The Breakfast Club Hoxton

£11 - £25 / American, Vegetarian options

2-4 Rufus St, London

Awards

Excellent Pancakes 2024

Opening hours

8AM-4PM

Sunday 8AM-4PM
Monday 8AM-3PM
Tuesday 8AM-3PM
Wednesday 8AM-3PM
Thursday 8AM-3PM
Friday 8AM-3PM
Saturday 8AM-4PM

Friendly Staff and Delicious Breakfast Options

Nestled in the heart of Shoreditch, this charming haunt delivers a sprightly breakfast experience, effortlessly blending the familiarity of a local café with the vibrancy of its eclectic surroundings. Featured prominently are its vegetarian options, which shouldn't just be seen as alternatives but genuinely top dishes in their own right. The atmosphere is positively infectious, populated with cheerful staff who would capably manage even a bustling bus depot, let alone a restaurant jam-packed in all corners. Card in hand, you step into a culinary ballet, where everyone seems to dance to the same cheerful tune, propelled by locally hyped meals that somehow exceed the buzz around them.

While there may have been slight hiccups—an inadvertently cold egg here or overly zealous seasoning there—the other flavors generously made up for it, with pancakes said to boast an alchemical balance of fluffy and sweet punctuated by molten blueberries. If "The All American" doesn’t induce unapologetic joy with its happy collision of Bennies and bacon, very few can hold that particular candle. One sizable nod must go to the décor: a seamless marriage of cozy and quaint, accentuated by the walls' joyful papers near the loos, as if they too decided to dress up for the occasion. As you walk out onto London’s streets, full and content, the dusty memory of rushed dismissals dissolves swiftly; reservations will undoubtedly be made for another utterly indulgent morning plotted ahead. — Milo Tastemaker