Trends · data through September 2026

Breakfast & Brunch Cafes in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 220 stores from 148 breakfast & brunch cafes in the United Kingdom. Sunrise Cafe grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dream Cafe and Mighty Bite.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
148
Tracked stores
220
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked breakfast & brunch cafes

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Sunrise Cafe and Dream Cafe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sunrise Cafe ▲2 +16.6%
2 D Dream Cafe ▲1 +13.7%
3 M Mighty Bite ▲1 +7.3%
4 T The Early Bird ▲2 +1.0%
5 T The Pantry - -12.5%
6 B Bluebird Cafe ▼1 -15.4%
7 S Stack & Still logo Stack & Still - -15.9%
8 T The Breakfast Club logo The Breakfast Club - -18.1%
9 B Brunch ▼1 -22.9%
10 S Seasons ▼1 -29.6%
11 T The Front Room ▼3 -51.1%
  • The Breakfast Club
  • Stack & Still
  • Sunday
  • The Pantry
  • Taste Perthshire
  • The Brunch and Cocktail Club
  • The Early Bird
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

220 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • The Breakfast Club (12)
  • Stack & Still (5)
  • Sunday (2)
  • The Pantry (22)
  • Taste Perthshire (1)
  • The Brunch and Cocktail Club (1)
  • The Early Bird (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 T The Pantry 22
  • 2 T The Breakfast Club logo The Breakfast Club 12
  • 3 B Brunch 6
  • 4 S Stack & Still logo Stack & Still 5
  • 5 S Sunrise Cafe 5
  • 6 M Mighty Bite 4
  • 7 S Seasons 3
  • 8 D Dream Cafe 3
  • 9 E Euro Cafe 3
  • 10 T The Front Room 3
  • 11 C Crêpeaffaire logo Crêpeaffaire 3
  • 12 T The Good Egg logo The Good Egg 3
  • 13 B Bluebird Cafe 3
  • 14 T The Early Bird 3
  • 15 B Brunches logo Brunches 2
  • 16 S Sunday 2
  • 17 Y Yolk logo Yolk 2
  • 18 G Good Day Cafe 2
  • 19 M Mimosa 2
  • 20 T The Breakfast Bar 2
  • 21 F Flapjacks 2
  • 22 C Cafe Nucleus 2
  • 23 T The House Cafe 1
  • 24 E Explorer Cafe 1
  • 25 C Cardiff Castle Cafe 1
  • 26 C Cafe Republic 1
  • 27 P Pancake House 1
  • 28 N Nippy Sweety Newsagents 1
  • 29 V Victoria's Kitchen 1
  • 30 T The Pimlico Grid 1
  • 31 L La Creperie de Hampstead 1
  • 32 C Cloud7 1
  • 33 C Cafe Lucca 1
  • 34 R REMS Caff 1
  • 35 T Today's Cafe 1
  • 36 T The Ol' Chemist 1
  • 37 K KOKO Brasserie 1
  • 38 M Meral's Cafe Bistro 1
  • 39 S Snack Attack Cafe and Sandwich Bar 1
  • 40 O Oatis 1
  • 41 P Piptree 1
  • 42 L Lavender Kitchen 1
  • 43 P Paradox Cafe 1
  • 44 B Brew. 1
  • 45 T Tommy's Cafe 1
  • 46 P PG Fresh 1
  • 47 T Toasted 1
  • 48 T The Cosy Cod 1
  • 49 H Huckleberry's logo Huckleberry's 1
  • 50 T The Pink Cabbage Co. 1

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