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Brunch in Chicago: Best restaurants for eggs, waffles and booze
La Colombe 41.884123 -87.651978 955 W Randolph St (between Morgan and Sangamon Sts) West Loop, Chicago
The Coffee Studio 41.984343 -87.668952 5628 N Clark St (at Olive Ave) Edgewater, Chicago
Lutz Continental Café & Pastry Shop 41.961562 -87.690894 2458 W Montrose Ave (between Artesian and Campbell Aves) Lincoln Square, Chicago
Local Root 41.892669 -87.617712 601 N McClurg Ct (at Ohio St) Streeterville, Chicago
Little Goat Diner 41.884641 -87.648421 820 W Randolph St (between Green and Halsted Sts) West Loop, Chicago
La Fournette 41.910528 -87.634678 1547 N Wells St (between Schiller St and North Ave) Old Town, Chicago
Katherine Anne Confections 41.917248 -87.696477 2745 W Armitage Ave (between Fairfield and California Aves) Logan Square, Chicago
Karamela [Closed] 41.866073 -87.624602 1250 S Michigan Ave (between Roosevelt Rd and 13th St) South Loop, Chicago
Julius Meinl Café 41.961245 -87.683516 4363 N Lincoln Ave (at Montrose Ave) Lincoln Square, Chicago
Restaurants + Bars
Our guide highlights the best brunch in Chicago, including the best restaurants to find those all-important brunch cocktails.
Restaurants
Mon–Fri 7am–7pm; Sat, Sun 8am–7pm
La Colombe
The Philadelphia equivalent to Intelligentsia opened its first Chicago café quietly (though the location, across the street from a Starbucks, certainly sent a message)
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Restaurants
6:30am–9pm
The Coffee Studio
Andersonville is nuts about this coffee shop, which offers a colorful variety of organic, sustainable menu items. The quiche selection, featuring a hearty wild mushroom pie, is definitely a draw, as are the handful of can’t-believe-it’s-vegan desserts
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Restaurants
Pastry shop: Mon 7:30am–7pm; Tue–Thu, Sun 7am–7pm; Fri, Sat 7am–8pm. Café: 11am–5pm
Lutz Continental Café & Pastry Shop
Old-school in the best sense of the phrase, Lutz has rows of glass cases filled with sweets the likes of which you haven’t seen since Grandma was out cutting a rug
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Restaurants
Breakfast, brunch (Fri-Sun), lunch, dinner
Local Root
At this eco-conscious eatery, as much as possible—charcuterie, beer, cheese—is local. Particularly local are the breads and baked goods, which are made in house
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Restaurants
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Little Goat Diner
Stephanie Izard’s sister restaurant to Girl & the Goat is more Denny’s than “Nighthawks”; nevertheless, it has all the trappings of a diner: all-day breakfast (try the phenomenal paratha burrito), six types of burgers (we like the classic) and traditional plates such as fried chicken (good) and
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Restaurants
Breakfast, lunch (Mon-Sat 7am-7pm, Sun 7am-6pm)
La Fournette
Pierre Zimmerman (baking champion and instructor at the French Pastry School) has done an admirable job giving this long, narrow bakery (which he runs with his family) a French sensibility
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Shopping
Tue-Wed 11am–7pm; Thu–Fri 11am-9pm; Sat 10am–9pm; Sun 11am-4pm (closed Mon)
Katherine Anne Confections
You might think this is just a chocolate shop, where ingenious flavor combinations (passionfruit-ginger–white chocolate, goat-cheese-walnut) take shape as decadent truffles. One sip of owner Katherine Duncan’s hot chocolate, however, and you’ll know that this is really a test of will
- Critics' pick
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Restaurants
Mon–Fri 7am–10pm; Sat, Sun 8am–9pm
Karamela [Closed]
Coffee, crêpes, sandwiches, salads, pastries and soft serve (naturally, right?) in the South Loop.
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Restaurants
Mon–Thu 6am–10pm; Fri 6am–11pm; Sat 7am–11pm; Sun 7am–10pm
Julius Meinl Café
A café as lovely and sunny as this inspires lingering. But lingering requires cup upon cup of caffeine, and that could become hazardous. This European export has a solution for that, though: a full menu of food, most of it the unlikeliest coffeehouse food you’ve come across
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