For £16.95, hungry money men can eat two eggs, bacon, two sausages, minute steak, lamb kidney, calves' liver, black and white pudding, tomato, mushroom, beans, fried bread and "a pint of stout to finish".
And the posh Turnberry hotel in Ayrshire even serves up haggis millefeuille, with candied tomatoes and black pudding mousse – which is a bit like dressing Robbie Coltrane in a tutu and Louboutins.
"If you come to the restaurant driving a Porsche and you run a hedge fund and all you want is steak, tomatoes and bread pudding, and you don't care where your food comes from," Mr. Barber said, and then let the sentence trail off.
During the week, you can find Memphis ribs, pulled pork, brisket, hush puppies, fried green tomatoes and banana pudding.
The menu features Irish oatmeal, scrambled eggs with breakfast sausage, Irish bacon, black and white pudding, grilled tomato and a big basket of rolls and pastry.
THE HALF KING (212 462-4300; 505 West 23rd Street, at 11th Avenue; $$ (Diner's Journal: 9/27/00) Don't even think about lunch after this traditional Irish breakfast of bacon, eggs, sausage, black and white pudding, mushrooms, tomato, beans and home fries ($11).
WHAT WE LIKE Stuffed grape leaves, yogurt sauce with cucumber, fava beans with lemon and olive oil, grilled pita stuffed with meat or cheese, fried zucchini patty with yogurt; grilled orata, lamb chops, stuffed cabbage, marinated grilled lamb, baked lamb, spinach with onions and tomato, sautéed vegetables with couscous; pudding roll, baked rice pudding, Turkish coffee.
A full English breakfast, which you might have encountered during a sojourn at the Connaught or Savoy, consists of nine elements: eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, black or white pudding, toast, baked beans and potatoes.
Dinner entrees include roast suckling pig with sour orange-garlic mojo, white rice, black beans and sweet plantains; and adobo-rubbed Argentine rib-eye steak with corn pudding, sliced tomatoes and oregano vinaigrette, sprinkled with cabrales cheese.
Dinner entrees include roast suckling pig, with sour orange-garlic mojo, white rice, black beans and sweet plantains; and adobo-rubbed Argentine rib eye steak, with corn pudding, sliced tomatoes, oregano vinaigrette, sprinkled with Cabrales cheese.
