Bella Italia, London - 26th August 2007

One of the things that totally puts me off a cooked breakfast is if the only choices on the menu include 'sautéed potatoes' or chips - they are just not meant to be with a cooked breakfast!

So what do you do then?! Well this morning in London i had to make that choice, and i went for the panni with bacon and egg. I cannot score the breakfast as it does not come into the 'cooked breakfast' catergory, however if it did, it would of scored high!

The food was cooked fresh and it was damn good. The price was also not bad (for London)!

Fifteen - Jamie Olivers Restaurant - 26th Nov 2006

7 out of 10.

Only 7 out of 10 for a Jamie Oliver breakfast!!! Well let me explain.

Beans, mushrooms and Sausages and the main reason that Jamie did not get a ten out of ten.

But lets first describe the setting, as that is worth a bonus point! Fifteen in Cornwall is the second Jamie Olive restaurant and is in Cornwall just around the corner from Newquay. It is a new building built in to the back of the beach in Watergate Bay. The view from the windows are great - you look out onto the beach and you could not ask for much more.

The breakfast, well it aint cheap! For the cooked breakfast it was £9.50 each. You do get the best of local produce and its all cooked freshed, which again is worth an extra point, but i guess does boost the price!

Beans - well as you would expect it was not Heinz. They were like butter beans and did not do the important job that normal beans do, which is gel the breakfast together.

Mushrooms - this is a personal one, but i hate mushrooms, and the bigger the mushroom, the more points get knocked off!! I do concede that they were fresh and i am sure if you were a mushroom lover you would like them.

Although bonus points were award, points had to be deducted for no hash browns and having to pay extra for each drink!

Great location, great staff - just not a ten out of ten breakfast!

Click on this link to visit the Fifteen Website:

http://www.fifteencornwall.co.uk/samplemenus-breakfast.htm

John Lewis, Southampton - 25th Aug 2007

6 out of 10.

The John Lewis store in WestQuay, Southampton serves a reasonable breakfast for £4.50. This includes toast but no drink!

The breakfast fell down in a number of areas - no hash browns, the bacon was under cooked and the tomatos although nice and large were served with a lot of the watery tomato juice being 'sloshed' on the plate making your brown sauce become watery!

On the plus side the toast inclusion is good and the two sausages as one item was a good deal!

The surroundings were good, with a good view of the docks with three cruise liners being in when we were eating.

Lastly, although not included in the points system, the latte was far too hot!

Breakfast Blog

Welcome to the breakfast blog!

A long time ago, in a South West town (Newquay) we found the ultimate breakfast - or as we know it - the 10 out of 10 breakfast!

Since then we have always rated our breakfasts, cooked ones of course!

As this blog continues you will see some of the breakfasts we have had, all rated out of 10. We will also attempt to explain how we rate them .. which is going to be interesting as we have never really drawn up any rules before!

If you have had a breakfast, good or bad, then send a pic, send us a review and we will add it to the site!