Breakfast at Beckford House - Bath

The Breakfast Room faces a walled back garden presided over by a statue of Pan and visited by the occasional squirrel and birds feed outside the windows.

Getting good ingredients is half the battle in providing good breakfasts and once the farmers’ market (www.bathfarmersmarket.co.uk) at Green Park became a weekly event, this became straightfoward. One thing I like about the market is you meet the producer: George for mushrooms, David for eggs, Angela for jams and marmalades, Rosie for vegetables. One recent ‘find’ at the market is a good strong breakfast tea from the SherstonTea Company that competes with a coffee for pungency, the quality to wake you up. Beckford’s organic mueslis are prepared by the reliable Bristol cooperative, Essential Trading (www.essentialtrading.co.uk), and bought through Harvest in Walcot Street. The other part of the equation is cooking to order, not in advance.