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101. Gino’s Coffee Bar
📍Marylebone. An Italian-run cafe near Marylebone Station. The fry-up is solid but quite over-priced.
102. Super Chef
📍Greenford. This place looked a lot better before the refurbishment. It feels way too sanitised now and void of any character it had before. The breakfast was ok.
103. Coffee Pot Cafe
📍Isleworth. Another caf where you can get a Full English and Thai food at the same time. Fry-up and pad Thai noodles at The Coffee Pot in Isleworth. A solid fry-up. Decent Thai food.
104. Cafe Tejo
📍Victoria. I’m quite partial to a Portuguese caf. The Full English at Tapas Bar O Tejo in Westminster. £8.20 for two bacon, sausage, beans, egg, hashbrown, fries, mushrooms, tomato, black pudding, tea & toast. This is great value, especially for the area. Overall it was a solid breakfast, and fair play for serving hash brown with fries, but there were a few letdowns. The sausage tasted like it was 10% meat, I’m pretty sure the mushrooms were from a tin and barely fried, and the knock off brown sauce had a funky taste. Also I know a few people are going to moan about the beans being on top of the egg. The francesinha sandwich is also supposed to be popular here but there was no way I could stomach it after fry-up. As far as Portugal greasy spoons go, Astral is number one for me, followed by Cafe Barca.
105. ExCel Cafe
📍Custom House. A rough looking fry-up in a rough part of town. The full English at Excel Cafe (formerly Freemasons Cafe) in Custom House (one of the worst parts of London?). I must be coming up to 60 greasy spoon visits now. In all fairness it wasn’t as bad as 3.8 Google rating suggested. Let down by a cheap sausage, cheap bacon chopped-up, under-cooked tomato tomato slice (I like an overcooked half), slightly undercooked mushrooms, and I’m not a fan of the egg fried like this, but other than that it did the trick and still beats eating at most the places in Excel Centre. This was around £11.50 with tea. Excel Cafe seems to be a meeting point for those weird characters who show up at trade shows grabbing freebies.
106. George’s Cafe
📍Kensington Olympia. Another popular caf with exhibition goers as well as the post office workers across the street. Cheap sausage but a decent enough fry-up.
107. Goldbourne Cafe
📍Goldbourne Road. Surprisingly the only proper caf in the area. It’s been run by a lovely British-Turkish bloke and his family for the last fourty-five years. I went for the number two which included bacon, black pudding, a fried slice, tomatoes & bubble. I added sausage & beans. It didn’t come with tea or toast. The total bill came to £12. It’s one of those fry-ups that you wouldn’t rush back to (unless you lived nearby) but it does the trick. The black pudding was nice and crispy and I always like the addition of a fried slice. Let down by a cheap sausage and I always prefer tea & toast to be included.
108. Maggies Cafe
📍Lewisham. I like that they have a create your own breakfast option where you pay a fixed price (last time I was there it was £10.95) and pick all the items you want. They also have a Guinness tap if you fancy adding one to your breakfast.
109. Speedy’s Sandwich Bar & Cafe
📍Euston. Famously used as the cafe often visited by Shelock Holmes in the TV series ‘Sherlock’. The fry-up isn’t great and the place is pretty run-down.
110. Hanwell Cafe
📍Hanwell. A Turkish-owned cafe in the depths of Hanwell I have little reason to visit. Egg, sausage, bacon, bubble, chips, mushroom, black pudding, tomato for under a tenner. It’s one of those breakfasts that isn’t a winning any awards but just about does the trick. It’s on a nice large white plate, I like that they serve bubble and chips together, and most items were cooked well. Let down by the low quality sausage, not a great egg, and black pudding under-cooked. Nice friendly service though.
111. Embassy Cafe
📍Notting Hill. Popular with locals. It changed hands a few years ago. The fry-up isn’t too bad but they they use those horrible square blue plates which makes the breakfast look ugly.
112. Mummy Yummy Cafe
📍Hayes. Mummy Yummy Cafe (awful name, I know) at Selco in Hayes. I think after Waterloo Bus Cafe I’m on a mission to find more niche cafs and being hidden above a builders shop in Hayes is pretty niche if you ask me. This was the Mega Breakfast for £11.99 and came with two sausage, two bacon, beans, mushrooms, tomato, tea & toast. Bacon cooked well, nice hashbrowns and a good amount of beans. Let down by cheap sausages, no black pudding and a tomato almost as undercooked as the one you’ll get at Norman’s. The flower vase on each table was a little confusing too as the only clientele would be builders grabbing breakfast or lunch together.
113. Horseshoe Cafe
📍Northfields. A second greasy spoon on Northfield’s Avenue. I think the breakfast is better and cheaper at Nell’s, plus the service is friendlier too.
114. Spicy Noodle Cafe
📍Balham. Spicy Noodle Cafe is a Chinese-run cafe in Balham. Breakfast 1 cost £9.30 and came with sausage, bacon, egg, beans and black pudding, tea and toast. No potato based item so I added hashbrown. They’re actually more popular for their Chinese dishes with most people eating chicken curry with chips and rice or special fried rice/noodles, so I also got a wonton noodle soup, which was served in what I think is a ramen bowl. Pros; black pudding nice and crispy, great hashbrowns, nice egg, and they do Chinese food. Negatives; bacon underdone, sausage about 5% meat, no bubble/hashbrown/chips automatically included, toast cut at a triggering angle.
115. Bisou Cafe Diner
📍Kings Cross. *Permanently closed* . Not the best quality fry-up but it does that trick.
116. Orchard Cafe
Feltham. Last visit 15/09/25. Watch the reel here.
117. Peckham Bus Cafe
📍Peckham. You know a bus driver hates to see me coming. The small breakfast for £5.50 at Peckham Bus Cafe. Proper sausage, decent egg, mushrooms cooked well. Let down by the severely undercooked tomato. Can’t argue with that price though. I also tried the jerk chicken and curry goat. As well as a pool table also have a full size snooker people (with no tears). Full review tomorrow.
118. Smithfield Cafe
📍Farringdon. Another cafe surrounding Smithfield Meat Market. I love that it’s open 24hours but I didn’t think much of the breakfast. Beppe’s is your best option in the area.
119. Billy’s Cafe
📍Hackney. Not the best quality ingredients and served on awful looking black plates. I’d rather wait it out at E Pellici.
120. Cafe Diana
📍Bayswater. A Princess Diana themed cafe in Bayswater near the North entrance to Kensington Palace Gardens. This Iraqi-owned spot has been going since 1988 and was even visited multiple times by Diana herself. It’s worth a visit for the novelty if you’re into ‘are Di’ but the breakfast isn’t great. The sausage and bacon are cheap, portions are small, and beans come in a ramekin.
121. Shepherdess Cafe
📍Old Street. This greasy spoon used to be a gem. The walls were covered with famous people who had visited over the years like Tom Jones and Jamie Oliver, who used to be a regular. They had very distinct fixed green and white seating. The breakfast although not the best, did the trick, and there was always a great atmosphere. For some reason they decided to completely refurbish the place from the inside out and it has completely lost it’s character and charm. None of the regulars who used to go there still go anymore. The breakfast is now served on one of those square coloured plates and looks terrible too.
122. Sunsnacks Cafe
📍Lisson Grove. This cafe changed hands a few years ago. Apparently it used to be good but the breakfast is pretty disappointing now. The bubble was a wet mash, the sausage was poor quality, as was the bacon, the fried egg was cooked in a mould, the mushrooms weren’t very fresh, and I hate the coloured square plat. Service wasn’t very friendly either.
123. Palace Restaurant Cafe
📍Victoria. With a 1.8 Google rating I don’t think Palace Restaurant Cafe is just the worst ranked cafe in London, I think it’s the worst ranked restaurant full stop. Just around the corner from Buckingham Palace. You’re not actually allowed to film in here but I got away with it. After adding tea the breakfast came to £20!Negatives; the price, knock off sauces and came in little pots, cheap sausage, bacon had a weird taste, bean portion very small and cold, funeral parlour atmosphere. Positives; hashbrown nice and crispy, the eggs looked nice. Last review 22/12/2025. Watch the reel here.
124. Rayz Cafe *Permanently Closed*
📍Hanwell. This is probably the only caf in London you can get an MOT and a fry-up at the same time. Rayz Cafe is located inside Grays Tyre Services on Uxbridge Road. When I visited I found out that Ray had sold up and new owners had only been there three days. I honestly don’t think they had cooked a fry-up before. The full breakfast is only £6 and comes with two sausage, two turkey bacon, two eggs, chips, hashbrown, tea and toast. Negative; turkey bacon instead of real bacon, the toast was un-buttered and burnt on one side, there was a lot of excess bean juice and they were a little on the cold side, the tea didn’t arrive until the end of meal. Positives; none. Last visit 18/06/2025.
James Dimitri 