Traditional English breakfast
 

We have been staying in a flat near Sloane Square and tomorrow is our last full day. We promised our kids we would take them out for a traditional English breakfast and tomorrow morning is our last chance. Any suggestions for anywhere in Chelsea/Knightsbridge area or points east? Thanks.

Hi tjd --

I imagine you could find a good one at any cafe along the King's Road. Just wander and examine menus along the way.

Enjoy!

As said what you really want is a cafe (said "caff") which is the real home of the full english.

unfortunately these don't really appear in tour guides etc. Just keep your eyes open or ask a local (especially a builder. British (and polish) builders are the fry-ups main customers)

Another idea might be Peter Jones (the department store) they have a restaurant in there. That may well do breakfast.

How traditional do you want it? My wife had one recently in a branch of Cafe Rouge, which is a chain faux French brasserie place. You could also try a Weatherspoons pub - they offer a choice of breakfasts.

Make sure you have baked beans and fried tomatoes, and don't try to eat anything else for several hours.

You know the old joke..what comes with a traditional English breakfast....answer an appointment with a cardiologist......

Bad joke I know.

If you want to go East, then you should try
E Pellicci, Bethnal Green Road E2

This is a review from http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/

The mighty Pellicci. The bollocks! Best service. Best building. Best atmosphere. Good food. A throwback to another century. From the yellow and chrome Vitrolite exterior to the warm wooden interior this is an unbelievable Deco classic. Every part of this superb caff should be held in trust for the nation. The jaw-dropping marquetry interior - like something out of the Empire State Building - was crafted by Achille Capocci in 1946. See Pellicci's and die!

You could have tried Tom's Big Brakfast at Tom's Delicatessen, 226 Westbourne Grove W11 (Notting Hill Gate Tube).

If you're going as far a bethnal green you will have gone past Simpsons in the strand and Smithfield meat market - both great breakfast places.

If you go real traditional

be sure to bring Roll-Aids to cut the grease

Peas Purridge Please? Hold the tomato? Beans on toast for your teens?

A cup of Bovril?

Pease pudding for breakfast?! I've never heard the like. Not even my father would have done that (and certainly not after he tried making it in the pressure cooker and took the lid off before the pressure....)

When do they eat Peas Pourridge - i've seen mushy peas at breakfast at cafes but i guess that is not Peas Pourridge like in the nursey rhyme?

Do anyone eat Peas Pourridge and if so what is it if not mushy peas?

curious and not trying to be silly

It's usually called pease pudding, and it's a rather more solid mash of dried split peas (yellow peas - not chick peas). It's rather like polenta in a way, traditionally eaten with boiled ham.

"Mushy peas" is a more liquid mash of (green) marrowfat peas traditionally available alongside fish and chips. Marrowfat peas are rather bigger than the kind of peas that are eaten as a side vegetable with most other meals and have a different flavour.

Personally I find both vile, but I love ordinary garden peas, both raw( when fresh) and cooked.

Thanks Patrick

I also love, just love fresh peas i grow in my garden - when real small i eat the pods as well

i actually bought some tins of mushy peas in Eltham last month and the ones with i think a mint taste were tolerable

but i was eating them cold out of the can - just to see what they were all about

Yuck for the most

Pease pudding makes a terrific breakfast. High in fibre and protein, and as Patrick says goes very nicely (hot or cold) with ham. Trouble is, our house is practically the only place you can get it.

Far, far better for you than that sugary muck people kill themselves on or those disgusting croissants that prove the French just don't get breakfast

What's wrong with a pie and a pint?

I see you've been to the wetherspoons in Woolwich at 9am then.

They have a fag outside for dessert.

When my hubby and I used to visit London several years ago, we would try to go to a REAL neighborhood where the PEOPLE live, eat at one of their restaurants for breakfast and there you had a REAL english breakfast, nothing expensive but certainly unique to us. However my husband was from a generation away british background so he for one did enjoy beans on toast for one of the items. At times I think we don't know what we are missing. Have a great day. Halfpint

You don't eat beans on toast for breakfast. It's a cheap lunch.

Yup I can taste it now...beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs (I prefer mine scrambled), sausage (which I always pass on), bacon (never burnt to a crisp), toast smothered with butter, with a glass of orange juice (sometimes if it's a buffet you can help yourselves to as much orange juice (oh my blood sugar) you want)..

Sure puts Denny's grand slam breakfast to shame..

But then again Denny's often runs sales...but the orange juice and coffee are extra.

(Most Americans we know what I'm talking about...Denny's, for our British friends, is a similar type operation to Garfunkels only one step down in quality).