Brunch at Les Deux Salons

Covent Garden’s Les Deux Salons

Friend N is our international woman of mystery, so when she pops over from the Continent for a weekend every-so-often she needs to grab her favourite ladies to reunite to have a good few hours of gossip. Brunch is perfect for this and she decided to make it a French theme this time.

We all met up one cold November Sunday at Les Deux Salons in Covent Garden. I’d read good things about this, and it’s on the Stylist British Brunch Guide so knew it would be worth  a shot.

View from our booth

We had a lovely afternoon, tucked away in a nice big sinky-in booth, with attentive yet certainly not in-your-face service and food that was classic French, no extras, what you read on the menu is exactly what you get. I should have taken note of the French title of the place and worn a nicer outfit than my denim skirt, flat brown boots and daggy green jumper… oops. Wardrobe upgrade desperately needed.

Waffles which I drowned in maple syrup (this was just the first dose~).

I ordered the waffles with bacon which I enjoyed and kept drowning more in maple syrup – this isn’t a bad thing, I would happily consider doing Beyonce’s maple syrup diet as I love the stuff, could drink gallons of it. The Darjeeling tea was good and came in an excellent sized pot (the bigger the better I feel when it comes to brunch, I basically want a genie hiding inside my teapot).

Darjeeling tea

The others had:

More waffles

A cheeseburger and fries

French toast

Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon

Eggs Royale

And we all had some form of tea. The girls appeared to enjoy their chai and one had a particularly lovely Assam.

Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon

Fuss free French toast

R’s Cheeseburger with fries – one or two of us may have had slight food envy but she looked delighted.

Some people on the table next to us had some very good looking Bloody Marys. I think I’d like to go back and have steak for lunch with one of those – I get the feeling that’s where they excel as R’s burger looked fantastic – and isn’t that the point of brunch – breakfast as lunch? Lunch as breakfast?

All up, we paid around £15 each. This included lovely warm bread to start with, some seriously good pots of tea, a reasonably filling main too. Will I be back? Yes, but next time for dinner as I think it would make a great pre-theatre option.

Les Deux Salons can be found at 40-42 William IV Street, Covent Garden, WC2N 4DD