Breakfast List #1, Breakfast #6, Nobles Bar on Constitution Street

Breakfast #6 on the list

Nobles Bar on Constitution Street

Originally reviewed on April 12th, 2015

His score: 4.8/6
My score: good food, good service and would recommend if you were in the area but I wouldn't go out my way to go back (possibly my longest rating so far, I can see why Gary rates them with numbers now)

He ate: Eggs Nobles (poached eggs on an English muffin with black pudding and Hollandaise sauce) (£6.85) and a pot of English Breakfast tea (£2.45)
I ate: smoked salmon Benedict (the same as Gary's only minus black pudding and plus a portion of salmon) (£6.95) and a pot of EB tea as well (£2.45)
Total cost: £18.70

Our pros: friendly, quick service; bar had distinctive look and feel; quite a few different breakfasts to choose from; food was tasty, nicely presented and well cooked, and the waitress brought us water the minute we sat down.

Our Cons: very expensive tea with few servings from the pots; nothing particularly outstanding or distinctive about the place and 99% of the offered breakfast menu was a variation of poached eggs on different things so if you don't like eggs, there's not much to specifically choose from in the breakfast/brunch menu. Gary also said there was too much Hollandaise sauce on his eggs and we weren't offered the bill when we finished despite sitting there for quite a while with our plates empty.

Our experience: The service here was generally really good. All the waitresses were polite and friendly and one of them was even cracking jokes with us.
I also liked that the minute we sat down we were given a jug of water and two glasses without having to ask for it.
The only time the service faltered was when the waitress took our empty plates at the end of the meal but didn't ask if we wanted anything else or the bill and then didn't check back on us again after that so we had to eventually flag someone down so we could pay.

I liked the layout of the place and it had interesting artwork on the walls with cornices and painted beams on the ceiling so it felt like we were sat in a bar that had been around for 100 years or more.
The bathrooms were also really nice and had a Victorian feel to them and some of the windows facing the street had stained glass so I would say at the very least, the bar had a very interesting look and feel which would set it apart from other places.

The food was good but I was quite surprised when just one pot of tea came to £2.45 so Gary and I had spent £4.90 on tea but only got about a cup and a half (at a push) each out of our pots. Because there was so little tea, we'd pretty much drunk it all by the time breakfast was delivered and due to the price we didn't order any more. They did have sugar sachets on the table so at least there was that!

Gary and I both agreed that this place was nice and food was good but we wouldn't be in a hurry to go back. Perhaps if we were in the area we would pop in again but I wouldn't be in a rush to grab a bus to Leith for their food.
However, we both agreed it seemed like the kind of place that would be nice to go for dinner at some point.

One final point which I thought was unique was that the menu included an option to have eggs cooked however you liked them on toast for £3.45 and you could add on various breakfast items for £1 each e.g. sausage, bacon, tattie scone etc so I thought this was a nice touch if you prefer to pick and choose how you want your cooked breakfast and don't need to pay so much for it at the end if you're not including items you might not want.

Ultimately a nice bar with good food and good service but nothing that stuck out that would make us tell people they'd have to try this place - if you're in the area though, I'd recommend you pop in a try their food.

What’s next: CJ's Café on Dalry Road.