I'm going to join the other regional Brits and say, "HOW MUCH!?" Here in West Yorkshire, I can't think of anywhere that charges as much as £12 for a fry up. A fiver is standard - eight quid if you want to push the boat out - maybe up to a tenner for a belly-buster.
Transport Cafés are the best place for full English. The Redbeck Motel in Wakefield serves them from £4.50 to just under six quid. The top price one is called the "breakfast special" and is not for the faint-hearted. Strong tea, lost coffee, cheap white bread and furniture bolted to the floor. THAT'S where you get a good breakfast.
Seriously, hell, I'm in East London and even round here I can only think of one place that gets close to twelve quid (hipster place, admittedly very nice), most places you'd be looking at five or six quid (with a mug of tea included whether you like it or not...) for two egg, two bacon, chips or some other potatoey thing, mushrooms, two sausages and toast (my standard order as a non-bean/tomato person...) (Also sourdough fried bread sounds like an abomination, use normal bread for Pete's sake.)
Yep i would say the average around where i live is about the £4 mark. Even where i lived before in london you can still get a full english fof under £5 and i still visit the same cafes when i visit London.
I’m originally from the East End and moved up here to Warwick 10 years ago and the full English in London varies from about £4 where I used to live to around £12 around Borough market which is scandalous, but as long as visitors or trendy people want to pay that amount the price will stay high.
Only one sausage, what sort of barbarians serve a breakfast with one sausage not to mention the lack of fried bread or the black pudding cut so thin you could almost see through it.
@@egoldstraw6952 I learnt once. I don't need to learn again. I was working that day and was up against the clock. Morrisons pissed on my day. I really don't know how they can make such hard work of it.
Angela Castaneda a dentist? What are you talking about lol was that meant to be some kind of put down I’m confused 🤷♀️ most people in the UK visit a dentist every 6 months lol 😂
Honestly if you ever go hunting for a good and cheap fry up again I’d suggest heading for the most unassuming looking place with all the tradesmen in it😁 Great video guys I’m loving all your reactions to the uk 😂
Exactly right Emma! I am a tradesman working all around London and i know so many great cafes i should write a book! Good decent priced 'English' cafes are however becoming thin on the ground, especially transport cafes. Want a tip, if you are out and about trying to find decent priced food, ask a street cleaner or the bin men. They know all the tucked away places!
That's bubble and squeak, it's a mix of boiled cabbage and potatoes that's then fried. Used to be a way of using up the leftovers of a roast dinner and it gets its name from the noise the cabbage makes when its being fried.
Why on earth does breakfast come with those beans? Beans make me fart. I would loose all my friends if ate those every morning. I noticed they did not eat the black pudding, so I am wondering what is in that?
@@k.c.4875 Hi I'm afraid to tell you that black pudding is mainly pigs blood but I just love the stuff especially with tinned tomatoes on top - absolutely delicious
Those prices were all scandalous, especially the 'cheap' one at £8.50. That is not a greasy spoon price. I live 200 miles from London but know you can get better value than that there. I live in the Manchester area and you can get a far bigger, and probably better, full English for around half that. If they tried charging prices like that around here, they'd soon be out of business
I live in Central London and greasy spoons are at least 7 pounds for a full English. if you want a proper one with black pudding and bubble and squeak that's at least 8 pounds so yeah. things are expensive here.
We have a 70s tv comedy here in the U.S. where a character finds much trouble when told to ship something to 'London'..he ships it to the U.K., rather than London, Ontario, Canada! It never hurts to be very specific! We have many duplicate named cities here in the U.S. (we're not that original)...Kansas City, Missouri is just a street width away from Kansas City, Kansas..two separate municipalities.
North 1 South divide again! You can get a good quality full English breakfast for half the price 'Up North'! I pay around £4 - £5 for a traditional large breakfast and for £10 can get an unlimited 'all you can eat' cooked breakfast. I guess it's not just the North / South Divide... as with most major cities London is naturally going to cost a lot more than other parts of the country. I'm sure there are places down south that are much cheaper than what you guys paid! We also have fried bread, black pudding and hash browns as standard up north! Glad to see you both trying our national breakfast though! 🍳👍
Hello from Naples, Florida. Wow, all three breakfasts look delicious. #2 was our favorite. Thank you so much for sharing this part of the world with us. 👍💯
I am from Wales, I had a fantastic 30-year career with the Met police and for the last three of those, I worked out of Lambeth. I spent maybe six mornings of those 3 years, before going onto major policing matters, eating a full English in this location - we had the whole of London to choose from - I can honestly say, this was the best proper breakfast I have had anywhere or anytime in my entire pan-London career. The bonus was, everyone ordered something different from the guy you see at 14.46, but, like, 30 minutes later, he pulled it straight from memory for your bill without any error!! It never failed to amaze me. Oh, and the food is F****ng amazing. I am retired now and living over 140 miles away. But I loved that place - Track it down. tell me I'm wrong.
satsumamoon I’m sure the added ingredients are tasty, but they shouldn’t be dry, they look like they have been cooked a while back, then kept warm on a hot plate.
I love this idea! And i love that people are sharing where else to get a good breakfast. I always need recommendations :) We went to duck & waffle last year...I think we were sat at the same table! We went for dinner and loved the duck and waffle dish, too.
£12 was the cheaper end of the scale??? Average cafe price in my area for that would be £6.60 which would include tea and toast. You shouldn’t mention coming to London, you’ll have all the northerners bleeting about it ...... bless ‘em 😂😂👍
Everything sounds very expensive - In my experience - the cheaper greasy spoon breakfasts are the best - by a country mile (and the tastiest ) - especially if you get out of London - try the Staffordshire oatcake for a start - there are plenty of local variations of the English breakfast.
You need to make friends with some locals who will treat you to a real homemade English breakfast..you would expect back bacon, two eggs, two quality sausages, black pudding, fried bread, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, bread and butter and possibly nice crisp chips all washed down with a pot of tea..Yorkshire, PG Tips etc..cost per head three quid or so. This should keep you going till supper.
I think you need to point out how much more expensive food is in London. £8.50 for that first breakfast is completely unrepresentative of anywhere outside the capital. As an example, I’m having breakfast tomorrow in a very good standard pub/restaurant chain in Birmingham where my all-you-can-eat breakfast is costing me £4.29. In a greasy spoon up here breakfast plates start from about £2.50 for a small up to about £4.50 for a large, both including toast/fried bread and a hot drink.
I’d have to agree with the other brits comments, brits wouldn’t pay that much. You need to try a real breakfast outside of london. Also a basic breakfast isn’t served with a bill in a tin with mints. That said, great to see the videos :)
First bacon looked more like Danish Back Bacon. Fried bread also a good option on a good fry up. But main rule is mix the food on the fork 2 to 3 items per mouthful not just 1, its all about mixing.
The greasy spoon I visit is £2.70 for a basic breakfast, with egg, sausage, bacon, beans, hash brown, two slices of toast and a mug of tea. A big breakfast, doubling up on everything plus all the extras, is £4.95. Add a steamed pudding for £2.90. Most of the daily papers are on the rack, the service is friendly, and you can discuss politics, philosophy and hernia operations without fisticuffs.
Jesus £12 for a medium english, London is so expensive, where I live £12 will get you "Smoked back bacon, Cumberland sausages, hash browns, baked beans, slow-roasted tomato, black pudding, button mushrooms, two fried eggs and two slices of toast"
I just said this to fella told him I eva had to pay that for a breakfast cos they got an award I'd buy it in my self fella breaky alway better anyway cos he know how I like it cooking
The second place the beans look like they where kept warm for a long time and thickened up, its nice but I don't think they where fancy beans. I cook my beans in a ramekin with the bacon and sausage in a oven if I am being lazy and the beans end up looking like that. Also that bacon was well underdone that fat needed to be crispy, also its not a real full breakfast/fry-up without black pudding. The bread was not fried that was just toasted. I wouldn't of paid £14 for it but I like my old school fry-ups. Not a great place to eat but you need to do a Wetherspoon at least once when in the UK, also their all-day breakfast is £4.75. But great video.
For a few years i was a truck driver and the 1st thing you learn is eat where the truck drivers go, Cheap good food and big portions but careful where you park as i saw a VW Golf with german plates boxed in by trucks at a transport cafe but im sure they got a good breakfast!
When I make my own I never butter the toast. The bacon fat and fried egg have enough fat between them to not need the extra lubrication. Also it is important to position the items correctly on the plate. Like use the sausage as a breakwater between the egg and the beans.
Try the £36 breakfast at the Dorchester. A full English Breakfast can include all sorts of items including a first course of porridge, devilled ox kidney, fried onions and bubble and squeak.
English breakfast includes fried egg, bacon, sausage, grilled tomato and white fried bread. Hash browns are American. London prices are obscenely expensive and yes, us northerners can do it much cheaper! 😊
If you ever get the chance to come to Reading (35 miles West of London) a little cafe called "Munchees" does the same Full English as the 1st place you went to but for around £5, you don't have to book plus American 50's style booth seating. Highly recommended.
Just found you by chance. Thanks for your videos from here in the u.k. . You have made me chuckle 😂🤣. Not well at the moment and have really cheered me up. Lovely couple, please don’t go back yet, more vids please.
Come to the gateway to England, it's a town called Dover and there's plenty of greasy spoons cafes which you can get a big breakfast for half the price of the first one and it's delicious
Jeeeez...they all saw you coming, I live in London and a good breakfast at half the prices you paid for yours is available everywhere ...even a posh brekkie isn’t that much !
You should go to a place where the items can be ordered as separate items, you can then get exactly what you want as your breakfast, best off at a backstreet greasy spoon.
If you visit other parts of England especially the North, prices are a lot cheaper than London, you can get breakfasts around £5, my local pub does a full monty breakfast for £8, I've just checked the menu and it sounds enormous.
The first cafe you tried out wasn't really what I think of as a "greasy spoon cafe." There are still plenty in the London area and these are where the truck drivers, white van men and market workers have been filling up with mugs of tea and cheap breakfasts before a long hard day of "graft." One to try out is the Electric Cafe at 258 Norwood Road, West Norwood, SE27 9AJ. I think it has been running since before the Second World War and it doesn't feel like they have upgraded the decor that much since then. I found it when I used to live in Balham back min the 1980's. It's near to Tulse Hill Station so quite easy to get to if you fancy a short train journey from London Bridge. I am sure there must be loads more great authentic cafes in your area but most of them in the tourist areas have either disappeared or been "Yuppified." Thanks for a great video guys, and keep up the good work.
The “potato” thing on the works is called Bubble and Squeak. It is usually mashed potato combined with cabbage (and maybe broccoli and onion and is fried like a patty). Traditionally however it would make from whatever leftover vegetables you have from the meal you’d have had the previous evening. Waste not, want not as they say....
Bloody hell 8,50 for that!!!! Guys come up north for god sake you guys getting your eyes ripped out 😂 you can make your selfs sick for 5£ here!!! Barnsley Yorkshire
Don't need to go oooopp North we have proper reasonably priced cafés in London, dunno where they got their "cheap" cafe at £8.50 for a small breakfast. They were held up in my opinion.
Ignoring the inflated London prices, your 'cheapest' breakfast was the only one to have decent quality bacon - serving streaky bacon is a real cut-price rip-off!
One absolute tip for foreigners visting the UK. Visit London - absolutely BUT don't judge the UK on London (views, price or taste of food - anything). London is like a seperate country to the rest of the UK. See London but also see the UK. - Go somewhere foreigners don't normally go too and you'll be pleasently suprised.
The trick to finding the best and cheapest full English in the UK is to keep an eye out for truck stops that have a cafe near them. Truckers always sniff the good ones out.
You can get a traditional English breakfast for less then £4 at a Wetherspoons and less then £1.50 for unlimited tea, coffee hot chocolate etc. Also you can get an unlimited Breakfast for less then £5 at Toby Carvery and have unlimited Tea or Coffee for around £2
Great vid guys, love these little food ones you come up with in the UK. If you are still here, you must try another UK cuisine tradition and that’s getting a Indian Takeaway. This is probably more popular than Fish & Chips. Most people have a mix of a traditional curry, rice, naan bread, onion bhajis, samosas and popadoms. Get in a few beers, order the takeaway and whack on a good film. Give it a bash guys, you will love it and it will be a really good vid 👍
Gingers Cafe in Bradford, west Yorkshire.... "The workman" 2 bacon 2 sausage 2 eggs Hash brown Beans Tomatoes Fried bread Mushrooms Tea/coffee Toast Just a straight fiver
I didn't watch this for a week, because I didn't seem interested, but now it was one of the best Videos you recently uploaded! well done. Too bad the Concept already exists, otherwise I'd probably ask for a series :D
Pardon me,I am not trying to be a critic or something,I just converted 38 pounds to Indian rupees and it came to almost 3500 In this amount 4 to 5 people can have a hearty meal including 3 to 4 delicious starters and main course dishes in a 3 or 4 star restaurant that looks after good hygiene
I'm in South Wales and £12 for an English breakfast is laughably expensive. It's £4.95 for a basic one in the market and that includes a cuppa tea, if you want a fancier one it's £8-9 in a sit-down restaurant.
I'm going to join the other regional Brits and say, "HOW MUCH!?"
Here in West Yorkshire, I can't think of anywhere that charges as much as £12 for a fry up. A fiver is standard - eight quid if you want to push the boat out - maybe up to a tenner for a belly-buster.
Tony Casey yay, for West Yorkshire! If a full English with 2 of everything, costs more than £8 you’re being ripped off!
No chance mate. That was a greasy spoon for tourists. Most cafe are charmless but cheap!
Transport Cafés are the best place for full English.
The Redbeck Motel in Wakefield serves them from £4.50 to just under six quid. The top price one is called the "breakfast special" and is not for the faint-hearted. Strong tea, lost coffee, cheap white bread and furniture bolted to the floor. THAT'S where you get a good breakfast.
Londoner here. There are lots of cheaper amazing local cafes in london
Seriously, hell, I'm in East London and even round here I can only think of one place that gets close to twelve quid (hipster place, admittedly very nice), most places you'd be looking at five or six quid (with a mug of tea included whether you like it or not...) for two egg, two bacon, chips or some other potatoey thing, mushrooms, two sausages and toast (my standard order as a non-bean/tomato person...)
(Also sourdough fried bread sounds like an abomination, use normal bread for Pete's sake.)
£12 is mid to high for a fry up... £6-7 is normal for a FULL English. 👍🇬🇧
The full English in our greasy spoon cafe in Warwick costs £3.65 including fried bread, cup of tea and 2 slices of buttered bread, luvvly jubbly!!!
Yep i would say the average around where i live is about the £4 mark. Even where i lived before in london you can still get a full english fof under £5 and i still visit the same cafes when i visit London.
I’m originally from the East End and moved up here to Warwick 10 years ago and the full English in London varies from about £4 where I used to live to around £12 around Borough market which is scandalous, but as long as visitors or trendy people want to pay that amount the price will stay high.
Only one sausage, what sort of barbarians serve a breakfast with one sausage not to mention the lack of fried bread or the black pudding cut so thin you could almost see through it.
The tuckery do a good breakfast
Michael Prestidge we go there on Saturday mornings for a Bacon sandwich and a cuppa
The old transport cafes, mainly for lorry drivers, used to be the best place for breakfast back in the 1950s/60s. 5,000,000 flies can't be wrong.
Hahaha
Defo see whats parked up round back, if its got 3 or more trucks out back its worth stopping.
Title correction: "Americans try a high, really high and extravagantly high priced English breakfast" !!!!
Obviously never had a Morrison's big daddy breakfast for £6
Agreed
I went into Morrisons for a breakfast when I was 53. I think I was 55 when it was served.
@@glennharrison7036 I bet it didn't have all the items as advertised .... Don't get me started on Morrisons breakfasts
@@egoldstraw6952
I learnt once. I don't need to learn again. I was working that day and was up against the clock. Morrisons pissed on my day. I really don't know how they can make such hard work of it.
@@glennharrison7036 Boom, brilliant!
Obviously, it's not the cholesterol, but the price, that gives people heart attacks in London!
No Londoner ever would pay them prices for a fry up
No brit would lol
Ya you all need dentists first
Angela Castaneda a dentist? What are you talking about lol was that meant to be some kind of put down I’m confused 🤷♀️ most people in the UK visit a dentist every 6 months lol 😂
The breakfast is full of sugar aka carbs
Smile
Honestly if you ever go hunting for a good and cheap fry up again I’d suggest heading for the most unassuming looking place with all the tradesmen in it😁 Great video guys I’m loving all your reactions to the uk 😂
Exactly right Emma! I am a tradesman working all around London and i know so many great cafes i should write a book! Good decent priced 'English' cafes are however becoming thin on the ground, especially transport cafes. Want a tip, if you are out and about trying to find decent priced food, ask a street cleaner or the bin men. They know all the tucked away places!
Golden rule: If the local brickies eat there - then eat there
@@rupert9208 For our American firends: Brickies= Bricklayers and other construction workers.
Yep follow the tradesmen.
Im a tradesman every town got a cheap cafe or when in doubt weatherspoons
That's bubble and squeak, it's a mix of boiled cabbage and potatoes that's then fried. Used to be a way of using up the leftovers of a roast dinner and it gets its name from the noise the cabbage makes when its being fried.
Why on earth does breakfast come with those beans? Beans make me fart. I would loose all my friends if ate those every morning. I noticed they did not eat the black pudding, so I am wondering what is in that?
@@k.c.4875 Another name for it is Blood Sausage ;) so have a guess.
@@k.c.4875 Blood and fat and it's lovely
@@k.c.4875 Hi I'm afraid to tell you that black pudding is mainly pigs blood but I just love the stuff especially with tinned tomatoes on top - absolutely delicious
@McDonalds Farmer Because it tastes good. Not that hard to work out
'A banger, which is a sausage...almost' lol u foreigners are so cute
12 quid for a fryup!😱 you were robbed🤦♀️ i can get 3 for that price with a cuppa!
Those prices were all scandalous, especially the 'cheap' one at £8.50. That is not a greasy spoon price. I live 200 miles from London but know you can get better value than that there. I live in the Manchester area and you can get a far bigger, and probably better, full English for around half that. If they tried charging prices like that around here, they'd soon be out of business
Ian Livsey sane in Kent too. And in other places in London.
I live in an affluent part of South West London yet my local greasy spoon is way cheaper than £8, and that includes tea!
I pay £6.50 for a big breakfast, bacon, beans, two eggs two sausages, black pud, bubble, fried bread and coffee.
@McDonalds Farmer Cafe Pagoda just next to Kew Gardens station.
I live in Central London and greasy spoons are at least 7 pounds for a full English. if you want a proper one with black pudding and bubble and squeak that's at least 8 pounds so yeah. things are expensive here.
Ashley, the mashed potato stuff is called Bubble and Squeak.
You don't have to say England after London, it's the original!
There is 1 or 2 in the US I believe.
We have a 70s tv comedy here in the U.S. where a character finds much trouble when told to ship something to 'London'..he ships it to the U.K., rather than London, Ontario, Canada! It never hurts to be very specific! We have many duplicate named cities here in the U.S. (we're not that original)...Kansas City, Missouri is just a street width away from Kansas City, Kansas..two separate municipalities.
Oh yeah, the duck and waffle at the Duck and Waffle is pretty special. Good choice.
Reservations for breakfast? Should have gone Wetherspoons.
Went to Wetherspoons once I was there for 2 days. Couldn't leave because I was stuck to the floor.
North 1 South divide again! You can get a good quality full English breakfast for half the price 'Up North'! I pay around £4 - £5 for a traditional large breakfast and for £10 can get an unlimited 'all you can eat' cooked breakfast. I guess it's not just the North / South Divide... as with most major cities London is naturally going to cost a lot more than other parts of the country. I'm sure there are places down south that are much cheaper than what you guys paid! We also have fried bread, black pudding and hash browns as standard up north! Glad to see you both trying our national breakfast though! 🍳👍
I like this couple. they're a lot of fun
Hello from Naples, Florida. Wow, all three breakfasts look delicious. #2 was our favorite. Thank you so much for sharing this part of the world with us. 👍💯
I would have sent the bacon back as being under cooked
I thought the same!!
I am from Wales, I had a fantastic 30-year career with the Met police and for the last three of those, I worked out of Lambeth. I spent maybe six mornings of those 3 years, before going onto major policing matters, eating a full English in this location - we had the whole of London to choose from - I can honestly say, this was the best proper breakfast I have had anywhere or anytime in my entire pan-London career. The bonus was, everyone ordered something different from the guy you see at 14.46, but, like, 30 minutes later, he pulled it straight from memory for your bill without any error!! It never failed to amaze me. Oh, and the food is F****ng amazing. I am retired now and living over 140 miles away. But I loved that place - Track it down. tell me I'm wrong.
8:57 is so British...
*Sun comes out*
_Immediately sees England_
*Goes straight back in.* 😂😂😂
Average price outside of London is about 5 pounds for a breakfast and 8 pounds for a belly buster.
Those beans on the second breakfast looked dry, they had been standing to long.
Michael Williams or had been left to boil.
I cook them like that, with chilli butter and onion. Much tastier.
satsumamoon I’m sure the added ingredients are tasty, but they shouldn’t be dry, they look like they have been cooked a while back, then kept warm on a hot plate.
Maybe they were seasoned. I add curry powder to mine and they are less runny that way.
I love you guys! Im british and really enjoy watching you experiencing our food for the first time 😀
Man im hungry! Like a lot of comments weatherspoons is really good i do night shift and can finish and get a full english and and a pint before bed!
Definitely the greasy spoon, so many to choose from in the uk, every town has at least one or two.
I love this idea! And i love that people are sharing where else to get a good breakfast. I always need recommendations :)
We went to duck & waffle last year...I think we were sat at the same table! We went for dinner and loved the duck and waffle dish, too.
£12 was the cheaper end of the scale??? Average cafe price in my area for that would be £6.60 which would include tea and toast.
You shouldn’t mention coming to London, you’ll have all the northerners bleeting about it ...... bless ‘em 😂😂👍
Yeah, we will! 😆
Average price in my area is about £6 something too. London's a rip off.
You can get that big breakfast at the first place for £6.00 in Manchester.
Morrison's big daddy breakfast £6
London is a shite hole never mind the prices 😂👍🏼
12 quid is very expensive for a fry 😯
I’d expect three sausages and two eggs plus free tea or coffee top ups.
Everything sounds very expensive - In my experience - the cheaper greasy spoon breakfasts are the best - by a country mile (and the tastiest ) - especially if you get out of London - try the Staffordshire oatcake for a start - there are plenty of local variations of the English breakfast.
The "streaky bacon" looked practically raw.
8:50 for the cheap one? Sod that for a game of soldiers!!
… bugger that for a game of soldiers ;) imagine them saying that back home lolol
You guys have been ripped off- the ‘cheap’ breakfast was soo expensive. Going to Asda or Morrison’s would have been a loooooot cheaper xx
£12!!!!! AND u thought that was reasonable. U can get a bigger and better breakfast than that anywhere outside London for half the price
You need to make friends with some locals who will treat you to a real homemade English breakfast..you would expect back bacon, two eggs, two quality sausages, black pudding, fried bread, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, bread and butter and possibly nice crisp chips all washed down with a pot of tea..Yorkshire, PG Tips etc..cost per head three quid or so. This should keep you going till supper.
I loved the Olympic breakfast at the Little Chef!
Little chef went bust
I think you need to point out how much more expensive food is in London. £8.50 for that first breakfast is completely unrepresentative of anywhere outside the capital. As an example, I’m having breakfast tomorrow in a very good standard pub/restaurant chain in Birmingham where my all-you-can-eat breakfast is costing me £4.29. In a greasy spoon up here breakfast plates start from about £2.50 for a small up to about £4.50 for a large, both including toast/fried bread and a hot drink.
Well done, guys, great video. I've just returned from the US and I loved your version of hash browns, mmm. 😊
'Your version'? They're an American dish! Our version probably leaves a bit to be desired.
Hmmm...where in the US? Different regions have different versions hashbrowns/potato hash. I prefer Southern style (though from the Midwest).
You want get yourself in a Weatherspoons, cheap breakfasts, iconic plates and a four mile round trip to the toilets ha ha
Branston Baked Beans taste so much nicer than Heinz, and the Sauce is Thicker! 🤔 😋
Boooo!!! Blasphemy!!!😜
Must admit I prefer Branston. But then I live just down the road from Branston!
I’d have to agree with the other brits comments, brits wouldn’t pay that much. You need to try a real breakfast outside of london. Also a basic breakfast isn’t served with a bill in a tin with mints.
That said, great to see the videos :)
First bacon looked more like Danish Back Bacon. Fried bread also a good option on a good fry up. But main rule is mix the food on the fork 2 to 3 items per mouthful not just 1, its all about mixing.
The greasy spoon I visit is £2.70 for a basic breakfast, with egg, sausage, bacon, beans, hash brown, two slices of toast and a mug of tea. A big breakfast, doubling up on everything plus all the extras, is £4.95. Add a steamed pudding for £2.90. Most of the daily papers are on the rack, the service is friendly, and you can discuss politics, philosophy and hernia operations without fisticuffs.
The service charge isn’t mandatory, don’t pay it!
And the channel keeps growing!
Bubble and squeak is the mash with left over veg fried up.
£16 for the breakfast on day #3, I would say that’s acceptable with the view, ambience and quality of food.
Were there any English people in there? Can’t see many of us paying those prices.
Jesus £12 for a medium english, London is so expensive, where I live £12 will get you "Smoked back bacon, Cumberland sausages, hash browns, baked beans, slow-roasted tomato, black pudding, button mushrooms, two fried eggs and two slices of toast"
I get the stuff from Tesco and cook it meself for a couple of quid🤣
Yup, and you can get quality sausages and black pud.
I just said this to fella told him I eva had to pay that for a breakfast cos they got an award I'd buy it in my self fella breaky alway better anyway cos he know how I like it cooking
That’s just London prices anywhere else in the uk you could pick up a good full English for about 5-8 quid
The second place the beans look like they where kept warm for a long time and thickened up, its nice but I don't think they where fancy beans. I cook my beans in a ramekin with the bacon and sausage in a oven if I am being lazy and the beans end up looking like that. Also that bacon was well underdone that fat needed to be crispy, also its not a real full breakfast/fry-up without black pudding. The bread was not fried that was just toasted. I wouldn't of paid £14 for it but I like my old school fry-ups. Not a great place to eat but you need to do a Wetherspoon at least once when in the UK, also their all-day breakfast is £4.75. But great video.
For a few years i was a truck driver and the 1st thing you learn is eat where the truck drivers go, Cheap good food and big portions but careful where you park as i saw a VW Golf with german plates boxed in by trucks at a transport cafe but im sure they got a good breakfast!
People will argue over the components of a Full English but I think buttered toast is an acceptable alternative to fried bread.
When I make my own I never butter the toast. The bacon fat and fried egg have enough fat between them to not need the extra lubrication. Also it is important to position the items correctly on the plate. Like use the sausage as a breakwater between the egg and the beans.
At Morrisons their 19 item breakfast is just £6! Thats in every Morrisons store. A full English at our local Wetherspoons is £5.05
You guys should have gone to the. HAWKSMOOR at the Guildhall in The City of London, Been Voted best breakfast in the UK
Now that's a serious breakfast! Best I've ever had.
Also probably the most expensive.😀
@@ravensoulmetal8466 That's very true. :-)
That Duck and Waffle looks amazing, but there is no way my Vertigo would allow me to go up there, and I'm ironically 6ft 2"
You got done. Should have paid around £5 for a cafe full breakfast.
Try the £36 breakfast at the Dorchester. A full English Breakfast can include all sorts of items including a first course of porridge, devilled ox kidney, fried onions and bubble and squeak.
It’s not a “sausage” almost. It’s a just a sausage
English breakfast includes fried egg, bacon, sausage, grilled tomato and white fried bread. Hash browns are American. London prices are obscenely expensive and yes, us northerners can do it much cheaper! 😊
Better value in a transport cafe or Wetherspoons. Cheaper too.
The $$$ breakfast place sausage looked like something you would find in a toilet. Yuck!
Greg Doull
Wetherspoons, good food but often served on a cold plate so food gets cold quickly. Insist on warm plate.
If you ever get the chance to come to Reading (35 miles West of London) a little cafe called "Munchees" does the same Full English as the 1st place you went to but for around £5, you don't have to book plus American 50's style booth seating. Highly recommended.
That first one was expensive, like really expensive.
Just found you by chance. Thanks for your videos from here in the u.k. . You have made me chuckle 😂🤣. Not well at the moment and have really cheered me up. Lovely couple, please don’t go back yet, more vids please.
Restaurant prices are a function of the cost of real estate. Central London very expensive.
Come to the gateway to England, it's a town called Dover and there's plenty of greasy spoons cafes which you can get a big breakfast for half the price of the first one and it's delicious
Jeeeez...they all saw you coming, I live in London and a good breakfast at half the prices you paid for yours is available everywhere ...even a posh brekkie isn’t that much !
You should go to a place where the items can be ordered as separate items, you can then get exactly what you want as your breakfast, best off at a backstreet greasy spoon.
If you wanna get a cheap english breakfast. You MUST go to wetherspoons. Or as brits say “spoons”. They are the go to for cheap alcohol and food!
If you visit other parts of England especially the North, prices are a lot cheaper than London, you can get breakfasts around £5, my local pub does a full monty breakfast for £8, I've just checked the menu and it sounds enormous.
Glad u like our British breakfast
The first cafe you tried out wasn't really what I think of as a "greasy spoon cafe." There are still plenty in the London area and these are where the truck drivers, white van men and market workers have been filling up with mugs of tea and cheap breakfasts before a long hard day of "graft." One to try out is the Electric Cafe at 258 Norwood Road, West Norwood, SE27 9AJ. I think it has been running since before the Second World War and it doesn't feel like they have upgraded the decor that much since then. I found it when I used to live in Balham back min the 1980's. It's near to Tulse Hill Station so quite easy to get to if you fancy a short train journey from London Bridge. I am sure there must be loads more great authentic cafes in your area but most of them in the tourist areas have either disappeared or been "Yuppified."
Thanks for a great video guys, and keep up the good work.
A banger IS a sausage not ALMOST a sausage.
It wasn't even a "banger" either, the menu says Cumberland sausage...and the "mash" was bubble and squeak!
The “potato” thing on the works is called Bubble and Squeak. It is usually mashed potato combined with cabbage (and maybe broccoli and onion and is fried like a patty). Traditionally however it would make from whatever leftover vegetables you have from the meal you’d have had the previous evening. Waste not, want not as they say....
Give me a greasy spoon any day, I don't even like sourdough never understood why it's suppose to be more "upmarket".
My local cafe £4.95 two sausages, two rashers, two eggs, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, Toast or fried bread, tea or coffee.
That streaky bacon hasn't been cooked at a high enough temperature to crisp up the fat. It should be grilled at 220° or fried over a good flame.
That isn't streaky bacon, that is short back bacon.
In my part of the UK, East Midlands, we pay around £3.50 for the small breakfast and £5-6 for a breakfast with everything on.
Bloody hell 8,50 for that!!!! Guys come up north for god sake you guys getting your eyes ripped out 😂 you can make your selfs sick for 5£ here!!! Barnsley Yorkshire
Exactly my point. So cheap here in Barnsley lol
Don't need to go oooopp North we have proper reasonably priced cafés in London, dunno where they got their "cheap" cafe at £8.50 for a small breakfast. They were held up in my opinion.
@@nick260682 😂 It's grim ooopp North
@@andrewlaw souths grim, at least up here you can meet friendly people have actually have a conversation.
Ignoring the inflated London prices, your 'cheapest' breakfast was the only one to have decent quality bacon - serving streaky bacon is a real cut-price rip-off!
good god the prices just in this first place. thats london prices for you though i guess
One absolute tip for foreigners visting the UK. Visit London - absolutely BUT don't judge the UK on London (views, price or taste of food - anything). London is like a seperate country to the rest of the UK. See London but also see the UK. - Go somewhere foreigners don't normally go too and you'll be pleasently suprised.
That's not streaky bacon it's back bacon....
The mash thingy is called bubble and squeak it's an old English past time it's when people used to make meals go further for their family's
Weatherspoons pub in the uk can’t beat their breakfasts dead cheap get plenty
The trick to finding the best and cheapest full English in the UK is to keep an eye out for truck stops that have a cafe near them. Truckers always sniff the good ones out.
london is a rip off ! blimey up north you could buy a house for that.
You can get a traditional English breakfast for less then £4 at a Wetherspoons and less then £1.50 for unlimited tea, coffee hot chocolate etc. Also you can get an unlimited Breakfast for less then £5 at Toby Carvery and have unlimited Tea or Coffee for around £2
Great vid guys, love these little food ones you come up with in the UK. If you are still here, you must try another UK cuisine tradition and that’s getting a Indian Takeaway. This is probably more popular than Fish & Chips. Most people have a mix of a traditional curry, rice, naan bread, onion bhajis, samosas and popadoms. Get in a few beers, order the takeaway and whack on a good film. Give it a bash guys, you will love it and it will be a really good vid 👍
Gingers Cafe in Bradford, west Yorkshire....
"The workman"
2 bacon
2 sausage
2 eggs
Hash brown
Beans
Tomatoes
Fried bread
Mushrooms
Tea/coffee
Toast
Just a straight fiver
They must have seen U coming just a ripp off
I didn't watch this for a week, because I didn't seem interested, but now it was one of the best Videos you recently uploaded! well done. Too bad the Concept already exists, otherwise I'd probably ask for a series :D
The beans in the second place are way over done!
Pardon me,I am not trying to be a critic or something,I just converted 38 pounds to Indian rupees and it came to almost 3500
In this amount 4 to 5 people can have a hearty meal including 3 to 4 delicious starters and main course dishes in a 3 or 4 star restaurant that looks after good hygiene
Terry's should be £££. £12 is way over priced. I can get that for 6.
That's Central London prices for you.
had a cracking full english this morning with a cup of coffie 4 pound the brockmoor cafe
Greasy spoon everytime!
I'm in South Wales and £12 for an English breakfast is laughably expensive. It's £4.95 for a basic one in the market and that includes a cuppa tea, if you want a fancier one it's £8-9 in a sit-down restaurant.