I am not sure if it is my age, or the effects of Lockdown, but either way these days that I find myself craving more variety at breakfast.
Please don’t misunderstand me, I am a keen advocate of the ‘Full English’ and I am equally partial to a ‘Continental Breakfast’ but surely there must be more? Which is why I was so delighted to learn that the multi award winning Romulo Café & Restaurant, has launched a nationwide delivery service of their Breakfast Boxes (£25.00).
Romulo opened in 2016 in West London and was the first in the capital, to introduce the capital to fine Filipino dining and now has launched a breakfast box complete with bakery items. The latter spearheaded by Romulo’s iconic Pandesal – the last word in fluffy freshly baked bread rolls, although this description barely does them justice. The collection has recently been expanded to include the melt in the mouth Ensaymada, soft and sweet dough pastry covered with butter and sugar and topped with oodles of grated cheese, Dulchende Leche Pan and Mamon, a light and airy orange – flavoured chiffon cake, each as delicious as they sound.
Equally moreish, is Lola Virginia’s Pandesal Loaf, perfect with lashings of Romulo’s Ube Mousse Jam – a classic Fillipino delicacy made with purple yams that is also part of the home delivery offering and so putting the yum into yam.
Filipinos love to start the day on a full belly and the team is now sating early morning appetites with a box filled with authentic breakfast essentials- one dozen pandesal, ube mousse jam, choriza de Cebu, and what is quite possibly the most delicious butter spread that I have ever tasted, with tuyo (salted dried fish).
The Breakfast Box arrives carefully packed, so that the contents are as perfect when you take them out of the box as when they were packed back at the restaurant suitably chilled with ice packs. Ideal for that surprise breakfast or a breakfast in bed treat. The helpings are quite generous, so it is good that much of it can be frozen, though given how delicious this is you may not have the need.
Orders are dispatched Mondays and Thursdays for next day delivery and can be placed by emailing delivery@romulocafe.co.uk please note that 48 hours’ notice is required. Romulo Café & Restaurant, 343 , Kensington High Street, Kensington, London W8 6NW www.romulocafe.com
Finally, the good news is that Romulo have launched a ‘Finish at home’ kit, now that Mother’s Day has been and gone. Details can be found on their website.
https://www.romulocafe.co.uk/menus/#delivery-takeaway-menu