Scoffers, Clapham Junction

Address: 6 Battersea Rise, London, SW11 1ED
Closest Transport: Clapham Junction Overland Train Station
Phone: 020 7978 5542
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If you are looking for a hearty, home-cooked breakfast... but cooked by someone else.. and not at home... Scoffers fits the bill. The servings are generous and there is a good selection of breakfast options on the menu including the classic full English, vege breakfast, eggs benedict, and scrambled eggs on toast with a choice of sides including hashbrown and bacon. The prices are extremely reasonable and the atmosphere is very casual - the glass conservatory with a real fig tree growing through its roof adds a nice touch.

However, as the prices are extremely reasonable and the atmosphere very casual, then it goes without saying that you shouldn't expect any special favours from the wait staff or the kitchen. Well, so we learned. Poaching an egg rather than scrambling it is just too difficult - unless you are ordering the eggs benefict of course... Bad luck for you if you were told that the orange juice would be freshly squeezed but they ran out of it and you get the bottled version.... Your friend is going to be late? She'd better hurry or she'll miss the brunch menu as it changes on the dot. Lecture, lecture, lecture. The local greasy spoon café would have been more flexible! Everything was just all too difficult, which put a bit of a dampener on what would have been an enjoyable brunch.

Based just up the road from Clapham Junction's infamous Northcote Road, Scoffers is a great place to go for a weekend brunch if you are on a budget. If you aren't on a budget, then I would turn around and head back to Northcote Road or Clapham Junction where there are better restaurants.

This London Brunch Review was by the Brunch Book Club London. We like to visit breakfast cafés and brunch restaurants around London and provide independent brunch reviews. We only make recommendations for great brunch places in London. Unfortunately, this is not one of them.