continental breakfast
Light hotel meal
A continental breakfast is a light morning meal typically offered at hotels, consisting of pastries, bread, butter, jam, and coffee or juice—but no cooked items like eggs or bacon.
The term distinguishes this simpler European-style offering from a full or "American" breakfast with hot dishes.
The hotel rate includes a continental breakfast each morning.
The meal is called continental because it reflects traditional breakfast customs of mainland Europe, particularly France.
- innLodging for wayfarers
- croissantLayered crescent-shaped pastry
- guesthouseLodging for visitors
- brekkieInformal term for breakfast
- cold cutsPrecooked sliced meats
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Traditional British cooked morning meal
English breakfast · full breakfast · American breakfast · fry-up · eggs and bacon
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