And back to Brighton for a classic. The story of my love affair with Seven Bees starts a couple of years ago. I was sitting on the beach on a late summer's evening with some good companions. When the night started drawing in and the party dwindled in size, me and the final companion headed to the Globe pub - more of the Globe and its burgers in a later post. It was here that we started reading Source magazine during a lull in conversation. Luckily for me it was the issue with a special roundup of fry ups in Brighton, seeing the address we were intrigued and set off on a hunt for the twittern and its secret cafe. Surprisingly to me now we couldn't find it and it took another daytime trip when they were open to see it - I blame the cider ;)
The cafe itself is quite small and cosy with memorable table covers, you know if you've seen a Seven Bees breakfast on instagram ;) All the ingredients are locally sourced where possible with a range of breakfast options. The fry ups come in three sizes - Big, Bigger and Biggest with the option to build your own from the different components. As per the photo below I always used to go for the Biggest ...
My new standard breakfast is a Bigger with extra black pudding. Sometimes if I'm feeling adventurous I'll have my eggs scrambled and my bread fried. This started a few weeks ago when my companion at the time had ordered it, I thought, why not? f*$k it! so, I ordered some for a change as well. It was awesome, I haven't had fried bread in a while and it knocks the socks off "boring old" toast ;)
Having said that I do actually like the toast here, the bread is fresh from a bakers down the road in Hove and the butter melts into the bread and tastes like summer fields and camping. I don't have real butter that often anymore and this is a nice treat. The sausages are the best breakfast bangers I've had in Brighton .. certainly a world away from the awful cheap and nasty late night takeaway sausages.
The cafe itself is quite small and cosy with memorable table covers, you know if you've seen a Seven Bees breakfast on instagram ;) All the ingredients are locally sourced where possible with a range of breakfast options. The fry ups come in three sizes - Big, Bigger and Biggest with the option to build your own from the different components. As per the photo below I always used to go for the Biggest ...
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| Biggest breakfast |
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| Bigger with added black pudding |
Interestingly Iain has chosen to go for potato latkes instead of say hash browns or the sacrilege of chips - although I have heard people ask for chips! chips?! for breakfast?! I quite like this touch. I do love hash browns, but they can often be a bit greasy. The latkes on the other hand feel fresh with a soft and moist texture.
Twitten - incase anyone thinks it's a typo or spelling mistake ;)
Further reading
SOURCE special on fry ups - the review that started it all for me
Lomokev's Full English photos on Flickr - embarrassingly I kept bumping into him at seven bees with my camera, which I had usually taken exactly ZERO photos on that weekend. He usually looked at the camera and then at me, wonder what he was thinking :-)
Twitten - incase anyone thinks it's a typo or spelling mistake ;)
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