Good brunch places are strangely not easy to find in London which is a place which has so many restaurants that you could eat out every day and every meal for a year and still you wouldn’t have been to every restaurant. Every time it comes to finding a brunch venue I’m on google looking for something – you’d think I’d know the places to go after over six years here!

Automat, recommended to me by my brother, is an American Brasserie in Mayfair. I was expecting it to be quite posh – instead it seemed quite down to earth with lots of little separate areas for dining. The front area, with the warm brown wooden panels was packed, but the rear area, more light and area was relatively unoccupied though by the time Laney and I finished with our meal it was nearly full.

Actually, today’s meal was less brunch and more linner (we ended up eating at 2pm!) but the concept still holds since the brunch menu at Automat applies 10-4 on weekends. Yum! Laney and I were looking for a big meal as we were heading off to the Mercedes World concert later that afternoon and as we were not really expecting to have any dinner we wanted to make sure the meal was substantial.

Laney’s meal was a gorgeous Eggs Benedict with a side of Home Fries which were simply delicious and I couldn’t resist the Mac and Cheese with Bacon AND spinach. I went large and large it certainly was! I could barely get to the end of it though taste-wise I would have happily eaten it all day – American comfort food at its best.

If there is one downer at Automat it is that prices are a touch on the high side. Guess they have to pay their rent somehow 🙂