Front Room Cafe
  • gardener-joe
    Eggs Benedict? I only had this once in Front Room ... never again; I can vouch for cold ham, and hard muffins.

    But, I keep going back to Front Room because it is seems like a cool place to meet non-'Stroud Green' friends, the m/f staff on Saturday are (have been, so far) kinda cute, and the coffee is OK ... and now that I have eaten through some of the breakfast menu, I am settled on poached egg on toast and a latte as a safe bet.

    If you hanker after Eggs Benedict done well, and not the cold ham & hard muffin experience you get in Front Room, the guy in Mare e monte really knows how to do these ... really! BTW - for solo breakfasting with a newspaper for company Mare e monte is definitely is the place to go.
  • Papa L

    If only Graeme Le Saux had had dreadlocks, that would have been absolute genius.

    I had a mate who insisted for a while Le Sox was the best left back in the world.

  • WillM
    @ Misscara
    Really? I'm a caterer by trade and a trained chef, and have worked in London hotels and restaurants (and in Paris and Amsterdam as well). I have never seen nor heard of Eggs Benedict served with ungrilled ham and unbuttered muffins.

    That's the default way to serve it at the Lanesborough for a start, I *think* at the Wolsey, and certainly in various upper-end New York hotels. I agree it isn't the best, but that has been my experience.

    > All I'm ssaying is that with a bit of extra care and effort they could vastly improve the food and the customer experience, but they don't really seem that bothered.

    Not so sure on that... I've been in there most days this week and had an excellent experience from beginning to end. Each to their own, I guess.
  • Misscara

    Getting tired of this discussion to be honest. Can we move onto something else?

  • lewisash
    I have two preferences when it comes to SG breakfasts; if I want cheap I go to the Sunshine Cafe, if I want good produce and a warm atmosphere I go to the Front Room. Don't recall ever having a bad experience, never had Eggs Benedict there but I can vouch for the Eggs Florentine which was very good when I had it. Everyone makes mistakes and if anything was wrong i'd let them know. It isn't a cheap breakfast but you have to pay for good produce.

    I went to Mari e Monty before I moved to the area, haven't been back since but remember it being good, I shall have to make a visit. Keep meaning to pop into Ariana's, it looks good and sounds good now.

    Surely something we can all agree on is that SG has a good breakfasting opportunity for everyone.
  • ADGS
    I just made my first visit to the FRC and was very much impressed both by the veggie breakfast and the general ambience.
  • tosscat
    Hang in there Misscara, I have a new avenue to explore.

    Why do they allow people to table hog at busy times? I've been turned away on a Sunday before because there was someone nursing a tea and beggering about on the Internet on a table for 4.
  • dorothy
    Can't you just plonk yourself down in a space? Don't think anyone's ever bothered to seat me in there, although they're always pleasant enough.

    The poached egg tasted of vinegar at the weekend.

    I don't really want to keep pulling at the thread, but I checked how Delia does Eggs Benedict. She refers to lovely hot buttered muffin and crisply grilled pancetta.
  • ADGS
    I think the egg anxiety may be getting to them, I was asked if it was OK that my fried egg was ever-so-slightly broken.
  • Ian

    We went in there recently for the first time in ages - I used to go there a lot but my Saturday lunch routine changed. I have had a bit of a downer on it in the past but the coffee was a lot better than before, they moved a person who was on a table for 4 on their own with a laptop and the food was fine.

  • WillM
    damn good scrambled egg as well :)
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