We take a look at some of the best places to enjoy a hot breakfast and warm welcome across the West Midlands
Breakfast is seen as one of the most important meals of the day and these cafes are some of the best in the region for providing good food and a warm welcome.
The Black Country is an area full of top quality cafes where, on any given day, you can walk in to a place full of familiar and tasty aromas and the sounds of eggs frying, sizzling bacon and sausage.
We've taken a look at the top places out there, including one which readers have spoken of as their favourite, and put together a list of those cafes that bring the flavour and taste and provide a warm welcome and a good meal.
Brunch at Blondies, 33 The Precinct, Lucknow Rd, Willenhall, WV12 4PZ
The café in Willenhall has been a haven for people wanting something fresh, home-cooked with quality ingredients and with a warm welcome from the staff inside.
Colourful on the inside, the café provides a wide selection of breakfast, lunch and afternoon food choices, as well as seasonal specials such as chicken and beef casseroles, and no meal costs more than £10.
The café prides itself on quality and a warm welcome and the owners Hayley Bell and Kerry Cooper love to interact with customers in the store and on social media, regularly seen conversing with people commenting on the page.
Cupcake Lane Cafe, Smestow Nature Reserve, Terrace, The Old Station, Meadow View, Wolverhampton, WV6 8NX
Sitting in a corner of Tettenhall, just behind Majestic Wine Warehouse on the A41, sits Cupcake Lane cafe, a place making use of the space provided by a former railway station and providing a welcome stop for walkers taking on the South Staffordshire Railway Walk between Claregate and Wall Heath.
The cafe occupies the platform and waiting rooms of the former Tettenhall station and does a lot of breakfast stuff, such as sausage sandwiches, bacon sandwiches, bacon and egg and also BEST sandwiches.
It also has a range of pancakes, coming with bacon or banana and topped off with maple syrup, while fish finger sandwiches, loaded nachos, chicken caesar salad are also on the menu.
The Cabin Cafe, Unit 1 Dawley Brook Road, Kingswinford DY6 7BD
The Cabin Cafe in Kingswinford is one place which has developed a large following and a great reputation of both service and food and sees a constant flow of people visiting its location on Dawley Brook Road, located next to an industrial estate.
The menu offers all types of breakfast sandwich, as well as a breakfast wrap, plus a large mixture of cold and hot sandwiches, burgers and jacket potatoes and three very reasonably priced breakfasts with lots of different items included.
It has been run by Dino Koumides and his team for seven years and is set inside an old metal storage container with a table outside.
Hickmans Cafe, East Park Trading Estate, Hickman Avenue, Wolverhampton, WV1 2XF
The East Park Trading Estate on the outskirts of Wolverhampton is the home of Hickmans Cafe, a cafe which rises above being just a mere greasy spoon by providing quality products with fresh ingredients.
It has hot sandwiches full of sausage, bacon and egg, main meals including pork and stuffing, beans on toast and burgers, cold sandwiches with an array of toppings and choices, plus grilled cheese and fish finger sandwiches and jacket potatoes.
Where it excels is through its breakfasts, with small, medium and big versions of the full English breakfast full of bacon, sausage, egg, mushrooms, beans, black pudding and toast, plus a slimmer version and a breakfast baguette.
The biggest seller for the cafe, however, is the Hickmans Challenge, a breakfast challenge with multiple pieces of sausage, bacon, eggs, black pudding, toast, fried bread and hash browns, plus a mountain of chips and bowls of beans and tomatoes, with the meal free if consumed in 30 minutes.
The Soup Kitchen, 2 Church Lane, Stafford, ST16 2AW
Set in the centre of Stafford, the Soup Kitchen brings a traditional tea shop experience to the county town, having opened three centuries ago.
It is now owned and run by Duncan Sandy who heads a team of more than fifty full and part-time staff, some of whom have been working for Duncan for nearly twenty years.
The Soup Kitchen is open for breakfasts, morning coffees, lunches and afternoon teas, with everything homemade and the team in the bake house work throughout the day turning out pastries, cakes and other delicacies.
Pomegranate Cafe, Queen's Building, Victoria Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LD
The cafe was opened in February alongside the Wolverhampton Community Shop, a partnership between the Good Shepherd and Wolverhampton Council to help people struggling with the cost of living crisis.
Pomegranate was originally set up as a cafe for lunches and evening meals, as well as freshly ground coffee and homemade cakes, but has recently made the decision to open up earlier to offer breakfast
There are two wraps on offer, including a vegetarian option, bacon and sausage rolls, pastries and granola pots and also porridge pots for anyone looking for a healthier option.
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