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| BANK 1 Kingsway, WC2 (020 7379 9797). Breakfast Mon-Fri 7am-10.30am. Approx Ј16 per person. A large, bustling brasserie, Bank draws breakfasters out of the neighbouring legal offices. It offers a genuine sort of breakfast – two courses and for the first course such domestic delicacies as Rice Krispies. Then onwards to the mighty full English, or perhaps fishcakes with a poached egg appeals? |
THE BRASSERIE ONE LOMBARD STREET 1 Lombard Street, EC3 (0870 780 8147). Breakfast Mon-Fri 7.30am-11am. Approx Ј15 per person. The large, high-ceilinged Brasserie at the front of One Lombard Street does a good trade in City breakfasts, and chef Herbert Berger has a good grasp of the importance of choosing his ingredients carefully. The full breakfast rounds up all the usual suspects. |
| INN THE PARK St. James’s Park, SW1 (020 7451 9999). Breakfast Mon-Fri 8am-11am, Sat & Sun 9am-11am. Approx Ј8 per person. A bold and beautiful new restaurant in St James’s Park serving British produce and deserving to be commended for it. Great views of the park can be enjoyed as you choose boiled eggs, or the Great British breakfast with all the trimmings. The menu is resolutely British – even the French toast has been renamed Poor Knights of Windsor (that’s eggy bread to you and I). |
PERDONI’S 18-20 Kennington Road, SE1 (020 7928 6846). Breakfast from 7am-6.30pm. Approx Ј6 per person. Rush to Perdoni’s straightaway, as it represents a dying breed – genuine cafes are very few and far between and every week we lose another one. Proper fried breakfast, properly served up and properly cheap. |
| SMITHS OF SMITHFIELD 67-77 Charterhouse Street, EC1 (020 7251 7950) Breakfast Mon-Fri 7am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 9.30am-5pm. Approx Ј7 per person. The ground floor canteen at John Torode’s restaurant is famous for being Jamie Oliver’s favourite breakfast venue. Good, authentic breakfasts, reasonably priced. Bacon, egg, beans, sausage, mushrooms, black pudding, tomatoes, bubble and toast?6.50. A bacon sandwich that verges on greatness. |
THE CRESCENT RESTAURANT Nikko Montcalm Hotel, 36-40 Great Cumberland Place, W1 (020 7402 4288). Breakfast Mon-Fri 7am-10am, Sat & Sun 7.30am-10.30am. Approx Ј20 per person. This hotel restaurant offers an authentic Japanese breakfast – grilled fish with miso, gohan (steamed rice), miso soup with spring onion and tofu, dried seaweed and a soft eggaccompanied by a slice of melon and Japanese tea. The place to make any Japanese businessman feel at home. |
| THE PROVIDORES & TAPA ROOM 109 Marylebone High Street, W1 (020 7935 6175). Breakfast Mon-Fri 9am-11.30am, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm. Approx Ј12 per person. London’s leading fusion restaurant serves a very interesting breakfast. Try the brown rice, apple and miso porridge, or the Turkish eggs (two poached eggs, yoghurt and hot chilli). For the more classically minded there is Stornoway black pudding. |
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