The Bear Inn, Brighton, East Sussex took first place in the Pubs category for its full English breakfast; Friels Bar & Restaurant in Swatragh, Derry, Northern Ireland took second place with a Friels Fry; and the Crown in Sarwen, Lancashire placed third with its Crown’s Mega Breakfast.
Overall winner
The Tavern Co Restaurant in Liverpool walked aways with the top prize for its full English following a public vote. It also won Best Hot Breakfast for two homemade Lincolnshire sausages, thick-cut bacon, fried egg, peppered tomato, Bury black pudding, sauteed mushrooms and baked beans with extra thick sliced toast made with locally baked bread.
Tried & True cafe in Putney, west London won Most Innovative Breakfast for a BBQ pulled pork benedict - pulled pork in a homemade smoky barbecue sauce on top of a jalepeno and Cheddar cornbread with two poached eggs, chilli butter and spring onions. Best Cold Breakfast was won by Café Alf Resco in Dartmouth, Devon for its Alf’s Granola - homemade jumbo oats, dried fruit, buts, seeds and local honey served with Devon made yogurts.
Farmhouse Breakfast Week
The Best Breakfast Awards highlight the range and quality of breakfasts being served by UK eateries and are part of Farmhouse Breakfast Week (26 January to 1 February).
"We would like to congratulate all the winners," said Karen Levy, marketing executive for the week’s organisers HGCA. "We had thousands of votes for the hundreds of dishes that were entered into the awards as customers showed their support for their local venue. These awards set out to show the choice of breakfast available at all types of venues and we think they have done just that."
The awards were open to all food-serving venues with three categories to enter comprising hot, cold and most innovative breakfast.