Believe it or not, after decades of visiting London every winter, I still don't have a great breakfast joint on my radar.
My husband has a metabolism like a raging dumpster fire, and despite my keeping the hotel room fridge stocked with boiled eggs and Sainsbury's pork pies for snacking, he's generally ravenous and suffering from low blood sugar by the time we hit the pavement at 8:00am, so breakfast can be a desperation hassle.
We stayed near Covent Garden last year and there was a nice little hole-in-the-wall breakfast joint across the street from the Holborn tube station... and I know about the bacon sandwiches at the (few remaining) cab shelters... and about Pret a Manager, etc., and all the chains... but I am looking for places that you on the Rick Steves board have stumbled across, know, and love. Local places. One-off joints.
Any ideas? Thanks! :-)