If you ever find yourself touring through Cornwall, one spot to hit is Falmouth, a quant seaside town recently making headlines by hosting part of the G7 conference. Along the harbor is a very touristy strip of shops and restaurants that makes for a great bop on a sunny day. One of these coffee shops is a trendy little spot called Picnic. I stopped into the shop for a quick lunch and decided to get their breakfast sandwich: The Full Cornish Stack.

The Sandwich: 8.4/10

The Good

This sandwich was a fun breakfast sandwich take on an English breakfast and included most of the less controversial elements: mushroom, sausage, bacon (English bacon), eggs, and tomato in the form of a chutney. As a believer in American breakfast superiority, I wanted to not like this sandwich but damn it, it was good! The meat quality is on par with a good English breakfast: the sausage and bacon were incredible and headline the whole thing. It was served on some delicious homemade brown bread that was heavily buttered to take away the dryness. For eggs they were scrambled, making (in my professional opinion) a necessary deviation from the fried egg standard of the English breakfast. Mushrooms were well done and the tomato chutney was a lovely surprise topping that I thought pushed this sandwich to a new level. Overall the integration is there (as to be expected from sticking with a tried and true method of breakfast) and this sandwich rocks

The Bad

You may notice one element missing from the list above: cheese. Now I don’t want to shoot the messenger here as this was in essence an English breakfast which doesn’t have cheese but come on, NO CHEESE?! This alone holds this sandwich back from breaking into the elite breakfast sandwich level. It would also help with the dryness of the sandwich. Given everything, the butter and chutney did a great job of taking away most of the dryness, but not all. It was still a touch dry. Lastly, adding cheese may have covered up another chink in this sandwiches armor, namely, the fact that the eggs were pretty average. That said, overall, great sandwich and fix these 3 issues and it may just be elite.