The London Review of Breakfasts

"Why, next to Magna Charta, an Englishman's breakfast is his most sacred right." (Irvin S. Cobb)

Friday, August 19, 2005

Reviews by Area

ACTON
Jocks Cafe

ARCHWAY
Cafe Diana

BALHAM
Patisserie Ann Marie

BERMONDSEY
The Bermondsey Kitchen
Butler's Wharf Chop House
The Garrison

BETHNAL GREEN
Bistrotheque
Cambridge Cafe
Car Park and Cafe
Elliot's Cafe
Nico's Restaurant
E Pellicci
Wild Cherry

BLOOMSBURY
Meals
myhotel
Pancake Cafe

BOROUGH
Café Rossi
El Vergel
Harpers
Maria's
Orient EspressO

BRENT CROSS
Lakeland Cafe

BRIXTON
Honest Food
Phoenix Restaurant

BROADGATE
Cafe SO, Tower 42

BROCKLEY
Moonbow Jakes
Toads Mouth Too

BRONDESBURY
Rose's

CAMBERWELL
Rock Steady Eddie's

CAMDEN TOWN
Bar Solo
Café Crescent (now Café Grill - see below)
Café Grill
Cafe & Grill
Camden Kitchen
Goodfare
Kako

CHELSEA
Baker & Spice
Tom's Kitchen

CLAPHAM
The Boiled Egg and Soldiers
Brew
Gastro

CLAPTON
The Eclipse (Lower Clapton)
Spark Cafe

CLERKENWELL
Al's Cafe Bar
The Ambassador
Bleeding Heart Tavern
Flâneur
J + A Cafe
Medcalf
The Zetter

COVENT GARDEN
Diana's Diner
Paul
Simpsons-in-the-Strand

CROUCH END
Banners
Cafe Solo

DALSTON
Evin Cafe Bar
Leo's Café and Restaurant

DARTMOUTH PARK
The Dartmouth Arms

DE BEAUVOIR TOWN
The Rosemary Branch
The Waterhouse

DEPTFORD
The Deptford Project
Little Mo's Cafe

DOCKLANDS
Docklands Diner
Fino's Orangery

EALING
The Walpole

EAST DULWICH
Black Cherry
Blue Brick Cafe
Franklins
Le Chandelier
Mon P'tit Chou
The Uplands Bar & Brasserie
Uplands Cafe

EASYJET
Inflight Food Trolley

EDMONTON
IKEA

EUROSTAR
Gare du Nord to London Waterloo

EUSTON
The Bagel Factory
Delice de France
The Place Cafe

FARRINGDON
Kekik Cafe Bistro Grill
The Quality Chop House
Smiths of Smithfield

FINCHLEY
Kings Café

FINSBURY PARK
Cafe Mari e Monti
Coffee Cake

FIRST GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS
Swansea to London

FITZROVIA
Café Rive Gauche
Carluccio's
Charlotte Street Hotel
Davy's Wine Bar
Euston Sandwich Bar
Lantana
Scandinavian Kitchen
Villandry

FULHAM
River Cafe

GATWICK
Est Est Est (South Terminal)
Yo! Sushi (North Terminal)

GOSPEL OAK
Bull & Last
Village Café

GREENFORD
Starvin' Marvin's

GREENWICH
Greenwich Picturehouse (The Breakfast Club)
Peter de Wit's
Pistachios

HACKNEY
Broadway Cafe
The Bruncheon Club
Café Bohemia
Cilicia
Climpson & Sons
Corner Deli
Dalston Lane Cafe
Hackney City Farm
La Vie en Rose
Little Georgia
Mess

HAMMERSMITH
Half Moon Café

HAMPSTEAD
Dominique's in Hampstead Heath
Parliament Hill Café

HARRINGAY
Café Lemon
The Lime Cafe

HEATHROW
Carluccio's (Terminal 5)
Chez Gerard (Terminal 3)
Garfunkel's (Terminal 4)
"A Tale of Two Breakfasts": The Tin Goose vs Giraffe (Terminal 1)

HERNE HILL
The Prince Regent
Pullen's Dining Room

HIGHBURY
Flame Cafe Bistro
Gill Wing Café (now closed)
Grove Cafe
Kika
The Sandwich Box
String Ray Café

HIGHGATE
Café Mozart
The Gatehouse
Kalendar
Queens Wood Cafe

HOLLAND PARK
Cowshed Clarendon Cross

HOXTON
Paris Cafe & Sandwich Bar

ISLINGTON
Alpino
Art to Zen
The Breakfast Club
The Elk in the Woods
Euphorium Bakery
The Green
Mr Christian's (now closed)
Ottolenghi
S & M Café

KENSAL GREEN
Gracelands

KENSAL RISE
Paradise Cafe
Station Cafe

KENSINGTON
Balans
Clarke's
Kensington Square Kitchen
Whole Foods

KENSINGTON (SOUTH)
Cafe Floris
La Liaison
Med Kitchen

KENTISH TOWN
The Abbey
Brassino
Cafe Euro Med
Café RED
Mario's Cafe
The Oxford
The Pineapple

KILBURN
The Cafe (also known as Ellie's)

KING'S CROSS
Acorn House
06 St Chad's Place
The Brill Restaurant and Cellar Bar
Café Express
Green and Fortune Cafe
Konstam (now closed)

KINGSLAND
Arthur's
Food Van

KNIGHTSBRIDGE
The Caramel Room

LEYTONSTONE
Café Diana

LONDON BRIDGE
My Tea Shop

LOWER HOLLOWAY
Manolis Cafe
Paradise Cafe

MARYLEBONE
Blandford's
Coco Momo Cafe Bar
La Fromagerie
The Providores and Tapa Room

MAYFAIR
Cecconi's
Maze Grill
The Wolseley

MORTLAKE
TJ's

NEWINGTON GREEN
Belle Epoque
The Gate
Relish (now Trattoria Sapori - see below)
Trattoria Sapori

NOTTING HILL
Cafe Diana
Manzara
Mike's Cafe

ONE RAILWAYS
London to Norwich

PADDINGTON
Eat
Mad Bishop & Bear

PALMERS GREEN
Taste Buds
The Waiting Rooms

PECKHAM
Lucius & Richards
The Peckham Experiment

PIMLICO
Regency Cafe

PRIMROSE HILL
Café Seventy Nine
The Engineer
Trojka

PUTNEY
Café Rogerio's
Moomba World Café
Pete's Mini Bar

QUEEN'S PARK
Hugo's
Jack's

REGENT'S PARK
The Honest Sausage

SHOREDITCH
Albion
The Diner
Fifteen
Franco's
The Grocery
Hoxton Grille
Leila's Shop
The Premises
The Redchurch
Rivington Grill
Shoreditch House
Smallfish (now closed)
Zigfrid

SOHO
Balans
Bar Italia
Café Boheme
The Breakfast Club
Eat
Fernandez & Wells
Maison Bertaux
The Milk Bar
The New Piccadilly (now closed)
Patisserie Valérie
Silvas

SOMERSTOWN
Le Pain Quotidien

SOMEWHERE OR OTHER
Burger King
McDonald's
Pret a Manger
Starbucks
Subway

SOUTHBANK
Canteen
Le Pain Quotidien

SOUTH HAMPSTEAD
Garden Cafe and Restaurant

SPITALFIELDS
Brick Lane Beigel Bake
Dino's Grill & Restaurant
Canteen
Giraffe
Leon
Rossi Restaurant
S & M Cafe
Soup + Salad
St John Bread & Wine
Story Deli
Yummy's

STANSTED
Ponti's
Wetherspoon Express

STOKE NEWINGTON
The Bird Cage
The Blue Legume
Bodrum Cafe
Café Z Bar
Clicia
Dem Cafe Bar
The Dervish
New River Cafe

STREATHAM
Nineteen
Perfect Blend
Purple

SURBITON
Puccino's

TUFNELL PARK
Fortess Cafe Restaurant
Rustique

VICTORIA
DK's Cafe

VICTORIA PARK
Elbows Cafe
The Empress of India
Fish House
The Pavilion Cafe

WALTHAMSTOW
The Deli
Eat 17

WANDSWORTH
Café Fleur

WAPPING
The Wapping Project

WATERLOO
The Bagel Factory
Burger King
Waterloo Brasserie

WEST HAMPSTEAD
J's

10 Comments:

Seb Rate-Bills said...: You can eat one of the best breakfasts in London providing you don't mind feeling like an intruder. Fuzzy Grub- a name someone actually chose-is in Crown Passage, an alley off Pall Mall with many sandwich bars in it serving the hundreds of nearby offices. The competition has forced FG to a high standard but they are clearly interested in delivering sandwiches and hot roast meals to their neighbours. The busy young staff are not unpleasant but they are not geared to visitors and would probably prefer it if you weren't there. This attitude means that if you want a fruit juice you get it yourself from the fridge and they'll give you a paper cup from behind the counter. It's worth perservering though for the St James's breakfast. Perfect Bacon Sausages black Pudding and hash browns on the plate with two bowls, one for your eggs and one for baked beans. Anyone who remembers and agrees with Alan Partridge's requirements will understand: ' I might want to mix the eggs with the beans but I'd like the option'.; 12:27 AM, May 20, 2006
phaeton said...: Should you ever venture into Clapham - and lord knows I wouldn't blame you if you didn't - you will be mightily rewarded on the High St with Breads Etc, a very lovely bakery/cafe with good staff that not only makes the most mouthwatering selection of breads this side of anywhere, but feeds it to you dirt cheap. Just ring ahead on weekends.

Go for the DIY toast option. Each table has a massive toaster in the middle, and go and slice yourself a lot of bread. There's a basket filled with different sorts of the stuff, fruit bread, sour dough, olive, granary, rye...you get the picture. There's loads of other nice things on the menu too but the DIY toast is golden.

Slap your chosen bread in the toaster, then go and grab some of the bucket of butter and choose your topping. There's about 25 different Tiptree jams, plus Marmite, peanut butter and everything you can need. Even ketchup and HP for the desperate.

Have as much toast as you like. Eat. Carry on eating. Then pay your utterly ludicrous TWO POUNDS FIFTY and don't bother to eat for the rest of the day.

Mmm...; 9:39 PM, January 10, 2007
Anonymous said...: Best Breakfast in London is served at 'The Other Side' on Pentonville Rd Kings X.

I used to eat there when I worked across the rd.

If you go before Noon you get ‘Full English’ including eggs , great bacon & sausage , mushrooms, fresh toms , 2 brown (uncut) ‘Holy Ghost’ and tea or coffee (or cappuccino) for around £3.

It looks clean, tastes clean and the Polish girls are superb waitresses.

It’s a real treat and how a great English Breakfast should be prepared and presented!; 1:09 PM, March 19, 2007
christina said...: Love this place! Great for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Went there at 10.30 one evening just for a pudding (after a main course somewhere else that refused to serve us puddings that 'late').; 9:21 AM, August 06, 2007
Anonymous said...: Anyone have any reviews of Archway/upper Holloway areas. I am afraid to venture into some of them...; 1:53 PM, February 25, 2008
Malcolm Eggs said...: Hello Anonymous - I've just this moment posted a review of Cafe Diana in Archway. See the front page.; 11:23 AM, February 29, 2008
Anonymous said...: The best breakfast I have yet to come across is at The Kitchen Table on Mill Lane, West Hampstead. The cafe it self is a bright room with wooden floors and tables, as well as a huge communal table. The kitchen is open, so you can watch while your breakfast is being made.
I had coffee which came from Monmouth, and needless to say, was great, and the bacon sandwich I had came on proper bread, which came from Born and Bread (I had to ask as it was so good), with the added bonus of roasted tomatoes. My friend had field mushrooms on toast which were cooked with thyme and garlic, and were declared 'amazing'. Everything appeared to be homemade, including the amazing cakes on the front counter. Give it a go, you won't be dissapointed, and if you are could you let me know where you go!!; 5:28 PM, March 22, 2008
Anonymous said...: Le pot lyonnais at the bottom of queenstown road (near Lavender Hill/Wandsworth Road junction)...French, but fabulous and not too expensive.; 5:58 PM, July 12, 2008
Anonymous said...: Get down to the Battersea Grill and peruse the special's menu - oh my God!; 4:43 PM, January 07, 2009
Anonymous said...: Can anyone recommend a pub/cafe that serves up a good English breakfast near the Gloucester tube stop?; 7:26 PM, February 18, 2009