please check off what you'd like

please check off what you'd like
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Here's how it works at the Hotel Savoy in Kansas City, where they've been "offering continuous gracious, elegant, traditional service since 1888," (and last slapped some paint on the walls in 1980): for breakfast you can have anything -- or everything -- on a page long menu that's subdivided into the food groups Soup, Eggs, Lamb, Pork, Veal, Beef, Poultry, Fish & Seafood.

Your options include Lobster Bisque (which is under soup, not seafood), Seafood Gumbo & Oyster Stew (ditto), Eggs Cooked to Your Order, Broiled Lamb Chop, and the traditional pork breakfast meats Bacon, Canadian Bacon, Sausage, and Ham.

Oh: and a Pork Chop.

That's column one.

Column two covers your Veal Scallopines, your Hashes, your Chicken Livers Sauteed with Bacon, and a healthy assortment of swank mid-century seafood dishes including Oysters Rockefeller, Coquille Saint-Jacques, Baked Boston Scrod and Crab Meat Crepes.

Also expected, according to the menu, are pastries, english muffins, cinnamon rolls, hard rolls, juice and coffee, which I suspect is to mitigate the notable absence of any kind of vegetable matter (unless you count the Lamb Sauteed with Artichokes).

Breakfast is included in the price of the room, but only if you submit your choices by 10PM the night before to the front desk clerk who would rather continue the telephone conversation that she was conducting when you first checked in some hours ago.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Posting from my four poster bed at the Hotel Savoy in Kansas City, Missouri.