The Lind Boracay is a gorgeous place to be when you're looking for a unique kind of leisure in Station 1. The hotel is situated at the far end of White Beach, far from the maddening crowd and hustle of other beach fronts. Here, there is no noise of people hawking trinkets and pimping out every watersport and beach activity possible. It's unwinding at its finest.
For the hungry, it offers three food outlets as your refuge from the usual haunts in the island — places you probably frequent more out of habit rather than perhaps, really delicious food. If you're one to nourish the body with the most important meal of the day, then it's time you learn about Tartine.
The Lind Boracay culinary team is proud of their made-from-scratch specialties, house-cured and house-smoked meats, breads and pastries baked in-house, and robust wood-fired brick oven. The best way to experience all these is at Tartine. Tartine is named after one of its specialties, the French open-faced sandwich, which it also offers on their a la carte menu. It also has many dishes that make use of the hotel's wood-fired brick oven. To get a more extensive experience of how Tartine can flex its muscles to churn out a mouthwatering spread, rise early one morning and bring your hungry self into this restaurant.
Tartine's rotating menus and seasonal offers assure diners that dishes are always created from scratch and made in-house, and only use the freshest available ingredients. For breakfast, the menu mix changes daily, with several mainstays such as egg, noodles, and congee stations; cereals and yogurts, pancakes and breads. There's always bacon, which always makes breakfast much better, and unlimited refill of coffee.
The variety in dishes and cuisine is satisfying, the buffet showcasing an international spread with emphasis on several Asian comfort food favorites. Hot stations have many savory offerings on a pan: roasted tomato, roasted mushroom with butter and herbs, baked beans, bacon, lechon buho (crispy liempo) and homemade chicken sausage. Just by the egg station, its breakfast buddy pancakes and french toast, are ready for you to drench in assorted syrups and honey. For a more Asian morning, partake on their noodle bowl station or congee station, or go Filipino with viands like longganisa and tapa and pair these with rice and a sunny side up egg.
At the cold section of the spread are different juices like four seasons, mango with fresh mint, and orange juice; displayed too are assorted cheese and mini sandwiches, homemade specialties like Tartine's own house smoked tanigue, homemade beef pastrami, homemade black pudding, house smoked salmon, and homemade sardines. On the sweeter spectrum, chillers are lined with sweets like vanilla slice, fresh fruits, chocolate eclair, key lemon pudding, mini swiss rolls, leche flan, orange flourless cake, and cheddar cheese souffle. Healthier breakfast sweets include cups of homemade dragon fruit yogurt, coconut chia pudding, homemade granola, homemade yogurt, and bircher muesli.
A highlight of Tartine's breakfast buffet is their heart-fluttering lineup of delicious carbs — breads and pastries and sweets that will make the dessert lover in you swoon. What's impressive about their extensive spread is that everything is truly the restaurant's own: freshly made, handmade, and using the best ingredients.
You can begin your love affair with their breads with their selection of brioche loaf, soft roll, pandesal, and slices of assorted bread like Turkish, wheat, and dark rye. Choose your favorite and slather with your choice of spread: homemade buttered lemon jam, nutella, homemade orange marmalade, homemade jams in strawberry, tropical, and mango flavors.
More breakfast in the form of beautiful breads await: bibingka studded with sesame seeds, croissants in wheat, plain, chocolate, and multigrain varieties; assorted danish pastries, chocolate and vanilla waffles, calamansi muffins, carrot cake and banana bread. Choose carefully as these can fill you up pretty fast!
It's important to note how the buffet agrees that you can have slices of cake for breakfast, alongside Italian cannoli, panna cotta, Spanish churros, and creme brulee. It's not your typical breakfast staple fare, and we're all the better for it. Other sweet treats we discovered were sticky fig cake, tartlets, apple cake, pistachio cake, bread and butter pudding, sticky rice pudding, assorted cookies, homemade marshmallow, and madeleines. That all of this deliciousness is made in the restaurant and served fresh, makes breakfast even more beautiful — their special attention to detail, freshness and flavor impresses and is reason enough to wake up early in the morning and break your diet.
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Tartine is open daily from 6:30am to 10pm at the Beach Level of The Lind Boracay, Station 1, White Beach. Breakfast Buffet is inclusive of hotel guests' stay, while it is being offered to walk-in diners for P1,586 nett per person (applies to children 12 years old and above), weekdays and weekends. Tartine's breakfast buffet is available from 6:30am to 11am. A la carte dining is also offered.
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