Here’s Richard Trengrouse’s writings on the first of our Week of Breakfasts:
Beautiful morning, cold with a hint of frost, set out to cycle from home to our first breakfast cafe, Salters on Bradford Street. Bottom of the road got a puncture and had to go back home and pick up the car.
Arrived at 7.15 to a warm welcome from Daz and Jason, with a piping hot cup of tea. The others arrived from 7.30 onwards and by eight there were six of us.
Breakfasts in Digbeth are on a massive scale, and the full version can often involve consuming two eggs two sausages, three rashers of bacon, tomatoes beans hash browns fried bread and toast washed down with very large mugs of tea. OK if you are working on a building site, but if you are a pen pusher like me the sure route to bye- pass surgery by the end of the week.
The half breakfast at Salters did not disappoint, for me the veggie breakfast consisted of a well fried egg, veggie sausage hash brown with lashings of beans and tomatoes and accompanied by a mountain of toast. My carnivorous pals commented on the wonder of the black pudding and the very excellent bacon.
The second mug of tea was a welcome end to the feast, the conversation then degenerated into musings on the wonders of white pudding and the complete absence from Birmingham of the delectable Irish delicacy Crubeens-jellied pigs trotters. I’ve looked on the web and there isn’t a veggies version!
Onto Eastside Cafe tomorrow (Tuesday)
It seems we have the redevelopment of Five Ways to thank for Salters being in Digbeth – the owners were forced out of their home in Auchinleck Square and chose the unit in Bradford Street as one of the handful of places available with an A3 license, which are like gold dust thanks to Birmingham City Council.
Richard’s right when he says the black pudding and bacon were amazing. And here’s why:
Salters cafe on Bradford St, Digbeth from Nicky Getgood on Vimeo.
Join us bright and early in the Eastside Cafe at 7.30am tomorrow!
