BRITAIN'S BEST BREAKFAST
I love a full English breakfast once in a while. But where can you find Britain's best breakfast? Well, the
winners of the Best British Breakfast Award have been announced in the national press this week.
For the second year in a row,
Liverpool's 'The Tavern Company' has won the Award in a competition organised by HGCA. This event takes place as part of Breakfast Week which aims to raise awareness and
celebrate the importance of breakfast. Cafes, restaurants, hotels and
other food establishments chosen by the public from all over the country are given the chance to battle it to hold the coveted title. The Tavern Company was not only
the overall winner, but their "Full English" was also named
"Best Hot Breakfast Dish", receiving nearly 2,000 votes. Reported in the Daily Telegraph, Owner, Keith Gurney said:
"We're thrilled to have won the UK’s best breakfast for a second time. We
started serving breakfast, only on Sundays, 20 years ago to about 12 people and
now we’re serving over 2,000 breakfasts a week. Since winning the award in 2014 we have had to extend our opening hours
and expand our breakfast menu. We would like to sincerely thank our loyal
customers for helping us to retain our title in 2015".
Oliver's Coffee Bar in Belfast
won "Best Cold Breakfast" for their range of breakfast scones. Available in various flavours
such as plain, cherry, perry & almond, and cinnamon, the scones are well
loved by their customers and regularly sell out. It was reported earlier in the week that Manager Ashley Gribben said:
"We have been serving our range of breakfast scones since we opened in
April 2014. Our customers love them so much they encouraged us to enter the awards.
It’s a real surprise to win. We’d like to thank them for voting for us."
This year saw the introduction of
the "Most Innovative Breakfast" award which was given to the dish
deemed most innovative and unusual by organisers and guest judge, Chef Phil Vickery. New London café Bunnychow nabbed
the award for their "Full English Bunny", a cooked breakfast you
don't need a knife, fork, or even plate to eat. Locally sourced, the "Full English Bunny" is a hollowed-out baked
brioche loaf which is then filled with sausage, lean bacon, tomatoes,
mushrooms, spicy beans, black pudding and topped with an egg.
Bunnychow CEO Atholl Milton said to the Daily Telegraph,
“Everyone loves a hot breakfast so we wanted to take our South African heritage
of using the loaf and then packing it full of fresh breakfast produce. Since we
opened three months ago the “Full English Bunny” has been popular with the
local office workers and commuters on the hop. We're delighted they are now
award-winning.”
It was reported in the press this week that Karen Levy from the awards organisers, the Home Grown Cereals Authority, and from the
Breakfast Week campaign said: “We’ve had hundreds of fantastic entries from
cafes, restaurants, hotels, B&Bs, food vans and work place canteens which
really sums up how important breakfast is today. Each of our three winners are
completely different and demonstrate the variety and quality of breakfasts you
can now enjoy when out and about.”
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