Nice article on London Review of Breakfasts - Op-Egg: Solving the breakfast class divide
The gist being that the classic greasy spoon bangs out a disciplined breakfast – quick, reliable with kitchens run like a Nelson ship – but the quality is dubious, esp. in the meat department. The nouveau cafés strive to give you the name of the porker your rasher came from and hand crafted breads from God’s kitchen but haven’t got a clue how to cook it and are too lazy and posh to really care.
The driving inspiration for Full English is Simple English Food. As someone who is interested in design and no doubt a bit of a sucker for things verging on the poncey I hope that we don’t slip into the design-over-substance black hole.
No doubt LRoB will let us know if we do!
PS – here’s a latest impression of the shop front. Should I be scruffing it up a bit?!
