# Quick! Can I get a full breakfast fry-up at Heathrow? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 20, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696 "2008-10-20T02:40:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ntcrawler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@ntcrawler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ntcrawler)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/1 "2008-10-20T02:40:51Z")
Greetings, Dopers! Next Saturday I’m flying over to the old continent and will make a BRIEF stopover at Heathrow (unfortunately not long enough to hit the city). I was wondering about the food courts there: does anyone serve a Fry Up, aka a full breakfast? You know, spam, eggs, sausage, spam, beans, white and black pudding spam spam spam? ---
**Author:** ![vintageloveletter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vintageloveletter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vintageloveletter)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/2 "2008-10-20T02:55:10Z")
There are several cafes, but I don’t remember any of them serving a full English breakfast. YMMV depending on terminal. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/3 "2008-10-20T02:56:26Z")
IIRC there are about a dozen JD Wetherspoon chains within Heathrow, so while it might not be particularly _great_, you definitely should be able to get your breakfast for cheap. Bonus, if I further recall, all pubs in that chain (at least in London?) have free WiFi. 'scuse me, I’m off to wish I back in London… ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/4 "2008-10-20T03:00:10Z")
This [link](http://www.heathrowairport.com/portal/site/heathrow/template.PAGE/menuitem.db266045e5632a72f4b12871120103a0/?javax.portlet.tpst=a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_shoplocation=All&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_search=true&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_pager.offset=0&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_terminal=Heathrow&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_shoptype=Restaurant&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_SAVE_SUCCESS=true&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_category=14&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_form.validation.flag=true&javax.portlet.prp_a1877ef0540245720f92c310aca12635_shop=&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken) might do the trick. A small amount of research led me to believe that Garfunkel’s or Wetherspoons might be your best bet, but apparently many others, including Brasserie Chez Gerrard, have one, albeit under various names, such as L’Anglais, in the latter case. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/5 "2008-10-20T04:57:50Z")
> [@ntcrawler](#): > > Greetings, Dopers! > > Next Saturday I’m flying over to the old continent and will make a BRIEF stopover at Heathrow (unfortunately not long enough to hit the city). I was wondering about the food courts there: does anyone serve a Fry Up, aka a full breakfast? You know, spam, eggs, sausage, spam, beans, white and black pudding spam spam spam? Indeed you can. The regular cafe has a reasonable fry up (with black pudding). ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/6 "2008-10-20T15:19:17Z")
The Wetherspoons in departures does the least-bad fryup of the lot I used to find. Be warned, you’re unlikely to get a “good” fry up anywhere in the airport - local delicacies may change the world over, but airport food is still airport food. ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/7 "2008-10-20T17:23:26Z")
> [@garius](#): > > The Wetherspoons in departures does the least-bad fryup of the lot I used to find. > > Be warned, you’re unlikely to get a “good” fry up anywhere in the airport - local delicacies may change the world over, but airport food is still airport food. Unless you eat [here](http://www.gordonramsay.com/planefood/menus/breakfast/). 🙂 Although it costs £16.50 and is lacking black pudding, and you need to be airside in terminal 5. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/8 "2008-10-20T17:24:25Z")
> [@ntcrawler](#): > > …spam, eggs, sausage, spam, beans, white and black pudding spam spam spam… If Heathrow is like American airports, there will be some fast-food counter offering to sell you all of the above, slathered with Chipotle Chutney and rolled into a sun-dried tomato wrap. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-can-i-get-a-full-breakfast-fry-up-at-heathrow/468696/9 "2008-10-20T17:31:48Z")
There are [Geronimo Inns](http://www.geronimo-inns.co.uk/finder.html) in Terminals 1, 3, and 5. When I was at Terminal 1 early on Sunday morning, a depressed looking Japanese man was sat at the next table gloomily picking at a ‘Breakfast Sandwich’ which consisted of white bread and a chunk of ‘artisan’ (aka gussied up supermarket) ham. Maybe their full breakfasts are better.