Monday marked my final ever uni hand in (eeek, does this mean I'm technically now unemployed, or can I call myself a student until I graduate?), so to celebrate, the girls and I headed for a cocktail fueled brunch.
Our university is right around the corner from Westfield at White City, so we headed there without much of a plan, and ended up in Balans Soho Society, a restaurant I've walked past a thousand times and never been in.
It was pretty quiet (unsurprising since it was 10am on a Monday), and they quickly put together a table for the five of us. We took an inordinate amount of time to order, because breakfast food problems. Does anyone else think breakfast is the best meal of the day?
In the end, my friend Joanna and I split the bacon pancakes and Eggs Benedict and it was delicious. The eggs were cooked to perfection, served on English muffins with lashings of hollandaise, whilst the pancakes were thick and fluffy, the bacon crisped to perfection. The nice thing about Balans is that they really do every breakfast option, pancakes, french toast, eggs, Chorizo Con Papas, avocado toast, the lot. You'd find something to suit every breakfast taste.
We followed up our breakfast with a round of celebratory drinks. The girls all opted for cocktails whilst I stuck with prosecco, which was delicious. The girls loved they're cocktails, but did say they were a little strong, but maybe that was just since it was a Monday morning!
They did stick a service charge of 12.5% on the bill, but we didn't mind paying since the service was fab, they were attentive and fast, but let us relax and didn't rush us out either. The meal was really reasonable, with breakfast and a round of drinks, including service charge worked out around £17 a head, pretty reasonable for London!
I could definitely get into the habit of leisurely brunches!
