Egg Blog

Tom’s Kitchen, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA After the festive period and our brief hiatus from the blogosphere, we have been keen to get our teeth back into the egg scene. You may all by now be familiar with our penchant for building up our appetites with the best of what London has to offer, before … Continue reading →

The Riding House Cafe. 43-51 Great Titchfield St, London W1W 7PQ We’ve been eggblogging for a while now, and we’re getting a steady stream of recommendations for places to try from our friends and via our REAL friends on twitter (@eggbloggers). All suggestions are logged and we’re trying to get through them as quickly as possible, … Continue reading →

Bermondsey Kitchen, Unit 1-2, 194-204 Bermondsey Street, City of London SE1 3TQ We don’t normally like to eat in the kitchen. That’s what dining rooms are for. Or, if, you don’t have a kitchen – then lounges will do the job – provided you do not eat off a plastic lap tray with a picture of … Continue reading →

Nude Espresso, 26 Hanbury St, London E1 6QR Following a hot lead concerning ‘excitable whispers’ about the Eggy B at Nude Espresso from Malcolm Eggs of the London Review Of Breakfasts we decided to check out this little coffee shop and cafe near to Brick Lane in the East End. We hopped off the bus … Continue reading →

Wallace & Co, 146 Upper Richmond Road After a slight break from the blogosphere (we have been sidetracked by Glastonbury and a wild egg-chase in Pimlico…) one eggblogger just couldn’t contain their eggs benedict craving any longer. Which is why Wednesday morning saw me fighting bleary eyed through Waterloo station with a post-yoga hangover as dawn … Continue reading →

In the previous post we brought you the life and times of Lemuel Benedict, the New York stockbroker and man-about-town who claims to be the creator of our favourite breakfast – when in 1894 he suggested the recipe to the maître d’hôtel of the Waldorf in an attempt to cure a hangover. But in part one we laid out the two competing … Continue reading →

Canteen, Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Rd After a night of rocking and rolling, jumping and jiving at the Camden Blues Kitchen until the wee hours, there was really only one course of action; brunch. This weekend we followed up with one of Malcolm Eggs of the London Review of Breakfasts’ recommendations and headed down to Canteen … Continue reading →

Electric Brasserie, Portobello Road After a bank holiday lie in we’d built up a hearty appetite – for eggs and for some quality shopping, wandering and cake eating time. There’s almost nowhere better in London to combine those wholesome activities than in W11 – so we hopped on the tube to Ladbroke Grove to enjoy our favourite … Continue reading →

The Luxe, Spitalfields Finally the bank holiday weekend is upon us, and what better way to start it than with eggs? (Much the same as any weekend, then…) Today we opted to go east, to a little place in Spitalfields called The Luxe. We’ve previously visited for drinks; the evening atmosphere is buzzing but laid back, … Continue reading →

When we left you in Part One we had narrowed the history mystery down to two potential namesakes for Eggs Benedict – one the wife of a respected member of the elite, Mrs LeGrand Benedict, the other a playboy stockbroker, by the name of Lemuel Benedict. Lemuel Benedict was certainly the more colourful of the … Continue reading →

High Road Brasserie, Chiswick As a local to Chiswick for about 5 years you’d think we’d have had eggs benedict at the High Road Brasserie before – but until recently we’d always avoided breakfasting there. Maybe it was something about the posh exterior or the lines of Masseratis and Aston Martins parked up outside it … Continue reading →

It was while Anna and I were enjoying the Eggs Benedict in the Art Deco surroundings of High Road Brasserie in Chiswick that we began to wonder about the history of the dish. Who first had the brainwave that poached eggs, English muffin, ham and hollandaise would go so well together? So we decided to … Continue reading →

Village East, Bermondsey Street, SE1 Trendy Bermondsey Street boasts quite a few locations for brunch – after scanning the menu of Bermondsey Kitchen (whose eggs benedict has been reworked and renamed ‘eggs bermondsey’….on account of the substitution of smoked ham…hmm, not today) we carried on a few yards up and crossed over to try out … Continue reading →