Best cafe for a fry up locally?

[MrBen]

Not had this one for a while. But for a good old skool fry up where's the action at?

Is there a place for the upmarket ones or is an old greasy spoon still best?

[KidKruger]

I've been going to the one next to Palmerston recently - does what it says on the tin.

If I want a gourmet full English (surely a slight oxymoron) I'll cook it at home.

[????]

The one up by the launderette nearer the plough used to be old school.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Cross Roads Caff on Bellenden Road is incredible value. Great rolls that hold a bacon and egg doubler (egg burst and spread) well. Good mug of tea as well.

[Annasfield]

Cross Roads is good.

Johnnies on LL is decent too

[MrBen]

even about 5 years ago I'm sure there were at least 3 more caffs on or just off the Lane. There was the Tulip (now Jaflong?) and also used to go to one opposite the Castle on CP Road run by an old Greek guy?

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Before The Blue Brick (the Stanley Kubrick) Cafe went veggie, it was a good fry. If a bit haphazard service at times. Prettys does a top notch fry which is huge. Down by The Cherry Tree is the Grove, Greek Cypriots running it and had some good frys there.

[MrBen]

You can't beat all those combo options.

HelpMa - if you go for a fry up rather than your roll whats your preferred combo?

[Help-Ma-Boab]

The must haves: bacon, fried bread, shrooms, tomatoes (sometimes tinned), egg (fried and runny) and Heinz beans. Will trade sausage for extra bacon. Black pudding if it's available, but seldom seen in the caffs round here.

Partial to scrambled egg in a well buttered roll. The roll is crucial as you know.

Never have chips for brekkie. That's unhealthy and can't be good for you.

Wash it down with a mug of sweet tea

[????]

+ slab of white bread and butter

[Louisa]

Bubble n squeak smothered in HP sauce with runny fried egg on top with 3 rashers of crispy bacon and a slab of white bread and butter every time.

Louisa.

[maxxi]

and never never never hash browns.

[ratty]

Pah. Always hash browns, egg (runny), shrooms, bacon, black pudding, extra sausage, beans, 2 toast, cup of builders.

[MrBen]

Ratty you deviant. I've always thought hash browns were minging. They sort of seem like a rude American intervention.

That said, I'm partial to some frozen skinny processed chips with my brekkie so I can't talk.

[KidKruger]

No potato products in a fried brekky - it's just not right.

[titch juicy]

maxxi Wrote:

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> and never never never hash browns.

Never never never never never ever hash browns

[MrBen]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> No potato products in a fried brekky - it's just

> not right.

In Scotland, the triangular potato scone is a traditional staple. Weirdly they're also meant to be big on the Isle of Man.

In Ireland they have a slightly thicker equivalent called a potato farl - but I'd need to check with Irish forumites as to whether they were/are a breakfast staple.

[KidKruger]

I get that - having spent a year in Glasgow.

But down here potato in a fry-up is just plain wrong.

I blame it (as someone above did) on the Americans, but also now on the Scots, Irish and IOMers.

Bloody foreigners ruining our 'culture' (see Rye Lane thread).

[StraferJack]

I've never been partial to a farl Mr Ben. Not that common where I come from either

my potatoe of choice for breakfast is a sauteed potato

Anyway this is all "what constitutes a good breakfast" rather than where does a good one

I've been to all of the ones on the lane and of late Johnnies was the best. The one up by the Plough is proper old school (I remember a pre first ever Barry Barry brekkie there with Carnell)

The one next to Franklins was solid but great coffee

[Help-Ma-Boab]

A set 2 in an old style caff. Cannae beat it.

[aquarius moon]

I quite like the breakfasts at 'The Fox On The Hill'.

It does come with hash browns but personally, I don't think a fry-up is the same without fried potatoes.

[Louisa]

Hash browns are an American invader, but then so are baked beans, so how far back do we push regional Breakfast item traditions? As far back as Sir Walter discovering the potato in the Americas? Bubble and Squeak is a very traditional addition in a London fry up and always has been as far back as I can remember as a kid- i cant personally eat my fry up without this patticular potato product. Just as square sausages in Scotland, black pudding in Ireland and the north of England, and the curious Hog's pudding in Cornwall and Devon. I personally would rather fried bread than toast or hash browns anyday - but I'm just a believer in being a true all out unhealthy breakfast lover.

Louisa.

[dbboy]

Black pudding on toast or fried bread topped with fried eggs, Yum

[StraferJack]

the black pudding the the Co-Op sells (not the discs) is seriously poky (as in hot)

I liked that a lot

[nashoi]

My usual problem with old school caffs is so few of them serve a sausage worthy of the name. The worst I've ever seen would have to be Rock Steady Eddies in Camberwell, chewing on a candle would have been preferable.