For your sweet side: freshly baked goods like ginger scones and apricot Danishes. For your savory: jalapeno and cheese pretzel rolls or any of the tasty others.
It’s the most important meal of the day, so make it healthy (delicious): steel-cut oatmeal (with maple syrup and bourbon pecans) or poached eggs (with smoked Canadian bacon and baby spinach atop a roll with hollandaise).
Mangia morning, noon, or night. Italian pastries and strong coffee to start your day. Meatball sandwiches and Napoletana-style pizzas for break. Wine and stiff Manhattans when the sun goes down.
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It’s been serving since the ’20s, whipping up organic-whenever-possible diner dishes for nostalgic modernists. Good morning, orange blueberry pancakes. Hello, burrata-caprese omelet.
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See food? Eat it at this Maryland-inspired resto. Grub on oysters, ceviche, and wild-caught fish while chugging inventive bevvies made with just-squeezed juice and jazzy fixings, alcoholic or not.
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Pancakes take the cake with coffee and bacon following close behind.
Third time’s a charm for Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne of Lucques and AOC renown. Well-heeled Westsiders stream in for a casual nosh at the bar or a dressier affair in the dining room. Homebodies get short ribs, charcuterie, and homemade bread from the marketplace to go.
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Park it for storied street food from around the world like kaya toast (bread with coconut jam, fried egg, dark soy, and white pepper — a no-fail hangover cure from Singapore).
Hipsters vie for couch seats by the outdoor fire pit and farm-style communal tables in front. Wood-fire specialty pizzas and simple, rustic flavor make it worth the wait.
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Vegan bakery by day. Ecochic hotspot turning out organic, globally inspired cuisine by night. Biodynamic wine and spirits, too.
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