Hoxton Grill - Breakfast of Champs!
Hoxton Grill
81 Great Eastern Street
London, EC2A 3HU
This is a favorite of mine for the pre work breakfast/coffee boost. Located in the heart of East London's Shoreditch, it is an American inspired restaurant. Perfect for the out of office meetings and is popular amongst the City suits and the creative hipster types.
The restaurant is part of the Hotel, Hoxton Hotel and part of the renowned private members club, Soho House.
It has a larger setting area, which at any point in the day you can find someone hard at work on their laptop's or in the middle of a meeting. The decor is spacious with a metal bookcase to separate areas, a glass annex in the middle which doubles up as another eating area, exposed brickwork, open plan kitchen, long American style bar accompanied by bar stools and large low-level lighting. It fits in well with the trendy surroundings. It even has a photo booth, for them nights you have had one too many cocktails or an overload of caffeine and decide it is a good idea to document the moment.
Hoxton Grill offers breakfast, brunch and all day menus. Opening from 7 am till midnight, making it perfect for a quick coffee, a cocktail or a full on feast.
As it is Thursday, practically the weekend, my partner and I decided to stop off on the way to the office and have breakfast.
I had the Avocado on Toast, with consists of two poached eggs on sough dough toast with avocado (if you didn't already assume that from the title).
This is so filling. It defeated me. The eggs were spot on and perfectly poached on appearance and in texture. A tap of the fork and the yolk flowed out across the plate. It is served on one slice of toast and that is enough since they must use a whole avocado. This is certainly one of their popular dishes and you can see that when you look around at breakfast.
My partner, on the other hand, decided to combat the fry up. He swapped the black pudding for an extra sausage to be "healthy" (this is not a diet tip I would recommend).
This was made up of 3 sausages, a grilled portobello mushroom, scrambled eggs, beans, bacon, grilled tomato and sough dough bread. For the purposes of this blog, I did try a little of each; hard work this food blogging.
Where do I start, the eggs were creamy, sausages were not the usual "corner cafe" kind but meaty and filling, the mushroom grilled and sprinkled with sea salt, totally delicious and the mountain of kinky crispy bacon was moreish.
We washed it down with coffee and a green & avocado smoothie. The smoothie was made up of baby spinach, lime, kiwi, mint, spirulina, avocado, banana, hemp proteins and coconut water (I'm starting to think i have a slight obsession with avocado).
I was curious to see what the other early birds were eating and started to pry around at the tables, the table closest to me ordered the salt beef hash which is combined of potatoes, cabbage peppers onions and sunny eggs, this looked monumental. I was a tad jealous. A few other people around me had the almond, maple & granola bowls, this seems to be another popular dish. I spotted someone eating the buckwheat pancake stack, drizzled in maple butter, food heaven. He had a lucky escape due to me being full, as I did contemplate a grab and dash.
Even with the large selection to choose from on the menu they also have a breakfast bar serving fruit, croissants, cakes, and muffins. They cater for all, the meat eaters, the vegetarians, and the gluten frees.
See a link below to all the menus throughout the day:
