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037 - Breakfast on board the Lady Margaret

LadyLine Hotel Boats - check out the link for full details

I spent a week onboard the Ladyline Hotel Boats - the Lady Margarent to be precise, though they travel around in pairs, the other boat being the Lady Selena. If you want to know about the canal stuff then look at the website, this is about the breakfasts that I had whilst living aboard the Lady Margaret for the week.

Let me say from the start that the breakfasts were superb and the choice each day was very good - always on offer was a selection of cereal, fruit juices, toast, jam and marmalade, tea, coffee and a decent selection of cooked items including kippers.

Anyway here are some piccies of the breakfasts I had during the week:-


The classic English Breakfast - superb bacon and sausage with a fried egg and tomato and mushrooms


Another morning saw the addition of some very good locally made black pudding from the deli at Ellesmere


One morning some rather splendid kipper fillets grilled in butter came with poached eggs and mushrooms


Another morning they came with a fried egg


One morning I decided on a fried slice topped with scrambled eggs and two slices of seriously good bacon


Toast was a selection of white, wholemeal and granary


As already mentioned there was a good selection of cereal, juices, jam and marmalade

The last morning saw the weeks only decent sunrise at 5am


Which was followed by a classic breakfast of bacon, sausage, fried egg, fried slice and mushrooms


A week of spme seriously good breakfasting onboard the Lady Margaret!!!

Starters Orders

It’s the first and most important meal of the day, so whatever you do, don’t skip breakfast - The Liverpool Echo did a feature on the importance of breakfast as the first meal of the day. breakastLiverpool was interviewed and contributed to the article - see the link above

036 - Kavanagh's II

Kavanagh’s and Kavanagh's II - Retail Market, St. Johns Precinct, Liverpool L1 1NN - 0151-709 3667

I Had just been to the Radio City Tower to take part on a radio discussion on the Full English breakfast that was being hosted by Phil Easton and Kim Hughes as part of the Big Issue discussuon of the day on the City Talk FM morning show and so was looking for a decent city centre breakfast as it was still only 8:45am.

Thus I headed for St Johns Market and Kavanaghs II Cafe - the other branch of Kavanaghs wasn't quite ready to open though the two are very close to each other and serve identical menus. However what caught my eye was the "Early Breakfast"

I had both the blackpudding and hash brown, chose the beans and added a mug of tea - and the total cost came to a very reasonable £3.50.


Service was from mien host Mr James - who is the boss man of both cafes which are named after his grandmother.

But enough of this background banter - was the breakfast any good. As always, breakfastLiverpool believes the condiment selection is a KPI on the quality of the breakfast and yet again Kavanaghs II did not disappoint -

Look at the size of that sugar bowl plus please note all the essentials are there in that collection of sauces etc.




A great breakfast and comes with a full recommendation from breakfastLIverpool.


A fellow satisfied customer!!!!

Is a Full English Bad for You?

City Talk FM's Phil Easton will host a discussion on the matter - 8am Friday 18th April - breakfastLiverpool will be taking part

Well its seems that The Times restaurant critic Giles Coren has decided to condemn the Full English breakfast in his current rant in The Times today where he seems to have lost all perspective on what is one of the truely great achievements of the English nation - the Full English Breakfast.

The Radio City Tower


View from the Tower


Anyway local Liverpool radio station City Talk FM (based in the Radio City Tower) and their Breakfast program with Phil Easton and Kim Hughes will feature a discussion on the topic of the Full English breakfast. Taking part will be breakfastLiverpool and the redoubtable Anthony Zausmer of The Scouse House who will be speaking in defense of the Full English Breakfast.


Kim Hughes from City Talk FM and a Scouse House All Day Breakfast

I think the conclusion was that whilst A Full English Breakfast may not be the healthiest of meals - as with all things - if done in moderation it is one of life's simple pleasures and can be balanced out with less calorific breakfasts such as porridge, fruit and yoghurt and wholemeal toast.

035 The Scouse House

The Scouse House - 3 Oliver Lane, Birkenhead, CH41 6AP - 0151 647 6427



The latest venture of the redoubtable Anthony Zausmer, formerly of Posh Nosh Kitchen in Market St. - The Scouse House is quite unique as a space and all the better for it. Rather than describe the interior it is best for you to go along and see it for yourself. The menu, which can be viewed at the website, promises alot and on the two visits made so far, it has delivered.

One thing that I have noticed is that choice seems to be a key ingredient at the Scouse House. Tea is in a mug or a pot, you add your own milk, toast comes with butter on the side and eggs are surved as you like it - which in my case is sunny side up and runny.

But how was the breakfast as at the end of the day this is what the blog is all about - well I can happily report that the Scouse House Full English is very good indeed.


The condiment collection was of a standard - one can say no more.


Toast was served with real butter and you really can taste the difference

The breakfast really was superb -



Bacon, Sausage, Blackpudding, Ulsterfry, Egg, Beans, Fried Tomato and Mushrooms with two rounds of quite delightful toast and butter - it hit the spot nicely.

The Scouse House even has its own Facebook Group

Guardian Breakfast Supplement

Coming out the weekend (11-Apr-08) is the Guardian Breakfast Supplement - breakfastLiverpool has contributed to some of the reviews of classic English Breakfasts - full details and links will be posted once they are known

The Big Breakfast @ Cafe Express Deli - one of the featured cafes

The Guardian gives breakfastLiverpool top billing

In their bloggers guide to The Pool - breakfastLiverpool gets the number one spot for our fair city - where girls are so pretty.....and in need of a Full English

034 - Guinea Gap

147 Brighton Street, Wallasey, Merseyside, CH44 8DT 0151-637 1723



This will be a breakfast review with a difference as it will not actually feature a breakfast (this has niow been rectified - see the piccies at the end)- I saw breakfasts being served to other customers and I have previously eaten a Full ENglish here at the Guinea Gap Cafe and can testify to the veracity of the breakfast fryup but today as I entered the cafe I was overwhelmed by the desire to have a proper cafe dinner instead and much as I would have liked a proper fry up, I think that will have to wait another day. But anyway ere is a sneak preview of what you can look forward to breakfast wise:-


As usual the condiment selection was spot on for a quality cafe - it even had two types of pepper on offer as well as three types of sauces - quality


Mine hosts are the charming Heather and Gaynor who were happy to take my order for a small Shepards Pie Dinner



If this is a small dinner then I am impressed - it was the full works - a glorious slice of shepards pie, roasties, sprouts, peas, cauliflowwer and mashed carrot and tunip and lashings of gravy. A lunch fit for a king - roll on next Saturday when I will come and sample their breakfast again and post up some photos.



I did end up sampling breakfast the following Saturday - I went for the Small Breakfast and got a fried slice thrown in for free. Great VFM and very decent sausage and bacon and a generous serving of beans and tomoates - definately recommended - a fair number of people sitting around me were ordering the Mega Breakfast.

033 - Cafe Express Deli

Cafe Express Deli - 180 Picton Rd, Wavertree, Liverpool 0151 733 8567



For better or worse Big Baps 2 is now history and in its place is the quirkly named Cafe Express Deli. An impromptu need for a lunchtime feed had me sample their egg chips and beans a few weeks ago

and I saw a couple of breakfasts being served to another table and I knew I had to come back and have a breakfast soon - they looked very very good.

Anyway I was a man with a mission today - Cafe 23 last weeek had been a disappointment not because the food was bad but rather because the people who served just didn't really seem to care, I need to reverse that experience and I felt the Cafe Express Deli would not let me down and I am glad to report it didn't. Andy the man behind the hot stove and mine host seems to have the knack of making his customers feel very welcome


The great Russell M Davies - of Eggs, Bacon, Chips and Beans fame always put great store by the condiment provision of a cafe as an indiciation of the quality of its food - based upon this display of classic condiments I was going to be in for a treat of a breakfast.


A full English should always be washed downh by a proper mug of tea and Cafe Deli Express certainly delivered the goods here


This is the Large Breakfast and at £3.00 it is great VFM - even more so on a Sat when you can get two for a fiver. I had one of my two rounds of toast replaced with a slice of fried bread. As I have previously indicated - a fried slice, properly executed can be the crowning glory of a proper cafe breakfast. All the items were up to scratch and breakfastliverpool would heartily recommend this to any of its readers out there


Bargain of the Week!!!!


Open - All Day Breakfast - four of the most beautiful words in the world!!!!

032 - Cafe 23

23 Church Rd, Wavertree, Liverpool, L15 9EA 0151 733 8800 Cafe 23



Cafe 23 presents BreakfastLiverpool with a dilema - a great breakfast but crap service and soggy toast.

The place was buzzing on a Sunday afternoon when I felt the need for a full Englisgh but the usual cafe haunts of South Liverpool were all closed for business when I chanced upon this place. Not exactly a greasy spoon - more your upmarket neighbourhood cafe with leather sofas and coffee tables at the front of the cafe and the more usual tables and chairs at the rear.


The kitchen is open plan and looks as if it can do the business and best of all you can see your breakfast being freshly cooked and not come out of a nicrowave - but this still does not excuse the half hour wait without the meerest hint of an apology for the delay. Also my tea order got lost even thoigh it was part of the breakfast and I did not get my cup of tea till I asked


Teabag still in a cup - this happens in greasy spoons not places like Cafe 23 with upmarket intentions and prices to match




Breakfast when it came was very good indeed though spoilt a little by the refusal of a request for a fried slice. The blackpudding was to die for, tomatoes freshly fried and there was an unannouced portion of fried potatoes. A very nice breakfast imdeed.


Pity the toast was soggy

Cafe 23 presents a bit of a dilema - will I be back - I think so and in the hope that the poor service was a one off

031 - Il Bacino

Il Bacino - Brunswick Way, Liverpool, Tel: 0151 708 5005 - Il Bacino

If you want more details about the place about see the entry in FoodManChan. This entry will deal with the breakfast I had there. The breakfast menu tries to be quiet sophisticated and despite serving all the ingredients that you would normally find in a full English breakfast - it did not actually serve one as such. You could have a toasted ciabatta sandwich with a choice of fillings that included bacon, sausage and black pudding, other dishes had beans, mushrooms and egg and you could order toast but when I enquired about why no Full English at the end of the meal - I was told by the waitress it was because the chef wanted to do a something a little bit different - bizarre.

The question is - was the something a little bit different any good. Well- here is what we had:-

Smoked Haddock Fishcake with chunks of smoked haddock, topped with a poached egg and coated in Hollandaise sauce


A potato tosti topped with a slice of ham, wilted spinach and poached egg served with a small ramekin of hollandaise


Well they say good things come in small packages and these two breakfast dishes were certainly good and just a little different from the breakfast fayre usually available - the only place that comes close is Neighbourhood in Woolton - but the portion size could have been a bit more generous, espeically as the price tag was not exactly cheap at about £6.50 per dish with tea and superb toast seperately charged -


Intersting - tea is served in Illy coffee cups


The toast served was very good, the bread they used was responsible for this - a plain batard loaf but curiously it came pre-buttered but with a tray of jaam pots and butter as well.

Breakfast came to £20 for two which is not exactly cheap and given that here are places doing a plate of sausage, egg, bacon, beans, fried bread, hash brown and two slices of toast for £2 - it makes you think but on balance I would breakfast/brunch at Il Bacino again because quality costs and sometings its nice to hafve so,mething a little bit different.