The Best English Breakfasts in London
We’ve created a list of the best cooked breakfasts in London. From modern versions with a twist, down to the traditional greasy spoon cafes. Browse our list to find the best English breakfasts in London?
Where to find the Best English Breakfasts in London
1. Hawksmoor - Guildhall
Note: Breakfast service at Hawksmoor has not resumed yet since the start of the pandemic.
Address: 10 Basinghall St, London, EC2V 5BQ
Cost: £££
Must try dish: The Full English to share
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Any of the steaks, tripple cooked chips & bone marrow gravy
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The first to feature in our list of the best English breakfasts in London is Hawksmoor. Famous for they’re steaks, they also have an incredible breakfast selection at their Guildhall branch. The Full English for two to share is so big that it arrives to your table in a frying pan. Quality is not substituted for size though. Ingredients are top notch. Founders Will Beckett and Huw Gott are serious about their meat. That’s why they work with small farms around Britain who focus on raising their cattle to a specified standard. This shows in the food across all of their restaurants. They aim to provide the best English breakfasts in London. You’d be hard pressed to argue.
2. Regency Cafe
Address: 17-19 Regency St, London, SW1P 4BY
Cost: £
Must try dish: Full English breakfast with bubble and squeak
Regency Cafe in Westminster is all about the simple things done right. A traditional British cafe that has been around since the 1940’s. So popular that the queue often goes out the door. It’s been used as a filming location many times, but it’s the quality food at good honest prices that make it a real contender for the best English breakfasts in London. Your typical British builders cafe done just right.
3. E Pellicci
Address: 332 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E2 0AG
Cost: £ (Cash Only)
Must try dish: Classic Set with bubble and squeak
4. Dishoom
Address: 12 Upper St Martin’s Ln, London, WC2H 9FB
Cost: ££
Must try dish: Sausage naan roll
Our next best English breakfasts in London is actually at Dishoom, a small group of Indian restaurants. Based on the old Irani cafés of Bombay in the 19th century. They serve curries, sheek kebabs and a large selection of other dishes like a vada pau, which is a sort of chip butty with spicy masala. However, they have a full and exciting breakfast menu, including The Big Bombay, which has your usual English breakfast ingredients, but with additional Indian flavours. On top of that, they have naan rolls with top quality sausages, eggs and bacon.
5. Beppe's Cafe
Address: 23 W Smithfield, London, EC1A 9HY
Cost: £
Must try dish: Bacon, egg, sausage and hash browns
6. The Breakfast Club
Address: Spitalfields, 12-16 Artillery Ln, London E1 7LS
Cost: ££
Must try dish: The Greasy Spoon (2 bacon, 2 sausage, 2 hash brown, 2 eggs, toast & baked beans)
Other locations: Soho x 2, Hoxton, Canary Wharf, Battersea Rise, Hackney Wick, London Bridge, Croydon
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