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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in The Infatuation. Updated August 2026.
Toast · Gentilly
The Infatuation's #1 New Orleans breakfast, aebelskivers are the real star near the Fairgrounds.
Molly's Rise and Shine · Irish Channel
Mason Hereford's playful Irish Channel diner, biscuits, tunnel cakes, and a great breakfast burrito.
Brennan's · French Quarter
The 1946 Creole institution that invented bananas foster, egg sardou, hussarde, and benedicts.
Surrey's Café & Juice Bar · Lower Garden District
Worth the consistent line for the crab-meat omelet, get a biscuit to sop up the sauce.