My Best Breakfast in London

The best of anything is always going to be a tricky one.

* best film?
* favourite album?

On a Saturday morning and often like a scene from High Fidelity repeated ad nauseum groups discuss "where is best for breakfast".

Where is best for breakfast?

Bethnal green has Pellicci's which has got to be in anyones top london cafes but  my best breakfast in London involves the last thing most people want when they crawl out from the night before in search of someone else to cook breakfast for them: a journey.

Peddling out, leaving Bethnal and heading up Kingsland road often past the previous evening still spilling out onto the road picking up various people on the way.

We head up to Church St. passing Clissold park and morning risers, families of joggers.

Then its a switchback of sorts into Finsbury Park leaving the weird Sylvanian Family shop in our wake as we head first to Stroud Green road then a left onto Tollington Park road - I give you the journey as there is something important about it - flushes cobwebs.

Then we arrive at the tree to lean up the bikes and the familiar tables outside - packed in the summer, quieter in the cooler months.  And then we are there at Front Room or Front Rooms. We've all only ever ordered the breakfast, sometimes extra toast. Then we are on our way. Setup for the day ahead.

 

Elliot's Borough, The Hemingway Victoria Park

Saturday:

Last weekend long walk down to Borough market.

Stopped at Elliot's for Lunch.

A cheery busy bistro - laid back, staff familiar.

Ordered baked squash, squid, salmon salad, fries, oysters,

Oysters were good, but then we were in Borough market so expected them to be and right next to Wright Bros too.

Squid was super delicious - smoky & perfectly cooked.

Some kerfuffle at another table and a lot of people staring at a baked squash served in 2 halves before it got sent back to the kitchen their squash was replaced then out came ours - but it was just 1 half - we asked about it and it seemed the chef deemed half sufficient for us but having been on the business end of a kitchen cockup or two in my youth and although I always think the best of people one couldn't help but suspect a slight bit of legerdemain which left a tart bitterness in the mouth especially when its almost 15 notes for this now half-squash. 

This bitterness meant the salmon salad sort of passed by unnoticed though it looked pretty & the stringy fries looked great but I felt like a dog hoovering pick-up-sticks tryin to work out how to eat them.

Concluded should've bought some oysters in the market and carried on perhaps to Maltby St. to have a look.

Sunday:

Sunday was a roast at the Hemingway Victoria Park Road.

Comfortable, good beer, papers - all good end of the weekend stuff

Roasts & Salmon all round.

Totally delicious - lots of other people seemed to think so too as the place was rammed

Finished with pudding - pinapple & apple crumble with crumble of coconut and coconut ice cream- not 100% convinced this classic needed meddling with.