Cafe culture alive and well on east Belfast’s trendy Belmont Road Binkys 20-22 Belmont Road, Belfast Tel: 028 9067 1474 Brioche French toast with bacon Roman poet Juvenal (bear with me) once wrote ‘give them bread and circuses and they will not revolt’. In Northern Ireland, bread is a staple, not just of breakfast but any meal really. But particularly at breakfast.

To adhere to this love affair with the simple loaf, we had three varieties of daily bread on our plates..