My very good friend Richard recommended The Butty Box. His facebook status update; “Great breakfast at The Butty Box” inspired me to stop off to sample a few wares
. At the T Junction of Peel Green Road and Liverpool Road, in the car park of The Unicorn pub (formerly known as The Jules Verne), stands The Butty Box. As I approached the van I could feel the heat from the griddle. I asked for a strong coffee and a bacon barm. I requested well done bacon. I was asked if I wanted sauce, to which I replied; brown. I watched the fella gently place the rashers on the griddle, I then handed over my £2.20 and went and sat down at one of the tables in front of the van. A couple of moments later the fella brought my coffee and barm out. I told him he should have shouted me over and I would have collected it myself. The wind was getting strong and strands of my own hair were covering my face. I lifted the lid on my coffee and after glancing down at the pale liquid knew straightaway I would have liked it stronger. I sipped it and then decided to go back to the counter to ask him to put some more coffee in it. He told me it was real coffee, Douwe egberts. I would have preferred my bacon a tiny bit crispier and I would have preferred a filter coffee, rather than an instant. I’d come back here again though. Definitely worth a stop off, say, on your way to Peel Green cemetery or as I was; killing time before an upper lip wax at The Brooke Hair and Beauty over the road.
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