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The crowded cafeteria with the horseshoe-shaped counters is just one venue within Tampa's La Teresita complex but this one stays open all weekend long and this is when you come to see the place — Waffle House, if you will, but for Cuban food — at its most electric, sometime during the small hours, preferably after a drink or two, so as to keep up with everyone else. No matter when or in what state you show up, the food is classic, simple, a delight — toasted, buttered Cuban bread, coffee, and a full array of hangover helpers, chorizo omelets, and the like. Down in Miami, things are a sight more refined at Islas Canarias Cafe & Bakery, out in far-west Kendall; it's not every day a restaurant this deep into the suburbs captures the hearts of a downtown crowd, but then again, when you make some of the best croquetas to be found in Florida, bursting with cheese and ham, and sell them for just over a buck apiece, people find a way. Generous breakfast combos — and yes, more toasted, buttered bread — sweeten the deal; ditto those guava and cheese pastelitos. Maybe you're headed down the Keys, and you think driving with the top down on a bright December day can't be improved upon — technically, no, but why not chance it and stop at one of the little cafes along the way, say the very good Morita's on Cudjoe Key, for the Cuban breakfast?
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The state capital of Montgomery might appear to be half asleep at all times, but that's only until you set your eyes on a busy morning at the classic Davis Cafe, a family-owned soul food spot with all the appeal of your typical church basement, and some of the most delicious hotcakes around. Heading south and all the way east, seek out the small city of Eufaula and Barb's Country Kitchen. A cozy hangout, Barb's offers a great-value breakfast buffet, along with French toast and pancakes made at your request. Expect lots of locals, along with the beach-bound — this is a popular stop on many Gulf Coast road trips for good reason.
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Olalia relies on a recipe from his uncle to make the restaurant’s standout longganisa. Each plump link is pocked with fat, seasoned with salt, pepper and sugar, and griddled before serving with pickled vegetable strands and crumbled fried garlic. Embellishments are minimal, though you can add a fried farm egg or chile vinegar.
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This list hails from the world of Austrian cuisine in Beverly Hills to Thai street food in Grand Central Market, then on to a haven for Texas BBQ on La Brea and a butcher shop in West Hollywood. These LA businesses explore the cultural and culinary traditions of sausage making and eating. Prices here are absurdly low, with the last increase six years ago despite a significant interior overhall last summer.
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This is merely the eating equivalent of a stretch before the workout, however, because this is Hawaii, and breakfast is just so good. Also in Honolulu, go modern at Lee Ann Wong's creative Koko Head Café — omelets stuffed with poke, biscuits made with poi — or follow the old-timers to the original Liliha Bakery and take a seat at the counter for sweet bread French toast, garlic rice exploding with Portuguese sausage, or grilled hamburger steaks topped with gravy and fried eggs, served over rice and called, yep, that's the one, loco moco. There are other islands, however, and you're not finished yet — Maui might appear to be tourist central, but there's so much to explore, just minutes from the resorts.
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Hiking-adjacent Davis is one of those towns, lately acquiring an outdoorsy kind of feel. Someone tricked out in full North Face, walking down the street on a Saturday, maybe spent the night at the Bright Morning Inn, one of the state's better little hotels, waking up to a very good (and also served to the public) breakfast. The menu is not long, but there is potato bread, dipped in batter fragrant with cinnamon, dredged in oats, fried up, and topped with bananas for one memorable array of French toast triangles — does that work for you? Of course, there are other breakfasts — Clarksburg's Ritzy Lunch is not particularly ritzy, but they do open up early, and you ought to come here. Owned by the Selario family for over 90 years now, hot dogs are their thing, topped with chili, mustard, onions, and if you like, coleslaw — build up to that with more traditional morning offerings, like biscuits and gravy, omelets, or even just an egg sandwich to go. If it's sandwiches you're wanting, know that many a West Virginian takes their breakfast from the drive-thru at Tudor's Biscuit World, a local institution known for oversized biscuits, stuffed with a wide range of breakfast (and breakfast-ish) foods.
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Sausage is a time-tested tradition that takes off-cuts of meat and transforms them with spices and seasoning into encased flavor bombs. Oktoberfest first started in 1810 in Munich and has since become a hotbed for communal beer and sausage consumption. That legacy continues locally at places like Torrance’s Alpine Village. Thankfully, people don’t need to rely on that raucous stretch of time in September and October to get sausage drunk. Sausage traditions also extend far beyond Bavaria, around the globe.
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The same goes for Arbuckle Mountain Fried Pies down in Davis, a near-essential stop for those driving I-35 from Dallas-Fort Worth — they do an excellent bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast pie in the mornings, which is exactly the Oklahoma response to the Texas breakfast taco (or perhaps the empanada?) we were looking for. You came here looking for blueberry pancakes, perhaps, but what you really should be asking about — at least when you're on the road way up north, a whole other Maine, really, once largely occupied by the Acadians — is the ploye. Meanwhile, in Maine's contemporary wing, it's all a bit different — top talent Briana Holt puts the bakery in Portland's Tandem Coffee + Bakery, whipping up blue ribbon-worthy cinnamon rolls, quiches, and biscuits, which make great breakfast sandwiches, as happens, all in an old gas station given the Scandiminimal treatment.
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Nervously, he surveyed the customers to check on the food; the frequent diners mocked him for not knowing Karen had been cooking. Whitman was allowed to stay on after Hall tasted and approved her burgers. The Newark Helen’s menu is the same as the Smryna location, including the pork chop sandwiches and the same Kirby and Holloway sausage and scrapple that, Murphy said, "keeps everyone coming back." To noon Mondays to Saturdays, catering in part to the early-rising hunters and fishers of the region, the Newark location will serve breakfast and lunch from 6 a.m. On Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays will likely begin in November, Murphy said. Maybe it was the Scandinavian immigrants, perhaps this is just what the average human wants and needs when subjected to all of that winter darkness, who knows?
A SNAP 2-piece fried chicken thigh and leg meal with potato salad rings in at only $3.50, and it has plentiful takers. Mama's is Slauson's famous food hall, and Whitman, despite her business degree, knows her low prices serve the community well. The original owner, Helen Achenbach opened our Smyrna “store” with a simple menu and a mission to serve up the best breakfast in town. Achenbach’s son, Clifford “Butch” Murphy II, stepped in full time in the early 1990s and found his audience with the truckers and hunters who passed through Smyrna in the early morning.
And so it goes, on and on — burritos, bursting from those flour tortillas they craft so skillfully in Tucson, Filipino garlic rice, fried egg, and longanisa sausage combo plates in the hot, inland valleys of Los Angeles, every kind of breakfast you can imagine in Portland, and that's just from the carts; weekday dim sum, followed by classic cappuccinos in Seattle, bringing a double dose of sunshine to a wet winter's morning. And we haven't even gotten around to talking about the middle of the country — about vegan breakfast at the Lebanese restaurants of the Detroit suburbs, about Chicago's oldest restaurant, Daley's, down on the South Side, where they butcher in the back, sending out ribeyes and pork chops with eggs, hash browns, and the house biscuits, all at thoroughly reasonable prices. Bludso's, LA's newest BBQ joint on La Brea, features one of the best sausages in the city. The all-beef, locally-made hot links come a la carte or as part of "The Tray," filled with chicken, brisket, ribs, rib tips, and pulled pork alongside mac and cheese, coleslaw, potato salad, baked beans, and collard greens. Be sure to order a pitcher of beer or Julep on Tap and try the cornbread. Little Armenia now bleeds into Thai Town and vice versa, but Sahag’s Basturma remains a neighborhood stalwart, and not just for the titular Armenian cured beef.
The mellow, stay-awhile vibe and a solid everyday brunch menu (shakshuka, eggs, and collards) make this place a true find, one worth a trip over from San Francisco, where you certainly are never spoiled for choice, from counter service dim sum at the Richmond District's down-home Wing Lee Bakery, to extravagant pastry and breakfast dishes at Tartine Manufactory. On the western fringe of Cheyenne, Wyoming's biggest city but by most measures rather a rather small one, there is a stretch of road largely reserved for budget lodgings and used car dealerships, and other things most folks aren't typically looking for — not during the early hours of the morning, anyway. In good weather and sometimes not, however, there will be a small crowd of hungry-looking people standing around in front of the Wyoming Motel, itself a marvelously retro piece of work, waiting for their tables, or counter stools inside the diminutive Luxury Diner, partially fashioned out of a vintage Cheyenne streetcar that retired to the motel lot, back in the 1920s. We're on the High Plains, here, where Southwest and Midwest and Western breakfast traditions meet — look for breakfast burritos, doused in green chile, but also for fresh cinnamon rolls very nearly the size of frisbees, hibernating under drifts of white frosting.
You won't find anything this classic in Jackson, across the state, and emotionally on another planet, but you will find Cowboy Coffee. Grab a cup of strong brew (roasted locally), wander past the crowds and over to Sweet Cheeks Meats, a butcher shop that wakes up early to make you a fierce breakfast burger, upgraded sausage gravy, maybe even a bit of smoked brisket, or a roast beef and egg sandwich. Persephone Bakery is one of Jackson's best bets for a full meal, and as such, they are often pretty backed up. It's also a very good bakery, and you can order coffee and pastries via their app in advance, so you've got something to tide you over, while you wait for your shakshuka.
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