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olderskyblue

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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Any decent places to go for a full English breakfast, Cov & Warwickshire area?
 

rob9872

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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Most seem cardboard replicas like you'd get in a wetherspoons with measured ingredients. You can't beat an old school greasy spoon where you still get tinned plum tomatoes and not half a grilled one. Mushrooms also seems to be a thing of the past.
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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The bell in keresley is supposed to be decent
 
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Bertola

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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olderskyblue said:
Any decent places to go for a full English breakfast, Cov & Warwickshire area?
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Malt Kiln Farm or the Barn at Berryfields are my go-to's

Playwrights is also supposed to be decent
 
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Greggs

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  • Oct 25, 2023
  • #5
Cafe in Bulkington is nice
 

clint van damme

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  • Oct 25, 2023
  • #6
olderskyblue said:
Any decent places to go for a full English breakfast, Cov & Warwickshire area?
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O'Tooles Earlsdon.
The Loft (old Rialto) Radford

Are decent
 
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CCfC2023

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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Yes Playwrights is good and Morning Sunshine if your near the castle in Kenilworth
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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olderskyblue said:
Any decent places to go for a full English breakfast, Cov & Warwickshire area?
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Hilltop farm.

Honourable second for Manor Farm at Catthorpe.
 
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rondog1973

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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rob9872 said:
Most seem cardboard replicas like you'd get in a wetherspoons with measured ingredients. You can't beat an old school greasy spoon where you still get tinned plum tomatoes and not half a grilled one. Mushrooms also seems to be a thing of the past.
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Like fresh tomatoes but detest them cooked! This fad for a half grilled one replacing tinned plum proper irritates. It's like a concession to healthy eating on a plate full of cholesterol laden deadliness. What's the bloody point!
 
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PVA

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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If you want something cheap, then Morrisons Cafe do a really good breakfast for the price!

For something fancier (and expensive), Tuning Fork in Rugby does a very good one.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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PVA said:
For something fancier (and expensive), Tuning Fork in Rugby does a very good one.
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You're not wrong about price! But, never heard of it, and squid and chips for lunch sounds suitably bonkers for me to give it a go sometime!
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 25, 2023
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Deleted member 5849 said:
You're not wrong about price! But, never heard of it, and squid and chips for lunch sounds suitably bonkers for me to give it a go sometime!
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Squid aka Calamari?

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Deleted member 5849

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fernandopartridge said:
Squid aka Calamari?

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I know it'll just be fried rings, but at that price I'd hope for at least Tesco finest
 

ovduk78

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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rondog1973 said:
Like fresh tomatoes but detest them cooked! This fad for a half grilled one replacing tinned plum proper irritates. It's like a concession to healthy eating on a plate full of cholesterol laden deadliness. What's the bloody point!
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I'm not sure a grilled tomato being part of a Full English is a fad. I would rather have it than baked beans if they are indeed part of a Full English. Bacon, egg, sausage, mushrooms & grilled tomato with some toast & a cup of tea sounds like perfection to me.
 

stay_up_skyblues

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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ovduk78 said:
I'm not sure a grilled tomato being part of a Full English is a fad. I would rather have it than baked beans if they are indeed part of a Full English. Bacon, egg, sausage, mushrooms & grilled tomato with some toast & a cup of tea sounds like perfection to me.
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Where do you stand on the grilled vine tomatoes now found on posh ones?

Plum tomatoes all the way for me. And black pudding. Sod the mushrooms but hash brown welcome.
 

Grendel

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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Deleted member 5849 said:


I know it'll just be fried rings, but at that price I'd hope for at least Tesco finest
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Rubber bands in batter
 

Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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Grendel said:
Rubber bands in batter
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They're brilliant if fresh and cooked properly, not so much most places you get them sadly
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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Make your own you lazy bastard, always tastes way better aswell

3 Bacon, 2 Sausage, Fried Egg, Black Pudding, 2 Hash Browns, Mushrooms, Beans, Tinned Tomatoes, Fried Bread



Saying that the only fry up ive ever had that I was massively impressed with in a place was at a cafe in Lyme Regis, Dorset

It was heavenly
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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Bertola said:
Malt Kiln Farm or the Barn at Berryfields are my go-to's

Playwrights is also supposed to be decent
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The Barn is round the corner from me and we've still yet to try their restaurant, going by the monster size of the stuff in their bakery I'd imagine their breakfast would see me full for the whole day
 

fatso

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  • Oct 26, 2023
  • #20
The cafe at Wellesbourn airfield is top notch.
Full monty with toast and a brew!
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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Fry ups should be cheap, plentiful, and served by someone with questionable food hygiene qualifications. Posh fry ups are always shite. Never enough, egg with herbs on it, ramekin of beans, get to fuck.

No idea where does a good one, always make my own. Rare to find a proper greasy spoon these days too.
 
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olderskyblue

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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Saddlebrains said:
Make your own you lazy bastard, always tastes way better aswell

3 Bacon, 2 Sausage, Fried Egg, Black Pudding, 2 Hash Browns, Mushrooms, Beans, Tinned Tomatoes, Fried Bread



Saying that the only fry up ive ever had that I was massively impressed with in a place was at a cafe in Lyme Regis, Dorset

It was heavenly
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Bit far to go there…

it’s a family meet up (sister and brother-in-law) and a bit of a tradition with us now, or else I would make it myself

although, mine is a not quite a full English. No tomatoes or mushrooms thanks.
 
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olderskyblue

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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fatso said:
The cafe at Wellesbourn airfield is top notch.
Full monty with toast and a brew!
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Was there a few weeks ago, it was good
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 26, 2023
  • #24
shmmeee said:
Fry ups should be cheap, plentiful, and served by someone with questionable food hygiene qualifications. Posh fry ups are always shite. Never enough, egg with herbs on it, ramekin of beans, get to fuck.

No idea where does a good one, always make my own. Rare to find a proper greasy spoon these days too.
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Dunno, get the point to an extent but cheap bacon and sausage are dreadful so I'll err on the more expensive places. Agree on the ramekin point.

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AOM

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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clint van damme said:
O'Tooles Earlsdon.
The Loft (old Rialto) Radford

Are decent
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+1 for O'Tooles.
One of the few places where you'll probably get white pudding and soda bread on a fry up as well in the area
 
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shmmeee

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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fernandopartridge said:
Dunno, get the point to an extent but cheap bacon and sausage are dreadful so I'll err on the more expensive places. Agree on the ramekin point.

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Thats fair. Needs to be above a certain meat quality.
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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AOM said:
+1 for O'Tooles.
One of the few places where you'll probably get white pudding and soda bread on a fry up as well in the area
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Surely technically a Full Irish?
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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AOM said:
+1 for O'Tooles.
One of the few places where you'll probably get white pudding and soda bread on a fry up as well in the area
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Class, white pudding is an essential element imo. Haggis is good as well.
 
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AOM

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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shmmeee said:
Surely technically a Full Irish?
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Touché
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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Best I’ve ever been was a place in Greenock in Scotland for a mates wedding. Was ages ago now but was £1 for 1 egg, 1 bacon, 1 sausage slice, 1 pancake thing, 1 black pudding i think and either tomatoes or mushrooms. Then for £2 two of everything £3 3 of everything and so on. Even 25 years ago it was the most insane value of ever seen.
 
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ovduk78

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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stay_up_skyblues said:
Where do you stand on the grilled vine tomatoes now found on posh ones?

Plum tomatoes all the way for me. And black pudding. Sod the mushrooms but hash brown welcome.
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No to grilled vine tomatoes, just a normal tomato cut in half & grilled.
I don't want black pudding on my breakfast although I much prefer the English one over the ones we get in Scotland. Hash browns can fuck off back to the USA and as for the suggestions of white pudding & soda bread they are not part of a Full English.
 

ovduk78

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  • Oct 26, 2023
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shmmeee said:
Best I’ve ever been was a place in Greenock in Scotland for a mates wedding. Was ages ago now but was £1 for 1 egg, 1 bacon, 1 sausage slice, 1 pancake thing, 1 black pudding i think and either tomatoes or mushrooms. Then for £2 two of everything £3 3 of everything and so on. Even 25 years ago it was the most insane value of ever seen.
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Pancake thing was probably a potato scone
 
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  • Oct 26, 2023
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ovduk78 said:
No to grilled vine tomatoes, just a normal tomato cut in half & grilled.
I don't want black pudding on my breakfast although I much prefer the English one over the ones we get in Scotland. Hash browns can fuck off back to the USA and as for the suggestions of white pudding & soda bread they are not part of a Full English.
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Agree about hashbrowns. Anyone tried fried sweet potatoes instead? I just feel they go really well.
 

duffer

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  • Oct 26, 2023
  • #34
Saddlebrains said:
Make your own you lazy bastard, always tastes way better aswell

3 Bacon, 2 Sausage, Fried Egg, Black Pudding, 2 Hash Browns, Mushrooms, Beans, Tinned Tomatoes, Fried Bread



Saying that the only fry up ive ever had that I was massively impressed with in a place was at a cafe in Lyme Regis, Dorset

It was heavenly
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With you entirely except on the hash browns, tasty or not, are they not an American interloper?

Fried bread though, I've not seen that in years... No way the health police are letting that one get through.
 
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BodicoteSkyBlue

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  • Oct 26, 2023
  • #35
Fried bread! That’s a food from my childhood, amazed my heart hasn’t packed up, with all the lard I ate as a kid. That and passive smoking.
 
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