Earlier today we featured a picture of one almighty feed from the lads at Murphy’s Law in Athlone and that got us thinking… What is Ireland’s biggest breakfast?
Irish people undoubtedly love breakfast and we’re not talking about some gloopy porridge crap either. We’re talking about the fry-ups to end all fry-ups. We already saw what the Murphy’s Law bar in Athlone has to offer us for breakfast and since then we’ve been inundated with pictures and stories of absolutely giant meals.
So to whet your appetite for a monster feast here’s a look at some of the biggest breakfasts in Ireland…
It was the breakfast that started off our morning (although we would have preferred to start our day off eating it), and it was the catalyst for this piece, so we thought it was only right to include the Murphy’s Law Breakfast Challenge.
This mammoth breakfast includes four eggs, four pieces of rasher, four sausages, four hash browns, four black & four white pieces of pudding, four pieces of fried tomato, a large portion of fried mushrooms, a side bowl of beans and a bowl of chips.
A few of you mentioned that The Grapevine Bistro in Sligo has a Mega Breakfast Challenge and it sounds, well, mega. This feast includes five sausages, five rashers, five eggs, five hash browns, five pieces of white pudding, five pieces of black pudding, five half tomatoes, five portions of mushrooms, five portions of beans, five pieces of toast and a pot of tea.
If you fancy taking on The Grapevine Bistro’s Mega Breakfast Challenge make sure to pop in to unit 9 of the Quayside Shopping Centre in Sligo.
Plenty of you were quick to point out that Tony’s Bistro on North Main Street in Cork is home to one of Ireland’s biggest breakfasts. Even though the meal, which is aptly named ‘The Godfather’, includes a whole lot of food, the kind folk at Tony’s will foot the bill if you manage to finish the entire thing.
So here’s what’s in “The Godfather”…
Eight sausages, six rashers, a 6oz sirloin steak, four hash browns, four slices of black & white pudding, two fried eggs, two scrambled eggs, two bowls of chips, three pieces of fried tomato, one bowl of baked beans, one bowl of fried mushrooms, one bowl of onion rings, six pieces of toast, three slices of soda bread and a ‘bucket’ of tea or coffee.
There was only ever going to be one winner of ‘Ireland’s Biggest Breakfast’ and it was a fairly simple choice… seeing as the café in question holds a Guinness World Record for the ‘World’s Largest Breakfast’. The Hard Boiled Egg in Cavan officially holds the title and it’s not hard to see why.
The record breaking breakfast at the Hard Boiled Egg (which, by the way, weighs nearly 4kg) includes, ten sausages, ten rashers, ten eggs, five hash browns, five ‘large’ pieces of white pudding, a bowl of chips, a ‘hill of beans’, three grilled tomatoes, a portion of mushrooms, ten slices of toast and all the tea you can drink.
So there you have it. If you’re feeling like a good hearty (or heart-attack educing) fry-up, you’ll know where to look from now on.
Big thanks to everyone who mentioned one of the breakfasts above! You can check out the Facebook pages of the cafés mentioned by clicking on their names.
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