The scalloped edges of their muffins, the notes of honey in their chocolate-chip cookies and of course, it always helps when a bakery also offers a bacon flight. Read more.
Begin your Sunday with the housemade ricotta and the thick slabs of “Publican bacon” (not the strips that come with the omelette but the top-shelf stuff). Or try the fig-pistachio scones. Read more.
Popular with locals and visitors, Chicago’s Home of Chicken & Waffles serves soul food up in a stylish dining room. Read more.
This well known Swedish restaurant is a neighborhood favorite, serving traditional pastries, several types of benedicts, quiche and herring dishes. Read more.
We’re believers in the French toast slathered in peach butter, or the pesto-laden free-range scrambled eggs in the Satisfaction Promise, which comes with crispy potatoes and crusty bread. -RW Read more.
This brunch from celeb chef Rick Bayless is not to be missed—too bad it’s served only on Saturdays. Be sure to check out the huevos “Fronterizos” with sausage and biscuits. Read more.
Stop by for breakfast pastries and coffee, especially the chocolate cornetti ($2), a luscious, Italian cousin to croissants. Read more.
Lyonnaise onion soup, escargots persillade, and all the classics are yours at this Parisian boîte in Old Town. Read more.
We recommend the salads (egg and tuna, both richer and more delicious than any version you’ve had), but only if you start with the incomparable brunch breads—a selection of coffee cake, croissants. Read more.
This new spot just ranked No. 20 on our list of Best New Restaurants for 2012. It's rife with promise. Go for the pillowy wood-fired pizzas. Read more.
The team at Longman & Eagle has restored the Czech landmark Thalia Hall to a two-chambered bar and restaurant with a beer-paired food menu, called Dusek’s, and a basement punch-focused cocktail bar. Read more.