Daily Brews — Restaurant in England

It is easy to avoid Daily Brews because it looks like a national chain from the outside, it is located in a prime commercial area, and indeed, it is right next door to the corporate giant, Strbcks. Amazingly, it turns out to be a superb, locally owned business (sister café to the nearby Peaberry's).

Popping in for breakfast is delightful. Weather-permitting, you can don your shades and achieve the continental pose right in The Old Market Square. Otherwise, inside has many more tables than you would expect from the width of the frontage. Either way, you can people-watch, right in the heart of the centre of Shrewsbury's river loop. Of course, the Tourist Information Centre, museum, Old Market Hall Cinema, high-end shops, banks and other cafés and restaurants litter The Old Market Square.

The menu is innovative with a lot of choice. Fellow porridge-addicts will love the banana, cinnamon and nut presentation, no matter of the spelling. Other light choices include the pancakes with a variety of sweet fillings and optional crispy bacon for those with American tendencies.

Other breakfast choices are abundant, and of course, all bread these days comes in the sourdough variety. Great flavour, but you need a steak knife to tackle the crust. Of particular note is the Turkish Breakfast which is somewhat incredible. Squeaky, grilled halloumi, spicy beef sausage, Turkish cheese, a poached egg and much more. The Swiss Kiss jumps out at you, featuring two crisp, roti potatoes, bacon, avocado, poached eggs and cilantro lime crema. You can also choose from a complete line up of poached egg dishes plus the off-road, gluten-free option of Southwest Eggs Benedict. Poached free-range eggs (obviously), chorizo, jalapeno hollandaise sauce, and a toasted breakfast muffin.

For the more traditional, there are three omelette offerings (two of which are veggie). The Spicy Garlic Sujuk Omelette is now on my bucket list.

If you are seeking to kill time over a long tea or coffee, there is everything to choose from and a great selection of cake slices on display.

The staff (including my favourite, like Beck, from recently deceased local cafés) clearly like their jobs and never perform as minimum-wage-robots. They greet you, ensure that the food and drink is to your liking, and they are a great source of local knowledge too. In fact, there is no need to visit to Tourist Information Centre across the square when you can simply ask the DB staff for relevant local data. The members of staff tend to be trained baristas, so you can expect a swirly drawing on the surface of your latte.

Wi-Fi is free and easy. There is no tricky password to enter. In the style of Rock Café, Charles Darwin's original electric guitar is proudly mounted and displayed on an interior wall. According to the literature below the artifact, in his later years, Darwin became disillusioned with the futuristic sound produced by the instrument and decided instead to focus his spare time talent on the theremin. Darwin went on to compose a number of great works that can, surprisingly, still be found on the likes of YouTube (lookup 'Darwin's secret theremin compositions'). The most famous being, 'Descent', which was resampled and used to accompany the melody in the hit Beach Boys track, 'Good Vibrations'.

I visited Daily Brews again today (September 2025) and was thoroughly impressed. Our waitress had joined the staff only earlier that day yet was fully up-to-speed. Also, the owner himself, Lee, was getting his hands dirty, taking orders and clearing tables. Considering the owner now has three establishments to oversee (Peaberry’s Café, Daily Brew, and now The Peach Tree), this was very admirable. As a group of six, we were also given complimentary baklavas (which were superb) by the man himself.

Please don't go to Strbcks next door and feed your money into a chain that seeps upwards to an American billionaire. Invest in the local community by taking ten more steps to choose...

Went in on a Sunday lunch and it was quite busy. We found a seat near the dumbwaiter. Nobody gave us a menu. Nobody offered to get us a high chair. They asked us to move the pushchair to behind the curtains at the back but there wasn't even room there because it was full of kegs and we couldn't block the toilets. Another table became free with more space so we moved but it took them ages to clear the previous people's dirty plates. We ordered two burgers and an omelette. Wait was not too long but when they bought it out the order was wrong. The one burger was missing bacon and the chicken burger tasted of pork and did not look like a chicken breast. We did not bother to tell them because by then felt it wasn't worth it. We also had fries but I feel like they were ruined because they had dill sprinkled on top and I do not like that flavour. Why can't they just be fries!? Feel like it was very expensive at £9 for an omelette and with the rest of the things added together it was not an enjoyable experience. Even the moche and chai latte were not great because all the flavour syrup was left at the bottom and not mixed into the drink. Do not...

Not many people in when I went for breakfast. As only one of me I was seated in the window next to the sauces, sugars, etc. Asked for tea and scrambled egg. Just back from a week in Harlech where the scrambled egg was rich and creamy. Unfortunately, not so here. What I was given appeared to be an omelette which had been forked through and was a little dry. It was ok but not good. I have since googled Turkish scrambled eggs and found menemen which is cooked like an omelette. I spoke to a staff member and said this was not scrambled egg it was omelette and he confirmed he would speak to the kitchen. When he came back he walked straight past me to stand at the door. I had to ask what the reply was from the kitchen. They had thanked me for my 'feedback'. This is my feedback. 1. If a customer makes a complaint or comment whereby you need to speak to the kitchen, go straight back to the customer with the reply. 2. It might have been nice as the customer did not get what she asked for, to perhaps offer a free drink. 3. It should be explained on your menu that you do not cook 'typical' English scrambled egg but rather your...