London's Best Bottomless Brunches

Drinking before noon is generally seen as ‘a bad thing’. But what if said boozing is done inside a fashionable London restaurant and accompanied by eggs, sourdough loaves and artisan coffee? In that case we call it a bottomless brunch and it’s entirely acceptable. 

In London, you’ll find bottomless bubbles and Bloody Mary's, obviously, but you can also go beyond the tried-and-tested and experiment with infinite beer or endless streams of rosé. The food doesn’t have to be straightforward breakfast stuff either. Brunch can be anything from bao to barbecue, Turkish to Japanese. What’s more, the majority of these bottomless brunches go on well into the pm, so you don’t need to get up early to get involved.

Flesh & Buns:

Price: £39 or £59 per person (depending on the menu you choose), including unlimited red or white wine, prosecco or lager. Sunday and bank holiday Monday, noon to 4pm (last seating). Two-hour time limit, groups of six maximum.

After a heavy Saturday night, what do hardcore caners do? They carry on the party somewhere where the sun don’t shine and where the rock music doesn’t spare their tender eardrums. The Flesh & Buns brunch is a no-brainer for postponing and minimizing your oncoming hangover, with a selection of chips, dips and edamame plus a choice of three small dishes per person (and a signature bao bun to boot) – plus as much hair of the dog as you can stomach (lager, prosecco, red or white wine) to ease the pain (for now). It’s not a traditional brunch menu by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s all tasty ballast.

Bourne & Hollingsworth:

Price: £37.

Bourne & Hollingsworth does bottomless brunch in its purest form. The venue? A light-drenched conservatory filled with ferns and palms. The menu? Two courses of simple breakfast food – smoothie bowls, pancakes, avo on toast, hash browns – alongside as many Bellinis and Bloody Marys as you can handle, plus hot drinks. It’s a formula that’s been copied across the city, but these lads do it properly.

Le Bab:

Price: £20 per person for unlimited prosecco. Sunday, 12-2pm, two-hour time limit. Maison Bab (their Covent Garden branch) also offers BB but includes unlimited beer in addition to prosecco, too.

Le Bab’s founders trained in Michelin-starred restaurants and their interpretation of the humble kebab is as classy as it gets. They come served open sandwich-style, the seasonal ingredients artfully arranged over a thin, house-made flatbread cooked on a wood and charcoal-fired robata. Go for the small plates, convivial staff and Soho-cool atmos.