A Decent Breakfast Roll

Asok

On my jaunt from rathmines into town to get the bus to work in the morning I often pick up what appears to be passing as a breakfast roll. In most cases this is rasher and sosage in a roll. Is there anywhere around town that does a damn descent roll i.e. it will give me chest pains

nikolaitr

O Donavans newsagents near Pearse Street Dart Station.

Saruman

Any spar, centra, mace etc should do you a good one for €3.50 or so.

senordingdong

Well you have to be sure to ask for the extra gear.

Creamy Goodness

spar on camden street, it's 3.99 but my god you get a lot for it

sausages
rashers
egg
white pudding
black pudding
some sort of potato thingy (not a hash brown)
hash browns.

senordingdong

Cremo wrote:

spar on camden street, it's 3.99 but my god you get a lot for it

sausages
rashers
egg
white pudding
black pudding
some sort of potato thingy (not a hash brown)
hash browns.

No egg!?!?!?!?!

RoundyMooney

As long as it goes down well...

Creamy Goodness

senordingdong wrote:

No egg!?!?!?!?!

Cremo wrote:

spar on camden street, it's 3.99 but my god you get a lot for it

sausages
rashers
egg
white pudding
black pudding
some sort of potato thingy (not a hash brown)
hash browns.

^^

senordingdong

Cremo wrote:

^^

Oops....my bad!

Also....

RoundyMooney wrote:

As long as it goes down well...

ROFL

Asok

Excellent mr cremo! I have been tempted to get one there a few times. I shall partake on my next trip to work and report back

Kintarō Hattori

OK I know it's not exactly on your way, but damnit it's worth it for the best breakfast roll you'll have ever tasted. There is a small newsagents on Bolton Street called Declan's and his rolls are truely outstanding.

Time Magazine

Spar on Nassau St do a good one, as do Centra on Pearse St/Westland Row, and SuperValu there on Aston Quay are good too.

Nightwish

eo980 wrote:

OK I know it's not exactly on your way, but damnit it's worth it for the best breakfast roll you'll have ever tasted. There is a small newsagents on Bolton Street called Declan's and his rolls are truely outstanding.

I wholeheartedly endorse this post

crosstownk

Matt the Rashers in Sundrive does a mean, well filled breakfast roll, lots of choice for fillings.

crosstownk

eo980 wrote:

OK I know it's not exactly on your way, but damnit it's worth it for the best breakfast roll you'll have ever tasted. There is a small newsagents on Bolton Street called Declan's and his rolls are truely outstanding.

It's been a lot of years since I've been to Declan's - but when I was in Bolton St DIT, his lunch rolls were legendary! I can only assume his breakfast rolls would be equally as good...........................

Fajitas!

I've yet to find someplace in Dublin to do a decent breakfast roll. For the record... It goes as follows.

Butter, tomato sauce, rasher, 2 sausage, white and black pudding cut up, hashbrown cut up and egg cut up on top of this, so that it can still close.

None of this sauce on top bullsh*t.

Oh, and the option to cut it in half.

Dub13

I don't think the spar, centra, mace etc etc do a good Breakfast roll they tend to cook the stuff in the morning and just keep it hot.This is not ideal.I find some independent newsagents are great for the Breakfast rolls,they take longer to make but its worth it.

The best I have found is a small shop across the road from Fitzgibbon Street Garda Station which is just off Mountjoy Sq,I am not sure of the name but they do the best Breakfast roll in the City IMO.Another good spot is a local newsagent out in Easy Wall again I cant remember the name but it was beside the church,I used to use this place when my job had me on the road a lot which was a few years ago so I am not sure if this shop is still open with all the redevelopment work going on in East Wall.

Flukey

It is kind of funny that you had a "descent" roll, as opposed to "decent" roll, which is what you intended. As to good places to get rolls, you just have to shop around and try different places out over a period of time. You'll find all sorts of gems. Often it is down to the individual who makes the roll and the time you get in. You can get a good one on one day, but on another day in the same place, it may not be quite as good. Often the safest thing is to bring your own!

Sparky

crosstownk wrote:

Matt the Rashers in Sundrive does a mean, well filled breakfast roll, lots of choice for fillings.

Oh I was going to recommend them. They really are lovely.

There is a new place in Terenure called Maraides too, just where the old alarming sounds/racers edge shop used to be.

senordingdong

What's the story with people putting brown sauce on their breakfast roll?
What the hell like.

KdjaCL

Bytes in parkwest.

Filthy kip but worth it for the rolls.


kdjac

constitutionus

well if we're going outside the city theres a place next to buckleys providers in robin hood industrial estate that looks like a drive way with a portacabin in it but does a massive brekkie roll. used to drop in when we were renovating my new house. they make em infront of you to order (beans have no place in a breakfast roll!!!)

Kintarō Hattori

C2K on Abbey Street do a really tasty breakfast roll. It's not as well filled as your average one, but what they put in is top quality and it's delicous with a mug of coffee.

Rb

Leaves and Beans do really nice breakfast rolls, its across from Smyths toystore in Tallaght and they're quite cheap too.

The cafe under the newsagent at the bottom of Leeson street used to do really nice breakfast panini's, got a cup of tea with it for something like €2.50. Dunno if they're still doing them though, haven't been in to get one since 2004.

nikolaitr

nikolaitr wrote:

O Donavans newsagents near Pearse Street Dart Station.

What he said.

The Insider

KdjaCL wrote:

Bytes in parkwest.

Where exactly is that in the park?

amoKey

place ot the end of nassau street near teh dental hospital called Take 5. been a while since i ate there but the brekkie rolls where super. mostly cooked fresh, they basicaklly cook teh a few sausages and rashers off and use them and when tehy run low put a small few more on. eggs are cooked fresh for teh rolls and if you want it soft or hard just ask. bloody great stuff.

snickerpuss

I think that Take 5 is shut. At least i haven't seen it open in a good while and i remember papery stuff on the window.

cast_iron

If the contents are freshly cooked, then it's hard to do a bad roll. The key is often when you buy it and how busy the place is, as opposed to much else.

constitutionus

just out of interest how do you guys like the egg? i like mine runny so it goes all overt the rest of the stuff. cant stand it when its solid

by the way pass leaves and beans all the time, must check it out

Wez

Oh my god, you have to try Gerard's on Lower Leeson street! It's absolutely rediculous! Everything freshly cooked all day, and everything is rediculous! they have that smooth pudding and spread it on the roll! they have hash browns and everything. They're top of the range-super deluxe roll is like a fiver, but omg, they're worth every penny!

My local spar (Clonskeagh) do pretty nice rolls too, nice and at a reasonable price.

Creamy Goodness

snickerpuss wrote:

I think that Take 5 is shut. At least i haven't seen it open in a good while and i remember papery stuff on the window.

they are doing renevations, i'd imagine they'll be open soon as they've been closed for ages.

must try gerard's on monday.

swingking

All this talk of breakfast rolls is making me hungry. *licks lips*

Damn you Janurary and healthy eating, I mustn't give in to the temptation of breakfast rolls

Sawa

Right I work in a shop, it's either a Spar/Centra/Londis. It doesn't matter because when it comes down to the matter of cooked food, they are all the same. All of these places get the same produce. Anyway, DO NOT, I repeat do not have a breakfast roll past 10am from any of these places because the food was cooked at 7 or even 8am and left in the heater all day long. I've tasted one of those rashers at 4pm, it's disgusting. And I'm not even going into the subject of food poisoning. Often it's a matter of guess work whether the food is cooked, "Eh it looks cooked, so it must be ....duuuhhh"
To be honest, people who work in these places will be very lazy and cut corners, the best breakfast roll is one you'll make yourself or seen cooked in front of you.
There is a nice little place in Rathgar, on Rathgar Avenue, beside the 108, the girls in there fry the sausages, rashers etc, on a frying pan right in front of you, it's delicious!

Asok

They all may get the same produce but some really do make a fist of preparing it. The spar on camden st that cremo recommended is very good I have found. I do tend to wander in there at around 7 - 7.30 so everything is lovely and fresh.

311

nicest breakfast roll ,cafe on the corner of richmond road/drumcondra road
Also the shop on bolton street as mentioned above.

I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow

johnnyrotten

There is ( or was up to last November ) a cafe in the Fruit Market behind Capel Street. They make an amazing Breakfast roll - all freshly cooked. You will be waiting 10 mins for it but its worth the wait. Jumbo breakfasts are amazing also. My chest is paining me thinking about it

gavquinn

I like the one in Gerards on Leeson St Lr.

I dare say the best ever. Sausage, bacon, black/white, fried egg, hash brown, tomato.

Best pudding, good granby white pud, spicy, like hot pate, fried egg, none of this circular omellete ****e. Fresh warm crusty roll.

I think it's around €4.95, but it's really the best I've ever had. The best.

RandolphEsq

Pffft those Celtic Tiger cubs and their breakfast rolls :rolleyes:

Gavin "shels"

Ger's in Ballyfermot is meant to be class, never had one, but was out there one day and my mate got one, it smelled amazing pity for my hungover state and dodgy stomach.

I personnally like my home cooked ones, fresh roll, 3 superquinn sausages, 2 dennys streaky bacon, 2 back rashers, and a mountain of Meath St's finest white pudding that I mash up with a fork.:cool:

leggit

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

OK I know it's not exactly on your way, but damnit it's worth it for the best breakfast roll you'll have ever tasted. There is a small newsagents on Bolton Street called Declan's and his rolls are truely outstanding.

Best rolls ever. Declan is the fattest man in all of dublin and you can't blame him having to sit and look at those rolls being made all day.

Rumour has it that he's permanently stuck behind the cash register!

mikemac

Gavin shels wrote: »

Ger's in Ballyfermot is meant to be class, never had one, but was out there one day and my mate got one, it smelled amazing pity for my hungover state and dodgy stomach.

I'm by Ballyer but don't know Ger's, whereabouts is this?

Gavin "shels"

mikemac wrote: »

I'm by Ballyer but don't know Ger's, whereabouts is this?

Ballyfermot Road, can't remember where exactly, it's in a row of shops and there is/was a pizza place called NYPD Pizza just up from it and a Bookies.

gigino

amoKey wrote: »

place ot the end of nassau street near teh dental hospital called Take 5. been a while since i ate there but the brekkie rolls where super. mostly cooked fresh, they basicaklly cook teh a few sausages and rashers off and use them and when tehy run low put a small few more on. eggs are cooked fresh for teh rolls and if you want it soft or hard just ask. bloody great stuff.

I remember that, you are making me hungry now

vampire of kilmainham

heart attck on a plate but i love a good brekkie roll the spar on dame st do a nice one they have a seating area too so ya can have tea or coffee as well yummmmmmmmmmmmm

reallyrose

Cafe on Grand Canal St does awesome breakfast rolls. egg, sausage, bacon and ballymaloe relish onna ciabatta roll.

Nom.

Eoin_Eamon

Does anyone ever do a brekki roll with beans? I swear I had one last year with:

fried eggs
bacon
rashers
puddings
beans
spuds

Popped over to the Spar on Thomas St a few days ago and their's nearly killed me (and that was without the well grey eggs).

Eggonyerface

Ive eaten breakfast rolls all over the place and the best ones are

• The chuck wagon
• Matt the rashers
• A little newagents beside Santry garda station..(called Sarahs maybe?)
• The cafe on maynooth mainstreet

I'm always on the look out for more places *follows thread*

Marty McFly

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

OK I know it's not exactly on your way, but damnit it's worth it for the best breakfast roll you'll have ever tasted. There is a small newsagents on Bolton Street called Declan's and his rolls are truely outstanding.

crosstownk wrote: »

It's been a lot of years since I've been to Declan's - but when I was in Bolton St DIT, his lunch rolls were legendary! I can only assume his breakfast rolls would be equally as good...........................

+1 on this id never had a breakfast roll like it lived on the food in that place when i was in Bolton St DIT, his breakfast rolls and chicken fillet rolls with wedges cheese mayo and ketchup on it were savage for lunch more like a dinner in a roll. But i heard a very sad sickening story that Declans is now closed these days, gutted to hear it would love to sample some his food again.

leggit wrote: »

Best rolls ever. Declan is the fattest man in all of dublin and you can't blame him having to sit and look at those rolls being made all day.

Rumour has it that he's permanently stuck behind the cash register!

Declan was a legend no need for cash register all calculations done in his head in seconds, and sure if you were a few cent short sure it didnt matter it was grand with him.

harry Bailey esq

the chuck wagons are always a good bet,they do breakfast in a soda farl too if that's your thing,and cooked in front of you.the cafe across from superQuinn in finglas make consistently delicious rolls if a little pricey.further afield,the coffee pot in balbriggan make lovely ones too,as do most supervalue stores.