Breakfast Blog, take two

So it was over a month ago that I wrote "Introduction to Sunday Breakfast Blog" and have since completely failed to deliver the Sunday weekly breakfast reviews!
It wasn't a Sunday, nor has it been a week, and the photos I took were terrible, but I'm going to have a short crack at this.

On Monday morning I was running late to college on account of staying up until 3:30am and subsequently failing to wake up. A busy day in sculpture awaited me, and I was too aware that if I didn't eat a good breakfast then I would probably scream at somebody.

Breakfast objectives:
- Tasty
- Filling
- Healthy
- Cheap
- Central Oxford
- Situated somewhere I won't look like a total loser eating breakfast on their own

Not too hard then.

Having enjoyed a tasty muesli, banana, honey and yoghurt breakfast at Mortons on New Inn Hall Street whilst tutoring on Sunday, I decided it would be a safe bet, but for variety (and with it safe in mind that the aforementioned cafe doesn't do any cooked items) chose their Covered Market location.
The menu in this cafe has your standard breakfast bits - toast rack, that nice muesli thing, porridge, full English/veggie full English, but I decided to risk it and ask if I could just have beans on toast with some scrambled eggs. They were very compliant, and after 10% student discount it only set me back £2.61 - only 11p more than the cereal option! As a poor student this got a massive thumbs up.

(It must've been good - I practically demolished it before remembering my camera!)

Due to the covered location, this cafe is quite dark and intimate - exactly what you want if you're battling the hangover from hell, hiding your morning-after-the-night-before hook-up from the light of day, or, like me, just plain exhausted and not ready to admit that the sun's come up.

My only criticism is that the breakfast arrived with white toast. I tend to avoid carbohydrates most of the time anyway, and especially the white ones, but the penniless artist in me forced it down anyway. My mistake - next time I'll just ask for brown, or mushrooms and tomato.

Mortons have delivered brilliantly all-round this week though, as I tutored four hours of drawing lessons upstairs in the New Inn Hall Street cafe (during quiet times) and the staff were kind to let us stay so long. They also do the most wonderful carrot and orange cake, which I recommend to anyone feeling a bit naughty.

Until the next time, or a few times after that!