The Dolphin Inn has a great bacon and egg roll.

 4 October 2021

 

THE DOLPHIN INN

75 Beach Road, Mouille Point, Cape Town

 

“This bacon and egg roll is better than the eggs Benedict I had at Coco Safar yesterday,” the wife exclaimed, exuberantly giddy with the elation of chowing down on a substantial quantity of perfectly cooked crisp bacon and scrambled egg on a soft, fresh hamburger roll. Her claim was perhaps a tad bold, and she was quite hungry at the time, but it is indisputable that this  breakfast roll is damn fine.

 

We’d once again left our house, after clearing out our bedroom, which is to undergo the kind of maintenance that would make it impossible for us to continue living there right now, and were in the peckish zone given that we’d not had a proper breakfast.

 

Quite often in similar circumstances we’d stop by New York Bagels for  a rare roast beef bagel (the wife) and a lox and cream cheese bagel (moi), plus coffee, to take away;  these two bagel dishes are quite phenomenal fast breakers. Today, seeing as how we had the dogs and wanted to stop somewhere along the Sea Point beach front to allow them an opportunity to run, and the wife recalled how a walking companion and I had this breakfast bun type thing at The Dolphin Inn earlier this year and was highly complementary about it, so she suggested we go there.

 

The Dolphin Inn is a guest house in one of the few remaining very old buildings in Mouille Point  and has a serving hatch to the street, with extremely limited seating outside, well, it’s one table, and a simple menu of bagels with stuff, toasted sandwiches and rolls with stuff, one of which is the hero of this story. They also offer quite good coffee. 

 

Okay, I can’t speak for the other menu items with authority but I’d hazard a guess that they’re as good as the egg and bacon roll. Highly recommended if you’re hungry, in the vicinity and enjoy simple, honest fare prepared with obvious love.

 

To cap it all, after wiping her exhilarated tears of culinary satisfaction, the wife phoned The Dolphin Inn to compliment them. I suspect the woman who answered must’ve thought she was going to deal with a Karen and a litany of bitching and moaning and was extremely pleasantly surprised to be commended. I can only hope the guy at the service hatch remembers my masked face should I return in the near future. 

 

I didn’t take a photograph, and don’t recall individual prices but I can reveal that the two rolls and two cappuccinos cost R156,00. Well worth it.