Name: Hotel Marinus
Address: Put Tunjare 63, 21222, Marina, HR
Telephone: 021 202 000
Rating: 4.6

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Half a toasted English muffin, a round of Canadian bacon or ham, a poached egg and a spoonful of hollandaise: eggs Benedict is the New York brunch dish that tests three techniques on one plate and lets you see which the kitchen cannot do. Two origin stories compete, both from Manhattan in the 1890s: one credits a hungover stockbroker named Lemuel Benedict ordering the combination at the Waldorf, the other a regular at Delmonico's named Mrs LeGrand Benedict, and neither can be proved. What is certain is that the dish spread through hotel breakfast rooms in the first half of the twentieth century and became the anchor of the American brunch menu after the 1960s. Its variations follow a pattern: Florentine with spinach, Royale with smoked salmon, Chesapeake with crab cake, and so on, each swapping the meat and keeping the muffin, the egg and the sauce.

The hollandaise is the hard part and the one most often faked. Egg yolks are whisked with a little water or lemon juice over gentle heat until thick and pale, then warm clarified butter is added slowly, whisking, until the sauce is glossy and coats a spoon; it is finished with lemon, salt and a pinch of cayenne and held warm, never hot, for no more than an hour. The eggs are poached in barely simmering water with a splash of vinegar, three minutes for a set white and a liquid yolk, and trimmed of their ragged edges. The muffin is split with a fork, not a knife, so the surface is craggy, and toasted; the bacon is warmed in a pan until the edges colour. Assembly is fast: muffin, meat, egg, a generous spoon of hollandaise, a dusting of paprika or chives, and the plate goes out immediately because a poached egg does not wait.

Cut the egg first: the yolk should run and the white should be fully set, with no clear jelly around it. Then taste the hollandaise on its own: it should be warm, buttery and sharp with lemon, thick enough to sit on the egg without sliding off, and it should not taste of raw egg or of nothing. Mark down a sauce that has split into oily curds, a sauce from a packet or made with a blender shortcut that tastes mainly of butter, a hard yolk, a cold muffin, a soggy muffin that was topped too early, and ham cut so thin it vanishes. Two eggs is a portion. Hash browns or potatoes on the side are standard and do not count. A kitchen that can send out a Benedict with the sauce glossy and the yolk running at eleven on a Sunday morning, under pressure, has earned a high score.

Eggs Benedict

Best eggs benedict with ham i have tried so far.

One of the benefits eating somewhere with real chefs is this. Even a simple eggs benedict is completely different.

Perfectly cooked eggs, really nice idea of having bread to hold the eggs in a bowl.

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