You walk into a new restaurant. Waitress: What’ll it be, lady? You: I’ll take the ...
You walk into a new restaurant. Waitress: What’ll it be, lady? You: I’ll take the ...
New cafe with breakfast all day and lunch, dinner, and desserts worth the stray.
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).
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.
Photo: Selim Mete / Courtesy of Cora’s Coffee Shop
Sneak downstairs to the Beverly Hills Hotel’s old-timey breakfast and lunch counter for two eggs fried any way you like on the grill or a classic BLT.
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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.
Photo: Aaron Cook / Courtesy of Tavern
A gorgeous Italian import by way of London serving the classics and cicchetti to an equally put-together crowd. Early breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night drinks.
Photo: Amy Murrell / Courtesy of Cecconi’s
Just say oui to croissants, croquet monsieurs, and oysters at the authentic French eatery open morning, noon, and night.
Photo: Courtesy of Anisette Brasserie
Early-morning/late-night diner where staff in Western shirts and cowboy boots serve modern American classics using farmers-market-fresh ingredients.