I have been meaning to check out a local British Tea Room for ages. I have followed them on Facebook for a while, and I saw they had a buy one get one free for their breakfasts before 12 noon through the end of February.
At the end of last week, we decided to give it a go.
I will say ahead of time a "fry-up/full English breakfast" is not a favourite meal of mine. I can live without them.
This was called a standard breakfast and was I think around $17 or $18 each. However we got one for free. The coffee was I think around $3.25 or $3.50 a mug, and honestly it was the best part of the meal. They made it with fresh ground beans, and I would go back to there just to have their coffee, it was that good!
There was a slice of black pudding on our plates. I ate around a third of it, as I found the consistency of it odd. It was more cake like and quite dry and full of grains, but not oats? There are generally globules of fat in black pudding? However it's been donkey's years since I ate black pudding, and it's not something I would rush out to eat normally.
Loved the toast, sausage (and I am not usually a fan of breakfast sausage), eggs and beans.
There are plenty of other breakfast places around which do better meals and a lot cheaper.
BUT, these guys do afternoon tea, so we booked to go there next month for my birthday. It's $42.50 each so I have high hopes. However, nothing will compare to the Afternoon Tea we had in the Lake District, but I am looking forward to it.
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Looks good, can't remember te last time we had a breakfast like that. I would always turn my nose up at black pudding but now like it, it's nice with pork chops too.
Hope the Tea outing works out. Took a coworker to the local Fairmont hotel for a treat of Afternoon Tea as a retirement gift.
They used tea bags and the water wasn't boiling! The china was nothing to write home about, usual hotel stuff.
At the end of a disappointing "feast", we agreed that we had nicer china sets, preferred loose tea and would do it at our homes in future.
My goodness that's a lot of food! I know I couldn't begin to eat even half of it.
Goodness me! That is a lot of food on your plate!
I do hope the tea outing later in the year goes well.
All the best Jan
Returning to the England, Scotland, and Ireland this June...this is one of the reasons I can't wait!
My goodness. You sure got a great deal to eat, but I am with you on the potato scone.... Scones are fluffy inside.
God bless.
I love the full English (hold the beans, please!) but my big question on all breakfast places is when did prices get so expensive? It's the cheapest meal to prepare (well, now that egg prices are back to 1.99/dozen).
That looks more like an Irish boxty, not a scone. I make potato cakes and love them. I've eaten a boxty in Dublin and was not a fan of it.
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