The Best Brunch in Town When was it we invented ‘Brunch’? It reminds me a few years ago when one Hollywood star dated another and we morphed their names into one-Jennifer Lopez (J.Lo) and Ben Affleck became ‘Bennifer’ Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had to endure ‘Brangelina’. The wonderful Wikipedia lets us know this: The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine which wrote that the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for “Saturday-night carousers” in the writer Guy Beringer’s article “Brunch: A Plea” in Hunter’s Weekly’. Still what I’m missing here is what’s really important –the food! Here are some of our favourite Brunch destinations in the UK. Daylesford farmhouse breakfast – sausage, streaky bacon, two fried eggs, grilled tomato & grilled portobello mushrooms with sourdough toast thefarm@daylesford.com Eggs Royale at Megan’s , situated on Londons Kings Road Fulham http://megans.co.uk/ Prison Eggs at Jackson Rye-scrambled eggs, jalapeño borlotti beans, spring and granary toast Jackson + Rye http://www.jacksonrye.com/ In York? Try the Perky Peacock, great coffee toasted bagels and scrumptious homemade cakes. http://perkypeacockcoffee.co.uk/ Glasgow, try Strathvagin taking its title from the an old Scottish word meaning ‘to wander aimlessly with intent’ our recommendation The Full Scots breakfast, Link and lorne, beans, fried egg, mushrooms, tattie scone, grilled tomato, Ramsay’s of Carluke black pudding and bacon http://www.stravaigin.co.uk/ Belfast-Brunch in the Great room at the Merchant Hotel , push the boat out for some old time luxury –order anything-the service makes you feel a million dollars! www.themerchanthotel.com Chester-How can you resist a cafe with ‘brunch’ in the title! Blinkers Brunch Bar is quite simply the place to have your eggs & bacon in Chester 1 Stanley Street | Ground Floor, Chester CH1 2LR,England Contact us with your favourites we’d love to print the best.
