SWANSEA is the cooked breakfast capital of the UK, new research has revealed, with one in 10 of us tucking in to the grub on a daily basis.
Pipping Aberdeen and Leeds to the title, Swansea has come out top in a survey of 2,000 people plated up by Hilton Garden Inn hotels.
In fact, the survey even shows a cooked breakfast is the most popular "treat meal" across the UK, preferred more than traditional favourites like, Sunday roast, curry, and fish & chips.
The Post asked cafe and restaurant owners in the Swansea area why the city has such good breakfasts.
Home of The Mega Beast — a gastronomic giant — is the Uplands Diner.
This monster breakfast includes 10 rashers of bacon, five eggs, eight sausages, chips, two hash browns, bubble and squeak, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, two black pudding, four slices of toast, four slices of bread and butter, four slices of fried bread and one burger.
But, as Uplands Diner manager Lance Pardoe says, variety and flexibility is key when making a satisfying breakfast.
"It's very good news and it puts Swansea on the map yet again," he said, on the city's top spot.
Uplands Diner is not unfamiliar with acclaim having previously won the Britain's Great Breakfast and Britain's Best Builders' Breakfast awards.
"We cater for the person that is a light eater or someone that likes a big meal," Mr Pardoe added, alluding to the popularity of a variety of egg-based dishes served on muffins, and the Uplands Diner's breakfast rolls.
"You have to be doing breakfast all day too, as you will find people asking for breakfast at 7pm.
"It's making sure you are giving people the variety to change things as well — we have no limitations."
Anthony DiFrancesco, manager of Cafe Remo's in Aberavon, said: "It's always the fresh ingredients.
"Good bacon, good sausage, free range eggs, and it's got to be a branded bean, and with hand-cut toast with Welsh salty butter, it's going to be a treat.
"With Remo's we give our beautiful coffee free with every breakfast."
Dominic Rabaiotti, manager of Espresso Bar, on Swansea's High Street, said: "It's true, we've been serving ours for about 60 years, and it's one of our mainstays here.
"The perfect cooked breakfast has to be cooked nicely and presented well, but you have to get away from the stereotype of the greasy spoon.
"It is satisfying, it starts people off for the day, and you do what people ask for."
And Liz Roderick, owner and manager of The Granary Cafe, Scurlage, said: "A lot of our food is sourced locally and we try to use local businesses.
"As well as an all day breakfast, we also do a Welsh breakfast with cockles and laverbread."
Mark Nogal, the regional head of Hilton Worldwide, which put together the statistics, said, "At Hilton Garden Inn, our signature cooked-to-order breakfast, which includes our freshly-made waffles, has always been a favourite for our guests so it's great to see that its place as a British staple looks like it is here to stay."
Chad Welch / chad.welch@swwmedia.co.uk / @chad_welch
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