Browns

http://www.browns-restaurants.co.uk/locations/cambridge/

A more upmarket breakfast this time, which comes at a high price tag, £9 for a full English including 2 bacon, black pudding, 2 sausages, 2 eggs, mushroom and tomato, with toast. You are getting a large breakfast for the money.

Brown by name, brown by door

Troby
Sat out on the patio at the front, we were blessed with the company of "Pastries" today, who is known to cause 'order confusion', and predictably, it happened. To me. The charming waitress came for our orders, and didn't hear my mumbling of "full English", asking Pastries first, who went for that option, but needed to swap off his black pudding for another ingredient. When she asked him how he'd like his eggs, there was a 7 second pause before he decided on poached. Wanting to appear more decisive, I said for 'scrambled eggs please' (assuming that she was asking how I'd like my eggs done with the full English) , with Sefud going for the standard full english with fried egg. Imagine my disapointment when the orders came, and I got just scrambled egg on toast! It did look very good though. Anyway the problem was rapidly rectified by my friends offering parts of their breakfast until I had a plate that was probably more comprehensive than theirs!

Scrambled egg with donated extras

The food was very good - savoury, well cooked sausage, fluffy scrambled egg, tasty mushroom and tomato. The bacon was really playing second fiddle to all this lot, and was a bit thin, but decent enough. Apart from the excellent egg, the highlight was the toast! - seeded, and crumbly, it was toast perfection. The coffee was fine, my double expresso with water on the side got cold a bit quickly.
The best thing about this breakfast was my friends rallying 'round to give me extras, but the breakfast itself was high ranking.

• Food     4
• Value    3.5
• Service  4
• Ambience 4
• Coffee   3.5 

Seefud
It was a nice place to sit and check the stock prices in the business section of the paper on a sunny morning. The waitress was nice but whilst Troby didn't order clearly a really good waitress ought to be able to perceive confusion, and it could have easily been rectified with a standard repeating of the order back to us at the end. The food was pretty great though including some nicely cooked black pudding, and despite donating bits to Troby it was still a good plateful. That still doesn't make it great value at £9 though but that's the price you pay for enjoying breakfast without too many lefties.

A Full English half eaten or donated

• Food     4.5
• Value    3
• Service  3.5
• Ambience 4.5
• Coffee   3.5 

Pastries
My main fear about this place was that it'd take a while for the breakfast to arrive, which was the case, but probably only cos they were cooking it. Most of the food was griddled including the toast, which gave it a Turkish kebab feel (good). House newspapers were available: Telegraph, Mail, or for the left-wingers, The Times. Great service - even the best waitresses are susceptible to my force-field of confusion. The breakfast would've looked much better on normal plates rather than the enormous square things we got. Coffee was nice but small, I polished off two before the food arrived.

Overall pretty good and as you would expect: that is, a bit pricey and budget a bit of time for it too.

• Food 4
• Value 3.5
• Service 4
• Ambience 4
• Coffee 3.5