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Palo Alto Creamery
Palo Alto Creamery is an old-school diner serving all-day breakfast, milkshakes, and pies.
Boichik Bagels
Boichik Bagel’s Palo Alto location has a few outdoor seats, plus loose bagels and bagel sandwiches to go.
Devil’s Teeth Baking Company
Devil's Teeth Baking Company is a Sunset bakery serving one of the best breakfast sandwiches in the city.
Chicken Dog Bagels
Chicken Dog Bagels is a pop-up making evenly seasoned sourdough bagels that are so good we'd eat them plain.
Beach'n
Beach’n is an Outer Sunset vegan restaurant serving fantastic plant-based “comfort” dishes like crunch wraps, breakfast burritos, and french toast.
Schlok's
There are great bagels coming out of Schlok’s, a takeout window in NoPa with especially fantastic house-cured lox.
Manitas Cafe
For excellent Mexican, Salvadoran, and other Central American breakfast dishes, head to Manitas Cafe.
Dolores Park Cafe
The SFO outpost of Dolores Park Cafe is where to go for breakfast sandwiches, bagels, smoothies, and juices.
Cafe Brasil
Cafe Brasil is a great breakfast and lunch spot in Santa Cruz. Go for the beef a cavalo and an acai bowl.
VIP Coffee & Cake Shop
VIP Coffee & Cake Shop is a Hong Kong-style cafe in Chinatown with gargantuan portions and excellent milk tea.
Giuliana’s Just For You Cafe
Giuliana’s Just For You Cafe is an American brunch spot with fluffy beignets.
Outerlands
Outerlands is an Outer Sunset restaurant serving salads, seasonal pastas, and a legendary dutch pancake. It shines at brunch.
Standard Fare
Standard Fare in West Berkeley is a breakfast/lunch spot that’s doing the whole hyper-seasonal California thing, and doing it very well.
Oceanview Diner
Oceanview Diner (formerly Bette’s Oceanview Diner) is an excellent breakfast spot on Berkeley’s Fourth Street. Get the corned beef hash.
Saul's Restaurant & Deli
Saul’s is a long-standing Jewish deli in Berkeley with everything from bagels and reubens to matzo brei.
Bob’s Donuts
Bob’s Donuts in Polk Gulch is open 24 hours a day, so you can get a donut whenever you need one.