Delicious taste of London

COUNTRY toast with lavender honey, how delicious does that sound — and it was. It rounded off my breakfast at Brindisa, a generous plate of grilled chorizo with two crispy fried eggs and a mound of slightly soggy chips — that doesn’t sound appetising in the least but boy it was good.

The chips were cooked in extra virgin olive oil and the eggs were fresh and organic, crispy golden around the edges and soft in the centre — they too were cooked in olive oil. A glass of still foamy, freshly squeezed orange juice and some good coffee — the perfect start to provide a burst of energy for a whizz through the Borough Market around the corner.

This iconic market has now almost become a victim of its own success. Foodie visitors to London make a beeline for Borough on a Saturday morning and as a result the aisles quickly get cluttered with ‘snapping’ tourists whose main, maybe only purchase, will be food to nibble as they go.