This bright and easy café specialises in - deep breath - extra fluffy, extra thick, Japanese soufflé pancakes.

A casual all day restaurant in Southwark dedicated entirely to pancakes, this place should be one of your go-to brunch spots.

Brunswick East is an all-day Australian café and coffee shop with lovely courtyard seating.

Barbie Green is an Australian-style all-day café and restaurant situation on London Wall, not far from the Barbican.

Vardo is a striking all-day restaurant and coffee spot in Chelsea.

Snackbar is a café and workspace on Dalston Lane that serves a range of unusual and excellent Asian-inspired breakfast, lunch, and brunch plates.

This light and bright roastery, coffee shop, and all-day restaurant in Bethnal Green is as useful as Ozone’s other spot in Shoreditch.

Eggbreak serves all the breakfast classics you can think of, plus more, in Notting Hill.

Morty & Bob’s is a café and bar in Coal Drops Yard serving toasties (and other things) that will put your George Foreman creations to shame.

Granger and Co is a studiously inoffensive all-day Australian-style restaurant serving fresh tasting pizzettas, burgers, and salads.

Jolene is a bakery, café, and restaurant on Newington Green serving very nice, very grainy, very wholesome breakfast, lunch and (on some days) dinner.

Hand in Stratford’s East Village is a Greek-ish cafe offering some of the best brunch we’ve had in ages.

Franks Canteen is a neighbourhood cafe in Highbury that does some pretty sensational things with eggs.

Fink’s is primarily a coffee shop in Highbury, but it’s also open for food and something stronger in the evenings.

You should look past all the kitsch on display at Café Miami’s because their tacos and toasties are some of the best in Clapton.