The Breakfast Club

Why anyone would want to work on a Monday is beyond me. Everywhere you want to go is quiet, the streets are clean and you get to lie in. Perfecto. However this most special of privileges is not available every week. When it is, I intend to make the most of it.

After my hour long Thai massage this morning I headed further into Islington to The Breakfast Club. If you don't know exactly what you fancy but you want some good food, The Breakfast Club is a safe bet. Enormous amount of choice which makes it very difficult to decide what to have. I was swayed between mac and cheese (an all time favourite) a pulled pork burger, a burrito and something breakfast-y.

In the end I opted for the All American, when in Rome and all that - pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs (poached), and fried potatoes. When it arrived on the plate it looked pretty good, but it tasted AMAZING. The maple syrup came out in full force, way more than I was expecting so I ended up with a very sticky table and hands.

Drizzle

The pancakes were small but perfectly formed light and fluffy with very streaky bacon and covered in maple syrup. I couldn't decide if I was eating breakfast, lunch or dessert. Onto the sausages and potato, this was the nicest sausage I've had in a long while (minds out of the gutter please) I'm thinking apple-y but it was cooked to perfection and not even a bit fatty. The poached eggs and potatoes meant it was all mopped up. I finished with the bacon and maple syrups (decided it was dessert) and then was fully stuffed.

Maple Syrup - and lots of

Heaven. There are a number of branches of The Breakfast Club and generally there is a queue to get in, not on this Monday Lunchtime. Also do not try and climb in the fridge here. You are in the wrong branch of The Breakfast Club. Don't be a fool, find out the right way here.

Step away from the fridge

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Lazy Brunch

Summer is finally here (she types with half squinted eyes and fingers crossed in the vein hope if we don't say it too loudly it won't hear and bugger off again) so what is to be done about it? Brunch atop Shoreditch House of course.

We have come to the conclusion we prefer Shoreditch House to it's big brother Soho House, it's just cooler and the lazy lawn is smoking hot. It also is home to my favourite cinema, but on this occasion we were here for the eggs.

On the 6th floor there is the pool where, being summer holidays lots of very privileged children were splashing about and making merriment while their parents tapped away on Macbooks. We settled in to some freshly squeezed orange juice and took in the ambiance.

View to the pool from the restaurant

Shoreditch House Breakfast/Brunch Menu

After much deliberation I opted for Eggs Benedict. It is my go-to brunch dish so I had to try it here, knowing it would score highly on the scale of Benedict's I've tried in my time. M opted for the avocado on toast which I would later have massive food envy. It seemed like the healthier option as mine was slathered in hollandaise sauce, but there must have been 5 avocado's making up this bad boy! Perhaps the eggs weren't so bad after all  especially after the Honest Burger's we had devoured the night before.

Here it is again, in case you missed it! Benedict and Avocado

After brunch we dragged ourselves to the Box Park opposite for some Fro-Yo before heading to work, thoroughly sorry we couldn't spend the day on the Lazy Lawn sipping smoothies and making the most of the sun while it is deciding to make an appearance.

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