Crumpets — Restaurant in London

There is a seemingly endless supply of these kind of "Italian" cafes around Victoria, and probably all over London. They always seem to serve an incongruous mix of English breakfasts and notionally Italian sandwiches. These establishments largely cater for nearby office workers, and/or tourists, and all appear to subscribe to a similar philosophy that food is essentially a fungible commodity, a service where quality doesn't matter, like key cutting or dry cleaning.

I'm not sure who I resent more, these parasitic businesses who only stay afloat because nearby office workers are too busy, lazy or just plain unimaginative to actually demand something better; or the office workers themselves for allowing this depressing situation to persist.

Also, they don't actually appear to...

Expensive, the quality of food was very low. ( the bacon was probably cooked two hours before and was ashard a shoe, sausage tasted like plastic and the bread was completely burned, and my eggs sunny side up were over cooked and the yolk was not runny)How can you pretend to have a place specialized in breakfast when you don't even know how to cook simple things. On top of that: Ordered a big English breakfast and did not get all the things I ordered. I mentioned it to the staff when paying and they told me they forgot to mention it to me. The guy very rudely acted like he didn't hear me when I asked for some kind of discount. Finally: waiting time was quite long.

Anyway AVOID THIS PLACE ! It is a tourist trap for the people that went to visit...

Very small and quite packed little place for breakfast. Came here after being recommended it. Waited in a queue that was forming out of the door. Only one person was taking orders and then making the coffee for that order before continuing on. I'd have thought especially with the other 4 staff members that they might have done that to support the one main server. We sat outside and the weather was gorgeous. Food was alright, nothing to shout about. Downside the cafe doesn't have any toilets so the nearest is actually in the Park for a cost of 20p....