Home Cooked Breakfast at Birds of a Feather

Home-cooked hot breakfasts always served at Birds of a Feather Victoria Oceanfront Bed and Breakfast A delicious home-cooked breakfast is included and served each morning to all of our guests.

Breakfast is served in our oceanfront dining room, or, weather permitting, on our waterfront deck. Swans, King Fishers, Great Blue Herons, Bufflehead ducks and many other birds regularly "join us" for breakfast in full view just 50 feet from our breakfast table.

Breakfast at most B&B’s is unlike any experience you will have at a hotel. Even with offerings of free breakfasts this cannot begin to compare with a the B&B breakfast experience.

Aside from the obvious in that a B&B breakfast is often superior in selection, quality and presentation it is the very experience itself which is unique and often memorable.

When is the last time you pulled up a chair at someone else’s breakfast table? Here you will meet fellow guests from virtually every part of the world. It is common to hear hours of laughter and good conversation while guests share travel stories at the breakfast table. Guests who meet one another as strangers exchange addresses and emails with one another time and again in friendship and camaraderie.

No one leaves our table hungry. In fact we feel complimented when our guests ask for seconds. The only complaint we ever receive is, "Oh I ate too much." :-)

The menu varies according to the season and the whim of the hosts. We always begin with fresh fruit, freshly brewed premium coffee, a wide range of teas, and orange juice. Yogurts and fresh baked goods often compliment the breakfast table.

You’ll never have the same breakfast twice. So far our record is 15 different consecutively served breakfasts. Some of our favourite dishes include fresh strawberry crepes, and blueberry pancakes served with real Canadian Maple syrup, fresh fruit soufflés, Belgian waffles with fresh berries and/or ice cream, smoked salmon quiche, baked apple French toast, eggs benedict, and much more.

Fields of blackberries are just up the street. Some of our guests come back year after year with empty pails to pick blackberries in August. Strawberries, blueberries, Saskatoon berries, raspberries and many other fresh fruit is also plentiful right here on Vancouver Island. We use them whenever they are available in our breakfasts.

Farm fresh free range eggs are supplied to us by our neighbour who raises free range chickens.

Each of our new rooms are equipped with kitchenettes - microwave, fridge, sink, toaster, coffee-maker - for your added convenience.

The family owned and operated Royal Bay Danish bakery and delicatessen is located at the top of the hill at 3337 Metchosin Road, telephone: 250-478-3717.

See our breakfast recipes >>

 


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Good breakfasts

Thanks for the blanket [Butchart fireworks] the brown bag, all the good breakfasts and your hospitality. It’s 5:00 am and we’re on our way to the early ferry. This was a memorable stop in our 6 week trip. Loved the swans!!

Guest Name: 
Saunders & Allene
Date: 
July 5, 2004
City: 
Lindale
Province/State: 
Texas
Country: 
USA

Blueberry Marmalade

3cups blueberries, fresh / frozen
3 cups sugar
2 limes
1 lemon
1/4 teaspoon ginger, ground

1. Peel limes & lemon, being careful to take only the colored part of the peel, not the white.
2. Slice the peel into strips.
3. Put the peel into a small saucepan and cover with water. Boil for 15 minutes then drain.
4. Place the berries, sugar, juice of the limes and lemon, boiled peel and the ginger into a large non-reactive saucepan.
5. Cook over medium heat until the mixture reaches the jelling stage (220 F). Ladle into clean sterilized jars.
6. Seal according to manufacturer’s instructions.

Our B&B in the news

Float Plane in Esquimalt Lagoon

Story Credit: 
By Amy Dove - Goldstream News Gazette
Date Published: 
31 Jul 2008

Feds silent on planes in bird sanctuary

Little preventing aircraft from landing in Esquimalt Lagoon

It wouldn’t have taken an experienced bird watcher to see there were wings of an all together new variety in Esquimalt Lagoon lately.