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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2019 21:31:18 GMT
I'm not a big breakfast guy so a place really has to stand out and be impressive for me to appreciate it. The best breakfast place I've eaten at was near the small Sierra Nevada town of Markleeville on Hwy 88 just down from the Carson Pass. It was unbelievable how good the breakfast was: the best waffles I've ever had and homemade sausage. My buddies were equally impressed. I'm almost willing to make the 6 hour drive to eat there again. It was just some place we stopped at before white water rafting and very inauspicious, but I have dreamed of the place and its food  The other place I really loved was just down the street from Earl's Court station. It was a simple tradesman breakfast place, but my wife and I ate there three days in a row before sight seeing in London. Simple stuff - sausages, baked beans, toast, but sometimes the simple things are the best. Sadly, it's no longer there. I've checked. |
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Post by NarBud on Jan 11, 2019 22:04:01 GMT
There is an actual breakfast club around here that you have to be vetted for, after weekly attendance for a year. The trick is you have to find it, then be sponsored by a regular, attend for the year, be vetted, pay a nominal fee, you then get a key. You pay for your breakfast which is classic eggs, bacon, etc., with specials.
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 13:29:27 GMT
There's a place in Battersea called The Breakfast Club, that Mrs C and I went to last year while staying at a mate's place, he kindly lent us his flat nearby for the weekend while he was away. They do a large cooked breakfast called The Full Monty and it was the tastiest I've ever had. Apparently they have branches in quite a few places around London and in Brighton as well, so if you see one, give it a try.
Baron & Minnie took us to a fantastic Mexican breakfast place near where they used to live in south Austin, we ended up going a couple of times while we were staying with them. The heuvos rancheros were very good. It's one of the things I'm really looking forward to when we're back there in March, the American breakfast.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2019 13:49:04 GMT
I've had some great breakfasts in some great hotels but the breakfast buffet at one of the Hiltons in Istanbul recently was stunning.
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Post by tory on Jan 18, 2019 13:59:59 GMT
My local cafe. Does a ridiculous English with their own sausages, baked beans, smoked bacon and ketchup. Nowhere else comes close.
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 14:11:50 GMT
I've had some great breakfasts in some great hotels but the breakfast buffet at one of the Hiltons in Istanbul recently was stunning. Which Hilton was it? Mrs C and I had a week at the Hilton Bosphorus in October, but I've stayed at the Doubletree in the old city before, both very nice hotels. |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 18, 2019 14:46:27 GMT
Americans are big on breakfast aren't they. I had a really good one at Sylvia's in Harlem (chicken and waffles) but it's not the kind of meal that really stands out to me. I would never look back at the best meals of my life and think of breakfasts to be honest. Corn bread is weird btw. It's basically cake. Americans man.
My favourite breakfast is probably french toast or waffles with bacon and maple syrup but any really good fry up (bacon, sausage, egg, beans, black pudding, shrooms, toast thankyouvermuch) is the Mack Daddy but you do want to snooze afterwards.
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 14:56:41 GMT
Americans are big on breakfast aren't they. Yeah, And going out for breakfast is a big thing there too, in a way that it's not here - for most people anyway. The Methodist part of me can't helping feeling a little guilty about the idea of it - spending money on someone else making your breakfast! It seems ever so decadent. If you'd mentioned the idea of going out for breakfast to my parents when I was young they'd have just looked boggle-eyed at you. I doubt they ever thought of such a thing. Going to Little Chef on the occasional long drive aside, I can probably count on one hand the times I remember going out for any meal with my folks when I was a kid. |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 18, 2019 15:09:52 GMT
I never have breakfast. During the week I have a cup of tea when I get to work and that's it. It's a bit odd to me eating some of these meals in the morning. I can barely digest a piece of toast at that time.
For years it was a cup of tea and a fag of course. Breakfast of champions. Built the Empire that did.
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Post by tory on Jan 18, 2019 15:15:34 GMT
Going out for food is a sign of prosperity that's for sure.
Like Nick, I can count on my hands the number of times outside holidays that I ate out with my parents. And we stopped going on foreign holidays once I was at secondary school. It just didn't happen.
I calculated the other day that my 5 year old son has probably had more different types of food down his gullet than i had by the time I was 30.
Things have changed massively.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 18, 2019 15:15:44 GMT
Americans are big on breakfast aren't they. If you'd mentioned the idea of going out for breakfast to my parents when I was young they'd have just looked boggle-eyed at you. I doubt they ever thought of such a thing. Going to Little Chef on the occasional long drive aside, I can probably count on one hand the times I remember going out for any meal with my folks when I was a kid.  Yeah, same here. Although we'd usually go out as a family to eat on Christmas Eve. |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 18, 2019 15:17:46 GMT
I remember eating burger and chips at Fine Far as a kid but that's it.
We started going out for a curry when I was in my mid teens.
Nothing else mind.
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 15:54:40 GMT
I never have breakfast. During the week I have a cup of tea when I get to work and that's it. It's a bit odd to me eating some of these meals in the morning. I can barely digest a piece of toast at that time. I'm much the same. I struggle with mornings anyway, and the thought of eating anything isn't what occurs to me while I'm groggy and fuzzy, at least not for a couple of hours. For a long time I just had two cups of coffee and that was it before lunchtime, but a few years ago I got berated by the practice nurse at my doctor's for admitting I didn't bother with breakfast, so since then I've made an effort. I usually just take stuff to work and have some fruit, a yoghurt and a cereal bar at my desk when I arrive. On weekends Mrs C will usually do a fry up brunch both days, but that's after we've been awake for a couple of hours, and have had a chance to get used to the idea of eating something. |
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 15:56:10 GMT
I remember eating burger and chips at Fine Far as a kid but that's it. We started going out for a curry when I was in my mid teens. Nothing else mind. My mum took me to Wimpy on a day trip to Edinburgh when I was six or something like that, and it was like FUCKING HELL, SHE'S PUSHING THE BOAT OUT! |
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 15:59:44 GMT
I calculated the other day that my 5 year old son has probably had more different types of food down his gullet than i had by the time I was 30. Yeah, same with my kids. Partly also because some stuff just wasn't commonly available when we were young. I remember the first time I came across pizza while having tea at a mate's house, this would have been when I was eleven or twelve, so maybe 1984? I just thought what the hell is THIS? |
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