Browns Cambridge #2

Browns Cambridge - Two for one breakfasts!

We discovered Browns were doing a 2-4-1 deal - So we had to return.

Troby
Another great breakfast from Browns - The offer is only for the Full English, or vegetarian, but it does make for an incredible quality/price quotient. 2 eggs, 2 bacon, 2 sausage, black pud, mushrooms, tomato, beans and toast all for £4.50. Other breakfasts styles are available.

The decor is also pleasant - This feels an upmarket breakfast experience and it's a shame to be rushing off to work afterwards. 

 

So overall, this was a large, tasty well featured breakfast, particularly good were the smoked bacon and the lovely browned Browns Cumberland sausage. My only niggle was that perhaps with the large rectangular plate, things get cold a bit quicker, but service was perfect, and the coffee, whilst not stellar, is a solid 3.5.

• Food     4.5
• Value    5
• Service  4.5
• Ambience 4
• Coffee   3.5

The Full English with scrambled egg

Seefud

Mmmmmm GET IN MY BELLY. To my tastes, this is about as close to perfect as we've found so far. Let's start with the minor negatives though. Like Troby I had an issue with the temperature. Unlike Troby I'm not going to blame plate shape though. I suspect most of the ingredients just sat around for too long waiting for the scrambled eggs which, to their credit, did arrive pretty well cooked. They were, however, slightly too pale and not very rich. Maybe they’re bulking with a splash of milk?

Apart from that though, it’s all good. The sausages were nice and porky and well cooked. The bacon was griddled for extra flavour and not at all dried out. There nicely cooked big field mushrooms, juicy tomatos and respectable black pudding.

There was only one slice of toast (with an absurd slab of butter on it incidentally) but it was a nice sourdough loaf and on such a good plate of food only having one slice is fine by me. After all, we do live in a gluten obsessed society.....

Anyhoooooo......

Yes, that's butter, not cheese!

The ambience is great, the service was faultless and the coffee was fine. An inside source says this 2-4-1 deal will be available for the "forseeable future". It does not appear to be a time limited promotion. It’s not perfect, but at this price few other places will get a look in. I urge you all to patronise Browns for breakfast at the earliest opportunity.

Food     4.5

Value    5

Service  5

Ambience 4.5

Coffee   3

Pastries
The twofer makes this nigh on unbeatable. There are places with better coffee but that said I happily drank two of them. Really this is somewhere you go for a treat when you have a bit of spare time - the vibe is 'take your time and enjoy your breakfast', not 'bustly place with punchy coffee on the way to work' (not a criticism just my preference).

The butter portion was silly. Cold stuff on the side, please! And as mentioned on our previous visit, smaller hotter plates would be an improvement. Just quibbles though.

Food     4.5

Value    4

Service  4

Ambience 3.5

Coffee   3