Nice name for a canny cafe. Went there with the family recently and then on a walk round Bloomsbury. Previously visited by the truly wonderful eggbaconchipsand beans in 2006... where have those years gone? To misquote that well-known poet whose offices were on the corner of this very square: I have measured out my life with egg cups.
There were a few soft southerners sitting outside in their coats but it was a bit too warm for us Geordies so we went inside. I took a photo of the square for atmospheric purposes and, this being London, it includes some bloke on his mobile phone - probably a banker calling his accountant to see if he could offset the cost of his breakfast:
Mostly associated with literary and arty types, I'm not aware of any strong breakfast connections amongst the Bloomsbury Group, although members may have included Roger Fry-up and Lytton Streakey while there's always Virginia Woolf's experimental work 'Mrs Dalloway nips out for Breakfast'.
Virginia Woolf, looking like she could fancy a canny breakfast
You get all kinds of food in the cafe and there's an Italian theme running through a lot of the meals, including pasta and pizza. They do a decent selection of all day breakfasts, which you choose from their set list or you can make up your own by selecting from various ingredients. I did a bit of both, by choosing egg and chips then adding beans and mushrooms.
Encouraging to see their standard breakfast includes chips, and very canny chips they are as well, seeming to revel in their very dry, crispy chipness.
My wife had a bacon sandwich and she suggested I should take a photo it, which I did. I explained that I didn't think it would be very photogenic but she wasn't bothered. Here it is anyway:
Bread with meat
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