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Riverwalk Sun 15-Jan-17 08:37:20

On Friday I met a friend at 09.30 for breakfast and was amazed at the number of people in the (trendy) non-chain cafe. I shouldn't be surprised, after all I was there!hmm. It was bitterly cold in London on Friday, it was 09.30, and not a tourist area - most seemed to be local and regulars, and all ages.

The menu was great, including a selection of 'Bennies' (variations on Eggs Benedict grin)

Porridge was £4.50

Does anyone regularly go out for breakfast?

Greenfinch Sun 15-Jan-17 08:40:35

Never

Nelliemoser Sun 15-Jan-17 08:53:00

Not at those prices for a bowl of porrage! I could buy 3x1kg packs of oats in ASDA for that price. wink

I think its a social event with young trendy types.
Of which I am not one. grin

morethan2 Sun 15-Jan-17 08:53:32

Not me but I'm shocked by how much my grown children (and grandchildren) do. They breakfast, brunch, lunch, coffee break and dinner out. Not all on the same day but very very regularly. It was and is a rare treat for us. They have a different mindset to us and must havemore money.

kittylester Sun 15-Jan-17 08:54:26

We don't go out for breakfast regularly but sometimes go the Carluccios on Sunday mornings if we are going shopping. Our local garden centre does a really brilliant breakfast but it's ages since we went.

I am always amazed by the number of people who regularly eat out - it wasn't like that in my day.grin

Iam64 Sun 15-Jan-17 08:57:08

I love going out for breakfast but it has to be somewhere that sells good quality food. It's a real treat.

carerof123 Sun 15-Jan-17 09:00:53

I meet my sister and niece and my daughter regularly for coffee. With my daughter its always an arm and a leg payment at some trendy place with my sister and niece we go to a Weather spoon pub for a large latte or cappuccino and my niece has tea the bill comes to 3.60 for the three drinks!!!! We can afford to go a couple of times a week at that price.

Grannyknot Sun 15-Jan-17 09:01:32

river that sounds nice, especially the "Bennies"! Whereabouts is that?

My family laugh at me because every once in a while I take myself off to our local Wetherspoons for breakfast (during the week, on my own) because the staff are friendly and they make the best freshly cooked breakfast around for £3.50. I take a newspaper and sit where I can catch some sunshine. My other option is the upmarket place where eggs on toast starts at £11 and the service is slower than slow. No contest!

Going out for breakfast on the beachfront in Durban, where I am originally from, is very popular and a social occasion.

Christinefrance Sun 15-Jan-17 09:04:33

When I was younger eating out was confined to high days and occasional holidays. It's different now with so many different types of restaurants around. We eat lunch out quite often with friends, it's a good way of socialising without the cooking and washing up. It's also reasonably priced ( in France )wine

Jane10 Sun 15-Jan-17 09:07:08

DH and I are always taken out for brunch on special occasions by DD. Its a lovely treat. We often go somewhere for lunch on Sundays. Sometimes just to a cafe at other times somewhere a bit posher.

Rinouchka Sun 15-Jan-17 09:08:47

River, you are giving me ideas for my birthday at the end of the week! Where in London is this café?

It is a very American thing to have breakfast/brunch out at the weekend. A real, occasional treat.brew

annsixty Sun 15-Jan-17 09:10:26

Apart from on holiday I have never had breakfast out but wish I could occasionally. We have one of the better Premier Inns very near and about once a month my ex Dil and her partner take the two youngest children on Sunday morning for breakfast. The C eat free and they have a lovely breakfast,as much as you like, for under £18. Which for 4 is great value.

NanaandGrampy Sun 15-Jan-17 09:20:23

We often go out for breakfast.

Sometimes we just go out for breakfast then go home, sometimes we have breakfast before shopping .

In fact we have made it our mission to find the best breakfast places :-) .

Breakfast is cheaper than dinner, we both enjoy all the variations of a cooked breakfast ( although Eggs Benedict is my favourite) , we don't have lunch if we have a cooked breakfast......and quite frankly ---what's not to like about breakfast.

My current favourite place is The Elevedon Estate restaurant in Norfolk, all locally sourced, real bread and butter and if like Grampy you like good sausages - he swears their homemade ones are the best.

The onsite chocolatier is pretty awesome too smile

DanniRae Sun 15-Jan-17 09:21:24

Once a month my husband, daughter and I used to go out for breakfast on a Saturday morning. We started off visiting a different cafe every time but then settled for a couple of favourites - Cafe Rouge (me and daughter) and a cheaper place (husband). We all really enjoyed it but then my daughter got a new job and has to work Saturdays so it all came to an end sad

Riverwalk Sun 15-Jan-17 09:23:59

It's the Breakfast Club, Battersea Rise - just Googled to get a menu, seems it is part of a chain.

menu

Charleygirl Sun 15-Jan-17 09:30:23

I have never been out for breakfast in my life. I am not a fan of breakfast food so maybe I should continue to go out for lunch or dinner.

Teetime Sun 15-Jan-17 09:35:27

We don't go out for breakfast even though I would like to as DH has to have breakfast the minute he is up in the morning otherwise he will die!!!He couldn't possibly wait until after 9am. So today I have cooked him his large field mushrooms in Worcestershire sauce with toast and fruit salad, had a piece of toast myself and am meeting three friends for coffee and cake.

Greyduster Sun 15-Jan-17 09:36:19

The cafe in the park at the bottom of DD's road has a lovely cafe which is popular at any time of the day, but particularly for brunch. I used to. Take GS there in his pram before we started looking after him at our house instead. Here is a selection from their "something different" menu.

Smashed avocado with thyme roasted
tomato on granary toast with a poached egg £4.75

Pea, bacon and potato hash with
a poached egg £5.50

Creamed mushrooms with parsley on a toasted
bloomer bread £5.50

Smoked salmon & scrambled eggs with
granary toast £6.50

The bottom one was my favourite! They do more traditional breakfast food too. We don't eat breakfast out now unless we're on holiday.

Riverwalk Sun 15-Jan-17 09:37:38

If you want to push the boat out Rinouchka there's The Ivy Chelsea Garden, which is lovely for brunch

Chelsea

or its sister cafe in Wimbledon, which I haven't been to but a friend has and loved it.

Wimbledon

FarNorth Sun 15-Jan-17 10:03:47

My DS often has breakfast out, after he has dropped his DD off at nursery. Both of them often have lunch out, also, as the little girl has a busy social calendar and there's not always time to go home.

ninathenana Sun 15-Jan-17 10:15:17

H loves to have a full English out I will just have eggs on toast cooked however I fancy that day. We go toTesco or Morrisons cafe.
We do this fairly regularly on scheduled shopping days if we get up and ready early enough.

KatyK Sun 15-Jan-17 10:20:07

We sometimes go to Wetherspoons for breakfast. Very cheap and very nice smile

Cherrytree59 Sun 15-Jan-17 10:28:43

grannyknot my parents lived and worked in Durban and Jo'burg
They talked about sitting outside for breakfast on way to work
It was the coolest time of the day.
They also mentioned Gin parties in the evening grin
I sure have missed out.
I love my breakfast more of a morning person. But only eat breakfast out on hols.

A few years ago we were on holiday in fuertaventura (sp?) And had gone for morning stroll when we spotted a lovely (actually on the beach) cafe so we sat down and ordered a breakfast
After a very long wait we asked if our breakfast would be arriving soon
Were told 'So sorry we are running a bit late' '
The chef, He is in Love!'
grin.

lefthanded Sun 15-Jan-17 10:29:48

We have breakfast out at least once a week. There is a cafe run by a charity in our local park: full English and a cup of tea for me, scrambled egg and smoked salmon with a coffee for my wife. About £14, and the satisfaction of knowing that the profits go to a good cause.

TerriBull Sun 15-Jan-17 10:32:39

Brunch is the new going out for 20 /30 somethings or so my son tells me, certainty breakfast type establishments are very busy at week ends in my neck of the woods, so much so, we would only contemplate weekdays. Previously at Carluccios the service was so slow we got the cost of 1 breakfast knocked off the bill. We don't do it often but local garden centre is quite good and reasonable for breakfast and for the first time, when we found ourselves on the road quite early without having anything to eat we popped into a Saintsbury for breakfast which was very acceptable and they produced a. good flat white.