London’s Best Hangover Breakfasts
Hangovers. Most of us have experienced them, and most of us have sworn that we’d never have another. And then Friday post-work drinks roll around again and we find ourselves, beer glass in hand, with no thought to how wretched we’ll feel the next day.
Now, paracetamol and a cold shower might help us to drag ourselves out of bed in the morning, but everyone knows that food presents the only true relief from hangover hell. But what do you do if you can’t stomach a fry-up? Here are our top picks of hangover breakfast tips – and the London eateries where you can find them.
1. Get Thee To A Juicery
Alcohol is a diuretic, meaning it makes you urinate more and therefore lose much-needed fluids. Dehydration is responsible for that blistering headache you have the next morning, and besides necking a couple of pints of water before you fall into bed, the only thing you can do to ease these symptoms is to rehydrate.
Where better to do it than in one of London’s many juice bars? We love Root and Bulb’s G0 cold-pressed juice, which contains cucumber, kale, spinach, mint, lemon and sea salt – the salt helps your body to hydrate faster and the kale and spinach will give you a hefty dose vitamin E, which helps to restore the cell damage drinking has inflicted.
Head to: Roots and Bulbs.
2. Head South
South America has the right idea when it comes to breakfasts: eggs sit alongside rich avocado and a multitude of herbs and fiery spices – and no one in London does it better than Hoxton’s Andina.
Opt for the Picante de Huevos for maximum nutrition: two eggs are baked in panca (a spicy pepper paste), rocoto and tomatoes and served with a tamal (a Peruvian corn pastry), steamed in a banana leaf and filled with meat and vegetables.
Eggs are the perfect start to a hungover morning – they contain large amounts of cysteine, the substance that breaks down hangover-causing toxins. Think of them as delicious hoovers for your liver.