If you're stuck for a place for breakfast in South London - try Le Chardon
Soft jazz playing in the background and stunning photo prints lining the walls, this is how breakfast is supposed to be done on a weekend morning. Known to me previously only as a restaurant that serves up top quality French dinners, it now also one of my favourite places for an English Breakfast. No really, the French can...
£6.95 gets you either Eggs Benedict (fried egg, smoke salmon, English muffin or a devinely creamy Hollandaise sauce) or a full English Breakfast (spicy sausage, 2 bacon rashers, choice of eggs, beans, tomato and toast and a hot beverage of your choice.
My girlfriend and I ordered one of each and spent the next hour enjoying the food and most of the atmosphere (most is the result of the place being almost empty as, like us, no one else seems to know that they do breakfast.
I give Le Chardon:
5/5 for Food
3/5 for Ambiance (5 is it was buzzing)
4/5 for Localness (it might be French, but they do an excellent job being British at breakfast)
4/5 for Value (the coffee could be bigger at no real extra cost)
4/5 Overall
If you are stuck for a place to have breakfast that is a break from the pub/cafe norm, check out Le Chardon on 32 Abbeville Road, Clapham, London SW4 9NG. You won't be disappointed, but make sure you bring a friend as you might be a bit lonely. Well, only until the word gets out and this place starts getting packed.