Welcome to an absolutely glorious day here in Edinburgh,
the sun's out, the sky is blue and the spring flowers are in bloom,
I'm stood in St Andrew Square and I'm on the hunt for a really good cooked breakfast,
now as you know I'm of the opinion that one of the best, if not the best breakfast, in Edinburgh
can be found at Renroc cafe, I've done a vlog about it before, in fact, I'll quickly show you a
bit of footage of their Full Monty, it really is a colossal, but delicious breakfast, but of course,
people have been telling me, Roger there are so many other places in Edinburgh you could try,
there's the Marmalade cafe down in Leith, there is Butternut Squash cafe in Portobello, and here in
St Andrew Square there are other options as well, Gordon Ramsay has just opened a restaurant here
which apparently serves as a fabulous breakfast, but today I'm thinking of going to Dishoom,
it's an Indian restaurant with Bombay influences and I believe their breakfast is different
and exceptional, can it beat the Renroc cafe breakfast, fancy joining me welcome to RogVLOG.
St Andrew Square looking absolutely gorgeous today in the sun,
now I haven't booked a table at Dishoom, I'm hoping I don't need to, but I believe
it's very popular, so fingers crossed I can get a table,
maybe we'll come back and try the Gordon Ramsay restaurant next time,
I absolutely love the ambience in this restaurant,
and there's a beautiful smell of incense burning in the background,
now, I've been recommended to try a Big Bombay,
which I think is probably the equivalent to the Full Monty at Renroc cafe,
so the Big Bombay it is washed down with a cup of steaming hot Americano coffee,
fantastic, thank you,
oh my goodness just look at this colossal plateful and it smells delicious, have a look at this,
so,
not sure where to start to be perfectly honest, usually I'd dip my bread in the egg and then
try the sausage, but today I've got these scrambled eggs which have got spices in it,
Akira, which I believe is fabulous, so maybe that's where we should start,
moderate spice, never really had spiced eggs before,
quite like that, I think I'll try it with some other bread,
soft toasted rolls are buttery and delicious,
that egg actually does pack a punch after a few mouthfuls and it starts to get you,
oh great crispy bacon too,
some sort of maple covering, I'm not sure what it is, tasty, next up let's try those spicy beans,
quite sweet, I can taste the coriander,
and there's definitely something sweet in there, but spicy too,
and just like the eggs after a few mouthfuls it's getting into your throat, really good, time to dig
into the sausages, now I'm not sure whether the sausages are spiced or not so here goes,
not spiced, but absolutely delicious,
actually it's probably a good job they're not spiced because I'm getting a bit of a burn here,
all right I'm gonna eat the rest of this, and you know I'm getting full already,
and my mouth is actually tingling, so I'll finish this off and then
I'll tell you whether I think it's better than Renroc cafe's Full Monty breakfast,
oh well, I'm back in St Andrew Square, and you know what, I'm absolutely stuffed,
that was a great breakfast, and I was really impressed with the spicing,
I don't think I've ever had a breakfast before that was so spicy, there was quite
a lot of chilli in those Akira, is it Akira or Akura, I'll have to check the pronunciation,
those eggs really spicy quite a lot of chilli in there, and those beans as well, really spicy,
but quite sweet at the same time, so the answer to the big very important question,
is the Big Bombay better than the Full Monty from Renroc, cafe
well first up it's worth noting that the Big Bombay from Dishoom was about twice the price
of the Full Monty from Renroc cafe, so I'm talking 20 quid as opposed to a tenner,
let's start with the coffee I have to say Dishoom the coffee wasn't the best,
it was just a bog-standard Americano, I was expecting something a little bit more spicy,
you know sort of to fit in with the spiciness of the food, maybe a special sort of bean, but it
actually felt quite bland, so Renroc cafe with its Illy coffee definitely wins on that score,
in terms of the quality of the breakfast itself,
can't beat those spicy eggs and those spicy beans, the bacon was good and crispy, and
those sausages were fantastic, but you know what, again at Renroc, you also get the potato scone,
you also get the black pudding, you also get the haggis, and you also get lots and lots of toast,
although I have to say the Dishoom little toasted rolls are absolutely delicious,
so whilst I really enjoyed the spicing of that breakfast, and it was definitely different,
not something I've experienced before, I'm afraid that Renroc cafe still edges it,
so if I put Renroc as a 10 out of 10, thinking about the coffee, thinking about the value for
money, I'm probably gonna rate Dishoom's breakfast as, uh I don't know it's so hard,
9.4, 9.4 as opposed to Renroc cafe at a flat out 10, thank you so much for watching
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