By Gastrorob

A couple of months back, a friend and her family relocated to Gibraltar from abroad and kept asking me where I thought was a good breakfast/brunch place for them to go on a Saturday morning. After having suggested several places for the family to try, she came across My Wines on the Chatham Counterguard Strip which had recently started serving breakfast.

On her recommendation, I went along one Saturday morning and was encouraged by the huge menu that My Wines have created considering their humble beginnings – buy a bottle of wine and drink it on the premises!

The breakfast menu (a full page within their menu) broken up into sections: Eggs Benedict (optional toppings such as avocados and bacon) various French Omelettes, various scrambled egg dishes, English breakfasts and toasts and baps.

The first time I had breakfast at My Wines, I ordered the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on toast and my fellow diner ordered eggs benedict. Sadly, we were both disappointed.   The dishes were tasty, however, their execution needed improving – the scrambled eggs were a visual mess and the eggs benedict ham-less.

Two weeks ago, Chef Ariel Guivi joined the breakfast team and is doing for My Wines what he did for the Hendrix.

The breakfast menu has since been streamlined and what is done, is now done well. The smoked salmon and scrambled eggs arrive as a stack of creamy pushed eggs with a few smoked salmon slices sat delicately on top. Choice of toast to go with. The eggs benedict was remarkably better this time round but I really would like to see them served on an English muffin instead of on a slice of bread. Having spoken to Chef Ariel about this, I understand that there is difficulty in regularly sourcing these here in Gibraltar and baking English muffins from scratch would require time and space to create and prove the dough before baking them into muffins.

Playing to the meme, “coffee keeps me going until it’s acceptable to drink wine!” My Wines have capitalised on a gap in the market to serve substantial breakfasts, such as: eggs benedict, omelettes, cooked breakfasts and toasts, as from 7:30am Monday to Friday and as from 8am on Saturday. Their prices are very decent; we actually asked the waitress if she had left something off the bill as it was cheaper than expected!

We know that My Wines have a great evening repertoire – why not eat the most important meal of the day here too - give breakfast at My Wines a go, you won’t regret it.

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