Easy Like Sunday Morning
Ruth asks:
"Know any good places for a spot of brekkie on a Sunday?"
The Phantom replies:
If you're sticking to Greenwich, then either Royal Teas or Peter de Wits will be excellent choices. As regular readers will know only too well, the selection at Royal Teas is limited, but what it is allowed to serve is very tasty indeed. I like the tiny courtyard at Peter de Wits on a Sunday, where I can dissect a broadsheet in peace - often, despite the throngs of tourists just a few yards away, alone. Up the road from Royal Teas, Buenos Aires is great for coffee and a pastry, but I'm not convinced they do proper breakfast.
I have eaten brunch at the Bar du Musee - it's ok - nothing to write home about, but good if you're in a large group.
If you're over at Blackheath, either for a visit to the Farmers Market or to listen to a Sunday morning concert at the Blackheath Halls, there are two brilliant places, though neither is palatial and you have to take your chances as to whether you'll get a seat.
Hand Made Foods has a fabulous selection of breakfasty-type stuff available - choose either their breakfast menu, or take your pick from the glorious sweet and savoury pastries in the window. It's frustrating and enchanting in equal quantities in that the amount of space in which to eat is tiny - exclusive, but often just not to be had. Things have got a bit better since they opened upstairs but you still need to check there will actually be somewhere to scoff your food before you order (unless you do it as a takeaway and eat it on the heath if it's sunny.)
Boulangerie Jade, a couple of doors up, is a very good alternative - possibly even better if you've a sweet tooth, though personally I always try Hand Made Foods first.
All the above do good coffee, but the new kid on the block if you're looking for superb coffee (and nothing else- they don't do food) is the fabulous New Zealand-style Beehive inside what was Flying Duck. I still have high hopes that he'll step into the shoes of glorious 1960s-o-rama, the much-lamented Coffee Cellar, managing in two strokes, to resuscitate retro icon and provide just a little seating...
I'm sure readers have other good suggestions for Sunday brunches...
"Know any good places for a spot of brekkie on a Sunday?"
The Phantom replies:
If you're sticking to Greenwich, then either Royal Teas or Peter de Wits will be excellent choices. As regular readers will know only too well, the selection at Royal Teas is limited, but what it is allowed to serve is very tasty indeed. I like the tiny courtyard at Peter de Wits on a Sunday, where I can dissect a broadsheet in peace - often, despite the throngs of tourists just a few yards away, alone. Up the road from Royal Teas, Buenos Aires is great for coffee and a pastry, but I'm not convinced they do proper breakfast.
I have eaten brunch at the Bar du Musee - it's ok - nothing to write home about, but good if you're in a large group.
If you're over at Blackheath, either for a visit to the Farmers Market or to listen to a Sunday morning concert at the Blackheath Halls, there are two brilliant places, though neither is palatial and you have to take your chances as to whether you'll get a seat.
Hand Made Foods has a fabulous selection of breakfasty-type stuff available - choose either their breakfast menu, or take your pick from the glorious sweet and savoury pastries in the window. It's frustrating and enchanting in equal quantities in that the amount of space in which to eat is tiny - exclusive, but often just not to be had. Things have got a bit better since they opened upstairs but you still need to check there will actually be somewhere to scoff your food before you order (unless you do it as a takeaway and eat it on the heath if it's sunny.)
Boulangerie Jade, a couple of doors up, is a very good alternative - possibly even better if you've a sweet tooth, though personally I always try Hand Made Foods first.
All the above do good coffee, but the new kid on the block if you're looking for superb coffee (and nothing else- they don't do food) is the fabulous New Zealand-style Beehive inside what was Flying Duck. I still have high hopes that he'll step into the shoes of glorious 1960s-o-rama, the much-lamented Coffee Cellar, managing in two strokes, to resuscitate retro icon and provide just a little seating...
I'm sure readers have other good suggestions for Sunday brunches...
Labels: Cafes, Eating Out
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
08:27
13 Comments:
Rivington at the Picturehouse does a pricey, but very tasty brunch. There traditional english breakfast is one of the best locally. If you are a Picturehouse member you get a discount.
Excuse me... I actually mean "Their traditional English..."
The Organic Cafe (it moves soon to opposite the picture house - he he - I laugh everytime I see their sign about Greenwich Council!) does a good breaky, the only downside is I think it's only served until 11am - and for sleepyheads like me i always end up missing it!
The Scream pub does a HUGE and super cheap big breakfast, but it's VERY studenty...
However, I'd second the Rivington - pricy but yummy. They do a fab eggs Benedict.
Although not in Greenwich I would also suggest the Deptford Project in Deptford High Street. Also, You Don't Bring Me Flowers in Hither Green. A schlep indeed but well worth it!
Try Hardy's pub, Trafalgar Road for a magnificent Irish breakfast, and reasonably priced too.
If you don't like the idea of the pub they serve food in the next door restaurant or in the small patio garden.
Yummy!
If i'm in a rush I occasionally grab a tea and bacon butty from the Blackheath Tea Hut and head into the park. Cheap and cheerful.
Jumping in to add my two enthusiastic thumbs up for Beehive's coffee. Delicious and always served by the nicest people.
Another not-quite-Greenwich option, but we found it fun to walk through the foot tunnel one Sunday morning to visit the café at Mudchute Farm. Fantastic bacon, but when you rear the pigs yourself it should be…
To add to the positive comments about the beehive, I have to say I have become a morning regular at Beehive for their coffee. Their flat white - aparently an antipodean thing - is excelent.
The Canadian girl who works there at weekends is really sweet too...it does make a difference.
And if you want an 'extra hot' drink - she'll make it that way. There's a previous thread about 'not dissing the chains like Starbucks for the sake of it'. I agree, but man, they - Costa, Caffe Nero et al - NEVER listen to you when you say how you want something.
sczar = scared of chives. I've had too much coffee clearly...
FYI Sczar and other 'Beehivers'...
Randi (the Canadian girl at Beehive) is going back home to Canada in a few weeks :-(
She'll be working for the last time at Beehive this coming Sat through till Wed.
I know that Randi's really enjoyed serving everyone who's been into Beehive for coffee on the weekends, and I'm sure she'd love it if people stopped by to say goodbye.
If you're looking for an artery clogging full english from more of a greasy spoon type establishment, I reckon you can't go far wrong with the Guzel cafe on Whitworth Street (East Greenwich).
It's reasonably priced, the guys in there are very friendly and they manage to serve you quickly enough to fend off the approaching hangover which is all you can ask for really (or it is for me on a Sunday morning anyway).
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