eggbaconchipsandbeans

Dino's Grill, Commercial Street, EC1

Dino's Grill is just down from Spitalfield's Market and Brick Lane and is hence open on a Sunday morning. Which is a boon.

A visually thrilling egg, bacon, chips and beans which was a slight culinary let-down. Just a one-off, I'm sure. I was offered a choice of chips and went for 'fat ones' - so I'm excited to see the thin ones. The bacon looked lovely but was a bit cold and undercooked. Also the beans. I found redemption in the egg though. Gold and white like a high-quality medallion resting against a dress shirt.

Classic condiment cluster. Except...where's the brown? I had to hustle to an adjacent table to collect a spare.

Gorgeous booths.

A faultless display of symetrical ashtray placement.

Muratori, Margery Street, EC1



Muratori is very near Mount Pleasant Post Office depot and is consequently often full of posties. A crowd that guarantees quality fry-age.

I'm surprised there aren't more oval plates in the world. Oval has just the right contours to incorporate the ebcb. Lovely chips here - yellow and fat. Nice egg, with a watery yoke just beneath the white - like a pale sun rising in the mist. Good slabs of bacon and generous beans.

Comprehensive condiment cluster.

Good boothy, benchy things.

great welsh cafes

Hannah at the Welsh Tourist Board kindly emailed to say that there's a series of programmes on this week about Great Welsh cafes. Sadly, only on HTV Wales. There's some great history on the website though.

slight hiatus

Apologies there's not been a lot going on here recently. I was training for a 10K and trying to lose some weight so I've not been pounding down the chips of late. However, normal service will be resumed soon. And in the meantime, there's a bunch of new stuff over at agoodplaceforacupofteaandathink.com.