The full English included two pieces of thin bacon, slightly burnt around the edges, a Cumberland sausage, a Portobello mushroom head, five perfectly roasted cherry tomatoes and a tower of bright yellow, flavourless scrambled eggs.
The tea came in a fine silver teapot with a cup and saucer in white and Tiffany blue along with its own urn filled with boiling water, a silver tea strainer and a jug of milk.
Across the nation greasy spoons, brunch cafes, high end restaurants and even pubs offer the classic plate of sausage, bacon, eggs, toast, beans, tomato and toast.
I decided to test it out - as well as an £11.70 cooked breakfast at the Ritz Cafe, a classic greasy spoon just down the road from the Ritz in Hammersmith to see how they stacked up.
Snuggled up next to it was a Portobello mushroom head, five perfectly roasted cherry tomatoes carefully placed on top, and a tower of bright yellow (but tragically flavourless) scrambled eggs.
