P E Mead Farmhouse Kitchen, Wilstone

Last night we had a bit of a do in a very noisy, urban warehouse chic bar in Hackney to celebrate the recently announced betrothal of the youngest of the progeny, so this morning we felt the need for a restorative rural breakfast and took a trip to P E Mead in Wilstone.

Mead's has been an excellent farm shop for many years and has now expanded its café into a new barn conversion building on the same site.

After some deliberation, we ordered two all day breakfasts. I think they are called all day breakfasts because they are big enough to feed a diner for an entire day.

Each plate housed two slices of sourdough toast, a large mushroom, a grilled tomato, two rashers of bacon, a slice of black pudding, three slices of King's Farm's excellent Wendover Royal sausages, a small pot of baked beans, a fried egg (with no 'gurgly bits') and two thick slices of fried potato.

All of it was perfectly cooked, well presented and delicious. One black Americano coffee and one hot chocolate completed the proceedings.

For those with smaller appetites there were other options which I think we are likely to sample on a future occasion. The doughnuts that we bought 'for later' are already calling...

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