Interesting topic. So much has changed. Folks won't believe me when I recall that I used to get a good basic cheap brekkas at Ikea, even if the funny little omelette stroke scrambled eggs took some getting used to. York Café was reliable. The deal was you ordered the "value b'fast" @ 99p. This got you a small plate with one of everything. Not one baked bean obs... You simply ordered multiples of the "value b'fast" depending on how hungry you were.
Monte Carlo was a legend, and was one of the places where you went if you wanted the real deal. Then, up 'till covid at least, the Cauldron did a very nice breakfast plate, with everything cooked on their wood-fire grill. If you didn't mind paying, you could have a proper posh job at Clifton's Avon Gorge Hotel, matching china and a proper pot of tea, toast in a rack etc etc. Morrisons wasn't bad, for a while - they made a thing of serving proper butter with the toast.
Now, if pushed, I'd probably grit my teeth and go to the 'spoons, back of Temple Mead...
ps I enjoyed your article and I'm with you on many of your choices, especially with regard to giving the swerve to hash browns and fresh toms. I'm not wholly agin' potato products on the breakfast plate though, with my own preference being either our good old Bubble and Squeak, although that depends entirely on there being any suitable left-over veg in the 'fridge. And although it's undoubtedly another American intrusion, I do like O'Brien's ie mashed spuds, fried with bell peppers.
More Dan! please
Couldn’t agree more!
I miss Katie & Kims, as was, on Picton Street. They did amazing breakfasts.
Carmen Street and Wilson's are now dropping some excellent breakfast sangers, but yes, it's not the same.
Interesting topic. So much has changed. Folks won't believe me when I recall that I used to get a good basic cheap brekkas at Ikea, even if the funny little omelette stroke scrambled eggs took some getting used to. York Café was reliable. The deal was you ordered the "value b'fast" @ 99p. This got you a small plate with one of everything. Not one baked bean obs... You simply ordered multiples of the "value b'fast" depending on how hungry you were.
Monte Carlo was a legend, and was one of the places where you went if you wanted the real deal. Then, up 'till covid at least, the Cauldron did a very nice breakfast plate, with everything cooked on their wood-fire grill. If you didn't mind paying, you could have a proper posh job at Clifton's Avon Gorge Hotel, matching china and a proper pot of tea, toast in a rack etc etc. Morrisons wasn't bad, for a while - they made a thing of serving proper butter with the toast.
Now, if pushed, I'd probably grit my teeth and go to the 'spoons, back of Temple Mead...
ps I enjoyed your article and I'm with you on many of your choices, especially with regard to giving the swerve to hash browns and fresh toms. I'm not wholly agin' potato products on the breakfast plate though, with my own preference being either our good old Bubble and Squeak, although that depends entirely on there being any suitable left-over veg in the 'fridge. And although it's undoubtedly another American intrusion, I do like O'Brien's ie mashed spuds, fried with bell peppers.