Welcome to the community gardens here in Portobello,
it's an absolutely glorious, if not hazy day down here on Edinburgh's coastline, and you know what,
I suddenly have a deep desire for burger and chips, fortunately here in Portobello,
there are plenty of restaurants, burger vans and chip shops, so I can really take my pick,
so I thought I'd come down, have a walk along the promenade, maybe have a walk along the beach,
and finally tuck in to some burger and chips, so do you fancy joining me welcome to RogVLOG.
there's been quite a lot of damage down here on the beach during the winter,
all those storms which all had names, was it Storm Enid, Storm Greta,
I can never remember the name of the storms, just take a look at this groyne over here
yep there's definitely a big kink in it as you can see,
I remember learning about them groynes when I was at school way way way back,
they are meant to stop the beach from being eroded by the tide, it's called longshore drift,
if I remember rightly, but it looks like the storm has completely wrecked that one,
looks like the rest of the groynes managed to escape the ravages of the winter weather,
and they look pretty much intact, but you know what's just happened,
I let the waves roll over my training shoes, they're absolutely soaked,
I don't want to get them covered in sand, so let's head back up onto the promenade,
always good for a moment to stop and look at that glorious building in front of me,
that is Portobello Swim Centre I teach body combat in there,
okay we're about to hit the main strip,
this is where the restaurants, burger vans and chip shops are, so let's go,
the Beach House is a great place for food and coffee,but that's not where we're going today,
good pint of beer in The Esplanade, or is it the Esplanade,
can never remember, but we're not going in there today,
we're not even going into Miro's restaurant,
here you can see they're very appropriately named Slices, you can buy slices of pizza,
I believe it's incredibly delicious, but that's not where we're going today,
and we're not going to the Shrimp Wreck either,
and we're not going to the famous Crumbs of Portobello either,
but I must note to come back there because they do a mean bacon butty,
no I can see my destination in front of me, let's go find Oscar's, here we go. Oscar's,
famous for their gelato, but they do a mean burger, and a mean portion of chips,
so this is where we're gonna go today, is Oscar's a burger van, I'm not sure, it hasn't got wheels,
but it's definitely portable, so I guess it ain't technically a van is it,
well I've ordered my food, and whilst I'm waiting,
I've just spotted the Edinburgh equivalent of Muscle Beach,
you know Muscle Beach in Los Angeles on Venice Beach, well we have our own here in Portobello
oh my goodness those chips smell absolutely fantastic, now just a word of warning,
Oscar's is fantastic, the food is fantastic, but they don't have onions, the lady said to me,
no vegetables, just meat, let's have a closer look at the burger and those chips,
oh I'm so hungry let's get stuck into those chips,
now those chips are really crunchy, but lovely and soft and cloudy on the inside,
now I'm a bit weird, I don't have vinegar on my chips and actually, here in Scotland,
they have this thing called "sauce" which is actually a mixture of brown sauce and vinegar,
I can't handle that, I can't handle it, I just like my chips salted and they taste fantastic,
what do you have on your chips let me know in the comments?
okay let's dig into the burger this might get a bit messy
it's absolutely swimming in burger relish,
not quite as good as Sizzlers along at Fisherrow Harbour, but that is a great
burger, they don't have chilli sauce here either,
I prefer chilli sauce on my burger, but that relish is good, that's real that relish is good
as always I'm going to be washing this down with a can of diet Irn Bru,
IrnBru, as you know to quote the old very famous tv advert, made in Scotland from girders
what a great way to spend a lunchtime walking along Portobello Beach, and then stopping here
at Oscar's for burger and chips, now that burger would have been so much better with onions,
but I'll let them off because it was a tasty tasty burger, and to be perfectly honest
those chips were absolutely fantastic, in fact, I'd probably give those chips
a nine and a half out of ten, they were that good, so crispy, so fluffy on the inside,
and absolutely swimming in salt, just how I like it, the burger not as good as the ones
along at Fisherrow Harbour, but still worth trying if you're down here in Portobello
well as you can see it's actually really busy, now I think I got here just at the right time,
I only had to queue for about five minutes, that queue looks like it's at least 20 to 25 minutes,
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remember there's always something to see and to eat so get out there and find it
so I thought I'd have a wander along the beach and the promenade and then
get stuck into some fish and chips, not fish and chips, burger and chips you idiot!