The Full...Breakfast!

By Guest Blogger Trish King

Ireland's Four Providences is my favorite Irish pub; the atmosphere is relaxing, the owners and staff are very friendly, they have outside seating in the warmer months and serve breakfast all day. They also have a very delicious Irish fare menu, including the Guinness stew and fish and chips. Saturday nights are busy and they have live Irish music and quiz night on Wednesday nights if you have not been to a quiz night before I highly recommend attending one; it is one large trivial pursuit game with groups, and is played quite often in the UK pubs. Now that you've had the introduction to the "4 P's"...let's get down to business!

I absolutely love breakfast, but not just any breakfast! I looked high and low to find the same type of breakfast when I returned from the UK, and the best place I found in the area to get my favorite meal is Ireland's Four Providences in Falls Church, VA.

The "full breakfast" starts with eggs poached to perfection until the white is firm with soft golden yolks that pours out over your warm buttered toasted brown bread as you cut into it. Then you add good thin sliced rasher, a type of bacon that is very different from our bacon because it is all meat, not all fat. (The only other place so far that I have found the rashers that are similar to what I happily devoured in the UK is at the Amish Country Farmer's Market in Easton MD). The breakfast also comes with sausage, black pudding (known to Americans as blood pudding - very tasty with spices and oats and is a must try), white pudding (ground pork with oats, and spices), fried plump tomato slices with cooked mushrooms, potatoes that are cubed or hand cut and fried, and last but not least Heinz baked beans in a not too sweet tomato sauce. You might think the beans are little weird, but believe me, they are delicious!

Yes, all of this translates to one loaded fork for breakfast! This meal is very filling and is meant to keep you going all day, and it definitely does.