Best Breakfast and Brunch Spots in Spokane, WA

From the best breakfast to the top spots for brunch Spokane has to offer, Spokane locals voted on the best early-morning eats in the city! Check out the local picks for the best brunch, bakery and eggs benedict in Spokane.     Chaps Officially named Chaps Coffee Co., everyone knows Chaps! Think oatmeal is just a boring breakfast meal? Think again with Chaps – people of all ages rave about their oatmeal! Besides oatmeal, Chaps also offers delicious egg dishes, breakfast sandwiches, a variety of pastries, and more. You can even grab lunch and salads if you prefer brunch in Spokane over breakfast! People rave about the prices and the portions, even if the wait can be a little long (especially on the weekends). There is a lot of seating, and plenty of free parking, but it can get crowded inside. You’ll stand in line and place your order at the front, then find your number and seat after you’ve ordered. Looking for drinks? In addition to coffee and tea, Chaps also has delicious breakfast mimosas beyond the typical orange juice option!   Location: 4237 Cheney Spokane Rd, Spokane Contact: (509) 624-4182 Website: CLICK HERE       The Yards Bruncheon The Yards Bruncheon is comfort food at its finest. If chicken and waffles, toasted banana bread, or delicious pastrami sandwiches sound like your kind of brunch, then don't pass up a meal at The Yards. From healthy options to indulgent delicacies, this diner-style brunch spot has a diverse menu with something for everyone. Oh, and don't miss out on The Yard's stellar mimosa flight!   Location: 1248 W. Summit Parkway, Spokane, WA 99201 Contact: 509-290-5952 Website: CLICK HERE     Frank's Diner I have this objection to brunch: Too much of it — scrambled eggs, say, or avocado toast — is something that you can easily make at home with similar results. Ah, but eggs Benedict is an exception. What elevates it from a mere Egg McMuffin variant is the hollandaise sauce. Sure, you can try to make hollandaise sauce at your home, if you manage to get the heat and the emulsion just right without breaking the sauce. Or you can just swing by Frank’s Diner and pick up a Benedict that won’t betray you.    Location: 1516 W 2nd Ave Contact: (509) 747-8798 Website: CLICK HERE     Bruncheonette If you see a crowd milling about on West Broadway near the courthouse on a sunny Sunday morning, they’re probably waiting for a table at this returning Best Of winner. With sweet and savory eats to suit any appetite, big or small — plus mimosa flights, bloody marys, local coffee and more — Brucheonette was built to please a group of any size. Bacon sticky buns? We’ll take two, please. Chicken and waffles? You don’t have to say it twice.   Address: 1011 W Broadway Ave Phone: (509) 443-5968 Website: CLICK HERE     Elliots, an Urban Kitchen Elliot's offers American cuisine utilizing ingredients with integrity, in a relaxed neighborhood environment, serving craft cocktails and some of the best service in town.   Location: 2209 N Monroe St Contact: (509) 866-0850 Facebook: CLICK HERE     Old European Looking for a place to take the whole family, from grandma and grandpa down to the grandkids? Head over to Old European! While your wait may be long on the weekends, parking is plentiful and there is truly something for everyone. Standouts include the goulashes, cinnamon buns – and if you like sweet breakfast foods, don’t miss out on Old European’s Scandinavian Cake Plate! Also, enjoy a free cinnamon roll on your birthday – it’s one Spokane birthday freebie we love! Prefer the lunch part of brunch? Old European has plenty for you, including burgers, sandwiches, soups and salads. Finally, treat yourself to one of Old European’s mimosa flights! While you can order a full mimosa in several flavors, there’s nothing more fun than trying out their flight for something different.   Location: 7640 N Division St Contact: (509) 866-0850 Website: CLICK HERE     Boots Bakery and Lounge Downtown Spokane is one of my favorite places to hang out, and if I’m not down by Atticus or Indaba, chances are I’m at Boots! Boots is one of the only places in Spokane that is completely vegan and mostly gluten-free, making it an awesome option if you’re vegetarian like me! You can eat anything on the menu!   Location: 24 W Main Ave Contact: (509) 703-7223 Website: CLICK HERE     Rocket Bakery At each of its six locations across the greater Spokane area, Rocket Bakery offers a familiar yet unique comfortable, welcoming vibe. Whether you’re grabbing a morning coffee and pastry to go, meeting up with friends for an afternoon catch-up, or setting up your laptop to work or study, Rocket has all the bevs and locally made snacks, from cookies to sandwiches, you’ll need to stay filled up, focused and energized.   Location: 3315 N. Argonne Rd. Contact: (509) 927-2340 Facebook: CLICK HERE     Maple Street Bistro While one of the smallest brunch spots in Spokane on this list, Maple Street Bistro (or MSB) is tiny and mighty! With in-house made baked goods and a variety of options, Maple Street Bistro regularly wins kudos for it’s delicious breakfast sandwiches and baked goods. Breakfast and lunch lovers can both rejoice when enjoying brunch in Spokane at MSB! Get the Breakfast Club (you can’t go wrong on almost any bagel, or the focaccia bread!) if you want breakfast or try one of their many delicious lunch paninis – and ask for the pepper jelly if you’re feeling sweet! Before you leave, don’t forget to grab a delicious bagel roll (thank me later!) and a salted chocolate chip cookie!   Location: 5520 N Maple St, Spokane Contact: (509) 443-3129 Website: CLICK HERE     Little Garden Cafe Speaking of a place to get a coffee and take a stroll, if you want to walk around Audubon Park but also want a coffee, visit Little Garden Cafe! Or stay inside with the whole family – in addition to coffee and tea, the Little Garden Cafe also offers a wide arrange of food options, includes sandwiches and salads. There is plenty of seating and even a small play area for the kids, making it the perfect place to catch up with friends with kids. In addition to lots of indoor seating, you can have your coffee outside too, as Little Garden Cafe has outdoor seating.    Location: 2901 W Northwest Blvd  Contact: (509) 328-5500 Website: CLICK HERE     Peace Pie Pizzeria Peace Pie was founded on the idea that good food should be simple, accessible, and made with passion inspired by New York-style pies. From the blend of flour used in our dough to the San Marzano tomatoes we import from Italy, every step of the Peace Pie process has purpose and is tested to make a complete product we stand behind. In addition to our focus on quality ingredients, their location and the fellow businesses in the Saranac Commons host a warm and inviting atmosphere for the whole family. Come down to experience for yourself.   Location: 19 W Main Ave Suite 5  Contact: (509) 315-4581  Website: CLICK HERE     Taco Vado Located in a former coffee stand on Ash Street just north of downtown, Taco Vado serves Southwestern-inspired breakfast, lunch staples and coffee drinks from its two drive-through windows.   Location: 1602 N Ash St  Contact: (509) 290-6221  Website: CLICK HERE     Satellite Diner & Lounge Within walking distance of downtown hotels, the Satellite Diner & Lounge is the only place downtown where you can get breakfast, lunch, dinner, Happy Hour, Last Call & Beyond!   Location: 425 W Sprague Ave  Contact: (509) 624-3952  Website: CLICK HERE

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Top 5 Restaurants in Spokane, WA

  Looking for a new place to eat out or maybe just driving through Spokane and need a place to stop. We are talking about my top five favorite places to eat that maybe you don't know about. Or if you type in a Google search on where to eat in Spokane, these ones might not pop up, but they're still certain seriously amazing places to eat. So stick around, check it out. We have everything from fancy food to just quick stops.   Let's see if we can introduce you to something new and exciting. Today we're talking about amazing restaurants that I eat at all the time and I think are super awesome but don't get enough credit.     1. Gilded Unicorn The first restaurant we have is the Gilded Unicorn. The Gilded Unicorn is located at the corner of Monroe and first, just across the street from the Fox Theater or down the street from the downpours. It's right in Central downtown. If you're going to go see the symphony or concert at the Knitting Factory, it's a great spot because you're right there next to a lot of the concert venues. I'd say this one is more for your date night or upscale, but you're looking to try something new rather than the traditional, like Clinker, Daggers, Churchill's, Wild Sage, something like that.   The ones that people tend to go to for those fancy date nights. This one will kind of spice it up a little bit. It has a really unique menu and it's in a really cool space. So the Gilded Unicorn is easy and hard to find at the same time because basically there's no storefront. It's in the basement of the building, actually, but there's a big painted sign on the side of the building that says Gilded Unicorn. Points down, you head in the door, head downstairs. And what's really cool is kind of with the name, you're down in what feels like the basement of a castle or something. You're in a fold tavern. You got rock walls, big chandeliers. It feels super like you're eating in the Night's Round Table or something like that.   It's just like it's a very cool space and just being down below, but the ceilings are super high, so it's like a very deep basement, so super unique atmosphere, and I think that's part of the experience as well. This is one of Adam Hagsted's restaurants. He's a super well known chef in the area who's opened quite a few super successful restaurants. And so this is one of his more upscale ones. But let's just read through the menu a little bit here because they have some super interesting items that you can order.   So it goes anywhere from salmon cakes to truffle and reggiano popcorn to start we got fancy Chicago boards. Devil on Horseback is bacon wrapped dates with crushed almonds and an orange glaze. It's also the way the menu is laid out is like a story. Almost like you're going into a fairy tale of fantasy or something. So your appetizers are your introduction. Your prologue is like your salad or like a small bowl of soup or something that you're going to start with. The story is your entree and the end is your dessert. Some of these entrees, they're super meaty, they are super hardy like you're at you were a hard working night, something like that. King, I guess is another way you're a king and you're eating very hardy and stuff like that. So you're not going to walk away. It's not one of those places where you go out for an upscale nice dinner and you walk away hungry because the portions are so small. You're going to leave here full and satisfied.   I'm really concerned about my price per square foot on the food that I order. So if the price is high, I do expect a decent amount of food for me to feel happy about what I got. So in terms of entrees, they've got pan roasted pork chop, tater tot casserole that has brisket and roasted wild mushrooms in it with a sherry cream sauce. Those are both amazing. The unicorn mac and cheese, I had that. It was amazing.   They have rice cakes topped with crispy fried duck. So very unique menu, not something that you're going to come across anywhere else. But I think it's super fun that you get to go down into a restaurant that feels very themed of being back in the nights and shining armor era. I think it's very fun to just feel like you're going down to an old tavern where you might run into an English king or queen somewhere you're having a hearty meal. But it's very upscale, very nice, and just much more unique experience than some of your classic fancy dinner nights out here in Spokane. Would highly recommend on your next date night out for something as a change of pace.   Address: Montvale Hotel, 110 S Monroe St, Spokane, WA Phone: (509) 309-3698 Website: CLICK HERE     2. Wisconsinburger Very next one is for those people just looking for a great burger. I feel like people are always looking for the best burger in Spokane. And we have a lot of really good burgers, especially on the faster side. We have Dick's hamburgers on spray and then Delicious is another one. Zip has great hamburgers. So fast food local, fast food wise, Spokane does have amazing burgers. But if you're looking for more of a sit down one, the best one that I think I found is Wisconsin Burger.   So Wisconsin burger is actually over in the Perry district. And so it's actually really convenient if you're swinging through town and you just want to jump off the freeway and grab something very easy access to it. But seriously, these burgers are insane in the name Wisconsin. They involve cheese curds and a lot of things. And so they have a burger that is stacked with cheese curds on it. They can get cheese curds as an appetizer as well, plus get the burger with cheese curds on it. Wisconsin Burger also has 80 canned beers, basically, plus ten taps. So they have just a huge grocery store style refrigerator that you can pick the canned beer from, or they have a handful on tap. So there's tons of overwhelming amount of selection for beer. But tons of super fun burgers ones that I highly recommend, the one with the cheese curds on it.   And then the German town is seriously so good because it's a butterflied half house bratwurst and then sharp cheddar cheese, house made beer, mustard, sauerkraut, and on a pretzel bun. So it is totally your Bavarian dream. But they have other burgers that are vegetarian. They have like four vegetarian options. They make housemade sausages. So you can get an awesome Bratwurst style hot dog type thing if you're not feeling a hamburger. And it's just a cool atmosphere. So it's a great little neighborhood, doesn't see a lot of people, so sometimes there is a little bit of a weight, but it's totally worth it, and you will gorge yourself if you go there. So I think Wisconsin Burger is the best burger that I have found here in Spokane.   Address: 916 S Hatch St, Spokane, WA Phone: (509) 241-3083  Website: CLICK HERE     3. Elliott's Urban Kitchen All right, the third restaurant is for those people looking for a new brunch. Or, I mean, you can go for lunch in there as well. But we're going to speak specifically about brunch at Elliott's in Urban Kitchen. So Elliott is up on North Monroe and kind of the North Monroe district. Super eclectic, fun atmosphere, just a wide open restaurant with some booth seating, but also some longer farmhouse style tables that you might end up sharing a table with somebody. But that's kind of the vibe of the restaurant is community getting to know other people. And so it's very cool. On Sunday brunch, they usually have a musician there just sitting in the restaurant playing guitar and singing, and I just think their menu is super awesome.   So the insider secret on Elliott and Urban Kitchen is that they not only have biscuits and gravy, but they just called B and G's, which is super good. The biscuits are amazing, but they also have a pork green chili biscuits and gravy. It's kind of like you got your traditional one, and then you kind of got this southwestern fun variation. But local secret only. The best way to order this is to go 50/50. So it's not an option on the menu, but just say, I want the B and G's 50/50, get the A on top. Seriously, it sounds so weird, but it's so good.   They have so much other super good stuff. Omelets, espinola, amazing steak and eggs, shrimp, omelette, veggie omelets, veggie Benedicts, all that kind of stuff. So I think it's super awesome, super fresh ingredients. The owner is a super sweet lady that is just really supportive of the community, has come out to see my bands perform before. And so she's just yeah, she's awesome. So hit up Elliot's in Urban Kitchen just north of downtown for your next brunch stop.   Address: 916 S Hatch St, Spokane, WA Phone: (509) 241-3083 Facebook: CLICK HERE     4. Soulful Soups The next one is somebody looking for a quick lunch break. They might be in downtown, they might be swinging through downtown, and they just need something quick, easy, and satisfying. And that would be Soulful Soups. Soulful Soups is on Howard north Howard downtown, not far from really anything down there, not far from the davenport, not far from the River Park Square, the mall downtown, just a tiny little hole in the wall that has some seriously bomb soup. And not to knock the soup at all, but just the beer bread is where it's at. That's the good stuff. So you just walk in there's like usually eight to ten soup options, just pick one and then they'll serve it with a salad.   Or you can get the bread, you can get both, whatever you want, but it's always super satisfying. The beer cheese soup. Again, maybe there's a theme here. I enjoy food. I enjoy satisfying, fulfilling food. And the beer cheese soup is definitely one of those things. So it's the bread in that it's seriously amazing. But you can get it to go if you're in a rush, but you can sit in and just kind of enjoy the little busyness of that block downtown. I think it's an awesome atmosphere, great vibes, and just another super, I think, hole in the wall that has been in Spokane for a really long time.   But just, again, if you're googling this type of stuff, where should I grab lunch in Spokane? it doesn't pop up as much, so definitely check it out and go get some soup.   Address: 916 S Hatch St, Spokane, WA Phone: (509) 241-3083 Website: CLICK HERE     5. Conchinito Taqueria Our last category is for just kind of the general one. I mean, it's our taco burrito category because, because that's a very important category here in Spokane. But this could be for lunch, for dinner.   There's a lot of taco burrito options in Spokane, but we're going to assume that you're either swinging through downtown, you're driving through Spokane, or somewhere else. You just want to stop in really quick. And so we're going to focus on our downtown core and what I would say for something that is super fresh or local is Cochinito. Again, Cochinito is super centrally located just a couple of blocks from the Downpour Hotel, right next to the bus plaza. And they are relatively new to Spokane.   It's been around a few years, but the tacos and the ingredients are so fresh and so good. And most recently I had them catered at an event and so they brought the whole buffet style spread and it was like, especially when you have those large portions, it's not their best, but man, it was like seriously, it was so good. People were amazed they even brought to our catered. It was just a catered lunch. They brought octopus, like ceviche and everything.   So they have a super fresh, unique menu. It's not like your heavy burrito Mexican food. It's going to be a light fresh taco that you're going to have a few different variations that you can pick from. Grab a great mixed drink while you're there. They have awesome margarita, stuff like that.   And even looking here to my point, their slogan is local and responsibly sourced ingredients prepared with fine dining techniques, all served in a casual atmosphere along with craft cocktails, thoughtfully selected surveys, as I don't know how to say that in spirits. Like I said, it's a casual fun environment, but amazing chefs in the kitchen making super unique entrees tacos, all that kind of stuff. Just a slight look at the taco list. They have octopus and papas, bravas taco. So when you walk in there, you're going to get a taco that just kicks some serious butt. So I think they're awesome.   Address: 916 S Hatch St, Spokane, WA Phone: (509) 241-3083 Website: CLICK HERE     Notable Mention One thing bonus category that I wanted to mention is dessert. And this is somewhere that I think Spokane is struggling right now, dessert wise. And so they're nothing fancy, nothing like that. But if you're just swinging through, I would either go to Zips and get one of the best milkshakes ever. My personal favorite is the huckleberry milkshake where at the bottom is like literally lined with like two inches of huckleberries. There's hundreds of huckleberries in each shake. It's crazy. I think they lose money on every single one because huckleberries are so expensive. And if you have some time, head up to the the top of Rocket or Top of the South Hill and get how I pronounce it, Nanaimo Bar, because these little chocolate bars of goodness are I don't even know how to describe it, but they're so good. You can find them in some other places around town and other grocery stores. But I know that you can go up to the Rocket market off of 47th, and get that there and stuff in because they're really cool little local grocery store and stuff as well.

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