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Greasy spoon cafe on Bermondsey Street in Bermondsey.

bob visited on a Saturday morning in July 2010. There were a couple of other customers in when I arrived around 11:30am, and a few more turned up while I was there. The cafe can seat 42 in fixed seating.

I had the special breakfast (£5.50) photo, which normally comes with egg, bacon, sausage, black pudding, mushrooms, onion rings, hash browns, beans, tea, and optional toast — I swapped the beans for some tomatoes. The egg was well cooked and still had a runny yolk, the bacon was slightly crispy (in a good way). and the black pudding was cooked just about right. The tomatoes were very tasty tinned ones. The onion rings were slightly disappointing, since they were the mashed onion type. The hash browns were fine, and the mushrooms were okay. The sausage was a bog standard greasy spoon deep fried one, so nothing special. The toast (not mentioned on the menu, but included free) was made from a decent enough bloomer.

Accessibility info: Large step to get in and quite narrow once inside.

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Last visited by bob, 20 October 2010
OS X co-ord: 533233 OS Y co-ord: 179656 (Latitude: 51.499635 Longitude: -0.080319)
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