best caff in se22

[bailey]

where is the best fry up on or near Lordship lane ?

[david_carnell]

I went to the Uplands Cafe on Uplands road. Very decent indeed. Bacon, egg, chips and beans all heartily recommended.

[citizenED]

If you want athentic workman's atmosphere as well as a good fry up then the Plough Cafe on Lordship Lane, up near the Plough is a good bet. The place is always bustling with red-tops, workboots and flourescent yellow bibs.

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[Louisa]

I think the best fry up is the place next to what used to be the Lord Palmerston Pub (some sort of gastro dive now).

[alex]

I think you mean the Dulwich Cafe, Louisa. Not been in there for a while but it seems to have had a refurb. The other good place to go is The Lane Cafe which is opposite the Thomas Moore building. My favourite has got to be The Bishop pub - great fry-up, pint of Abbot Ale and a really friendly atmosphere.

[DaveR]

This is a subject close to my heart, and I've been trying various caffs over the last few years. Of the ones actually on LL in the centre of ED I reckon the best one is The Lane, next door to Property In. Near the station there is one at the top of Melbourne Grove opposite the post office which is pretty good. My favourites are the Upland as already mentioned and the Blue Brick on Fellbrigg Road - the Blue Brick probably just shades it on food quality. I've also heard that the Plough is top notch but for some reason not been there yet - to be remedied, hopefully soon.

[Brendan]

I like the Blue Brick. The food quality can be iffy but there is a certain scruffy honesty about the place that I like.

[Rowanofski]

Word on the street has it that Jack's is very good - it's just up the road with the Magdala on the corner - can't remember the name of the road. I don't think it's the greasey spoon variety however. I've not been, but my girlfriend swears by it, which is why I'm guessing they serve organic, homemade cous-cous served on a bed of hand-reared 12 year old finest lettuce leaves. Probably more of a Blue Mountain job than a Lane. The more grease the better if you ask me! On a non-Dulwich note, apparently Ikea serve a fry up for 95p!!

[lordship_bod]

is the blue mountain not considered a "caff"? is it too upmarket? they do a mean fry up in there though....

[Louisa]

8 items for 95p before 10am at Ikea. It's crap but its cheap!

[Brendan]

Drive to Croydon with a hangover before 10am?!?!?!?! What kind of cruel and unusual punishment is that!?

Anyway counting the travel cost, associated carbon footprint and the ?100 you will end up spending on superfluous, quirky cutlery and a flat-packed side board it all sounds like a very, very bad idea.

Just stumbling down LL armed with a pair of sunglasses and a fiver is altogether a better option.

[Jah Lush]

LOL! Couldn't agree more Brendan. The Upland Road cafe gets my vote though and I quite like the one opposite the Castle on Crystal Palace Road though not been there for a while and the one at the Plough is also very good.

[mockney piers]

> 8 items for 95p before 10am at Ikea. It's crap but its cheap!

That stopped me in my tracks. Then I had to remember it was on a thread about cooked breakfasts. I'm not a huge fan of ikea, but 8 items for 95 would be too much for even me to pass up ;)

[SeanMacGabhann]

Think about just what exactly is IN that sausage "item" before you eat it tho surely?

[Rolo Tomasi]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> I went to the Uplands Cafe on Uplands road. Very

> decent indeed. Bacon, egg, chips and beans all

> heartily recommended.

I'll second that David!

[mockney piers]

A cheap fold out bed perhaps.

[bignumber5]

Louisa Wrote:

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> I think the best fry up is the place next to what

> used to be the Lord Palmerston Pub (some sort of

> gastro dive now).

Dulwich Caff - seconded. Decent black pud, not always easy to come by!

[tommy]

Uplands - defintely

[Keef]

Now I'm no vegetarian, but black pudding, come on, it's blood and fat!

[Jonboy]

Uplands and the Plough. Unbeatable.

On a similar note, reminds me of a top quote:

"There are 2 things, the making of which you don't want to know about. Laws and sausages."

[bignumber5]

Keef Wrote:

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> Now I'm no vegetarian, but black pudding, come on,

> it's blood and fat!

But once you get over that, it's one of the best, richest breakfast foods in existence!

Anyway, fry up components include a pigs back, a chicken embryo, a common fungus, and whatever combination of brains, bums, hooves and b*ll*cks that they put into sausages - surely a bit academic to quibble over the blood that previously ran thru the beast and the fat that kept it cozy?!? :))

[SeanMacGabhann]

Keef - you are forgetting herbs and spices..

No fry-up is worthy of the name without black (and preferably white as well) pudding

[Jah Lush]

Although being a strict carnivore I have to say even I'd pass on the black or white pudding.

[Brendan]

Blood and fat are the 2 most nutritious parts of an animal appart from possibly egg yolk but that's not really part of an animal, just something that comes out of a chickens bum.

Whenever I visit up-north my mum-in-law makes sure I get a daily dose of black pud.

[Marmora Man]

It is something that the North does better than London or East Dulwich. A good black pudding is a joy to behold and heaven to eat.