Hello!
A colleague at work asked me last
week to do a feature on places for Sunday Brunch. This Tuesday post will take
the shape of a short review, but please comment below if you guys know of any
gems I’ve missed… of which there will be many.
For those of you who have been
living under a log for a the last three centuries Brunch is that time-saving
meal that kills two birds with one moderately sized stone. It often takes the
form of an egg-based breakfast like centrepiece with accompanying lunch-time
sides. Think Omelette and chips but not quite so Greasy-Spoon.
Now, typically around the centre
of town, Brunch can be a bit pricey with prices often around £30 for two,
including service charge. For the best brunch, I would suggest going towards
the nearest trendy Soho-based café with hip young things lining the pavement.
Where there’s smoke there is usually fire. Favourite haunts of mine are Café Boheme, located at 13 Old Compton
Street. They have a lengthy menu with dishes to suit almost every taste. Better
still they’re open 9am until midnight on Sundays, 8am-3am Monday to Friday and
9am until 3am on Saturdays. So you could have Brunch, brinner, supper, brupper,
linner, lupper or any other food combination you want. Quote Marco Pierre
White; “your choice.”
For those wanting something less
Bohemian, I would plug Ramsay’s Bread
Street Kitchen found at 10 Bread Street, equidistant from Bank, Mansion
house and St. Paul’s tube stations. The timings are slightly less flexible,
opening 11am until 8pm on a Sunday but prices are reasonable. Service won’t
fall down either.
If you wanted to experiment with
some…gasps…foreign brunch, (yes, Susan there is such a thing) for little
expenditure, is healthy, light and available from 12pm on a Sunday, try the Golden Pagoda dim sum restaurant in
China Town. The menu has a wide variety of steamed/grilled parcels of joy and
can provide quite a different Brunch experience. Try ‘egg custard buns’,
‘harkau’, ‘scallop cheung fun’ and ‘char siu so’ for a variety of textures and
flavours. If you want to be boring and white-man there is also the regular pleb
menu with crispy chilli beef etc…
Hopefully this post shed some
light on some interesting places for brunch, with some exotic alternatives.
(Funny word, exotic. To quote Shappi Khorsandi; “Exotic is the word that the
BBC use to say that something is foreign but we like it.”)
Yours in food
BenY
Good recommendation of Yum Cha for brunch!
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