Vegas Breakfasts!

Well first of all, yes i know, i am late, in fact very late in posting this entry, seeing as it relates to our breakfasts in Las Vegas. But that was our first dilemma, does a breakfast in Vegas constitute as being able to make the great pages on this blog! So after a lot of soul searching (or a boring Thursday evening with nothing else to do) we decided to 'comment' on our breakfasts in Vegas!

Mixed, i think is the best way to sum it up. But i hear your scream, give us details, give us details ... ok ok!

Well if you ask Jo, she would say she had some 10 out of 10 breakfasts - and in some categories she would be right - the way the Americans cook there bacon is great, nice and crispy! They would also score highly if pancakes could be included in the 'cooked breakfast' category, but they currently don't!

So that is where it goes wrong, they don't actually do a traditional English breakfast, Hash browns are good but different, eggs are ok - but you get a little confused after trying to work out if you want them sunny side up with the egg white stirred not shaken!!

So, can we score the Vegas breakfasts out of ten, well not really, but if we could, well we reckon a 7 out of 10 would be a good score.

Gatwick Flyer

4 out of 10

So never one to miss an opportunity to rate a breakfast, and of course it would be rude not to try a cooked breakfast on holiday we decided to start our Las Vegas trip off with a cooked breakfast at Gatwick's south terminal. The terminal was jammed packed and with it being breakfast time seating was at a premium.

We managed to get a seat at the Wetherspoons pub and ordered our Gatwick Flyer breakfast! Thats where it started to go wrong .. breakfast menu was good, the price was reasonable (for an airport - £5.49 each) but what lost the breakfast its first point was having to order a breakfast at the bar with the smell of stale beer wafting around your nostrils. Saying that, beer (and Magners) was flowing well. I don't think i have mastered the drinking before 9am yet !!!

Ok so for the breakfast - well it was ok, but again points lost for having plastic cutlery. Another point went for the tomato not being cooked, yes i know tomatoes are not always the preferred choice but if they are on the plate, then they should be cooked! On the plus side the egg was good and runny, but thats about it!

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!