After months of being locked away, the UK is *finally* starting to reopen, which means along with dance floors, karaoke and small talk, we can at last head out for brunch—one of the very few socially acceptable moments where we can drink our body weight in prosecco at midday. Time to dust off those day drinking dresses folks!
There’s one type of brunch that reigns supreme above all others. The Drag Brunch. Because there’s no better backdrop to a boozy brunch than a drag queen doing the splits whilst lip syncing to WAP, is there? And with RuPaul’s Drag Race UK making household names out of queens such as Bimini bon Boulash, Baga Chipz and Tayce, the nation is hungry for a delicious serving of drag darling.
Looking at the number of 4 and 5 star reviews, drinks on offer, price and length of brunch, we’ve put together a guide to the best drag brunches in the UK. Thank us later.
The UK’s Top 10 Drag Brunch Hot Spots
1. London, Baby
(Drag Me To The Disco Bottomless Brunch, Colours Hoxton)
From the disco of the Drag Me To The Disco Bottomless Brunch to the nostalgic naughtiness of the Bottomless Drag Brunch – 90s Girl Bands Edition, these and many others make London a melting pot of drag brunch experiences. So it’s no wonder that Google searches for “drag brunch London” have increased by 2471% in the past year. Holy moly.
Our study found that London’s best drag brunch is the Drag Me To The Disco Bottomless Brunch at Colours Hoxton, Shoreditch. Scoring 131 out of 225, the mix of fully-loaded lip syncs, catwalks, competitions and downright OUTRAGEOUS games, mean you’ll never want to get off this ride to Funkytown.
2. Manchester’s Mother-tuckin’ Magical Drag
(Bougie Bottomless Drag Brunch, Manchester)
Manchester’s Tuck In: Drag Brunch offers “an all singing, all dancing, brunching experience served up by some of the UK’s best Drag Queens”. With JAW DROPPIN’ immersive performances and bottomless prosecco, it puts the ‘Tuck In’ in tucking terrific. (Sorry, had to.)
With a score of 135 out of 225, it scored the highest out of every drag brunch in the UK. Where do we sign up?
3. Leeds: the Land of the Lip-sync
(Coop Queen Drag Brunch, Leeds)
Leeds is hot on the heels of fellow northern drag brunch hotspot Manchester, with our study crowning it’s Coop Queen Drag Brunch as the third best in the UK with a total score of 131 out of 225. Yowza.
Sit back and tuck into a damn tasty menu while resident coop queens Uma Daze and Mystique do their thang. RuPaul bingo, anyone?
The UK’s Top 30 Drag Brunch Hot Spots
| Rank | Location | Venue | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester | Ply | Tuck In: Drag Brunch |
| 2 | Manchester | Locations announced before date | Bougie Drag Bottomless Brunch Manchester |
| 3 | Leeds | Yard & Coop | Coop Queen Drag Brunch |
| 4 | Shoreditch | Colours Hoxton | Drag Me To The Disco Bottomless Brunch |
| 5 | West End | The Loop | Drag Brunch – Brunch Doesn’t Have To Be A Drag ! |
| 6 | Brighton | Regency Tavern | |
| 7 | London | The Folly | West End Drag Brunch |
| 8 | Shoreditch | Queen of Hoxton | Drag & Waffle Bottomless Brunch |
| 9 | London | Adventure Bar | Bottomless Drag Brunch – 90’s Girlband Edition |
| 10 | London | Adventure Bar | Bottomless Drag Brunch – 90’s Girlband Edition |
| 11 | Cardiff | Pryzm | Bougie Drag Bottomless Brunch |
| 12 | London | Balls Brothers | Ginger’s Big Drag Bottomless Brunch |
| 13 | Shoreditch | Gigi’s Hoxton | Keela Kraving’s Drag Brunch At Gigi’s Hoxton |
| 14 | Bristol | Revolution | DRAG BRUNCH Revolution |
| 15 | Shoreditch | Mrs Riot | Drag Queen Cupcake Bottomless Brunch |
| 16 | London | Salsa Temple | A’WHORA’S FASH-HUN BOTTOMLESS DRAG BRUNCH |
| 17 | London, Soho | Zebranos | DRAG BRUNCHETTE |
| 18 | Shoreditch | Nikki’s | 80’S Bottomless Brunch |
| 19 | Manchester | Impossible | Boy Toy Bottomless Brunch Manchester |
| 20 | London | Bar Salsa! Temple | Go Gaga Bottomless Brunch London |
| 21 | Liverpool | Blundell Street Music Lounge | Linda Golds Funny Boyz |
| 22 | Covent Garden | Blame Gloria | Gloria’s Disco Brunch |
| 23 | Shoreditch | The Book Club | Not Another Drag Brunch |
| 24 | Manchester | On Bar | Buff Bingo Bottomless Brunch Manchester |
| 25 | Birmingham | Tonight Josephine | Josephine’s Mamma Mia Bottomless Brunch |
| 26 | Manchester | On Bar | Queen B Bottomless Brunch Manchester |
| 27 | Sheffield | Revolution | Drag Queen Brunch Revolution |
| 28 | Birmingham | Tonight Josephine | BURLESQUE BOTTOMLESS BRUNCH |
| 29 | Manchester | Locations announced before date | Go Gaga Bottomless Brunch |
| 30 | Bristol | The Cloak and Dagger | Drag Me To Brunch! |
| 31 | Brighton | Proud Cabaret Brighton | Brunch With Birch Brighton |
| 32 | Birmingham | Tonight Josephine | It’s Britney Brunch! at Tonight Josephine |
| 33 | Liverpool | Bierkeller | R Brunch BIERKELLER Liverpool |
| 34 | Brighton | Pryzm | Dreamballs Bingo Brighton |
| 35 | Manchester | Impossible | Pride Drag Brunch |
| 36 | Nottingham | Das Kino | Now That’s What I Call Brunch |
| 37 | Brighton | Pryzm | Bougie Drag Bottomless Brunch |
| 38 | Liverpool | Camp & Furnace | Bottomless Drag Brunch starring RuPaul Winner Lawrence Chaney |
| 39 | Manchester | Bierkeller | Tits N’ Teeth Bottomless Brunch! |
| 40 | Dublin | Bow Lane | Drag N Brunch at Bow Lane |
Unleash your charisma uniqueness nerve and talent with a bangin’ new outfit. We’ve got many.
Methodology
Using Design My Night and Google Events, we pulled data on drag brunches across UK cities. We used metrics to rank where the best branches are, including price and reviews. Where the reviews couldn’t be found for the event alone we used the venue’s reviews as a representation for the ranking.
