260399 Thu Sep 06 07:05:14 -0700 2001 3 26 International 0 1376116 £16 (plus service!)for a miserable continental breakfast! Coffee is served in a cup, dispensed from a thermos flask behnind the counter. Sweaty cheese, wrinkled slices of salami, clueless staff...shall I go on. PS most charming restaurant in London is Odette's, Primrose Hill Thu Sep 06 07:05:14 -0700 2001 0 Andrew Eliel 1 1376118 Thanks for the warning. Someone was suggesting a brekkie meeting there in October. That whole operation seems horrible. The bar is ghastly and Spoons has had such a bad write up I couldn't drag myself there. Now I hear they are charging £20 for "Gourmet" hot dogs on the patio. Let's leave this place for the gurning ninnies that are AA Gill and his ilk Now I will go back to the place that does the best in London which is the " 10 deadly sins" at Simpson's On the Strand. The other meals there are not up to much but £22 for a meal that will last you for a month is not too shabby. Very old School but very good Thu Sep 06 07:52:47 -0700 2001 1376116 0 Simon Majumdar 2 1376121 what, pray tall, are the 10 deadly sins of breakfast? I can count bacon and coffee...but what other vices are in store at Simpson's? Thu Sep 06 08:44:13 -0700 2001 1376118 0 magnolia 3 1376124 Eggs, Kippers, fried Breads, Sausages, Bacon, Devilled Kidneys, Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Kedgeree Tea and coffee don't count. They are lifeblood S Thu Sep 06 08:51:27 -0700 2001 1376121 0 Simon Majumdar