The Ultimate London Brunch Guide

The menu has fried haggis with whisky sauce. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekdays 7-11.30am, weekends 8-11.30am
Address: 160 Piccadilly, W1J 9EB | Visit their website
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Wun’s Tea Room and Bar | Soho

One of the few places in London where you can find that great Singaporean-Malaysian breakfast delicacy, kaya toast: sugary, coconutty jam spread on thick white toast, served with a fudgy egg and soy sauce. And if that doesn’t float your boat, you can pick from Hong Kong-style French toast (with peanut butter and cheese); sugar skin fatty iberico char siu bacon on bubble waffle with a fried egg; and ‘grumpy baked beans’.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 11am-5pm
Address: 23 Greek Street, W1D 4DZ | Visit their website
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Dirty Bones| Soho (and Kensington, Carnaby & Shoreditch)

The burgers are gigantic. The cocktails are bottomless. And you can get crumpets topped with 12-hour slow-cooked short rib, poached eggs and hollandaise… This brunch might end up turning into a brinner. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 11am-4pm
Address: 14 Denman Street, W1D 7HJ | Visit their website
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Hip Hop Brunch | Secret Location

Two parts hip. One part hop. One part delicious brunch in the form of a 3-course ‘Dirty South’ meal served up alongside an hour of bottomless cocktails which will fuel another (few) hours of glorious hip hop karaoke. Shake well, and serve.

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? Yes
Timings: 12-5pm every Saturday (book HERE)
Address: Various locations | Visit their website
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B&H Buildings | Clerkenwell

This is a kind of choose-your-own adventure brunch. You want your eggs with baked avocado? Done. Braised beef with crispy hash? No problem. Courgette pancakes with a roast tomato and caper dressing? You got it.

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 10am-4pm
Address: 42 Northampton Road, EC1R 0HU | Visit their website
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Ottolenghi | Spitalfields, Notting Hill, Soho, Fitzrovia

Yotam Ottolenghi: political activist, gay rights campaigner, pilates instructor, philosophy and comparative literature major and multi award-winning cook-book writer. He also owns and runs Ottolenghi, NOPI and ROVI…and their brunches are as great as he is.

Exmouth Market Grind | Clerkenwell

The Grind is, as you may have guessed, all about the coffee. But in Clerkenwell, when you’re yards away from many of the finest food purveyors in town, coffee alone doesn’t cut it. So on weekends you can expect wild mushrooms and hash browns, buttermilk pancakes, breakfast burritos, Full Englishes, and sweet potato harissa cakes, washed down with bottomless prosecco.

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes, on weekends only | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Daily until 5pm
Address: 8-10 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QA | Visit their website
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Brunswick East | Dalston & Hackney Downs

An East London stalwart that keeps going from strength to strength. They’ve just opened a second branch that serves all the hits – potato and scamorza hash with bacon crumb; walnut sourdough topped with wild mushrooms; Turkish scrambled eggs; you name it. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekdays (reduced brunch menu) 8am-5pm, weekends 9am-5pm
Address: Unit 3D Stamford Works, Gillett Street, N16 8JH | Visit their website
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Mildreds Dalston | Dalston (and Camden & King’s Cross)

Once you’ve made your way though a hearty plate of waffles with strawberries and chocolate; oak-smoked beans and melted cheddar on toast, and avo and aubergine on sourdough, you probably won’t even notice that your entire meal was vegetarian.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings (Dalston): Weekends 10am-1pm
Address: 1 Dalston Square, E8 3GU | Visit their website
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Berber & Q | Haggerston

As one of the pre-eminent grilling spots in London, Berber & Q have made the wise decision to grill brunch, too – so you’ll find campfire Moroccan pancakes and pit beans on sourdough accompanied by savoury croissants, shakshuka and 8 minute eggs.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 11am-3pm
Address: Arch 338 Acton Mews, E8 4EA | Visit their website
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Sager + Wilde | Bethnal Green

Sager + Wilde keep it simple with ham hock hash and nduja with scrambled eggs on toast… oh, and an adorable, festoon lit terrace with its own cocktail bar.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 11am-3pm
Address: Arch 250 Paradise Row, E2 9LE | Visit their website
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North London Brunch

Jolene | Stoke Newington

Patricia Niven

Finally, a place for die-hard fans of mixed wheat populations grown in regenerative farming ecosystems. Jolene’s scrupulous sourcing and hands-on approach translates to mouthwatering fresh bakes every morning, bolstered by fried eggs with jamón; spiced beans and mojo verde; and smoked salmon with pickled cucumber.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Tues-Sun from 10am
Address: 21 Newington Green, N16 9PU | Visit their website
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Sunday | Barnsbury | Re-opening after renovations in April 2020

Barnsbury might seem like a long way to go for brunch. But trust us, when you’re knee-deep in chilli beef with soft corn grits and fried eggs, that suddenly won’t seem to matter. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Tues-Fri from 8.30am, weekends from 9am – expect queues
Address: 169 Hemingford Road, N1 1DA | Visit their website
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Little Mercies | Crouch End

Alan Sherwood

When it’s not busy being one of the best cocktail bars in North – heck, all of London, the discreet Little Mercies in Crouch End is a quietly brilliant brunch spot, too. Pick from maple-glazed pork belly buns; reubens with house-cured pastrami; and brioche ‘pain perdue’ with peanut butter and strawberry jam.

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 12-4pm
Address: 20 Broadway Parade, N8 9DE | Visit their website
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The Dartmouth Arms | Tuffnell Park

Behold, grown-up brunch: smoked butter on Guinness bread; gazpacho with a deep-fried oyster; pig’s head on toast with house-made pickles; and surroundings that make you feel like you’re at a friend’s particularly lovely house.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Friday & Saturday 12-5pm
Address: 35 York Rise, London, NW5 1SP | Visit their website
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Beam | Crouch End & Highbury

Run by a mother and son team, Beam is home to North London’s most generous brunch dish: the colossal Mediterranean breakfast with grilled halloumi; egg; feta filo pastry parcels; avo; sausage; more feta; olives; feta; and harissa yoghurt cascading off the plate.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Daily from 8am, be prepared to queue at weekends
Address: 40-41 Topsfield Parade, N8 8PT | 184 Blackstock Road, N5 1EF | Visit their website
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Black Axe Mangal | Highbury

BAM. Nothing wakes you up like a slap in the face from Lee Tiernan’s savoury, flavour-laden cooking. The menu changes regularly, but if the Philly cheese steak sarnie’s on, get it.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 11am-3pm
Address: 156 Canonbury Road, N1 2UP | Visit their website
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Caravan | King’s Cross (and Exmouth Market, Fitzrovia, Bankside & City)

Caravan Exmouth Market’s first sibling, this younger brother roasts coffee in-house, and dishes out numbers like slow-roast pork belly on kimchi pancake; chorizo and cavolo nero hash; and fried jalapeño cornbread with chorizo and a fried egg. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings (King’s Cross): Weekday breakfast 8-11.30am, weekend brunch 9am-4pm
Address: 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA | Visit their website
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Drink Shop & Do | King’s Cross

Because everything’s better when it’s alliterative, the folks at DSD are giving you two hours of bottomless Bloodies, bubbles, bagels, and boardgames.

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? Yes | Set menu? Yes
Timings: Weekends from 10.30am
Address: 9 Caledonian Road, N1 9DX | Visit their website
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The Good Egg | Stoke Newington, Soho

Lucy Richards Photography

The menu here is basically a small world tour – you’ll get the likes of NYC breakfast bagels, Iraqi pita, and babka French toast all on one menu. And save a lot on plane tickets.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekdays from 9am, weekends from 10am
Address: 93 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0AS | Visit their website
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Honey & Co | Warren Street

Honey and Co. is basically your dream restaurant, where plates of hummus, olives, bread, jams, yoghurt and fruit come as standard to your table… and then you get to have shakshouka, ‘dinosaur eggs’, and puff pastry treats. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? Yes
Timings: Weekdays 8-11.15am, Sat & Bank Holidays 9.30-11.15am – closed Sundays
Address: 25a Warren Street, W1T 5LZ | Visit their website
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Plaquemine Lock | Islington

Your new Sunday tradition: live jazz and buttermilk pancakes with praline bacon; eggs Sardou with Creole hollandaise; and cornbread French toast by the canal.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 11am-3pm
Address: 139 Graham Street, N1 8LB | Visit their website
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Blues Kitchen | Camden, Brixton, Shoreditch

Huevos rancheros, stacks of pancakes, Creole crab benedict…  Ironically, dining here is the one time you’re guaranteed not to get the blues.

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 11.30am-3.30pm
Address: 111-113 Camden High Street, NW1 7JN | Visit their website
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Granary Square Brasserie | King’s Cross

From the same group behind The Ivy, GSB is just as delicious, only with more exposed piping and some very reasonable prices… oh, and eggs benedict. With chips.

West London Brunch

Milk Beach | Queen’s Park

Named after a Sydney beach, Milk Beach do brunch the Aussie way – which means coffee roasted in-house, banana bread with espresso cream cheese, and coddled eggs with sweet potato purée. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Daily, 8am-4pm
Address: 19 Lonsdale Road, NW6 6RA | Visit their website
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The Hero of Maida | Maida Vale

Saturday mornings in Maida Vale should be spent in the beautiful dining rooms of The Hero, where former Racine founder/chef Henry Harris oversees dishes like pork belly and raclette cheese toasties, and field mushrooms with shallots on sourdough toast. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Saturdays from 9am
Address: 55 Shirland Road, W9 2JD | Visit their website
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Granger and Co. | Notting Hill, Chelsea, Kings Cross, Clerkenwell

Bill Granger made his name as a chef thanks to his scrambled eggs. Head to the sleekly designed Granger and Co. for brunch, and you’ll find out why.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings (Notting Hill): Mon-Sat 7am-12pm, Sun 8am-12pm. No reservations, expect to queue (a lot)
Address: 175 Westbourne Grove, W11 2SB | Visit their website
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No 11 Pimlico Road | Chelsea

They have Caravan coffee (another great brunch place!), ricotta pancakes, breakfast tacos, and a really easy-to-remember address.

Details: Bottomless booze? No (but you can order big carafes) | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Daily, 9-11.30am, some dishes until 5pm
Address: 11 Pimlico Road, SW1W 8NA | Visit their website
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Dishoom | Kensington, Shoreditch, Carnaby & King’s Cross

A selection of traditional Parsi appetisers and modern South Bombay street-grills in tantalising sharing plates. And that bacon naan. Wow.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: 8-11.45am weekdays, 9-11.45am weekends
Address: 4 Derry Street, W8 5SE | Visit their website
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Annie’s | Chiswick, Barnes

Cosy, fairy-lit, rococo-furnished, al fresco terrace-toting Annie’s serves up an award-winning brunch every day, with buttermilk pancakes, smoky shakshouka, and eggs every which way.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Daily 10am-12pm
Address: 162 Thames Road, W4 3QS | 36-38 White Hart Lane, SW13 0PZ | Visit their website
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Parlour Kensal | Kensal Green

“Ugh, of course I don’t want constant, unfettered access to an unlimited toast, PB and nutella station” – said no-one, ever.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? Toast | Set menu? No
Timings: From 10am, Tuesday-Sunday
Address: 5 Regent Street, NW10 5LG | Visit their website
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Snaps + Rye | Notting Hill

Go Full Danish with rye bread fried in smoked butter; cheese; fried eggs; pickled mushrooms; hog’s pudding; bacon; liquorice syrup; and something called ‘Bloody Viking Ketchup’.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Tuesday-Sunday, 9am-3pm
Address: 93 Golborne Road, Golborne, London, W10 5NL | Visit their website

South London Brunch

Seabird | Bankside

An achingly beautiful, lofty perch with views across London (wherever you sit, you’re guaranteed to get either the Shard, Big Ben or the National Theatre), Seabird is a real special occasion brunch spot. Kick off with oysters (delivered to you by the knowledgeable and passionate head shucker) and rumbustious Bloody Maries before embarking on an odyssey of seafood, from mouthwatering crab and manchego omelette to octopus rolls, Spanish tortilla and enormous platters of raw or grilled seafood. Finish off with a frozen Caipirinha, and walk it all off with a stroll along the Southbank.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekdays 11am-3pm
Address: The Rooftop, The Hoxton Southwark, 40 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8PB | Visit their website
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Donnelly’s is a place to bring friends. Not because of the spacious al fresco dining, or the homely, convivial atmosphere, but because you’ll need each of them to order the Dorset fish finger bap; gammon steak with fried eggs and the spreadable Devil’s Mortar sausage on sourdough, so you can steal off their plate.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Saturdays 10am – 3.30pm, Sundays 10am-4pm
Address: 40 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3UD | Visit their website
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Dandy | Bermondsey

Dandy’s back. And with dishes like breakfast crumble; chilli and cacao-spiked porridge; and green eggs and ham; it’s not messing around.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 10.30am-12pm
Address: 35 Maltby Street, London SE1 3PA | Visit their website
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The Table Café | Southwark

One of the self-proclaimed “best kept secrets in London”, the Table Café is a mere stone’s skip from Borough Market, which probably explains their excellent, sustainably sourced, ingredient-driven food. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekdays 7.30am-4pm, weekends 8am-4.30pm
Address: 83 Southwark Street, SE1 0HX | Visit their website
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Cambridge Street Kitchen | Pimlico

The CSK’s brunch will net you ultra-fluffy pancakes, bacon sandwiches and Full (vegan) Englishes in a dining room that feels more like someone’s living room. Plus, there’s a few tables outside.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekdays 7.30-11.45am, weekends 8am-3pm
Address: 52 Cambridge Street, SW1V 4QQ | Visit their website
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Darby’s | Vauxhall

Lobster brioche rolls with roe mayo. Signature fry-ups with slabs of smoked bacon. Brown butter waffles with tonka bean gelato and salted caramel. Oysters. Guinness. Live swing. Darby’s brunch is very nearly indecent.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 9am-12.45pm
Address: 3 Viaduct Gardens, SW11 7AY | Visit their website
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Florentine | Waterloo

Home to Full English breakfasts feat. giant ostrich eggs.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 10am-4pm
Address: 6 Hercules Road, SE1 7DU | Visit their website
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Where the Pancakes Are | Southwark

Pancakes are what brunches are made of, and this brunch is made of pancakes. Available all day, they come as classic American numbers with streaky bacon; Welsh Rarebit-style, with vinegar crisps and a fried egg; and Royal, with Wiltshire ham, poached eggs and hollandaise – and oh so much more.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Mon-Wed 8am-5pm, Thur & Fri 8am-9pm, Sat 9am-9pm, Sun 9am-5pm
Address: Arch 35a, 85a Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 0NQ | Visit their website
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Mommi | Clapham

When Mommi makes you breakfast, you can bank on triple-decker breakfast sarnies with crispy smoky bacon; stacks of pancakes with a cinnamon sugar glaze; and steak and eggs with Bloody Mary mayo.

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Saturdays from 12.30pm
Address: 44 – 48 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UR | Visit their website
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Kudu | Peckham

Treat your friends to honey roasted ham crumpet with black pudding; French toast babka with kumquats and miso caramel; and Boerewors sausage rolls with egg and crispy shallots at South African joint Kudu… and you’re guaranteed to get kudos.

Details: Bottomless booze? No but you can get a jug of BM for £25 | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends, 11am-2.30pm
Address: 119 Queens Road, ​SE15 2EZ | Visit their website
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The Lido Café | Herne Hill

Step 1: Go for a bracing morning swim in the art deco Brockwell Lido. Step 2: Get poached eggs on sourdough in the café after. Step 3: Feel smug AF.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Daily from 8am
Address: Dulwich Road, SE24 0PA | Visit their website
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Sparrow | Lewisham

Sparrow’s brunch is next-level. They don’t serve pancakes, they serve Sri-Lankan appam with eggs. The bacon for their breakfast muffins is hand-cut by the chef. And they even make their own ketchup in-house, just so that no element of their Big Breakfast is left to chance.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No
Timings: Weekends 10am-3pm
Address: 2 Rennell Street, SE13 7HD | Visit their website

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