Are you still a brunch fan?
(Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)Remember the days when spending one’s weekends going to town on avocado on toast, matcha lattes and bottomless Prosecco was cool? Well, instead of allowing it to drop off a ledge entirely, here in London chefs are giving the half-breakfast, half-lunch ritual a little zhuzh, promising superior hangover cures with far less ‘cheugy’ energy.
First off, consider scaling rooftop restaurant Seabird for the octopus brioche roll with aioli and pickled red onion and matchstick patatas bravas served with confit egg and chives. Or for something a little more likely to clog your arteries, try the utterly bizarre yet highly tempting egg, bacon and cheese toastie lasagne by Pasta Evangelists, available for one day only this Saturday at Market Halls Oxford Street. Oh, and don’t even think about visiting Haringey without indulging in the fried plantain tossed in sugar and coconut, and chicken ata din din (that’s chicken in a Scotch bonnet and red pepper marinade) at Nigerian tapas restaurant Chuku’s.
