Breakfast restaurants in Mexico
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Café Azul
Open all day, this Swiss-run scene is perfect for breakfasts, snacks and light meals including excellent sweet and savory crepes.
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Aromas
A second home for some of Matamoros’ artists and intellectuals, this hip restaurant features avant-garde paintings on exposed brick walls and an intimate garden patio, where you can enjoy breakfasts (M$15 to M$60), spinach salads, fruity crepes, and well-executed main dishes including pastas and seafood. Prices are generally high, but the comida corrida (M$55), which includes soup, drink and dessert, is a great deal. The bar area upstairs, with modern booths, is perfect cocktail-quaffing territory and has live trova at weekends and jazz and other chill sounds on the stereo weekdays.
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La Cascada
An outdoor patio and a lengthy seafood menu makes this little joint extremely popular. Try the chile relleno de marisco (chili stuffed with seafood), or the house specialty, bolsitas de mariscos (seafood, onions, tomatoes and chilies baked in tinfoil). One regular claims the pescado veracruzano (fish baked with veggies) is to die for. Great breakfasts, too.
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La Matraca
Set in the attractive courtyard of a former colonial mansion, La Matraca is popular for its all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast (M$39), filling lunches and a dinner menu featuring poblana classics. The food here is nothing special, but the buffet is so easy and so cheap it’s easy to see the budget appeal.
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Zihua Pancake House
The best breakfast spot in town, this popular open-air restaurant with a prime people-watching spot serves American favorites like eggs Benedict, French toast, waffles and, of course, several types of pancakes. It also has a full cocktail bar pouring Mimosas, Bloody Marys and other hair-of-the-dog drinks.
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Café Los Cuiles
Los Cuiles is a lovely spot for breakfast, good light eats (including organic salads) or drinks such as mango lassi or organic coffee at any time of day. Popular with visitors and local students alike, it has a handy central location and a spacious lounge-gallery feel.
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Casa Puebla
This eccentric café features effigies of such luminaries as Fidel Castro, Marilyn Monroe, Gandhi and Napoleon sitting around drinking and smoking together on the walls. It's another popular place on the zócalo and does excellent breakfasts.
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Los Jarrones
Underneath the Zócalo’s attractive arcade, this casual indoor-outdoor eatery serves set breakfasts and a wide menu of good-value regional dishes. There’s a great terrace overlooking the plaza that is a favorite meeting point for young Cholulans.
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Mariscos La Puntilla
Popular with Mexican families for its weekend breakfast buffet (M$89), this open-air eatery has a relaxed atmosphere and fantastic pescado zarandeado. It’s near the Isla de la Piedra ferries, on a small point with a view across the water.
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Madre Tierra
A long-time travelers' favorite, Madre Tierra serves an eclectic and mainly vegetarian menu on a tranquil patio or in an atmospheric dining room. Breakfasts are superb, but perhaps sliding by on its reputation, other meals can be hit-or-miss.
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El Trebol
Colima’s most popular family restaurant also serves the best breakfasts in town. The scent of freshly squeezed orange juice perfumes the dining room and diners devour huevos a la mexicana and scrambles with ham, bacon and chorizo.
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Café de Yara
A sunny start to the day, this modern and beautiful corner café has great breakfasts and excellent organic Chiapan coffee. In the evening, the lights get intimate, with salsa and other live music serenading diners on Friday and Saturday.
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El Patio
An appealing garden patio with tables out the back. The breakfasts are good deals; the rest of the day you’re offered the usual range of seafood, chicken dishes and Oaxacan specialties, as well as a full selection of alcoholic drinks.
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Main Street
On the edge of Parque Hidalgo, this eatery serves generous, reasonably priced breakfasts, as well as ample portions of pasta and other dishes, including mediocre pizza. The outdoor tables offer prime people-watching opportunities.
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Iguana Bar
Beneath the classy Restaurante Onix, Iguana is a sound bet for reasonably priced breakfasts and tacos and other Mexican standards. On weekends and during high season, it’s also a good place to catch guitar-strummin’ troubadors.
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Panificadora Montejo
For good, cheap breakfasts, try a selection of panes dulce (sweet rolls and breads) from Panificadora Montejo on the corner of the main plaza. A full bag of goodies usually costs no more than M$25.
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Las Fajitas
It offers a complete breakfast for just M$30, and you can get fresh mahimahi (a type of fish) fillets for M$75 (they worked out a deal with a local diver to get fresh fish) – not a bad deal for the Zona Hotelera.
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Restaurant Impala
The menu, with its cryptic English translations, covers all the usuals, but the massive breakfast platters (around $59) with favorites from both sides of the border set this simple hotel restaurant apart.
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Pangalapa
Tuck into this palapa for delicious breakfasts, licuados (fruit shakes) and, for lunch, tasty tacos de cochinita pibil (a traditional pork dish from the Yucatán).
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Restaurant Pantoja
A popular, family-run restaurant serving breakfasts, enchiladas and a variety of meat dishes. It offers a M$50 menu del día. Although fan-cooled, it gets a bit warm in the afternoon.
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El Tolentino
Serves up international cuisine from steaks to pasta in a pleasant atmosphere. The local atmosphere is enhanced during weekends by live music. During the day, head upstairs to the terrace.
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Michocana Restaurant
A great little find serving comida corrida (set meals), fresh juices and killer chilaquiles verdes (fried tortillas with cheese and green salsa) for breakfast.
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Restaurant Fonda El Jacalito
This airy and very local place offers set breakfasts from M$50, a good comidas corridas (prix-fixe menus; M$70) and tasty versions of traditional favorites.
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Helen's Enrique Restaurant
This long-running place, with a terrace overlooking the plaza, is good for chicken and meat dishes, breakfasts and antojitos - or just for an evening beer.
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Spencer's
Inside Hotel Mar de Cortez, this is one of the best breakfast values in town. US-style eggs and potato plates. Plenty more is on the menu, and it's all good.
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