I've had a buffet breakfast lots of times and each one has been better than that. It was like Piggy swill But why wasn't any bangers or black pudding ready
Who the hell gets a breakfast and leaves it sitting for 10 minutes whilst waiting for more sausages. Surely just wait till what you want for your breakfast is available on the hot buffet. Grab a drink whilst waiting. Eaten at plenty of these places and once again if you ask them to crisp up your bacon or get your sausages well done they do. Poor vlog.
As per a previous comment, Premier Inn are owned by Whitbread, who also own Brewer's Fayre, Beefeater, Table Table, plus Bar+Block, Cookhouse+Pub and Thyme. So they will all source the same breakfast raw items but the breakfast quality will vary at each venue depending on the kitchen team cooking it. It's like say having a mix grill at Brewer's Fayre, one place could be good but a different venue using same meat could be rubbish... In addition, not all venues next to the Premier Inn offer the self service hot buffet. The hot selection is all you can eat, but some places, e.g. Brewers Fayre in Barry Island (Gavin & Stacy) you order the hot breakfast at your table and it is then brought out to you within 10 minutes. So if you want seconds, then you order again from your table.
Wow I thought this would score highly, I’ve never had a bad breakfast at one of those chains as they have good quality sausages and bacon and you can ask them for eggs to be done to your liking. I will always accept your judgement Lee but can you give them another chance at a different location?
whitebread own premier in and all the restaurant chains at their hotels: brewers fayre, thyme, beefeater, table table etc so it would be the same breakfast as in the main hotel
The last one I had was brilliant as I told them I wanted a plate of sausage and bacon and toast " the night before " and was perfect to set us on our way.
I had a full English breakfast booked at a premier inn last month and went to a brewers fayre attached to it and it was awsome. All the food hot and plentiful. My family really enjoyed it.
I truly think that anywhere you can eat “as much as you like” for under a tenner cannot be scoffed at. I mean it wasn’t the best but it most certainly was not the worst I’ve ever seen. Sometimes it does what it says on the tin!! It fills up the stomach and you can have a double helping if you so desire. I would have personally “plated up again” so the food was piping hot. That may well have made the experience a better one. It’s not often you leave anything on the plate!! I felt from the onset that you weren’t feeling it to begin with and it proved to be so. I feel your mark was harsh but then again I wasn’t eating it!! However considering everything I still give it a 5/10. x.
Great video as usual, Lee. That looked awful and a chefs finger for a sausage. I would just point out that Premier Inn, Brewers Faye, Beefeater, Bar and Block, Table Table, Thyme and Cookhouse Pub are all brands owned by Whitbread Group plc which is why you’ll always see one of these pub / restaurant brands adjacent to a Premier Inn. Don’t expect much better from any of them. Keep up the good work.
In the US the motels and hotels throw in the breakfast buffet in the cost of your room. People don't expect it to be quality and actually look at it as a nice bonus because they don't have to go somewhere else and buy breakfast.
Why wait for the other sausages to turn up? No wonder it was cold, you could just eat what was there and collect the sausages later! I love the way you have to make detailed notes about food you've just eaten!!! Stomach ache from food doesn't come on that quickly!! 😅😍
I travel extensively and feared for your tum when you said you were going to give this a go. I hope you’re feeling ok🤪 Now #Onwards to a better eating experience😉 x
Both Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre along with Beefeater and Table Table are all part of the Whitbread Group, so you will find if there's one next to the other they will use the food outlet for breakfast, most newer developments are paired like this.
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Hi Lee, although the breakfast wasn't the best or anywhere near, I'm sure it was still edible. It seemed an appalling shame that all that food went to waste when throughout the world and increasingly in Britain there are many people going hungry.
I stay in Premier Inns and Travelodges with work I find the full breakfast to be all the same horrendous I usually get mine at 6:30 when it’s just been cooked and I still can’t eat it so just go for the continental breakfast which is such a shame when my company has paid for breakfast and I have toast and cereal fantastic video as always keep them coming Lee
If you get breakfast around 6.30 sean theres a pretty good chance it was cooked before 6 oclock,premier inns usually have one breakfast chef on duty at a time,so there will be one bloke trying to cook enough food for maybe 100 plus guests.
I know what you mean about those toasters they’re never set right. They always catch fire when I use them lol. Toast comes out white 1st time put it in again and the toast catches fire lol.
Have to say as I find, I stayed at premier Inn Newcastle under Lyme for 3 months with work. I used brewer's fayre a few times and would give it an easy 8.5. It's down to the management and the chef so they will probably all be different.
Hi Lee I totally agree with your analysis of Brewers Fare. We came back in April to the UK from France after covid. Our daughter lives in Southend and we stayed at the Premier Inn Southend Airport. We had a meal the evening before we left for home and were appalled. We complained and got our money back. Needless to say we skipped breakfast . We will never go back. Thanks for the comprehensive review. We gave ours 1 out of 10 only because we got our money back. The couple on the next table did the same😒
Always look forward to my Premier inn breakfast, but i would never go to a Premier Inn that has a Brewers Fayre attached, never good food. There are now quite a few Premier Inns that have there own restaurants now, no complaints at all.
Mr Mac, I won't go into the art of how to choose the items to get a hot fresh breakfast at Premier inn, but price wise it is about £3 for the food. If you were in a cafe, you would pay £1 for the toast butter and jam, £1.50 for the juice, and £3 for the latte. Not forgetting the Croissant, Pain au Chocolat, Pancakes, Crumpets, fresh fruit, Yogurt, cereals etc. When you look at it that way, it is great value.
It’s the same company (whitbread) if you don’t have a whitbread brand restaurant/pub attached it’ll usually be Thyme food place to provide breakfast and basics.
Down in Devon in our caravan watching video eating our breakfast..bacon sandwich .bacon 75 p Asda bread 38p Asda.. toast and marmalade.32p and left over brown sauce from spoons. And nice cup of tea 80 bags 58 p Tesco. All cooked fresh and excellent.😀👍
Premier Inn is part of the Whitbread group and includes restaurants and pubs, BrewersFayer is part of the Mitchells and Butlers, restaurant and pubs group and includes a hotel chain.
when I stayed in a Premier Inn and had a breakfast in the BF I had to book a time slot when I went in they took my order for the cooked breakfast which took 10 minutes to arrive all very good indeed
If I'm ever confronted with an all-you-can-eat hotel breakfast I just fill my face with cereal and toast and then fill my pockets with danish pastries and muffins for lunch.
Just got back from the Clayton green in Chaderton manchester.. ordered a jacket spud with chillie.. it was awfull. Left the plate after 3 falk fuls.. never again! And that's brewers fair for you!
Hey Lee! Oh dear! I always think it depends on which premier inn you go to. As some you serve yourself buffet style and others bring food to you. Brewers Fayre yes are serve yourself basis. I can say I have been put off a bit by the pubs who bring breakfast to you. Only reason last couple of times I’ve found egg shell on the eggs which makes me absolutely heave 🤮🤮so I prefer the one you weee in. Yes sticky tables really are a big problem and I have been to ones that have food on the carpet aswell. I wholeheartedly agree about the toaster! You feel under pressure to burry up as others want to use it. Certainly don’t get your moneys worth as it’s hardly edible that. Terrible Take care 😘👍🏻
You can't beat a local cafe for a breakfast, and it would have been cheaper and better quality. (side note though, whenever I watch one of your breakfast reviews I want one) that one didn't inspire me to go. But on Monday I'll be off to my favourite breakfast places and treat myself to one of the best in my local town.
Premier Inn do the same deal with Beefeater who don't do buffet but fresh food cooked to order, the food is miles better and eggs cooked to order. You could of paid 7.50 for as much as you can eat AND drink continental which is still a good deal. You could of had had a choice of Cereal, Croissants, Pain au Chocolat, muffins, Pancakes, fruit, yogurts etc without paying the 2 quid hot food supplement but did you really expect cooked breakfast to be gourmet for £2?
We stayed at the Premier Inn by Norwich airport as we regularly do when we spend weekends there and we always use the Brewers Fayre next to it for an all you can eat buffet breakfast. They can be very hit and miss but they’re ok for the price and fill you up. Better than Premier Inn breakfasts themselves. What you had in this video didn’t look very appetising or appealing whatsoever. The bacon is always underdone and hash browns soggy. This is a 2/10 for me whereas I normally give Brewers Fayre brekkies a 6 or 7/10 depending on the chef or establishment at the time. Great review mate cheers👍
The problem with these breakfasts are that they are batch cooked, then put under lights to dry out, so what do we expect, after all it doesn’t take minutes to cook fresh eggs and bacon under a hot grill. The best value in Brewers Fayre is the mid week value menu, two meals for £9.99, I have found the gammon and the Lasagna on that menu to be good value for money. This must be a life savour for those with a family who are struggling to make ends meet.
I've has breakfast from a brewers fayre in swindon during school holidays they have buffet style and all other times is cook to order I guess it depends on each different restaurant
Never have a breakfast where you have to plonk it on your own plate. Our closest PE uses Beefeater and they make it fresh based on what you order(same price as BF version too). In our experience we'd avoid BF for that reason.
Been to the Premier Inn/Beefeater at Chessington World of Adventures, Brixham and Solihull and Breakfast has been fantastic. Had pastries, cereal, yoghurt, fruit and toast while waiting for them to bring the breakfast cooked to order. Food has always been really good. If you have kids along too eating free you have to be mad to complain at £9.50 each! Family of four eat for less than a fiver each! Sólihull last week also had a choice of the traditional catering conveyor belt toaster or a pop up one, no queue for either, the only queue was for the coffee machine which was excellent as was the Tea which had about 10 different types to choose from (all the fruit and posh flavoured varieties 🤮 😂) but also good old PG Tips!!
We are back in Solihull in December but at the town center one where they have their own Premier Inn restaurant, will have to wait and see what that is like! Only other chain we have tried was the Travelodge in Bournemouth, we only used the restaurant because we couldn't be bothered going out and I have to say even though it was a buffet the food was bloody good there, £40 for the room and the breakfast extra but it was only about £6 each, bargain. We stayed in a top hotel for £150 a night (on a deal!) there a few weeks earlier along the seafront and both the evening meal and breakfast were disgusting, the evening food made me throw up!
You’ve complained in the past about how you like your eggs done but haven’t told the restaurant. In GR terms unless you tell them they won’t know - one of your poorest blog’s. Wait till it’s all hot but don’t sit there telling one sasauge is colder than the other. Those toaster machines are everywhere and I’ve never had a problem with them. It’s a brewers Fayre, £7 should have been more realistic
Breakfasts in Premier Inn are supposed to be the same and same quality, whether in Premier Inn, Table to Table or Brewers Fayre as they are all Whitbread and they just change the branding.
Stayed at many premier inns/Travelodge, and that's the srandard fare ,only time had something different was in the premier inn Melton mowbury they cooked it to order.
Brewers Fayre and Premier Inn are both owned by the same company (Whitbread) so the food supplier would be the same regardless? I had a Premier Inn breakfast recently and it looked identical to yours. Thought it was decent too! The sausages were my favourite.
A buffet style breakfast will never compete with freshly cooked. As for the price, you’re a captive audience if you’ve stayed at the hotel so they’ll always take advantage of that. Can’t imagine it was bad enough that you didn’t eat it though 🤷♂️
In 2015 I was on a bus tour in England of historic Catholic sites with a group. Hotel buffets with the elements of a full English breakfast were usual. They were… adequate. Usually, and generally better than what you were faced with here, possibly because the lodgings were fairly posh. I avoided things like beans (almost unheard of here in the USA at breakfast) but had some black pudding and kippers and some other things I like. Most sausages, breakfast or other, I’ve had in England, contain lots of bread, called “rusk”: an adulterant almost unknown here (extra fat, water, or soy grits are usual). Sausage rolls I bought at supermarkets were especially bizarre, with bread both surrounding the sausage and incorporated in it.
With buffet I’m simply less fussy !! You serve yourself unlimited and you eat what you want, much better if you’re in a hurry. 8/10 for my experience of them not yours mate ! In fairness your standards are higher as a travelling RUclips content provider so no worries!
I find the ones in the premierrinns much better than when in pub next door. Good breakfast over weekend in Scarborough North but recent Brewers Fayre poor
I don't recall ever having been to a Brewers Fayre pub, and this breakfast doesn't make me want to particularly visit one. Buffet breakfasts are very often not too good especially for bacon being left to dry out making it tough, and the hash browns here were dry also. I had hopes for the sausages because they weren't catering one's, but I'll take your word for those , Lee. Personally, the egg was ok for me, as I like eggs done like that, but they did look really small eggs. Re: the black pudding, I don't know why it took so long as it is an already cooked product and just needs warming up briefly by frying or even 10 or 20 seconds in a microwave. Also, I prefer tinned tomatoes. The plates were quite small too I thought. So, no, not for me, cold or lukewarm stuff puts me off. I'd score this a 3/10, not the best.
Depends on the chain restaurant attached to the Premier Inn. We have had beautiful breakfasts in Table Table Restaurants. The one in Bridgend South Wales deseves a mention. There is a new Cookhouse and Pub in the new Premier Inn, Blackpool North Beach. The Bar and Block is a nice breakfast in the Birmingham Waterloo Street Premier Inn and at Kings Cross. Some are cooked to order which is always nicer.
Lee , the next time you go to Scotland try a beefeater breakfast at Stirling " next to the premier Inn near the train station (forthside way) " beautiful .
Schoolboy error Lee on the toast machine. You correctly stated what a nightmare they are. Always need to send them round twice. Do your toast first then get the breakfast to prevent it being cold when you eat it.
Unless there has been improvement in the last five years, the Hotel Ibis, off the Garstang Road, Preston (part of the Accor Group and just off the M55) had the WORST BREAKFAST ----- IN THE WORLD!! (Apologies for infringing copyright. 😂😂) I was having Christmas with my brother who was living in nearby Broughton at the time, but didn't have enough room. He booked me in and I took a ten minute walk back to the 'hotel'. The room was just OK, but I can still remember the dirty tables, stale bread, milk that had gone off, tomatoes stuck to the tureen, joke rubber eggs and mushrooms that nearly made me vomit. They had been in the tureen since the previous day and rewarmed - a thick, black, glutinous mess. I buggered off hungry and found a cafe. Perhaps you might try this horrendous place sometime - it might have improved. 😊
We stayed at the Premier Inn in Newark where you order at the table, but that was even worse than self serve. The poached eggs were solid and only got two mushrooms and two small sausages. I paid for a full English and ended up with a continental breakfast instead, not worth the money. The next morning we went to mcdonalds across the car park for breakfast and enjoyed more.
That breakfast looks nice compared to the one I had in a Premier inn/Beefeater in July. sausage barely cooked that squirted fat when I stabbed it, scrambled egg that you cut a slice off and was all dry on top, slimy mushrooms, only good things were the coffee and croissant, and the welcome was even worse.
Think you're being a bit unfair to be honest.. The egg was perfect for me.. And if its all you can eat especially paying nearly a tenner I would have had double what you had.. To be honest unless you are in an establishment cooking breakfast to order and freshly cooked you will struggle to get a pippin hot plate of food.. Basically it's open to the air and people lift lids etc etc so you have to bare that in mind.. Also items do disappear from time to time but you have to look at it from a business point of view.. If everything was piled high all the time then a lot will be wasted at the end of the sitting.
Roller Coaster toast not my favourite but at least it's warm or should be if everything arrived on time. Very disorganised when so busy. Last Premier Inn I went to was at South Queensferry in the middle of nowhere. The Brewer's Fayre was closed due to ovens broken! Good old B and B far better and keeping money local. Great review as always 👍
Hi there what a good video keep up the good work do love watching your videos and I do agree with everything you said in this review keep up the good work I’m almost at work
Hiya Lee...just watched your latest Premier Inn Breakfast..and I was disappointed with the place...hardly any food the cerial containers empty..not good..we will be having ours at Beefeater so hopefuly it will be good there...over here we go to the Atrium for all you can eat Breakfast which to me is top notch..maybe give it a go when you are over here..:)
as official organiser of the Union of Full English Breakfasts can I say that breakfast does an injustice to my full English members. That was a travesty of the example and we stand prepared to withdraw our labour and remain in the fridge uncooked if employers continue to accept and use cheap undercutting ingredients warming them up and passing them off as a full English. We believe we have the support of our colleagues in Cornflakes Amalgamated and the National Institute of Toast - be warned we will bring breakfast in this country to a halt until quality issues are properly addressed. Solidarity with all who enjoy a full English.
I had that same breakfast over 16 years ago... Brewer's Fayre linked to some shit chain hotel, can not remember where... The sausage was nice but small and there was only the one left... Barely anything left because I woke up 6 minutes before they cleared up... Rest of it was shit too exactly how you described. The beans were like some thick orange soup... Still, that was a better breakfast than the one in Amsterdam at a B and B where the options were a ham and cheese sandwich or cereal... The milk was dispensed thick via a mayo like plunger system....
Stayed at many Premier Inn and eaten at attached restuarants like Brewers Fayre, all owned by Whitbread. The dinner/breakfast meal deal is worth it. The breakfasts have not changed since my last trip to UK from OZ in 2018. Breakfast is so so. Price ok for what is available. Coffee looked like hot milk, lol. Dirty sticky tables. Yes too many walk ins, should just take bookings to ensure adequate food items. Yours was not the best, 4 from me.
It’s an all you can eat breakfast, being deluded if you’re expecting 5 star food. Absolutely nothing wrong with the food for what it’s designed for
Well, it certainly didn't look 'designed' to be eaten. I would be mortified to serve that to anyone for any price.
At 9.50 it looked shocking. Avoid these buffets like the plague.
better having a liquid breakfast
I've had a buffet breakfast lots of times and each one has been better than that. It was like Piggy swill
But why wasn't any bangers or black pudding ready
Ridden with bacteria are buffets.
Who the hell gets a breakfast and leaves it sitting for 10 minutes whilst waiting for more sausages. Surely just wait till what you want for your breakfast is available on the hot buffet. Grab a drink whilst waiting. Eaten at plenty of these places and once again if you ask them to crisp up your bacon or get your sausages well done they do. Poor vlog.
Also left the lid off the fresh sausages to cool them down 😆 🤣
As per a previous comment, Premier Inn are owned by Whitbread, who also own Brewer's Fayre, Beefeater, Table Table, plus Bar+Block, Cookhouse+Pub and Thyme.
So they will all source the same breakfast raw items but the breakfast quality will vary at each venue depending on the kitchen team cooking it.
It's like say having a mix grill at Brewer's Fayre, one place could be good but a different venue using same meat could be rubbish...
In addition, not all venues next to the Premier Inn offer the self service hot buffet. The hot selection is all you can eat, but some places, e.g. Brewers Fayre in Barry Island (Gavin & Stacy) you order the hot breakfast at your table and it is then brought out to you within 10 minutes. So if you want seconds, then you order again from your table.
Wow I thought this would score highly, I’ve never had a bad breakfast at one of those chains as they have good quality sausages and bacon and you can ask them for eggs to be done to your liking. I will always accept your judgement Lee but can you give them another chance at a different location?
Lee Brewers Fayre and Premier inn are both owned by the same company whitebread thats why you always see them together so it is just the same food.
whitebread own premier in and all the restaurant chains at their hotels: brewers fayre, thyme, beefeater, table table etc so it would be the same breakfast as in the main hotel
So glad you went into Brewers Fayre INCOGNITO - well apart from wearing a Mac Master jacket !!!!!
The last one I had was brilliant as I told them I wanted a plate of sausage and bacon and toast " the night before " and was perfect to set us on our way.
GBP 9,50 for all you can eat is a good deal. go for 5 eggs, 4 sausages, alot of bacon and some yoghurt....good for bfast and lunch....
I had a full English breakfast booked at a premier inn last month and went to a brewers fayre attached to it and it was awsome. All the food hot and plentiful. My family really enjoyed it.
I think he just had a bad one tbh but he can only judge on what he finds, shame really because I’ve always recommended them
To be fair I reviewed their fish and chips the other week and they were pretty good.
I truly think that anywhere you can eat “as much as you like” for under a tenner cannot be scoffed at. I mean it wasn’t the best but it most certainly was not the worst I’ve ever seen.
Sometimes it does what it says on the tin!! It fills up the stomach and you can have a double helping if you so desire. I would have personally “plated up again” so the food was piping hot. That may well have made the experience a better one.
It’s not often you leave anything on the plate!! I felt from the onset that you weren’t feeling it to begin with and it proved to be so.
I feel your mark was harsh but then again I wasn’t eating it!! However considering everything I still give it a 5/10.
x.
Great video as usual, Lee. That looked awful and a chefs finger for a sausage. I would just point out that Premier Inn, Brewers Faye, Beefeater, Bar and Block, Table Table, Thyme and Cookhouse Pub are all brands owned by Whitbread Group plc which is why you’ll always see one of these pub / restaurant brands adjacent to a Premier Inn. Don’t expect much better from any of them. Keep up the good work.
In the US the motels and hotels throw in the breakfast buffet in the cost of your room. People don't expect it to be quality and actually look at it as a nice bonus because they don't have to go somewhere else and buy breakfast.
Why wait for the other sausages to turn up? No wonder it was cold, you could just eat what was there and collect the sausages later! I love the way you have to make detailed notes about food you've just eaten!!! Stomach ache from food doesn't come on that quickly!! 😅😍
The new sausages were cold too.
I travel extensively and feared for your tum when you said you were going to give this a go. I hope you’re feeling ok🤪
Now #Onwards to a better eating experience😉 x
Both Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre along with Beefeater and Table Table are all part of the Whitbread Group, so you will find if there's one next to the other they will use the food outlet for breakfast, most newer developments are paired like this.
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Hi Lee, although the breakfast wasn't the best or anywhere near, I'm sure it was still edible. It seemed an appalling shame that all that food went to waste when throughout the world and increasingly in Britain there are many people going hungry.
Love it when you said “don’t leave me 😂..You’ve got great charisma Lee..like I always tell you..best food blogger on RUclips.
I stay in Premier Inns and Travelodges with work I find the full breakfast to be all the same horrendous I usually get mine at 6:30 when it’s just been cooked and I still can’t eat it so just go for the continental breakfast which is such a shame when my company has paid for breakfast and I have toast and cereal fantastic video as always keep them coming Lee
Totally agree, I do the same
If you get breakfast around 6.30 sean theres a pretty good chance it was cooked before 6 oclock,premier inns usually have one breakfast chef on duty at a time,so there will be one bloke trying to cook enough food for maybe 100 plus guests.
Surely a new hot fresh plate full would have been the way to go if that was cold??
I know what you mean about those toasters they’re never set right. They always catch fire when I use them lol. Toast comes out white 1st time put it in again and the toast catches fire lol.
Have to say as I find, I stayed at premier Inn Newcastle under Lyme for 3 months with work. I used brewer's fayre a few times and would give it an easy 8.5. It's down to the management and the chef so they will probably all be different.
Hi Lee I totally agree with your analysis of Brewers Fare. We came back in April to the UK from France after covid. Our daughter lives in Southend and we stayed at the Premier Inn Southend Airport. We had a meal the evening before we left for home and were appalled. We complained and got our money back. Needless to say we skipped breakfast . We will never go back. Thanks for the comprehensive review. We gave ours 1 out of 10 only because we got our money back. The couple on the next table did the same😒
Not sure what you expect at these places,best to find a nearby cafe where you can order what you like and how you like it cooked.
Always look forward to my Premier inn breakfast, but i would never go to a Premier Inn that has a Brewers Fayre attached, never good food. There are now quite a few Premier Inns that have there own restaurants now, no complaints at all.
Mr Mac, I won't go into the art of how to choose the items to get a hot fresh breakfast at Premier inn, but price wise it is about £3 for the food. If you were in a cafe, you would pay £1 for the toast butter and jam, £1.50 for the juice, and £3 for the latte. Not forgetting the Croissant, Pain au Chocolat, Pancakes, Crumpets, fresh fruit, Yogurt, cereals etc. When you look at it that way, it is great value.
If it was me, i would of stocked up on the other cold items!
I have to say I had a breakfast at a Premier Inn in London today and it was delicious, top marks to Premier Inn in Canning Town.
The ones attached to the beefeater pubs are the best 👌
Mac... get yourself down to west Wales.. Tenby you'll love it
It’s the same company (whitbread) if you don’t have a whitbread brand restaurant/pub attached it’ll usually be Thyme food place to provide breakfast and basics.
These as much as you can eat places are only worth while if its that good you go back for seconds or even thirds !!! Another honest review Lee
Shame it’s so badly run but I liked the white and brown toast like Mark on Peep Show,brown to start and white for dessert
Although nice in a way for all you can eat but everyone can only eat soooo much, you can’t beat the proper greasy spoon in an industrial estate!!
I should of added - take a plastic and stock up on pastrys for your onward journey whilst your car charges up!
If you had a couple of hungry kids with you a tenner looks Great value mate you should have chucked the old stuff and gone for a fresh plate mate.
Down in Devon in our caravan watching video eating our breakfast..bacon sandwich .bacon 75 p Asda bread 38p Asda.. toast and marmalade.32p and left over brown sauce from spoons. And nice cup of tea 80 bags 58 p Tesco. All cooked fresh and excellent.😀👍
Premier Inn is part of the Whitbread group and includes restaurants and pubs, BrewersFayer is part of the Mitchells and Butlers, restaurant and pubs group and includes a hotel chain.
thanks mate for another great video from the hungry Aussie
when I stayed in a Premier Inn and had a breakfast in the BF I had to book a time slot when I went in they took my order for the cooked breakfast which took 10 minutes to arrive all very good indeed
If I'm ever confronted with an all-you-can-eat hotel breakfast I just fill my face with cereal and toast and then fill my pockets with danish pastries and muffins for lunch.
I have found that the best way to make sure your toast is not 'stolen' is to take a bite out of it before you put it in.
Just got back from the Clayton green in Chaderton manchester.. ordered a jacket spud with chillie.. it was awfull. Left the plate after 3 falk fuls.. never again! And that's brewers fair for you!
Hey Lee! Oh dear! I always think it depends on which premier inn you go to. As some you serve yourself buffet style and others bring food to you. Brewers Fayre yes are serve yourself basis. I can say I have been put off a bit by the pubs who bring breakfast to you. Only reason last couple of times I’ve found egg shell on the eggs which makes me absolutely heave 🤮🤮so I prefer the one you weee in. Yes sticky tables really are a big problem and I have been to ones that have food on the carpet aswell. I wholeheartedly agree about the toaster! You feel under pressure to burry up as others want to use it. Certainly don’t get your moneys worth as it’s hardly edible that. Terrible
Take care 😘👍🏻
😄The fried egg. 🍳 It nearly ran off your plate to rejoin the barley warm sausages.
Toast looks the best part of the breakfast.
You can't beat a local cafe for a breakfast, and it would have been cheaper and better quality. (side note though, whenever I watch one of your breakfast reviews I want one) that one didn't inspire me to go. But on Monday I'll be off to my favourite breakfast places and treat myself to one of the best in my local town.
In the immortal words of George Harrison in the film "Hard Day's Night": "That was dead grotty."
Premier Inn do the same deal with Beefeater who don't do buffet but fresh food cooked to order, the food is miles better and eggs cooked to order. You could of paid 7.50 for as much as you can eat AND drink continental which is still a good deal. You could of had had a choice of Cereal, Croissants, Pain au Chocolat, muffins, Pancakes, fruit, yogurts etc without paying the 2 quid hot food supplement but did you really expect cooked breakfast to be gourmet for £2?
We stayed at the Premier Inn by Norwich airport as we regularly do when we spend weekends there and we always use the Brewers Fayre next to it for an all you can eat buffet breakfast. They can be very hit and miss but they’re ok for the price and fill you up. Better than Premier Inn breakfasts themselves. What you had in this video didn’t look very appetising or appealing whatsoever. The bacon is always underdone and hash browns soggy. This is a 2/10 for me whereas I normally give Brewers Fayre brekkies a 6 or 7/10 depending on the chef or establishment at the time. Great review mate cheers👍
The problem with these breakfasts are that they are batch cooked, then put under lights to dry out, so what do we expect, after all it doesn’t take minutes to cook fresh eggs and bacon under a hot grill. The best value in Brewers Fayre is the mid week value menu, two meals for £9.99, I have found the gammon and the Lasagna on that menu to be good value for money. This must be a life savour for those with a family who are struggling to make ends meet.
Bit like " Little Chef" back in the day 😆😆
😄 🤣 so true 👍
Is the breakfast called "a wet bottom special " 😂😂 rather you than me. Great, entertaining vlog again 🎉
I've has breakfast from a brewers fayre in swindon during school holidays they have buffet style and all other times is cook to order I guess it depends on each different restaurant
Going undercover with a Mac master jacket on
I would imagine the orange juice will have given you trots... Fresh orange first thing on an empty stomach = ploppy ploppy 🤣🤣🤣
Never have a breakfast where you have to plonk it on your own plate. Our closest PE uses Beefeater and they make it fresh based on what you order(same price as BF version too). In our experience we'd avoid BF for that reason.
You should add Beefeater in your mix. £9.50 for all you can eat. I rate it the best of this kind of breakfast. Worth a try. 👍
Been to the Premier Inn/Beefeater at Chessington World of Adventures, Brixham and Solihull and Breakfast has been fantastic. Had pastries, cereal, yoghurt, fruit and toast while waiting for them to bring the breakfast cooked to order. Food has always been really good. If you have kids along too eating free you have to be mad to complain at £9.50 each! Family of four eat for less than a fiver each! Sólihull last week also had a choice of the traditional catering conveyor belt toaster or a pop up one, no queue for either, the only queue was for the coffee machine which was excellent as was the Tea which had about 10 different types to choose from (all the fruit and posh flavoured varieties 🤮 😂) but also good old PG Tips!!
We are back in Solihull in December but at the town center one where they have their own Premier Inn restaurant, will have to wait and see what that is like! Only other chain we have tried was the Travelodge in Bournemouth, we only used the restaurant because we couldn't be bothered going out and I have to say even though it was a buffet the food was bloody good there, £40 for the room and the breakfast extra but it was only about £6 each, bargain. We stayed in a top hotel for £150 a night (on a deal!) there a few weeks earlier along the seafront and both the evening meal and breakfast were disgusting, the evening food made me throw up!
Didn’t quite look like the photos on the menu, did it? 😂
You’ve complained in the past about how you like your eggs done but haven’t told the restaurant. In GR terms unless you tell them they won’t know - one of your poorest blog’s. Wait till it’s all hot but don’t sit there telling one sasauge is colder than the other. Those toaster machines are everywhere and I’ve never had a problem with them.
It’s a brewers Fayre, £7 should have been more realistic
I never thought a Greek American would be so intrigued by repetitive low grade English breakfasts.
Think you are being picky on this occasion. It's standard gear for when you need something to eat on the go. Egg looked ok to me.
Disagree it looked vile, for £9.50 come on.
I don't think that is the worst breakfast you have had remember New Years Day and Bills in Leeds with the rubber Egg lol.
Lol oh yeah. 🤮
@@TheMacMaster i often watch that one back lol.
Breakfasts in Premier Inn are supposed to be the same and same quality, whether in Premier Inn, Table to Table or Brewers Fayre as they are all Whitbread and they just change the branding.
Stayed at many premier inns/Travelodge, and that's the srandard fare ,only time had something different was in the premier inn Melton mowbury they cooked it to order.
Brewers Fayre and Premier Inn are both owned by the same company (Whitbread) so the food supplier would be the same regardless? I had a Premier Inn breakfast recently and it looked identical to yours. Thought it was decent too! The sausages were my favourite.
A buffet style breakfast will never compete with freshly cooked. As for the price, you’re a captive audience if you’ve stayed at the hotel so they’ll always take advantage of that. Can’t imagine it was bad enough that you didn’t eat it though 🤷♂️
In 2015 I was on a bus tour in England of historic Catholic sites with a group. Hotel buffets with the elements of a full English breakfast were usual. They were… adequate. Usually, and generally better than what you were faced with here, possibly because the lodgings were fairly posh. I avoided things like beans (almost unheard of here in the USA at breakfast) but had some black pudding and kippers and some other things I like. Most sausages, breakfast or other, I’ve had in England, contain lots of bread, called “rusk”: an adulterant almost unknown here (extra fat, water, or soy grits are usual). Sausage rolls I bought at supermarkets were especially bizarre, with bread both surrounding the sausage and incorporated in it.
That’s not bread around the sausage roll it’s pastry.
With buffet I’m simply less fussy !! You serve yourself unlimited and you eat what you want, much better if you’re in a hurry. 8/10 for my experience of them not yours mate ! In fairness your standards are higher as a travelling RUclips content provider so no worries!
Love the content mate, but you said the hasbrowns were dried up but soggy at the same time just a little confused
Hard in places Mushy and greasy.
I find the ones in the premierrinns much better than when in pub next door. Good breakfast over weekend in Scarborough North but recent Brewers Fayre poor
I don't recall ever having been to a Brewers Fayre pub, and this breakfast doesn't make me want to particularly visit one. Buffet breakfasts are very often not too good especially for bacon being left to dry out making it tough, and the hash browns here were dry also. I had hopes for the sausages because they weren't catering one's, but I'll take your word for those , Lee. Personally, the egg was ok for me, as I like eggs done like that, but they did look really small eggs. Re: the black pudding, I don't know why it took so long as it is an already cooked product and just needs warming up briefly by frying or even 10 or 20 seconds in a microwave. Also, I prefer tinned tomatoes. The plates were quite small too I thought. So, no, not for me, cold or lukewarm stuff puts me off. I'd score this a 3/10, not the best.
Depends on the chain restaurant attached to the Premier Inn. We have had beautiful breakfasts in Table Table Restaurants. The one in Bridgend South Wales deseves a mention. There is a new Cookhouse and Pub in the new Premier Inn, Blackpool North Beach. The Bar and Block is a nice breakfast in the Birmingham Waterloo Street Premier Inn and at Kings Cross. Some are cooked to order which is always nicer.
Lee , the next time you go to Scotland try a beefeater breakfast at Stirling " next to the premier Inn near the train station (forthside way)
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Beefeater is another Whitbread brand.
Schoolboy error Lee on the toast machine. You correctly stated what a nightmare they are. Always need to send them round twice. Do your toast first then get the breakfast to prevent it being cold when you eat it.
Unless there has been improvement in the last five years, the Hotel Ibis, off the Garstang Road, Preston (part of the Accor Group and just off the M55) had the WORST BREAKFAST ----- IN THE WORLD!! (Apologies for infringing copyright. 😂😂)
I was having Christmas with my brother who was living in nearby Broughton at the time, but didn't have enough room. He booked me in and I took a ten minute walk back to the 'hotel'.
The room was just OK, but I can still remember the dirty tables, stale bread, milk that had gone off, tomatoes stuck to the tureen, joke rubber eggs and mushrooms that nearly made me vomit. They had been in the tureen since the previous day and rewarmed - a thick, black, glutinous mess.
I buggered off hungry and found a cafe.
Perhaps you might try this horrendous place sometime - it might have improved. 😊
Breakfast didn't look that bad for the price but Table Table are better. Never had a bad brekkie with them at Premier Inn.
Should have called it an "If you can eat it breakfast".🥁
Well its help for the pub helps out the hotel but its just a basic feed ,some would be grateful for.🇦🇺😁 2 out 10 at least there's hot food .
Whitbread owns premier inn and Brewers Fayre, Mac
We stayed at the Premier Inn in Newark where you order at the table, but that was even worse than self serve. The poached eggs were solid and only got two mushrooms and two small sausages. I paid for a full English and ended up with a continental breakfast instead, not worth the money. The next morning we went to mcdonalds across the car park for breakfast and enjoyed more.
Quick Tip Lee, when waiting for your toast, put your brekkie on top of the toaster to keep it warm.
Sadly a sign of the times, 😊😎👍
I recommend Henley’s fish and chip shop Wivenhoe Essex . He’s won awards and all sorts
That breakfast looks nice compared to the one I had in a Premier inn/Beefeater in July. sausage barely cooked that squirted fat when I stabbed it, scrambled egg that you cut a slice off and was all dry on top, slimy mushrooms, only good things were the coffee and croissant, and the welcome was even worse.
Think you're being a bit unfair to be honest.. The egg was perfect for me.. And if its all you can eat especially paying nearly a tenner I would have had double what you had.. To be honest unless you are in an establishment cooking breakfast to order and freshly cooked you will struggle to get a pippin hot plate of food.. Basically it's open to the air and people lift lids etc etc so you have to bare that in mind.. Also items do disappear from time to time but you have to look at it from a business point of view.. If everything was piled high all the time then a lot will be wasted at the end of the sitting.
It's crap food and not worth a tenner.
Tbf it’s under a tenner and as much as you want,it’s cracking value for money.
It’s the same company that owns premier inn, beefeater, brewers fair, table table and I think one more all under one company.
Think harvester are in that food chain too
Roller Coaster toast not my favourite but at least it's warm or should be if everything arrived on time. Very disorganised when so busy. Last Premier Inn I went to was at South Queensferry in the middle of nowhere. The Brewer's Fayre was closed due to ovens broken! Good old B and B far better and keeping money local. Great review as always 👍
Looking good doesn't always mean that it is good. Still a little jealous I think I'll be be fixing some breakfast now.
BRILLIANT 👏 THANKS LEE 👍
Hi there what a good video keep up the good work do love watching your videos and I do agree with everything you said in this review keep up the good work I’m almost at work
I have used my local Brewers Fayre on several occasions and it's been okay. It's like Spoons some are better than others.
Hiya Lee...just watched your latest Premier Inn Breakfast..and I was disappointed with the place...hardly any food the cerial containers empty..not good..we will be having ours at Beefeater so hopefuly it will be good there...over here we go to the Atrium for all you can eat Breakfast which to me is top notch..maybe give it a go when you are over here..:)
There are so many great places to eat in Cardiff, Lee. You must come back and do another vlog of our great city!
as official organiser of the Union of Full English Breakfasts can I say that breakfast does an injustice to my full English members. That was a travesty of the example and we stand prepared to withdraw our labour and remain in the fridge uncooked if employers continue to accept and use cheap undercutting ingredients warming them up and passing them off as a full English. We believe we have the support of our colleagues in Cornflakes Amalgamated and the National Institute of Toast - be warned we will bring breakfast in this country to a halt until quality issues are properly addressed. Solidarity with all who enjoy a full English.
Now I understand all the RMT strikes. It's Real Men's Tea!! 😊
Yeh I've had the same problem with Brewers fayre earlier this year in Minehead. Luckily they were short staffed a day sneaked out without paying.🤣
good video
I had that same breakfast over 16 years ago... Brewer's Fayre linked to some shit chain hotel, can not remember where... The sausage was nice but small and there was only the one left... Barely anything left because I woke up 6 minutes before they cleared up... Rest of it was shit too exactly how you described. The beans were like some thick orange soup...
Still, that was a better breakfast than the one in Amsterdam at a B and B where the options were a ham and cheese sandwich or cereal... The milk was dispensed thick via a mayo like plunger system....
Sadly thatsthe issue with the buffet style breakfast food under the lamps forever not for me that style of breakfast 4/10 and thats generous
Stayed at many Premier Inn and eaten at attached restuarants like Brewers Fayre, all owned by Whitbread. The dinner/breakfast meal deal is worth it. The breakfasts have not changed since my last trip to UK from OZ in 2018. Breakfast is so so. Price ok for what is available. Coffee looked like hot milk, lol. Dirty sticky tables. Yes too many walk ins, should just take bookings to ensure adequate food items. Yours was not the best, 4 from me.