+33 8 9170 0370, arenes-arles.com freamon Hôtel D'Arlatan, Arles Set in the old part of Arles, this family-run hotel is a real gem, complete with swimming pool, generous rooms, and a really excellent buffet breakfast.
Migros offers an excellent cold buffet selection with meats, local cheeses and lots of salads.
All the paintings are by Montmartre artists and the basement breakfast area is almost a gallery - as well as displaying an excellent cold buffet.
Gourmand's (37 Via Liberta; 323431) is considered Palermo's chic place; it has an excellent antipasto buffet that includes eggplant rolls, braised radicchio and an exceptional caponata, a sweet-and-sour vegetable stew that includes diced eggplant, red and green peppers, olives, capers and celery.
(last seating, 11 30 p.m ., you can eat at the garden restaurant, Il Giardino dell'Uliveto, which has an excellent lunch buffet, or have a snack or drink at the adjacent cafe, or have your meal brought directly to your chaise longue beside the pool.
The trains may have been small – they were distinctly of the clackety-clack variety – but they had excellent buffet cars, like tapas bars on rails, where I spent many a happy hour sipping wine and eating jamon bocadillos.
Some 560 delegates earned generous per diems to meet in the five-star Moevenpick Hotel in suburban Sanaa, where international consultants' lectures were simultaneously translated into Arabic before everyone enjoyed excellent buffet lunches.
