Breakfast at Merritt House   

Our delicious award winning breakfasts are freshly cooked, using local produce wherever possible. Our sausages and bacon are supplied by a nearby farm shop (who actually make our sausages specially for us), and our free range eggs come from a local Devon farm. We are delighted to have been awarded the coveted AA Breakfast Award, which the AA describes as indicating 'A very special breakfast, with an emphasis on freshly prepared local ingredients', which is exactly what we aim to provide.
We support the local economy by buying locally as we promote quality, freshness and reducing food miles. See below for our wide ranging menu of cooked breakfasts, lighter dishes, cereals and beverages.
We would be pleased to provide additional breakfasts to any friends or relatives you may be visiting. Please let us know in advance if you would like to take this offer up, which is priced at £8.50 per additional breakfast. A slightly later sitting may be required in high season.

Help Yourself Cereal Selection

Selection of Cereals including Organic Muesli, Cornflakes and Sultana Bran Flakes

Selection of Fresh Fruit/Prunes in fruit juice

Fruit Juice

Selection of Yogurts

Cooked Breakfasts

Porridge with honey or brown sugar

Traditional Full English Breakfast
2 local farm pork sausages, 2 rashers of smoked bacon, 2 slices of black pudding, free range egg, beans, mushrooms, tomato and hash browns.

Half English Breakfast
1 local farm pork sausage, 1 rasher of smoked bacon, 1 slice of black pudding, free range egg, beans, mushrooms, tomato and hash brown.

Vegetarian Full/Half English Breakfast (V)
1 or 2 Quorn sausages, 1 or 2 free range eggs, beans, mushrooms, tomato and hash browns.

3-Egg Omelette
plain (V), mushroom (V), tomato (V), ham

Lighter Breakfasts

Egg & Kipper Nest
A free range egg, baked in a nest of flaked and lightly creamed Kipper fillets.
Served with sliced brown or white lightly buttered bread.
(Please note: May contain small bones)

Light Continental Breakfast (V)
2 freshly baked croissants, brown or white Toast, Devonshire farmhouse butter, selection of honey,
jams, chocolate spread and peanut butter, fresh fruit salad

Creamy Scrambled Eggs & Smoked Salmon
Served on a lightly toasted white English muffin, garnished with chopped chives.

Devonshire Hogg 'n' Hen
2 free range poached eggs, with slices of traditional locally made
Devon Hoggs' Pudding - a lightly spiced pork sausage.
Served on a lightly toasted white English muffin.

Bacon and Egg Breakfast Roll
White or wholemeal roll, filled with a rasher of local smoked back-bacon
and a fried free range egg.

Eggs on Toast (V)
2 free range eggs, soft or hard boiled, scrambled or poached

Baked Beans on Toast (V)

Brown or White Toast with Farmhouse Butter

Selection of Marmalades and Jams

Beverages

Pot of Freshly Brewed Tea (English Breakfast, Ceylon, Earl Gray)

Cafetière of Freshly Brewed Fairtrade Columbian (medium) or Kenyan (mild) Coffee

Espresso

Selection of Herbal and Fruit Teas