The Egg Cafe @ Norwich Arts Centre
If music be the food of love, play on.
It's a quiet morning at Outline HQ. June's edition has just been sent off to the printers and we've worked our rocks off, so it's down to Norwich Arts Centre we go to sample The Egg Cafe. It's a first for Norfolk & Norwich Festival this year - cooked breakfasts served in the bar by the rambunctious staff at a very reasonable price, with a few added entertainments. The place is decked out with gingham tablecloths, kitsch knick-knacks and plastic flowers - classic cafe elements indeed. A stroke of luck seats me right next to the portable record player, and I rifle happily through the charity shop finds until the strains of Joplin's The Sting soundtrack fills the room. It was just that little bit too early for Shakin' Stevens and Barry Manilow. The menu includes classic fry ups, muesli, crumpets, pain au chocolat, stuff on toast and the mysterious Tray of Delights, and they're all made fresh to order. Quality-wise, you'd struggle to find a more delicious breakfast in Norwich, although I'm no Fry Up Inspector.
Almost as soon as we arrived local opera singer Emma Nuule (who you may have heard busking outside Jarrolds) revs up her early morning vocal chords and lets fly. Her absolutely stunning voice soars around our teacups and sausages, giving an air of class to our delicious brekkies. We are rapt. After her short performance we return to chatting with some well known Norwich folk who also happened to be there, including William Galinsky, the director of Norfolk & Norwich Festival, enjoying our well tasty breakfasts and tea from vintage teapots. There was a relaxed vibe and the many diners seemed delighted to be eating breakfast in the Arts Centre bar, of all places, on a Friday morning.
There's just one more opportunity to sample the Egg Cafe, tomorrow morning, so best get there early to sample their eggcellent wares.
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