Baker & Spice - Chelsea

Rosemonkey (6 June 2007)

This place is completely overrated, overpriced and pretentious. We went there for Sunday brunch and it was fraught with frustration from the moment we sat down. I wanted scrambled eggs and bacon, so chose the 'scrambled eggs with cream fraîche' - but they refused to supply a side order of bacon with it. Moreover, when the dish arrived there was no toast or anything - merely just a plate of eggs and that's it, for 11 quid!

My husband ordered the full English breakfast, but asked for the eggs scrambled instead of fried - again this was not possible. I would have thought that was a basic and common request. And when the dish came, the eggs were in fact poached, not fried! He hates poached eggs.

My mother ordered the smoked salmon on savoury pancakes - and was told that "that dish may take a long time" - god knows why! I found the staff to be extremely unhelpful, rude and pretentious, and obviously the chefs are either totally unreasonable or incapable of cooking the simplest things - probably both. We will not be returning.