When my friends from the states visited last summer, we had breakfast at Balan's Soho Society at their branch on Old Compton Street in Soho. It was a fleeting visit mid-week, and the street was very quiet compared to how it usually is. I had the French toast, which came with bananas and strawberries, and my friend had a savoury dish.
Mid-week is actually a great time to visit places because most people are at work and it is quieter. We had a nice catch-up over breakfast and got a window seat where we could watch the people passing by, including a really weird man who started to talk to our neighbouring table through the window and started gyrating. As he was acting very strange, I asked them if they know him, and they did not; he was a stranger to them. This is one of the things about London: there is often something unusual happening; at least it was comical.
This was my second visit to the Old Compon Street branch. I wasn't as impressed on this visit as I have been in the past with the French toast. The chain has gotten more popular since my first visit a few years ago, so perhaps them getting more popular has caused some problems in quality.
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