I've never been much for ambiance, and would rather not pay for the magnificent dining room regardless of the meal.

Having been catching up on this thread missing yesterday, I was not sure what constitutes a "great breakfast" that would justify a $20 charge, just on the food (going on the theory that everything in the UK costs roughly what it does in the US, but in GBP rather than USD)... I've paid $20+ for breakfast a few times as a matter of convenience (and a couple times had it included in a hotel rate where paying otherwise would have been pricier than that), but I can't say I've ever had the food justify the cost increase over a $9 breakfast at a good local diner, and in many cases I'd have been happier with a $4 "Everyday Value Slam" Denny's or the $4 "big breakfast" at McDonalds. There are only so many ways to cook scrambled eggs, and most of them make them worse than the really simple ones.

$100 on dinner is (typically) going to be very different food than a $20 dinner. In cases where a $20 or $40 buffet is very different food than the diner breakfast, it's probably stuff I don't want to even think about at 9am.

That is at least a rather impressive array of meat for your £20; not what I'd normally want for breakfast -- but it might well be interesting to try it, once. Just, as with just about any food in the UK, best to think about £1 as $1 and not of the exchange rate.

http://www.urbanspoon.com/cities/233...ast-lunch/menu

Looks like my kind of place.

My own local breakfast of choice:
http://restaurantbaywatch.com/pages/menu1.html