Where to eat porridge in London

Healthy and filling: porridge with fruit

Galvin Café de Luxe, 35 Spital Square, E1 (020 7299 0400, www.galvinrestaurants.com)

The Café element of the Galvin brothers' new Spitalfields venture offers an agreeable breakfast menu, including good coffee and porridge served with banana and honey (£3.50). Available 8am-11.30am.

More, 104 Tooley Street, SE1 (020 7403 0635, www.moretooleystreet.com)

Reports coming in from Theodore Kyriakou's Tooley Street restaurant More confirm an impressive rise in porridge sales — sometimes there are as many as eight saucepans lined up on the stove. Served with fruit compote and cream (£3.30). Available 7.30am-12noon.

The Fountain Restaurant, Fortnum & Mason, Jermyn Street, W1 (0845 602 5694, www.fortnumandmason.com)

The Fountain Restaurant, on the corner of Jermyn Street and Duke Street, opens earlier than the main store and serves a proper English breakfast, everything from white pudding to kippers. Fortnum's porridge (£6) is served with brown sugar and whisky syrup. Available 7.30am-11am.
 
The Café Below, St Mary-le-Bow Church, Cheapside, EC2 (020 7329 0798, www.cafebelow.co.uk)

This café sets great store by provenance and freshness — try a sandwich with the excellent bacon from Gordon Tudge in Herefordshire. Toasted porridge with maple syrup is keenly priced at £2. Available 7.30am-11am.

Hung Tao, 51 Queensway, W2 (020 7229 6065, www.hungtao.co.uk)

If you feel that Scottish porridge is for wimps, try congee. This Chinese rice porridge is a breakfast dish reputed to be good for hangovers. At Hung Tao on Queensway, choose from nine options, ranging from "preserved egg and sliced pork congee" (£4.80) to "sliced fish with pork kidney congee" (£5.70). Either makes the tartan version seem tame. Available 11am-11pm.