The Best London Restaurants For Breakfast Meetings
Image: Simpson’s Grand Divan, The Strand
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The Best London Restaurants For Breakfast Meetings

A breakfast meeting deserves more than an overpriced flat white and a tired avocado on toast. Whether you’re looking to get a deal over the line, impress the boss or just catch up with a contact before the working day begins, these London restaurants are worth getting out of bed for…
Image: Simpson’s Grand Divan, The Strand

Simpson’s Grand Divan

The Strand

For a meeting that needs to make an impression, try this grand 2026 reopening from legendary restaurateur Jeremy King. The Grand Divan is the classic space within Simpson’s where silver trolleys are pressed into morning service. The suitably old-school menu culminates in the Ten Deadly Sins: a very full English that includes everything from Cumberland sausage and streaky bacon to lamb chop, devilled kidneys, and bubble and squeak. 

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Maison François

St James’s

Maison François is a Parisian brasserie transplanted to St James’s. With excellent service and just the right amount of buzz, it’s open from 7am Monday to Thursday and is well set up for breakfast meetings. Alongside eggs benedict and royale, its early menu features a full English, grilled kipper, and a jambon blanc sandwich with fried egg, potato rösti and gruyère. 

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Café Clement, Temple
Café Clement, Temple
Simpson’s Grand Divan, The Strand
Simpson’s Grand Divan, The Strand

Fischer’s

Marylebone

Fischer’s brings a little Viennese café culture to Marylebone High Street. Morning menus here offer traditional Austrian breakfasts, gröstls and röstis, alongside freshly baked pastries and birchermüsli. The grilled kippers with mustard butter are also worthy of consideration.

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Café Clement

Temple

On the ground floor of the hot new St. Clement hotel, Café Clement is an all-day café and bar with a south-facing terrace and garden seating. Open from 7am, its breakfast menu covers many needs, from organic flaxseed bowls to honey butter crumpets or Loch Fyne kippers with poached eggs.

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Fischer’s, Marylebone
Fischer’s, Marylebone

Charlie’s at Brown’s

Mayfair

The British menu at this hotel restaurant is overseen by Michelin-starred chef Adam Byatt, who reinvigorates classic dishes with seasonal ingredients and contemporary twists. At breakfast, look for eggs benedict with roast ibérico ham, a crab omelette Arnold Bennett and a pleasingly considered toast selection, with bread from a range of London bakers. Charlie’s is also currently serving a Chinese breakfast menu created with Andrew Wong of two-Michelin-starred A. Wong.

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Chet’s

Shepherd’s Bush

At this Thai-American restaurant inside The Hoxton, Shepherd’s Bush, they take a playful approach to morning meals. Alongside avocado toast and pancakes, there are sriracha eggs royale and a Bodega sandwich filled with sai uah sausage, egg and cheese. This is a more casual choice than others on this list, but the distinctive menu will light up a relaxed early meeting.

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45 Jermyn St.

St. James

For a breakfast meeting with a little old-school London polish, 45 Jermyn St. is a strong contender. The Fortnum & Mason restaurant has a brasserie feel and a menu that majors in indulgent classics. Alongside a full English, count on the likes of scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and an open omelette with mushrooms and gruyère.

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St John Neal’s Yard, Seven Dials
St John Neal’s Yard, Seven Dials
Chet’s, Shepherd’s Bush
Chet’s, Shepherd’s Bush

St John Neal’s Yard

Seven Dials

Breakfast here is only served from 9am, but there are two unshakeable reasons for St John Neal’s Yard to be on this list. First, it is the purveyor of a legendarily good bacon sandwich, which disappeared for years after Covid but is now back in bun form. Second, this is a place that does breakfast drinks pairings. Not a turbo-charged carrot juice to go with an açaí bowl. But a perry to go with the bacon bun. A blanc de blancs for the smoked cod’s roe bun. A bloody mary for the anchovy bun. Live a little.

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Dean Street Townhouse

Dean Street Townhouse is a relaxed Soho alternative to a formal hotel dining room. Set within a Georgian townhouse, it has the lived-in character of a neighbourhood favourite. Its menu of British classics runs from eggs royale to crumpets and coffee.

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Mount St. Restaurant

Mayfair

Above the Audley pub, Mount St. Restaurant pairs modern British cooking with an extensive art collection, making it a memorable backdrop for a client catch-up. The breakfast menu takes in kedgeree, grilled kippers and devilled kidneys on toast – and for something truly indulgent, there’s an omelette with Oscietra caviar.

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