Breakfast in Bloomsbury

In London, we stayed in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum, a district known for its turn-of-the-century writers and intellectuals like Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes.

We ate breakfast our first morning at the Bloomsbury Coffee House, a basement café in the St. Athan's hotel.

I ordered the potato pancakes with scrambled eggs. It was fine, but the highlight was the customer who ordered after us.

He was a committed vegan who wanted to know the sourcing of all their ingredients. He asked where their veggie sausage patties came from. The waitress went to the back and returned with the box of Linda McCartney vegetarian sausage patties from the freezer. He read the small print ingredients out loud, commenting on each one. Then he asked if the chickens who laid the eggs were fed non-gmo corn. He had a thousand questions. The waitress was very patient. I was shaking with suppressed giggles.

We left when he starting asking about the tea.