The fashionable Wolseley restaurant is known as the place to ‘do’ breakfast in London. Attracting everyone from the early morning business diners to the not-quite-so early celebrity crowd, if you are going to be seen the morning after the night before, The Wolseley is the place to be seen.

So it comes as some surprise that this month the restaurant launches Breakfast at The Wolseley , the ultimate guide to everything that makes up this fantastic tradition, and gives away some of its delicious recipes for fans that can’t quite make it in to town before lunch service starts.

Giving an interesting insight into the history of the restaurant itself, as well what goes on behind the scenes when serving it today, it is clear that those who eat breakfast at the Wolseley rarely find themselves coming only once.

The book is authored by leading food critic AA Gill, whose own love of breakfast is apparent. In the book he explains that, “breakfast isn’t like any other organized consumptions of food that we all take part in. It doesn’t have courses or an order; it isn’t prescriptively sweet or savoury. Its bespoke, tailor made to you.”

And indeed the book has every type of breakfast you could possibly find yourself wanting – without even realising there could possibly be so many choices for this, the ‘most important’ meal of the day.

From delicious, Italian-style cooked breakfasts, to the healthier sounding, but even more delicious (and probably naughtier) Wolseley granola, to traditional French croissants and chocolate brioche, in this book no breakfast stone is left unturned. In fact the sheer number and variety of recipes would easily sustain your three meals a day, such is the delicious variety of the book.

Even breakfast drinks are given a dedicated chapter, with tips on making the perfect cup of tea and coffee (with 13 coffee varieties and nine teas on offer at the Wolseley, they would know). The book also resurrects and the old tradition of hot chocolate with breakfast, which in the 18th Century, would have been the breakfast drink of choice for the ‘leisured classes’ but has since, for some inexplicable reason, gone out of fashion. And what better way to end the book than with the fabulously rich chocolate fondant – one old trend that this book will hopefully resurrect on breakfast tables nationwide.

Breakfast at the Wolseley is on sale at £12.99 and 50 signed copies are available exclusively to Coutts Woman readers on a first come, first served basis. To order your signed copy visit the online shop on www.thewolseley.com and enter the code wbb149 at the check out.