish - same beautiful cream, different fruit
- strawberry Danish - same same
- peach Danish - not very sweet and with not much peach taste
- almond Danish - actually tastes different, with an almond cream paste and flaky croissant on top.
- apricot Danish - same as the others
- croissant with strawberry jam - very buttery and flaky
- chocolate croissant - the chocolate is soft and leaves a mess, but it’s satisfactory
- rye bread - yum of course!
- raisin bun - soft and with the juiciest raisins
- raisin scroll - buttery and sweet, not very flaky at all
- cheese scroll - great pastry and great quality cheese
- miso soup - too salty, but that’s maybe because we put too much dried bonito flakes in!
- blueberry muffin - in the hot selection, so was served warm, with a very crunchy top
- chocolate muffin - so yum with melted chocolate chips
- zucchini and onion - nicely dressed with oil and herbs
- smoked salmon and spinach egg pot - the pepper really lifted this dish
- hash brown - Slokky’s favourite, very crunchy
- chicken sausage - beautiful, a bit spicy to bring out the flavour
- chipolata sausage - spicy, with a good splattering of fat spicy beef sausage - really strange and dry.Sicilian lyonnaise (pork) sausage - juicier than the beef but not that exciting
- duck sausage - the best of all the sausages, gamey, slightly sweet, plus I detected a hint of alcohol.
- omelette with mushrooms, cheese and tomato - made to order, but I found it a bit too salty and cheesy.
- omelette with everything except cheese - even without the cheese, it was too salty. In fact I had a whole mouth full of salt crystal at one stage!
- scrambled eggs - creamy enough, but because it’s not made to order, it wasn’t the best I’ve tasted.
- baked beans on poppyseed bun - certainly better than the canned variety, but it’s still baked beans
- eggplant Parmigiana - juicy eggplant let down y the sauce
- eggplant with Napolitana sauce and cheese - tastes pretty much like the Parmegiana, except with more tomatoes
- bacon and leek frittata - lovely firm eggs
- bacon - lovely and crisp
- poached egg - made just right, the yolk still slightly runny
- poached egg with hollandaise - the hollandaise is excellent
- roast tomato - with cheese on top. Sweet but not too sweet
- beef steak - never a good idea to eat well done beef that’s been sitting in a bain marine, even those made with good quality beef.
- French toast - made with thick, good quality bread, just the way it should be. This one is not that eggy, which I enjoyed but Slokky didn’t.
- pancake - very thick and fluffy, not too sweet, and with fresh honey as an accompaniment.
- fried potato - much better than the hash browns in my opinion
- skim cappuccino - from Segafredo and beautifully made
- latte - made by a different barista, pulled too long but still ok
- mocha - very nicely made again, I am glad they are back on their game
- hot chocolate - nicely made, not too sweet
- peppermint tea - refreshing, but I can never taste the difference between teabag and real tea
- grapefruit juice - a bit sour but cleansing
- champagne cocktail - very nice, but make sure you have nothing strenuous planned for the morning
- apple juice - sweet and fresh
- pineapple juice - beautiful, not too sweet unlike other juice
- orange juice - the real stuff
Rating - 7
Atmosphere
Azure is absolutely beautiful. You can choose to sit outside, overlooking the beach, inside, overlooking the beach through the floor to ceiling windows, or inside, overlooking the buffet. The buffet is laid out around some beautiful flower arrangements. You can watch the chefs at work, frying the eggs and pancakes, in the open kitchen. The décor is seaside chic.
Rating - 3
Service
On our first day, we were given a tour of the place and explained how things worked. Each day we were served by a different waiter, with various levels of service, but generally, they were thoughtful, friendly and courteous. When it got busy though, there was quite a wait to get breakfast. Dishes were generally cleared quickly, but some were definitely more thoughtful than others.
Rating - 4
C-factor
Our package included buffet breakfast.
Rating - 1
Brownie Points - 15
Info
Hayman Island Resort
Hayman Island
Great Barrier Reef
QLD 4801
Phone (07) 4940 1234
Website
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