The London Review of Breakfasts

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." (Francis Bacon)

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Reviews by Contributor

DAMON ALLBRAN
York & Albany, Camden Town


KOFFEE ANNAN

Hoxton Grille, Shoreditch

FLORA ASHLEY
Fleet River Bakery, Holborn
Gusto, Cape Town, South Africa


DES AYUNO

Broadway Cafe, Hackney
The Claridges, Faridabad, India

The Coffee House, Philadelphia, USA
Divalls, Brighton (now closed)
The Grocery, Shoreditch
Jack N Jills, Beverly Hills, USA

The Kitchen, Polperro
La Vie en Rose, Hackney
Little Georgia, Hackney
Little Mo's Cafe, Deptford
Parliament Hill Café, Hampstead Heath

The Penz, Innsbruck, Austria
Peter de Wit's, Greenwich
Rivington Grill, Shoreditch
Starbucks, Beijing Capital International Airport, China
Woolverton House Hotel, Woolverton

CHRIS P BACON
Jocks Cafe, Acton

MEGAN BACON
Dino's Grill & Restaurant, Spitalfields
Leo's Café and Restaurant, Dalston
Relish, Newington Green
Sylvia's, New York

HERBY BANGER
Banners, Crouch End
Black Cherry, East Dulwich
Blue Brick Cafe, East Dulwich
Chez Gerard, Heathrow Airport
Franklins, East Dulwich
The Peckham Experiment, Peckham
The Quality Chop House, Farringdon
Rock Steady Eddie's, Camberwell
The Uplands Bar & Brasserie, East Dulwich
"A Tale of Two Breakfasts": The Tin Goose vs Giraffe, Heathrow Airport
Wetherspoon Express, Stansted Airport

TINA BEANS
Cheers Bar, Protaras
Franklins, East Dulwich
Uplands Cafe, East Dulwich

SALMON DE BEAUVOIR
The Brill Restaurant and Cellar Bar, King's Cross

ED BENEDICT

The Elk in the Woods, Islington
Smiths of Smithfield, Farringdon

GEORGE BERECFAST
Op-Egg: 99 ways to have breakfast
Op-Egg: an attempt to exhaust a breakfast

VITA BICKS
The Ambassador, Clerkenwell
Mr Christian's, Islington
Pancake Cafe, Bloomsbury

MORCILLA BLACK
Café Lemon, Harringay

HOMEFRIES BOGART
Long White Cloud, Shoreditch
Ozone Coffee Roasters, Shoreditch

GREGG E. BREAD
Andrew's Café, Clerkenwell
Book Club, Shoreditch
Trattoria Sapori, Newington Green

REGGIE BREK
Eurostar, Gare du Nord to London Waterloo
Subway, Anywhere

FARLS BRONSON
Coco Momo Cafe Bar, Marylebone

HASHLEY BROWN
11, Carey's Cottages, Brockenhurst, Hampshire

Brassino, Kentish Town
The Breakfast Club, Greenwich Picturehouse, Greenwich
British Airways breakfast, somewhere over northern Portugal

Burger King, Waterloo
Café Diana, Leytonstone
Carluccio's, Terminal 5, Heathrow

Daiwa Sushi, Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo
The Eclipse, Lower Clapton
Food Van, Kingsland Waste Market
Garfunkel's, Heathrow Airport
G Muratori, Clerkenwell
Green and Fortune Cafe, King's Cross
The Honest Sausage, Regent's Park
Hugo's, Queens Park
Kimchi, Seoul, Korea
Lucius & Richards, Peckham
McDonald's, Somewhere or Other
Mess, Hackney Central
Olympia Restaurant, Mount Airy, USA

Op-Egg: Advertisers, please just let bacon be bacon
Op-Egg: "Call of the House of Rasher": In Defence of the Local Shopkeeper
Op-Egg: What we talk about when we talk about wedding breakfasts
Op-Egg: Where have all the breakfasts gone?
The Oxford, Kentish Town
The Pineapple, Kentish Town
Ponti's, Stansted Airport
The Premises, Shoreditch
Scandinavian Kitchen, Fitzrovia
"A Tale of Two Scotlands"
Village Café, Gospel Oak
Villandry, Fitzrovia
Yo! Sushi, Gatwick Airport

DEE CAFF
The Boiled Egg and Soldiers, Clapham
Brew, Clapham Junction
Prime Burger, New York


JOHNNY CEP
Allpress Espresso, Shoreditch

SCOTT CHEIGG
The Cafe (also known as Ellie's), Kilburn
Jack's, Queens Park
The Providores and Tapa Room, Marylebone

PAM AU CHOCOLAT
The Garrison, Bermondsey
Maria's, Borough
St John Bread & Wine, Spitalfields

EGGATHA CHRISPIE
Story Deli, Spitalfields

MOLLY CODDLE-DEGG
Clicia, Stoke Newington
Eat, Paddington
Fino's Orangery, Docklands
Med Kitchen, South Kensington

CAPTAIN COOK
Shipping Dispatch: 6.30am P&O Ferry, Dover to Calais

ARMAND CROISSANT
Fernandez & Wells, Soho
La Fromagerie, Marylbone
Gracelands, Kensal Green
Reka Dom, Devon

HENRIETTA CRUMPET
Brick Lane Beigel Bake, Spitalfields
Euphorium Bakery, Islington
The Shakespeare Bed & Breakfast, Lancaster

Workers Cafe, Islington

MARIAH DAIRY
Homa, Stoke Newington

HOLLY N. DAISE
Toads Mouth Too, Brockley


PAM DE MIE
Clarke's, Kensington

ORVA EASY
Bills Produce Store, Lewes, East Sussex
Bistrotheque, Bethnal Green
Cecconi's, Mayfair
Evin Cafe Bar, Dalston
Café Z Bar, Stoke Newington
Le Pain Quotidien, South Bank
Paul, Covent Garden
The Prince Regent, Herne Hill
The Waterhouse, De Beauvoir Town


DUKE EGGINGTON
Dem Cafe Bar, Stoke Newington

MALCOLM EGGS
Al's Cafe Bar, Exmouth Market
Arthur's Cafe, Kingsland
Bill's Produce Store, Soho
The brekkies: ten of the best breakfasts available to humanity
The Bruncheon Club, Hackney
Cafe Euro Med, Kentish Town
Caravan, Clerkenwell

Camden Kitchen, Camden Town
Campania Gastronomia, Shoreditch

Cilicia, Broadway Market
The Counter Cafe, Hackney Wick
The Delaunay, Covent Garden
Eat, Soho Square
Est Est Est, Gatwick Airport (South Terminal)
Frank's Cafe and Campari Bar
Goodfare, Camden Town
Hawksmoor, Spitalfields

IKEA, Edmonton
Kahana Sands Restaurant, Kahana Sands, Maui

Le Chandelier, East Dulwich
Little Portland Cafe, Fitzrovia

Leon, Spitalfields
Mon P'tit Chou, East Dulwich

The New Piccadilly, Soho
New River Cafe, Stoke Newington
Phoenix Restaurant, Brixton
Rossi Restaurant, Spitalfields
S & M Café, Spitalfields
Shoreditch House, Shoreditch
Smallfish, Shoreditch (now closed)
Soup + Salad, Spitalfields
Spark Cafe, Clapton
The Walpole, Ealing
The Wapping Project, Wapping

The Zetter, Clerkenwell

PHIL ENGLISH
Belle Epoque, Newington Green
Delice de France, Euston
Flâneur, Clerkenwell
Ottolenghi, Islington

BOB EL ENSQUIQUE
La Liaison, South Kensington
Cafe Floris, South Kensington
High Street Cafe, Bedford

CORIN FLAKES
Bar Solo, Camden
Café Seventy Nine, Primrose Hill
The Engineer, Primrose Hill
Trojka, Primrose Hill

SEBASTIAN FORKS
Nhow Hotel, Berlin
Si Signore, Brighton

DR SIGMUND FRIED
Carluccio's, Fitzrovia
Garufa Argentine Grill, Highbury

Giraffe, Spitalfields
Hackney City Farm, Hackney
Kika, Highbury
Kekik Cafe Bistro Grill, Farringdon
Konstam, King's Cross (now closed)
Mario's Cafe, Kentish Town
The Rosemary Branch, De Beauvoir Town

Silvas, Soho

SADIE FROSTIES
Canteen, Southbank

The Cat & Cucumber, Bermondsey

Christopher's, Covent Garden
The Table, Southwark

STEPHEN FRY-UP

Cafe Solo, Crouch End
Cambridge Cafe, Bethnal Green
Greaseless Spoon Cafe, Holborn

Station Café, Kensal Rise
Queens Wood Cafe, Highgate
The Russet, Hackney Downs

CHERIE FUNGHI
La Casita, Streatham

FIDEL GASTRO
Stack 'em High, North Carolina, USA

MUFFIN GAYE
My Tea Shop, London Bridge

NELSON GRIDDLE
Burger King, Anywhere
Café Crescent, Camden Town (now Café Grill - see two entries below)
Cafe & Grill, Camden Town
Café Grill, Camden Town
Casa Caminho do Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro

Fortess Cafe Restaurant, Tufnell Park
Hotel Montana, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Kako, Camden Town
Kings Café, Finchley
Lakeland Cafe, Brent Cross
Nineteen, Streatham

Pete's Mini Bar, Putney
Op-Egg: Giles Coren is Being a Bit Daft

Op-Egg: Why Italians are Always Searching for Breakfast
Sveti Vrach Spa Hotel, Sandanski, Bulgaria

AA GRILL
Book Review: 'Breakfast at the Wolseley' by AA Gill
Mermaid Restaurant, Hastings

BRANNIE HALL
The Shepherdess Cafe, Shoreditch

PADDY HASHBROWN
Cafe Diana, Archway
Paris Cafe & Sandwich Bar, Hoxton


KIWI HERMAN
Aaron House, Port St Mary, Isle of Man
The White Bar, Chic and Basic, Barcelona

EGGMUND HILLARY
Fire Bar and Bistro Newquay
Honest Food, Brixton

BILLIE HOLLANDAISE
The Village Cafe, Ladywell

LA SOYA JACKSON
Op-Egg: How to be a vegan at breakfast


CHER E. JAMM
Bailiffscourt Hotel and Spa, Climping, West Sussex
Café Mozart, Highgate
Dean Street Townhouse, Soho

Diana's Diner, Waterloo
Escape, Llandudno
Fluffy Rock Cafe, Glastonbury Festival
Manic Organic, Glastonbury Festival
Not Manic Organic, Glastonbury Festival
News Cafe, Miami Beach, Florida
Op Egg: The Credit Brunch

TOMMY KAY, PAM CAKES AND SIAN FLAKES

Moonbow Jakes, Brockley

CAFF KIDSTON
Volcanic Dispash: Cafe 1916, Palma, Mallorca


VEGGIE KRAY
Garden Cafe and Restaurant, South Hampstead
J's, West Hampstead
Rose's, Brondesbury

SHREDDIE KRUGER
Bistrot Bruno Loubet, Clerkenwell
Blandford's, Marylebone
Cafe Aion, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Casa Madeira, Vauxhall
Little Chef, Popham, Hampshire
Lucile's, Boulder, Colorado, USA

The W and The James, Chicago

MAMA LADE
Bleeding Heart Tavern, Clerkenwell
The Gate, Newington Green

CATHY LATTE
The Antique Cafe, Chelsea, New York
The Bagel Factory, Waterloo International
Balans, Soho
Café Bohemia, Hackney
Canteen, Spitalfields
The Deli, Walthamstow

Eat 17, Walthamstow
Elbows Cafe, Hackney
Fish House, Hackney
Mike's Cafe, Notting Hill

MOOSE LEE
Albion, Shoreditch

Book Club, Shoreditch

Climpson & Sons, Hackney
Elliot's Cafe, Bethnal Green
First Great Western Railways, Swansea to London
Franco's, Shoreditch
J + A Cafe, Clerkenwell

One Railways, London to Norwich
The Pavilion Cafe, Hackney

BEE LOOBURY
Lucky 7, Westbourne Green
Prufrock Café, Clerkenwell

EGGY MAIR
The Foyer, BBC Television Centre, Shepherd's Bush


BLOODY MARY
Cafe SO, Tower 42, Broadgate
The Priory, Roehampton

TYPHOO MARY

Hackney Bureau, Hackney

EGG MILIBAND
Brazas Restaurant, Brixton
The Brick Box, Brixton
Thunderbird Cafe, Wellington, New Zealand

DAW AUNG SAN MUE SLI
Breakfast in Yangon

MACK MUFFIN
Patisserie Valerie, Marylebone

RONNIE OAK

Daley Bread, Fitzrovia

HAULIN' OATS

The Ace Hotel / Hoi Polloi

JOYCE CAROL OATS
Cafe Olive, Islington
Car Park and Cafe, Bethnal Green
Elmo's Diner, North Carolina
Fika, Shoreditch
Franze and Evans, Shoreditch

Hotel Cabinn City, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paper Moon Diner, Baltimore
The Three Bells, Heathrow Airport
Towpath, De Beauvoir Town
Wild Cherry, Bethnal Green

YOLKO ONO

Fifteen, Shoreditch

ANNE O'RAISIN
Paternoster Chop House, The City


BREE OSHE
Café Rossi, Borough
Harpers, Borough
Orient EspressO, Borough
Patisserie Ann Marie, Balham

HAMISH PASTRY
Art to Zen, Islington
The Gatehouse, Highgate
The Green, Islington
Paradise Cafe, Lower Holloway

RHYS CHRIS PEESE
Automat, Mayfair

Baker & Spice, Chelsea
The Breakfast Club, Islington
European, Melbourne

Gastro, Clapham
Joe Allen, Covent Garden
Maze Grill, Mayfair
Le Pain Quotidien, St Pancras International
Perfect Blend, Streatham
Purple, Streatham

AL PENN
Coast Cafe, Newquay

SULTAN PEPPER
The Deptford Project, Deptford

EMMANUEL PETIT-DÉJEUNER
Carluccio's, Marylebone
The Garden Restaurant, Mayford, Surrey
The Rex St Lucian Hotel, St Lucia
The Riding House Café, Fitzrovia

BLAKE PUDDING

06 St Chad's Place, King's Cross
Acorn House, King's Cross
Bull & Last, Gospel Oak
Café Fleur, Wandsworth
Café Rive Gauche, Fitzrovia
Café Rogerio's, Putney
Charlotte Street Hotel, Fitzrovia
Corner Deli, Hackney
Davy's Wine Bar, Fitzrovia

The Diner, Shoreditch
The Empress of India, Victoria Park

Euston Sandwich Bar, Fitzrovia
Gail's, Clerkenwell
The Gastrodome, The Hay Festival
Lantana, Fitzrovia
Manolis Cafe, Lower Holloway
Medcalf, Clerkenwell
Milk Bar, Soho
Moomba World Café, Putney
myhotel, Bloomsbury
Nico's Restaurant, Bethnal Green
Norman Carr Cottage, Monkey Bay, Malawi
Op-Egg: National bacon week - time to pick sides
Op-Egg: Solving the Breakfast Class Divide
Op-Egg: Tinie Tempah's penchant for nice tea

Patisserie Valérie, Soho
E Pellicci, Bethnal Green
Portorais Hotel, Palermo, Sicily

River Cafe, Fulham
Rustique, Tufnell Park
Simpsons-in-the-Strand, Covent Garden
Taste Buds, Palmers Green
Waterloo Brasserie, Waterloo
Yummy's Cafe, Spitalfields
Zigfrid, Hoxton Square

GOLDIE QUORN
Garden Cafe and Restaurant, South Hampstead
J's, West Hampstead
Rose's, Brondesbury

JANE RASHER
A Little of What You Fancy, Dalston
Mouse & de Lotz Cafe, Dalston

SAUL T. RASHER
The Wolseley, Mayfair

EMMA RICANO
Bob Bob Ricard, Soho
Café Boheme, Soho
Dottie's True Blue Café, San Francisco, USA

The Farm of Beverley Hills, California
Pastis, New York
Urban Angel, Edinburgh

DIEGGO RIVERA
Leila's Shop, Shoreditch

SEGGOLÈNE ROYAL
The Breakfasts of Paris (Part 1: Don't...)
The University Women's Club, Mayfair

HEIDI SAUSAGE
The Lime Cafe, Harringay

MUSTAPHA SAUSAGE
TJ's, Mortlake

BRIAN SAUCE
Half Moon Café, Hammersmith
St Giles Café, Oxford

H.P. SEUSS
Balans, Kensington
The Bermondsey Kitchen, Bermondsey
The Bird Cage, Stoke Newington
The Blue Legume, Stoke Newington
Bodrum Cafe, Stoke Newington
Breakfasts in Art: Bernard Sumner's fry up
Breakfasts in Art: Oeufs a la Camus
The Breakfasts of Oxford (Part 1: Quod, Old Parsonage, Malmaison)
The Breafasts of Oxford (Part 2: The Rose Tea Rooms, Jericho Café, Queen's Lane Coffee House)
Butler's Wharf Chop House, Bermondsey
Coffee Cake, Finsbury Park
The Dervish, Stoke Newington
Gill Wing Café, Highbury (now closed)
Manzara, Notting Hill
Meals, Bloomsbury
Op-Egg: On the passing of Herb Peterson, an American Pioneer

Puccino's, Surbiton
Starbucks, Anywhere
Whole Foods, Kensington

SUNNI SIDUP
bills, Sydney
The Luxe, Spitalfields
Phileas Fogg, Brussels, Belgium

OJ SIMPSON
Dumouchel Bakery, Leeds
Guy Fawkes Inn, York

DUNCAN SOLDIERS
Tom's Kitchen, Chelsea


GRACIE SPOON
Bar Italia, Soho
Dalston Lane Cafe, Hackney
DK's Cafe, Victoria
Docklands Diner, Docklands

El Vergel, Borough
Maison Bertaux, Soho
Pistachios, Greenwich
Pullen's Dining Room, Herne Hill
Regency Cafe, Pimlico

JUAN SUGAR
Paradise Cafe, Kensal Rise

KIPPER SUTHERLAND
Official 2012 Olympics Event, National Portrait Gallery, St James's


MABEL SYRUP
The Abbey, Kentish Town
The Bagel Factory, Euston
Café Express, King's Cross
Inflight Food Trolley, EasyJet
Kalendar, Highgate
The Place Cafe, Euston

POPPY TARTT
Agora at the Copper Kettle, Cambridge
The Breakfast Club, Soho
Cafe Mari e Monti, Finsbury Park
Café RED, Kentish Town
Cora's, Montreal
The Dartmouth Arms, Dartmouth Park

Dominique's in Hampstead Heath, Hampstead
Flame Cafe Bistro, Highbury
Grove Cafe, Highbury
Made in Camden, Chalk Farm
Op-Egg: What the Terminal 5 Fiasco Teaches us About Breakfast
Pret a Manger, Somewhere or Other
S & M Café, Islington
Starvin' Marvin's, Greenford
String Ray Café, Highbury
The Waiting Rooms, Palmers Green
Yalbury Park, Dorset

FI TATTA
The Diner, Camden Town
Workers Cafe, Archway

TERRY TEAGLETON
Benjys Restaurant, Earl's Court

BERNIE TOAST

The Redchurch, Shoreditch

EGON TOAST
Alpino, Islington
Chez Bernard Café, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
The Lockside Cafe, Bristol
Mad Bishop & Bear, Paddington
Nice Coffee, Wanstead
Op Egg: To BP or not to BP? That is the Question
Pentower, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire

T.N. TOOST
An open letter (US election 2012)
The Breakfast Club, Shoreditch
Cafe Calcio, Cardiff
Cafe Diana, Notting Hill
Christie's Cabaret, Cleveland, Ohio

The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Covenant Community Church, Cleveland, USA
Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues, Cleveland, Ohio
Jellystone Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Lifebuoy Café, Fowey, Cornwall
Roast, Borough
US Election Dispatch '08: McDonald's, Painesville, Ohio
US Election Dispatch '08: Old Ebbitt and Tunnicliff's Tavern, Washington DC
US Election Dispatch '12: Republican Party Pancake Breakfast, Brunswick, Ohio
US Election Dispatch '08: Slyman's, Cleveland, Ohio

ALOTTA WAFFLE
The Caramel Room, Knightsbridge
Cowshed Clarendon Cross, Holland Park

EVELYN WAUGHFFLE
Cabmens' Shelter, Russell Square

GREASE WITHERSPOON
The Modern Pantry, Clerkenwell
The Lead Station, Chorlton, Manchester
The Sandwich Box, Highbury

BRAD WURST
Bar Gagarin, East Berlin

PRIVATE YOLK
Trenchard Lines Mess, Basra

5 Comments:

Blogger OJ Borg said...

Hi,

I'm trying to get hold of wither the editor of the site or any of the contributors for a TV interview. I fanyone has any details then my email is oj.borg@btpodshow.com

1:11 AM, May 24, 2007  
Blogger OJ Borg said...

and I really should check my spelling before posting!

1:12 AM, May 24, 2007  
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10:01 PM, August 10, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A Delicious Feast of Food Namery!

Graeme Brulay

12:51 AM, February 04, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are you seeking contributors?

I am a Brixtonian with an appetite for the finer vegetarian breakfasts that this big-hearted but shallow fried town offers.

Please drop a contact email here if you'd like a regular veg-critic to cater for this niche readership,

Egon Sheller.

2:47 PM, May 28, 2011  

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