The best London breakfasts: English breakfast udon at Koya in Soho, rumoured to be opening a new London restaurant at the Market Halls food hall in Victoria, south London
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It’s the most important meal of the day. Make it good

London’s best breakfasts are on an evolving brunch. Not only has breakfast gone beyond the fry up — and then some — breakfast is, increasingly, an enterprising way for the city’s essential, hottest, and just straightforwardly good restaurants to extend their ideas to morning eating. Between the seasonal, fermentation-forward brilliance on show at Esters, the breakfast tacos in a Hackney churchyard, and an iconic omelette at The Wolseley, here are London’s best breakfasts, some to be taken seated, and others on the move.