On my first office job, working round the corner, the Regency was our local go-to for their amazing fish and chips on a Friday lunchtime. No queues, no kids, no film crews, just locals and office workers on their lunch break. It was a long time ago, but fantastic memories (the boss always paid which was even better).
Sorry, I’ve tried many of London’s “best” breakfast caffs, repeatedly, and E. Pellicci has done it for me, every single time. By quite a distance, too.
The superb combining of flavours: salty, meaty, eggy, slightly sweet (beans/tomtoes) and texture is what - for me - makes the full English one of the worlds GREAT dishes. Most of the ingredients are eaten in other countries individually in some form or other (with the possible exception of British style Bangers), but putting them together in this way is an act of genius.
Thank you so much for posting this video. It brought back many memories of when I worked on Victoria Street and used to frequent The Regency quite often. I remember in particular the photos of Spurs players !
Coming to London this summer ( 2023) and definitely will be going to Regency Cafe !! Looks great!! Thanks for the tip! All your videos are fantastic! Thank You for all your hard work! London is truly one of the GREAT cities in the world!!! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴 MikeW
Sausage, egg, bacon, beans, a fried slice and bread & butter then finish off with a mug of tea just like my dear old mum used to dish up. Great video's mate...cheers.
Their bacon sandwiches are special..no thin slices here, they use two large slabs of crusty bread..and the price, you won't find a better sarnie at their price We booked a taxi in London with waterloocars.co.uk and driver made our sightseeing tour wonderful by sharing history
I was feeling nostalgic so I searched for “ full English breakfast caff” 😂😂 .. and this came up! Great video, I absolutely loved it, including the walk there and back 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@Hitogokochi they are just copying the American example. Following along with the rest of the world. When America changes, hopefully for the best, then the rest of the world follows, just like Lemmings.
Thought I'd add me tuppence worth. London born (1956), worked here all me life. I consider a full English to be - 2 Eggs, 2 Bacon, 2 Sausage, Beans, PLUM Tomatoes, Mushrooms, 2 slices white bread (as Robert said, to mop up the juices) or toast. Fried bread is an acquired taste and most cafés don't do it right. Mug of Tea. Chips or Hash Browns? Nah! If you go for the Full Monty, then add Bubble & Squeak, Black Pudding and Kidneys. The above is what I would consider as the minimum - any less and you're being ripped off. Just my opinion, and as Robert said, many regional variations.
Spot on James, that'll fill you for the day, I don't know what it is with some people, NO tomato sauce, HP or Daddies only for breakfasts. They should be hauled to the Tower for using to***o. Up North we had (now disappeared) Yorkshire relish, now that's a sauce to put hairs on yer chest. Especially the women.
A heartiest thanks 🙏 to you my dear friend for giving us this awesome and delicious 😋 video about one of my beloved landmarks in London. As I am from India 🇮🇳 and whenever I comes to London I will definitely come to this beautiful place. May god almighty always blesses you with health wealth and prosperity and happiness and a healthy life full of love and blessings. And I am really honoured to share with you that I am living in Punjab state in Amritsar city and our place is called a food 🥘 capital of India 🇮🇳. So whenever you visit our beloved country please do visit our beloved Amritsar city and enjoy the delicious 😋 food 🥘 here.
I read somewhere that the Full English Breakfast can trance it's origins to the Medieval times in the 14th century. The country gentry used to serve up a breakfast feast for themselves and guests. It included eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, black pudding, kidneys..but it also included pork chops, rump steak and pork crackling. The Victorians introduced the fried tomato and baked beans to the Full English replacing the pork chop and rump steak. Then the Edwardians perfected it with tomato sauce, HP and toast.
Builders tea is intended to be super strong next to no milk and the bag left in cup to brew for about 10 mins where on earth did you hear that builders tea was weak and milky???
Builders tea is weaker because the milk being in at the same time as the bag means it brews at a lower temperature. The water has to be close to 100 degrees to make a proper strong cup of tea.
Billy Buttlord no builder I ever knew does, it is strong. I think there is even a tea brand that sells an extra strong version and calls it builders brew.
Lost count how many times I've watched this now, I'm stood in my kitchen eating sausage and egg sandwiches at nearly 4am after a long bar shift, love your videos dude 👍
On a trip back home a few years ago, we had breakfast at the Regency. It was amazing! I used to live in Pimlico (area of the Regency). The place was loaded with builders all eating a huge breakfast. I love the Daddies sauce and my American husband was pleased to see the ketchup on the table! We walked around all day "seeing the sights" and were hardly hungry by dinner time. A must place to visit. Thanks, enjoyed your video.
@@0restes A piquant/savoury sauce, roughly the same consistancy as tomato catsup/ketchup. Sold in the UK under the names either 'Daddies' or 'HP'.See your local search engine.
I go to a greasy spoon in Wisconsin, we sit at a counter , talk, eat , enjoy our food and leave after an hour to 3 hours. I can't imagine eating quick and having to leave , can't relax. but the breakfast looks very good. thanks for video
Reasonable priced very surprised. I pay around £5-£6 up in Stoke on Trent for a large breakfast but that includes black pudding and hash browns, add a coffee in and your nearly at £7. I’d say that’s very good down in London, especially given the location within it. Nice vid!
Seth T We don’t do broiled we do grilled and you can add what you like so long a it’s full of calories. Oh and we don’t do streaky bacon, with all that fat, we have back bacon......oh and you’ve got to add every condiment that’s their and pour loads of salt on it BEFORE even tasting the thing!
I used to go in this cafe when I was working on building the City Inns hotel. The bloke behind the ramp has got a really deep distinctive voice. One day he wasnt there and the bird serving had an even deeper voice. Must of been his sister 🤣
Thanks for the great video. In my opinion a typical traditional English breakfast is two sausages, two bacon rashers, two fried eggs and loads of buttered toast. Black pudding, baked beans, grilled or fried tomatoes, and mushrooms can be added as optional extras. Colmans English mustard might not be usual with the traditional English breakfast but it gives the sausages and the bacon an extra little kick. This would be followed by buttered toast with marmalade and jam. In my younger days I used to eat the full monty quite often, especially when I travelled by rail or stayed in hotels. Personally I avoid hash browns, chips, maple syrup, jam and pancakes all on the same plate and treat them as invasive species from the USA. Also even though I'm a Northerner I can live without black puddings.
@Hitogokochi I do that and my mates and wife think Im sick. I will leave a half a cup the nite before and in the morning have no problem sipping it either cold or a 1-minute nuke. Good stuff. Like a good stew, its needs to be left to ferment lol. Do the same with coffee.
Robert found your video after pining for a full English during quarantine! Thanks for the video man, must visit this place if anything for the history!!
That full English breakfast is a great way for any tourist to start the day. Fill up on a hearty breakfast that won't break the bank and you don't need to think about food until tea time.
I worked in London for 40 years as a chauffeur. Regency cafe was my must go to place. Breakfast were very good but I really loved going there for the daily specials. Wednesday curry were fantastic
If I was the owner of a cafe or burger van that done full English, I would make it a priority to ask customers how they wanted their eggs served ( runny dippy yolk. hard well done. scrambled or omelette ); .. this is absolutely crucial to make sure you business is going to thrive.. There is nothing worse than getting a full english with a fried egg sitting next to a puddle of plum tomato juice.. because when you pop the yolk it gets instantly diluted ! .. Do what Alan Partridge says and put it beside a sausage to use as a break water.. If you are a new cafe owner I suggest you ask customers how they like their toast aswell ( light. med. near black ) .. and tea strength ( strong . weak ).. Also not forgetting the cheap version ketchups !! .. if it aint HEINZ or HP you should be sent to the gallows !
Speaking as someone who has worked in the industry since my early teens (I'm now nearly 30) I have to say whilst your idea is good in principle, due to the sheer volume of covers required to make a cheap eats cafe work the options you describe would add considerably to the price of a plate, the reason The Regency and places like it are cheap and fast is because the menus are very much set.
@@callumelcombe3703 Speak for yourself matey.. I speak for the people. Your reply does make sense.. from where you stand, but the way I see it is like going into a hairdressers or barbers shop and being offered a crue cut or a curly perm and no other options. Surely you cant tell me that it would have a negative effect on your profit margin by asking customers if they would like their egg yolk dippy or hard .. or their toast done light or well done ? .. If you are running the Little Chef service station where everything is batched cooked, well thats fair enough.. But I am talking about a small business who might want to provide freshly cooked meals per customer. I mean surely you don't fry a batch of eggs or toast a load of bread and put them aside until the next customer comes into your Cafe .. do you ??
Looks delish. In Sydney a Full English generally tends to be sausage, bacon, 2 eggs (cooked how you like), baked beans, hash browns, black pudding, fried tomato, mushrooms, and toast of your choice. Although my personal favourite hangover breakfast is something I thought of one hungover morning at a local cafe. I order Eggs Benedict or Eggs Royale topped with avocado, then I ask for a side of beer battered chips/fries/wedges with a ramekin of extra hollandaise sauce. Alternate between dipping the chips in the hollandaise and egg yolk. Sublime.
Who has marmite on full English I know my culture and roots yea but even I don't see it as a full English dip your beens in with your toast ffs, ohh you can't because you put f'kin MARMITE in it!!!!
I wish that we could get properly made black pudding or blood sausage as it is called here in Canada as easily as you can get it in the UK.Marmite is lovely on hot buttered toast,so is Bovril from a glass jar.A full English breakfast really sets you up for the day.
Let me enlighten you with the greasy spoon term. It was from certain cafes had one teaspoon hanging from a piece of strings above the service counter. You got your tea of coffee, added your sugar and used the spoon to stir as did everyone else. Chances were the spoon never came off the string to make it to the sink, hence the greasy spoon...
Maybe it's my age, but I tend to want to eat in establishments that have toilets. Especially when you walk out and you find that there's seemingly no convenience around at all. Especially when it's breakfast which may kick start the systems so to speak.
Love this! I watch A LOT of British shows (about B&B's: 4 In A Bed) What I've seen as a 'standard' full English is: eggs, sausage or bacon (I see most people have sausage - it seems Brits are >very< serious about sausage), tomato (fresh broiled or canned ?), beans, black pudding and hash browns ( it seems no one has a problem with those pre-made frozen triangles), sometimes I see fried mushrooms. Here in Canada, is a more simple offering. the usual breakfast is eggs, bacon OR ham OR sausage (I'm sure they're not as good as yours) & toast. *Our usual bacon is what you guys call 'streaky bacon ' - the bacon you use is called ' back bacon' here. Hash browns which are usually loose grated or diced potato, fried. Boiled potatoes fried on a flat top, we call home-fries. Tomatoes are just a few slices of fresh & would cost extra. Our southern American neighbours do about the same but in ridiculous HUGE portions. I'd love to hear if what I see if the breakfast on the UK B&B shows is correct. The HP sauce, I see is usually called 'brown sauce '. Great post! Thank you!
Great explaining...of course no matter the cultural differences, we must have bacon, sauage, eggs, toast, orange juice, hash browns and tea or coffee ....I'm American but I mighr try adding beans😊😉😎 but not sure about the blood pudding, tomatoes or mushrooms although the last two are very good.
I'm live in Mission Viejo, California and we have a Indian/British market near by and I was there with my wife the other day. They have Marmite so I put one in shopping basket. My wife saw it and said "THAT'S NASTY" and so I took it out. I really want to try it one day, maybe I'll like it.
I used to live just there , it was my fave breakfast, and the dinners were cool too. Homemade steak and kidney pies with veg, lamb chops, roast dinners and Apple crumbles yum, open for supper too.
Only if your an English builder or some other type of stupid fuckwit that knows nothing about tea who's just been told its strong. You can't make strong tea with tea bags, you can make it taste increasingly bitter AKA worse, the longer you leave the bag in. You give that shit to the low class hired help and keep the good proper tea for yourself and invited guests you actually can stand the sight of.
@@RobertsLondon yes, you'd think that you could get a decent MUG of tea in England, wouldn't you?! None of this teabag stuff. Sigh. " Oh the days of the.....whatever! "
I'd like to go to the regency purely because it was in Layer cake. The beauty of the full english is how easy, quick and cheap you can make it at home at the weekend. I even freeze sections of black pudding and kidney so they're always available. And yes my grandfather had kidney in his, so I do too and it's amazing. I've experimented with hash browns and waffles but you can't beat white bread, toasted, fried or just buttered.
what's the sausage.. beef or pork.. or can you pick! Anyway it's late at night when I'm watching this video. You got me salivating.. I can't wait to wake up in the morning and hav my own English Breakfast! cheers. Arthur. Australia.
Builders tea is not strong tea, the internet seems to believe it is but they are just guessing and have the whole story wrong. There is a misconception that British builders and their tea are strong, when in reality they are just weak and rubbish. There is even a brand of builders tea bags running with the story its strong now. It has always been made with cheap rubbish tea bags that taste too bad to be drunk the way tea should be drunk so milk and sugar is added to take the edge off. No tea made with tea bags and with milk in is strong. In Asia and India they have a different name for that drink, milk tea. I've made videos about Asian milk tea and they do it properly.
British builders are so weak we built the best buildings in the world untill the useless eastern european (i got my papers from a bloke in pommpy) fakers got here. Im sick and tired of people rubbishing the people of this country.
I think the real jolt wake up tea for breakfast is Chinese black gunpowder tea. Sampled some one time at a tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. With a teaspoon of wild mesquite honey with it full brewed black! BAM!
I was born in England in 1946, our English breakfast is sausage, bacon, eggs, lamb kidney, beans fried tomatoes tea and toast. I love Marmite and l spread it thick, just my preference. I loved it on toasted crumpets that were toasted in front of a coal fire, spread with butter and then Marmite, a tea time treat. I never had hash browns until I came to Canada. I prefer to eat the orange, better a half grapefruit. No added sugar.
Traditionally builders tea is a euphemism for the cheap weak crap AKA tea bags you literally gave to the tradesmen like the builders. Its been redefined in recent decades by the current generations of lower working classes as strong but the poor retards don't realise you can't actually make a strong cup of tea with a tea bag. Leaving a tea bag in longer makes it darker and increasingly bitter but not stronger. So to make it palatable they add ridiculous quantities of milk weakening it further by dilution. The only way to make strong tea is with large quantities of tea so you need loose leaf tea and a tea pot. So yes manual labourers still think builders tea is strong because of its colour and thats why they labour with their hands not their heads.
@@RobertsLondon I thought builders tea just means generic mixed origin tea bags like pg tips or typhoo, as opposed to single origin like darjeeling, assam or ceylon, which posh people keep for people like them ie friends and family
Wow, brings back memories. While in London I helped build the Chelsea Harbour Hotel, at the canteen I would always order the same 2 eggs on a fried slice, 2 rashers of bacon, beans and chips. sometimes the ladies would save a little milk for "The Yank" being from Texas I hated being called a Yank. (it's a southern thing). otherwise I had 'the weak tea with too much milk". Once I ordered black pudding thinking it was like American breakfast sausage. Horrible mistake. as soon as I put it in my mouth I immediately spit out. the Irish guys laughed I told them the first one to get it off my plate could have it, a flash of forks...sure did like that breakfast.
my mom always leaves the tea bag in since I was little ;p so I thought that was the normal! now I must have it in with sugar, its a sweet zing! no milk in my English tea for me...or green, etc!
Nice breakfast. Of course we could argue about the black pudding; whether it should be the traditional Lancashire/Bury black Pudding with its great blobs of suet and lots of herbs, or the Southern upstart, which, to my mind, is a poor imitation. But to each his/her own, I suppose.
9:00 I know about the optional extras, but what was that amber oil you sprinkled on those deliciously browned hash browns? [I have to beg them to 'double cook' them in the US]
Visited the cafe in September 2018, prices increased since this video was made. Enjoyed the breakfast except for the Marmite. Spoke to the owners who are very pleasant; will visit again on my next visit to to London in the future.
You must be a builder! The internet is guessing incorrectly from historical anicdotes or understandably confusing British builders with cowboys. British builders tea is the weakest tasting tea you will find in the world today - Asian nations would just laugh at your tea flavored milkshake. It is made in most cafes today using cheap little tea bags in a mug and not with loose leaf tea in a tea pot. So it tastes terible black therefore it is diluted with milk and often far too much. No tea diluted with milk is "strong" its diluted to weaken the taste. They then add spoon loads of sugar to further mask the taste of the tea. Even if builders ask for a "strong" brew which is where the confusion arrises, the tea bag, milk and sugar combo is still weak compared to tea made properly with leaves in a pot and drunk in tea ceromonies without being diluted with milk and sugar.
Builders tea is strong and stewed it comes from the metal tea pot in a cafe ,you pour a third of a cup or mug then top up with hot water my uncle pat had a cafe in Fulham .
The American term, “Greasy Spoon”, refers to a shabby restraint where cleanliness was not necessarily a priority. You usually found Greasy Spoon restraints along old two lane State Highways were repeat customers were not the norm. The cook usually had only a stained under shirt for a top, three days growth of beard, a tattoo on his bicep, and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, (you might say he looked like Rock Stars look today) . The waitress had the attitude of a pro-wrestler, (the bad guy), usually was chewing gum, (with lots of popping sounds), and a voice that could strip paint. If your toast was slightly irregular in shape, it was where they cut the moldy part off. If you ran your hand under the table, you would feel years of hard, used, chewing gum. The chairs didn’t always match, and it was strictly cash.
That is the absolute correct description of a American greasy spoon. I proudly ate in hundreds of them. As a semi truck driver for over 38 yrs thank you very much.
I am not British, but I love English breakfast! Just recently I got Black Pudding, which I had never tried before, and I love it!! Must be some English blood in my veins....
a bit muggy mate i cant lie but good for a sceptic to get the feel of it! nice one for having the time to do it in your lunchtime! special forces bussyness .
Hey hun I'm sixty three and from sarf London, full English is two fried eggs, two rashers of bacon, two sausages, beans and Toms, gotta have fried bread, and strong cuppa Rosy lea... Best food from london is of course pie n mash with tons of liqueur, served with chili vinegar on the side, sooo bloody good, manzis was in East Street and Tower Bridge Road, oh the memories...
It's the best place for Hard core Full English Breakfast pot of tea 3 slice bacon 2 sausages 2 eggs 2 fried bread 2 ashbrown Mushroom Black pudding Grilled tomato Beans and 4 slice of Toast butter HP POT OF TEA . LOVELY IT'S THE BEST PLACR ALWAYS HAS BEEN NO WIFI NO CRAP NO SILLY STUFF NO PHONE MOBILE NO. I'VE STAYED AT CLARIDGES London and had breakfast provided but I can't help it I' go here have been since 1980s I know it's only food but it's a English traditional no American stuff yes It has been used in many movies and it will continue to Grow it's a Hertige place you don't get better Yes I know it's just reminds u when you were young and sit around a table paper old school times hunger man's breakfast lol a wonderful video wish I could be there in the morning . Wishing the whole team well and a lovely weekend.
I come from Scotland the price of a breakfast is a lot cheaper up here then down in London mate we have cafe near me you get 3 square sausage 3 bacon 2 Black pudding 2 fried eggs fried bread 3 potato scone mushrooms haggis beans toast all for £5.69
Original greasy spoon term comes from cafes in the 60’s, where a spoon was suspended from the ceiling on a piece of string for everyone to use for their hot drinks, you can imagine after a while the spoon became very greasy, hence the term “greasy spoon” Neil.
Even earlier than that. Years ago utensils were expensive and if you gave them out they would be stolen. The communal spoon would be to eat the stew / soup (much the same thing) so yes it would get greasy!
Egg, bacon, toast & sausage is the base, the other add-ons are variants and how much also depends, some have 2 of everything. Marmite and butter mixed first works well.
On my first office job, working round the corner, the Regency was our local go-to for their amazing fish and chips on a Friday lunchtime. No queues, no kids, no film crews, just locals and office workers on their lunch break. It was a long time ago, but fantastic memories (the boss always paid which was even better).
Sorry, I’ve tried many of London’s “best” breakfast caffs, repeatedly, and E. Pellicci has done it for me, every single time. By quite a distance, too.
Everyone I ask says that.
No worries, we all good. I'll stay at the Regency though.
The superb combining of flavours: salty, meaty, eggy, slightly sweet (beans/tomtoes) and texture is what - for me - makes the full English one of the worlds GREAT dishes. Most of the ingredients are eaten in other countries individually in some form or other (with the possible exception of British style Bangers), but putting them together in this way is an act of genius.
Love a full English breakfast can't wait to try this place out when I come over to the UK from Australia 🥓🍳🍛
Thank you so much for posting this video. It brought back many memories of when I worked on Victoria Street and used to frequent The Regency quite often. I remember in particular the photos of Spurs players !
Coming to London this summer ( 2023) and definitely will be going to Regency Cafe !! Looks great!! Thanks for the tip! All your videos are fantastic! Thank You for all your hard work! London is truly one of the GREAT cities in the world!!! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴 MikeW
Sausage, egg, bacon, beans, a fried slice and bread & butter then finish off with a mug of tea just like my dear old mum used to dish up. Great video's mate...cheers.
Their bacon sandwiches are special..no thin slices here, they use two large slabs of crusty bread..and the price, you won't find a better sarnie at their price We booked a taxi in London with waterloocars.co.uk and driver made our sightseeing tour wonderful by sharing history
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I was feeling nostalgic so I searched for “ full English breakfast caff” 😂😂 .. and this came up! Great video, I absolutely loved it, including the walk there and back 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Breaks my heart when I see one sausage on a breakfast 😭
Sacrilege I say. Bloody disgraceful, not having it, wheres the chef.
@@abwm2365 It's the smoke. Lads i know, who sometimes graft down there, say they go to places
like Asda or Morrisons for their scran.
@Hitogokochi they are just copying the American example. Following along with the rest of the world. When America changes, hopefully for the best, then the rest of the world follows, just like Lemmings.
It's an outrage!
This cafe was in the film/movie Layercake with actor Daniel Craig (who also plays James Bond.)
I thought it looked familiar! This is where Morty baptized Freddie with hot boiling tea! I just love that film!
Oh yeah.
That movie is awful.
Thought I'd add me tuppence worth. London born (1956), worked here all me life.
I consider a full English to be -
2 Eggs, 2 Bacon, 2 Sausage, Beans, PLUM Tomatoes, Mushrooms, 2 slices white bread (as Robert said, to mop up the juices) or toast. Fried bread is an acquired taste and most cafés don't do it right. Mug of Tea.
Chips or Hash Browns? Nah!
If you go for the Full Monty, then add Bubble & Squeak, Black Pudding and Kidneys.
The above is what I would consider as the minimum - any less and you're being ripped off.
Just my opinion, and as Robert said, many regional variations.
Thanks! Glad you liked the video
I go with you James, but I don't like brown or tomato sauce as any thing with vinegar makes my tongue swell up .
James Morgan you have a sorely tuppence?
Spot on James, that'll fill you for the day, I don't know what it is with some people, NO tomato sauce, HP or Daddies only for breakfasts. They should be hauled to the Tower for using to***o. Up North we had (now disappeared) Yorkshire relish, now that's a sauce to put hairs on yer chest. Especially the women.
sounds good but i would skip the beans, add black (blood?) pudding, kidneys!
A heartiest thanks 🙏 to you my dear friend for giving us this awesome and delicious 😋 video about one of my beloved landmarks in London. As I am from India 🇮🇳 and whenever I comes to London I will definitely come to this beautiful place. May god almighty always blesses you with health wealth and prosperity and happiness and a healthy life full of love and blessings. And I am really honoured to share with you that I am living in Punjab state in Amritsar city and our place is called a food 🥘 capital of India 🇮🇳. So whenever you visit our beloved country please do visit our beloved Amritsar city and enjoy the delicious 😋 food 🥘 here.
I read somewhere that the Full English Breakfast can trance it's origins to the Medieval times in the 14th century. The country gentry used to serve up a breakfast feast for themselves and guests. It included eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, black pudding, kidneys..but it also included pork chops, rump steak and pork crackling. The Victorians introduced the fried tomato and baked beans to the Full English replacing the pork chop and rump steak. Then the Edwardians perfected it with tomato sauce, HP and toast.
Love this place! Best English breakfast ever but even more impressive is the cashier who screams out your order to the kitchen 😭she’s so fierce!
Looks awful
Builders tea is intended to be super strong next to no milk and the bag left in cup to brew for about 10 mins where on earth did you hear that builders tea was weak and milky???
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video
That’s what I thought, builders tea is super strong.
Was that an ""auto reply"??? lol
Builders tea is weaker because the milk being in at the same time as the bag means it brews at a lower temperature. The water has to be close to 100 degrees to make a proper strong cup of tea.
Billy Buttlord no builder I ever knew does, it is strong. I think there is even a tea brand that sells an extra strong version and calls it builders brew.
Lost count how many times I've watched this now, I'm stood in my kitchen eating sausage and egg sandwiches at nearly 4am after a long bar shift, love your videos dude 👍
Yessssss I went here when I was working as a porter for two weeks. Their sausages are humble, but packs a punch of flavour. Proper quick service too
On a trip back home a few years ago, we had breakfast at the Regency. It was amazing! I used to live in Pimlico (area of the Regency). The place was loaded with builders all eating a huge breakfast. I love the Daddies sauce and my American husband was pleased to see the ketchup on the table! We walked around all day "seeing the sights" and were hardly hungry by dinner time. A must place to visit. Thanks, enjoyed your video.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video
The sauce is called 'Daddies' and builders tea is orange and so strong you can stand your spoon up in it, it is not milky. M
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video
Tea should always be "Builder";)
@Thao Brewster Best tea on planet Earth!
What is Brown Sauce?
@@0restes A piquant/savoury sauce, roughly the same consistancy as tomato catsup/ketchup. Sold in the UK under the names either 'Daddies' or 'HP'.See your local search engine.
I go to a greasy spoon in Wisconsin, we sit at a counter , talk, eat , enjoy our food and leave after an hour to 3 hours. I can't imagine eating quick and having to leave , can't relax. but the breakfast looks very good. thanks for video
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Reasonable priced very surprised. I pay around £5-£6 up in Stoke on Trent for a large breakfast but that includes black pudding and hash browns, add a coffee in and your nearly at £7. I’d say that’s very good down in London, especially given the location within it. Nice vid!
Saw this Cafe in the movie 'Layer Cake' so thought I'd try it out when I was down in London on business. Fantastic fried breakfast 👍🏻
Nearly a tenner an just one sausage and one egg. What a fackin liberty.
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I went there in early October 2012 and they gave more food than this!
As an American I don't know English Breakfast that well but I thought there was supposed to be a broiled tomato
+Seth T Yeah, that breakfast was missing that and also mushrooms and the hash browns would normally be bubble and squeak.
Seth T We don’t do broiled we do grilled and you can add what you like so long a it’s full of calories. Oh and we don’t do streaky bacon, with all that fat, we have back bacon......oh and you’ve got to add every condiment that’s their and pour loads of salt on it BEFORE even tasting the thing!
I used to go in this cafe when I was working on building the City Inns hotel. The bloke behind the ramp has got a really deep distinctive voice. One day he wasnt there and the bird serving had an even deeper voice. Must of been his sister 🤣
Brett Templeman ha ha
Thanks for the great video. In my opinion a typical traditional English breakfast is two sausages, two bacon rashers, two fried eggs and loads of buttered toast. Black pudding, baked beans, grilled or fried tomatoes, and mushrooms can be added as optional extras. Colmans English mustard might not be usual with the traditional English breakfast but it gives the sausages and the bacon an extra little kick. This would be followed by buttered toast with marmalade and jam. In my younger days I used to eat the full monty quite often, especially when I travelled by rail or stayed in hotels. Personally I avoid hash browns, chips, maple syrup, jam and pancakes all on the same plate and treat them as invasive species from the USA. Also even though I'm a Northerner I can live without black puddings.
Builder's tea is strong, not weak.
Yorkshire Gold love that's proper tea that is not that tetleys shite
tried to tell him that about a year ago but he was having none of it!
Builder's Tea, very strong tea with a dash of milk not as described here! Ask any Londoner!
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He don't know what he's on about... Everyone knows this.!
I always thought builders tea was strong, milky and sweet? This is how I have my tea anyway.
@@azuregiant9258 In the navy and most military etc its called a standard brew. White with 2 standard brew.
@Hitogokochi I do that and my mates and wife think Im sick. I will leave a half a cup the nite before and in the morning have no problem sipping it either cold or a 1-minute nuke. Good stuff. Like a good stew, its needs to be left to ferment lol. Do the same with coffee.
Robert found your video after pining for a full English during quarantine! Thanks for the video man, must visit this place if anything for the history!!
That full English breakfast is a great way for any tourist to start the day. Fill up on a hearty breakfast that won't break the bank and you don't need to think about food until tea time.
Yeah! Its pretty filling
I worked in London for 40 years as a chauffeur. Regency cafe was my must go to place. Breakfast were very good but I really loved going there for the daily specials. Wednesday curry were fantastic
If I was the owner of a cafe or burger van that done full English, I would make it a priority to ask customers how they wanted their eggs served ( runny dippy yolk. hard well done. scrambled or omelette ); .. this is absolutely crucial to make sure you business is going to thrive.. There is nothing worse than getting a full english with a fried egg sitting next to a puddle of plum tomato juice.. because when you pop the yolk it gets instantly diluted ! .. Do what Alan Partridge says and put it beside a sausage to use as a break water.. If you are a new cafe owner I suggest you ask customers how they like their toast aswell ( light. med. near black ) .. and tea strength ( strong . weak ).. Also not forgetting the cheap version ketchups !! .. if it aint HEINZ or HP you should be sent to the gallows !
Speaking as someone who has worked in the industry since my early teens (I'm now nearly 30) I have to say whilst your idea is good in principle, due to the sheer volume of covers required to make a cheap eats cafe work the options you describe would add considerably to the price of a plate, the reason The Regency and places like it are cheap and fast is because the menus are very much set.
@@callumelcombe3703 Speak for yourself matey.. I speak for the people. Your reply does make sense.. from where you stand, but the way I see it is like going into a hairdressers or barbers shop and being offered a crue cut or a curly perm and no other options. Surely you cant tell me that it would have a negative effect on your profit margin by asking customers if they would like their egg yolk dippy or hard .. or their toast done light or well done ? .. If you are running the Little Chef service station where everything is batched cooked, well thats fair enough.. But I am talking about a small business who might want to provide freshly cooked meals per customer. I mean surely you don't fry a batch of eggs or toast a load of bread and put them aside until the next customer comes into your Cafe .. do you ??
Looks delish. In Sydney a Full English generally tends to be sausage, bacon, 2 eggs (cooked how you like), baked beans, hash browns, black pudding, fried tomato, mushrooms, and toast of your choice. Although my personal favourite hangover breakfast is something I thought of one hungover morning at a local cafe. I order Eggs Benedict or Eggs Royale topped with avocado, then I ask for a side of beer battered chips/fries/wedges with a ramekin of extra hollandaise sauce. Alternate between dipping the chips in the hollandaise and egg yolk. Sublime.
6 fkn minutes in before you even get to the food & then you bring out fkn marmite on a full English video!
Grrrr
merlinsdog you just made me really LOL 😂
Too many hash browns...not enough sausage bacon & mushrooms!
😂😂😂😂😂 funny as fuck lol
Who has marmite on full English I know my culture and roots yea but even I don't see it as a full English dip your beens in with your toast ffs, ohh you can't because you put f'kin MARMITE in it!!!!
No shit wtf blahh blahh me face on the telly blahhhh
I wish that we could get properly made black pudding or blood sausage as it is called here in Canada as easily as you can get it in the UK.Marmite is lovely on hot buttered toast,so is Bovril from a glass jar.A full English breakfast really sets you up for the day.
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Do I recognize that place from the movie Layer Cake ?
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Yeah, it's where Freddy gets beaten up by Morty.
Banastre Tarleton let's forget about all them let's have a cup of tea Mr Hurst lol
Been in many movies
Lets make it 10, thats a nice round number
Great video. Big hugs from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Just chanced upon ya channel recently, love it, good way to know more of London's way of things, nice.
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Joe CKChan Love ur video.Always wondered what made up a full English breakfast.
OMG I HOPE there’s an English breakfast place in New York City and/or Brooklyn. Time for Maitre D Google. .
Let me enlighten you with the greasy spoon term. It was from certain cafes had one teaspoon hanging from a piece of strings above the service counter. You got your tea of coffee, added your sugar and used the spoon to stir as did everyone else. Chances were the spoon never came off the string to make it to the sink, hence the greasy spoon...
Maybe it's my age, but I tend to want to eat in establishments that have toilets. Especially when you walk out and you find that there's seemingly no convenience around at all. Especially when it's breakfast which may kick start the systems so to speak.
Absolutely fantastic, coming to London in 4 years, me & my sons are hitting this place for sure 🙏🏻👍🏻
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Love this! I watch A LOT of British shows (about B&B's: 4 In A Bed) What I've seen as a 'standard' full English is: eggs, sausage or bacon (I see most people have sausage - it seems Brits are >very< serious about sausage), tomato (fresh broiled or canned ?), beans, black pudding and hash browns ( it seems no one has a problem with those pre-made frozen triangles), sometimes I see fried mushrooms.
Here in Canada, is a more simple offering. the usual breakfast is eggs, bacon OR ham OR sausage (I'm sure they're not as good as yours) & toast. *Our usual bacon is what you guys call 'streaky bacon ' - the bacon you use is called ' back bacon' here. Hash browns which are usually loose grated or diced potato, fried. Boiled potatoes fried on a flat top, we call home-fries. Tomatoes are just a few slices of fresh & would cost extra. Our southern American neighbours do about the same but in ridiculous HUGE portions. I'd love to hear if what I see if the breakfast on the UK B&B shows is correct.
The HP sauce, I see is usually called 'brown sauce '. Great post! Thank you!
Great explaining...of course no matter the cultural differences, we must have bacon, sauage, eggs, toast, orange juice, hash browns and tea or coffee ....I'm American but I mighr try adding beans😊😉😎 but not sure about the blood pudding, tomatoes or mushrooms although the last two are very good.
I'm live in Mission Viejo, California and we have a Indian/British market near by and I was there with my wife the other day. They have Marmite so I put one in shopping basket. My wife saw it and said "THAT'S NASTY" and so I took it out. I really want to try it one day, maybe I'll like it.
Rye toast, Boston Baked Beans, & I’m in. But overall, looked awesome!
I used to live just there , it was my fave breakfast, and the dinners were cool too. Homemade steak and kidney pies with veg, lamb chops, roast dinners and Apple crumbles yum, open for supper too.
Builders tea is normally so strong you could stand a spoon up in it.
Only if your an English builder or some other type of stupid fuckwit that knows nothing about tea who's just been told its strong. You can't make strong tea with tea bags, you can make it taste increasingly bitter AKA worse, the longer you leave the bag in. You give that shit to the low class hired help and keep the good proper tea for yourself and invited guests you actually can stand the sight of.
@@RobertsLondon yes, you'd think that you could get a decent MUG of tea in England, wouldn't you?! None of this teabag stuff. Sigh. " Oh the days of the.....whatever! "
I'd like to go to the regency purely because it was in Layer cake. The beauty of the full english is how easy, quick and cheap you can make it at home at the weekend. I even freeze sections of black pudding and kidney so they're always available. And yes my grandfather had kidney in his, so I do too and it's amazing. I've experimented with hash browns and waffles but you can't beat white bread, toasted, fried or just buttered.
Algún día lo visitaré, lo juro.
Omg 😲 😱 wow amazing great to see its still going strong since 1946! ❤
I love learning about London, hugs from Montana
Read a book you muppet!
what's the sausage.. beef or pork.. or can you pick!
Anyway it's late at night when I'm watching this video. You got me salivating.. I can't wait to wake up in the morning and hav my own English Breakfast! cheers.
Arthur. Australia.
I'd much rather be eating my full English in Australia! Enjoy!!🤗
Builder's tea is extra STRONG, not overly milky? The trouble with good cafes is they're always busy? If it's not busy there's probably a reason?
Builders tea is not strong tea, the internet seems to believe it is but they are just guessing and have the whole story wrong. There is a misconception that British builders and their tea are strong, when in reality they are just weak and rubbish. There is even a brand of builders tea bags running with the story its strong now. It has always been made with cheap rubbish tea bags that taste too bad to be drunk the way tea should be drunk so milk and sugar is added to take the edge off. No tea made with tea bags and with milk in is strong. In Asia and India they have a different name for that drink, milk tea. I've made videos about Asian milk tea and they do it properly.
British builders are so weak we built the best buildings in the world untill the useless eastern european (i got my papers from a bloke in pommpy) fakers got here. Im sick and tired of people rubbishing the people of this country.
I think the real jolt wake up tea for breakfast is Chinese black gunpowder tea. Sampled some one time at a tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. With a teaspoon of wild mesquite honey with it full brewed black! BAM!
I was born in England in 1946, our English breakfast is sausage, bacon, eggs, lamb kidney, beans fried tomatoes tea and toast. I love Marmite and l spread it thick, just my preference. I loved it on toasted crumpets that were toasted in front of a coal fire, spread with butter and then Marmite, a tea time treat. I never had hash browns until I came to Canada. I prefer to eat the orange, better a half grapefruit. No added sugar.
super week? I thought builders tea was a strong tea that you can stand a tea spoon up in (aka strong tea a builders tea as they are strong)
Traditionally builders tea is a euphemism for the cheap weak crap AKA tea bags you literally gave to the tradesmen like the builders. Its been redefined in recent decades by the current generations of lower working classes as strong but the poor retards don't realise you can't actually make a strong cup of tea with a tea bag. Leaving a tea bag in longer makes it darker and increasingly bitter but not stronger. So to make it palatable they add ridiculous quantities of milk weakening it further by dilution. The only way to make strong tea is with large quantities of tea so you need loose leaf tea and a tea pot.
So yes manual labourers still think builders tea is strong because of its colour and thats why they labour with their hands not their heads.
so more like a stewed tea? lol @ hands comment
It's weak stupid not week!
You're getting confused with British Rail tea (staff tea not the station café tea)
@@RobertsLondon I thought builders tea just means generic mixed origin tea bags like pg tips or typhoo, as opposed to single origin like darjeeling, assam or ceylon, which posh people keep for people like them ie friends and family
Nice showing off your good breakfast balance diet 👍 your explanation I like thanks for sharing 😋
Wow, brings back memories. While in London I helped build the Chelsea Harbour Hotel, at the canteen I would always order the same 2 eggs on a fried slice, 2 rashers of bacon, beans and chips. sometimes the ladies would save a little milk for "The Yank" being from Texas I hated being called a Yank. (it's a southern thing). otherwise I had 'the weak tea with too much milk". Once I ordered black pudding thinking it was like American breakfast sausage. Horrible mistake. as soon as I put it in my mouth I immediately spit out. the Irish guys laughed I told them the first one to get it off my plate could have it, a flash of forks...sure did like that breakfast.
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Yanks are from the Northeastern US. I'm from Wisconsin and I wouldn't like being called a Yank either. We're sconnie's.
If you are form the US, you are definitely a septic.
Good video and explaination on mi5 and mi6. Yeah this cafe was in the film Layer cake a good scene.
One egg? That's stingy by any standard.
You can get as many eggs as you want.
A trick: you can watch series on Flixzone. Been using them for watching a lot of movies lately.
@Dakari Esteban Yea, have been using Flixzone for months myself :)
I don't know all about these but oh I so love watching English cuisine.
Builders tea drop of milk ,,, leave the tea bag in the mug job done
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my mom always leaves the tea bag in since I was little ;p so I thought that was the normal! now I must have it in with sugar, its a sweet zing! no milk in my English tea for me...or green, etc!
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@@RobertsLondon What's the nearest train station Guv is it far from the Station Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺🥓🍳🍛
@@starbuckita Same here that's how I have it love it 🍵
Full British breakfast should include EVERYTHING including black and white pudding
Nice breakfast. Of course we could argue about the black pudding; whether it should be the traditional Lancashire/Bury black Pudding with its great blobs of suet and lots of herbs, or the Southern upstart, which, to my mind, is a poor imitation. But to each his/her own, I suppose.
It looks good Rob. Thanks. Cheers from America.
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Builders T is the complete opposite of the T you said
should be strong enough to stand your spoon up in
9:00 I know about the optional extras, but what was that amber oil you sprinkled on those deliciously browned hash browns? [I have to beg them to 'double cook' them in the US]
Died of hunger after 4 minutes.
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Visited the cafe in September 2018, prices increased since this video was made. Enjoyed the breakfast except for the Marmite. Spoke to the owners who are very pleasant; will visit again on my next visit to to London in the future.
im confused I was lead to believe that builders tea is strong with very little milk (how I like it) any ideas on this?
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You're right - the presenter is talking crap!
@@RobertsLondon Thanks for replying, glad you made the video.
Con Scortis he literally replied without answering the question lol
MISS THIS SO MUCH>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> txs for the upload bruv
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Builders tea too weak? It's the opposite. Drop of milk
You must be a builder! The internet is guessing incorrectly from historical anicdotes or understandably confusing British builders with cowboys. British builders tea is the weakest tasting tea you will find in the world today - Asian nations would just laugh at your tea flavored milkshake. It is made in most cafes today using cheap little tea bags in a mug and not with loose leaf tea in a tea pot. So it tastes terible black therefore it is diluted with milk and often far too much. No tea diluted with milk is "strong" its diluted to weaken the taste. They then add spoon loads of sugar to further mask the taste of the tea. Even if builders ask for a "strong" brew which is where the confusion arrises, the tea bag, milk and sugar combo is still weak compared to tea made properly with leaves in a pot and drunk in tea ceromonies without being diluted with milk and sugar.
Builders tea is strong and stewed it comes from the metal tea pot in a cafe ,you pour a third of a cup or mug then top up with hot water my uncle pat had a cafe in Fulham .
Roberts London fuck off Mate, talking like you know how every builder likes he's tea, congratulations you're a tea snob👍🏼
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@@RobertsLondon lol that's utter bollocks :p
Great information and format Robert. Keep up the good shows. Raj from Canada.
I loved the Two Fat Ladies arriving to prepare an afternoon meal on that fantastic motor bike!! I truly miss not seeing their cooking program!!
A really funny show was great
The breakfast looks delicious! Thanks for the video
The American term, “Greasy Spoon”, refers to a shabby restraint where cleanliness was not necessarily a priority. You usually found Greasy Spoon restraints along old two lane State Highways were repeat customers were not the norm. The cook usually had only a stained under shirt for a top, three days growth of beard, a tattoo on his bicep, and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, (you might say he looked like Rock Stars look today) . The waitress had the attitude of a pro-wrestler, (the bad guy), usually was chewing gum, (with lots of popping sounds), and a voice that could strip paint. If your toast was slightly irregular in shape, it was where they cut the moldy part off. If you ran your hand under the table, you would feel years of hard, used, chewing gum. The chairs didn’t always match, and it was strictly cash.
I thought they were called 'dives' in the states.
That is the absolute correct description of a American greasy spoon. I proudly ate in hundreds of them. As a semi truck driver for over 38 yrs thank you very much.
I don't want to sound ignorant, but what is it the English describe as a slice. A slice of WHAT? As a American i never heard of this.
@@mikeyula73 a slice is a slice of fried bread
Thank god they’ve evolved into diners.
Enjoyed this interesting video thank you
when you hear Ordinary World by Duran Duran playing then its time to split
You know its game over for the natives, when the working class dive becomes a freakin theme park.
@@cgavin1 it is
TheKooster31 great reference
yep a tea pot around the head don't half spoil a full English !!!!
I am not British, but I love English breakfast! Just recently I got Black Pudding, which I had never tried before, and I love it!! Must be some English blood in my veins....
a bit muggy mate i cant lie but good for a sceptic to get the feel of it! nice one for having the time to do it in your lunchtime! special forces bussyness .
Hey hun I'm sixty three and from sarf London, full English is two fried eggs, two rashers of bacon, two sausages, beans and Toms, gotta have fried bread, and strong cuppa Rosy lea... Best food from london is of course pie n mash with tons of liqueur, served with chili vinegar on the side, sooo bloody good, manzis was in East Street and Tower Bridge Road, oh the memories...
Cafe from film 🎞 Layer Cakes isn’t it ?? Sure it is 😋... thanks 😊 for sharing :) Xx
are you ok. thank you for your always good content. writing you from Pennsylvania, USA
It's the best place for Hard core Full English Breakfast pot of tea
3 slice bacon
2 sausages
2 eggs
2 fried bread
2 ashbrown
Mushroom
Black pudding
Grilled tomato
Beans and 4 slice of Toast butter
HP POT OF TEA . LOVELY IT'S THE BEST PLACR ALWAYS HAS BEEN NO WIFI NO CRAP NO SILLY STUFF NO PHONE MOBILE NO. I'VE STAYED AT CLARIDGES London and had breakfast provided but I can't help it I' go here have been since 1980s I know it's only food but it's a English traditional no American stuff yes It has been used in many movies and it will continue to Grow it's a Hertige place you don't get better
Yes I know it's just reminds u when you were young and sit around a table paper old school times hunger man's breakfast lol a wonderful video wish I could be there in the morning . Wishing the whole team well and a lovely weekend.
Lovely jubbly perfect
Guarantee that after he uploaded this someone went round his and checked his hard drive
"well that's enough of all that, lets have a cup of tea"
I come from Scotland the price of a breakfast is a lot cheaper up here then down in London mate we have cafe near me you get 3 square sausage 3 bacon 2 Black pudding 2 fried eggs fried bread 3 potato scone mushrooms haggis beans toast all for £5.69
Damn it dude that cafe is gonna be closed by the time ya get there !
lmfao
This video prompted me to have a slice of toast with butter and Marmite. Delicious.
Soon as I see this place I went "Layer Cake"
Original greasy spoon term comes from cafes in the 60’s, where a spoon was suspended from the ceiling on a piece of string for everyone to use for their hot drinks, you can imagine after a while the spoon became very greasy, hence the term “greasy spoon”
Neil.
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Even earlier than that. Years ago utensils were expensive and if you gave them out they would be stolen. The communal spoon would be to eat the stew / soup (much the same thing) so yes it would get greasy!
Oh God, just get on with it !!!
He did 🍴🍛🍴🍛🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃⚡
Get on with what?
bit harsh
It's kind of like English food... do I have to?
Shut up you old fart!
I love places like this, no non-sense just tasty food at a great price!
Hash browns on a full English! Never! Bubble & squeak all day long!
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the regency does an excellent egg bacon bubble as well!!
its sacrilege, bubble and squeak only!
I love Hash Browns!
Totally agree. No hash browns or baked beans for that matter.
Egg, bacon, toast & sausage is the base, the other add-ons are variants and how much also depends, some have 2 of everything. Marmite and butter mixed first works well.
Best breakfast I've ever had was homemade bread, pasture raised eggs and bacon. My grown sons and daughters love it when I make them.
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Couldn't wait, You took so long---by by.
We only take cash ? That’s them avoiding paying tax then 😂
No flys on you?😂😂😂😂
And?
lol there is some restaurants in london that take cash only and they have their own cash machine inside the restaurant. real tax evasion
Money laundering dude.
Like every chinese takeaway in the land ....
I agree about Marmite. . it's like olives, or okra, or Brussels sprouts, anchovies, or even waterbeds. . . you either love them or hate them.
Gotta supply restrooms. Its the law.
Just take a piss and a shit outside its London. 😂
Was in here last week with wife both of us had the set breakfast was absolutely fantastic and the staff were amazing.
It's just Breakfast same as most locally cafes nothing special
As an American, I thought I had a pretty good grasp on "Britishisms", but I was not familiar with Marmite! Thank you for showing me!
Amazon! Also found Vegemite.