These Breakfast Spots Make the Best Egg Sandwiches in the U.S.
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It sounds so simple: Egg on bread. But an egg sandwich is so much more than that.
An egg sandwich may consist of a cooked egg between two slices of bread, but it’s how the egg is cooked — scrambled, fried, boiled, you name it — as well as the addition of toppings like breakfast meats, cheeses and veggies that can make a ho-hum egg sandwich a to-die-for tasty explosion in your mouth.
Across the country, breakfast spots aim to up the egg sandwich game. Here we take a look at those who do it best.
15. Waffle Champion
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Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
What to order: The migas
The Saucy Details: Waffle Champion
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Yes, this counter-serve eatery offers up waffles, but it’s what's on the waffles that counts. Crafting unique sandwiches between the folds of a waffle, the joint offers a farm egg scrambled waffle sandwich in three styles: a classic bacon, egg & cheese waffle with thick-cut bacon; the migas with house chorizo, tomatillo salsa and crispy tortilla strips; or the Florentine with garlic spinach, mushrooms, marinated tomatoes and goat cheese bechamel.
Even better? You can also select between a classic waffle, a liege waffle or a “debris,” which features the toppings served over waffle fries.
14. Doo-Dah Diner
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Location: Wichita, Kansas
What to order: Breakfast bologna sandwich
The Saucy Details: Doo-Dah Diner
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Known for serving up from-scratch-comfort food, Doo-Dah delivers a melody of classics diners crave, including a breakfast bologna sandwich topped with a fried egg and a thick cut of bologna.
Although the sandwich may sound like the most traditional on this list, says one Yelper, “You cannot go wrong.”
13. Hot Suppa
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Location: Portland, Maine
What to order: Pulled pork egg sandwich
The Saucy Details: Hot Suppa
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After eating their way across America on a gastronomic tour for inspiration, two brothers opened Hot Suppa with original recipes made from scratch. Wanting to be a good neighborhood restaurant that becomes a food institution, Hot Suppa did just that with a creative menu and good service.
Egg lovers grab the pulled pork egg sandwich with two-handed gusto, finding an over-medium egg, pickled red onion and smoked cheddar on sourdough bread with a South Carolina barbeque sauce that sweetens the deal. Yum!
12. Pig and Pint
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Location: Jackson, Mississippi
What to order: Fried baloney sandwich
The Saucy Details: Pig and Pint
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Known for its barbeque, which they take very seriously in Mississippi, you’ll enjoy thick-cut, house-made smoked baloney with an over-easy fried egg in the Jackson hotspot’s fried baloney sandwich.
Served on a brioche bun, the sandwich is topped with American cheese, savory pickles and Comeback dressing, made with mayo, ketchup, hot sauce and Worcestershire — a Southern staple!
11. Zookz
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Location: Phoenix, Arizona
What to order: No. 11
The Saucy Details: Zookz
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Oh, to be in Arizona, where residents of Phoenix can get Zookz breakfast sandwiches delivered directly to their doors. There are seven different sandwiches with eggs to choose from, with either poached eggs or frittata as the primary ingredient.
Will it be the No. 11 of poached eggs with crisp bacon, cheddar cheese, tomatoes, fresh basil and cream cheese or the No. 68 poached eggs with pork chorizo, Jack cheese, shaved red onions, avocado, sliced potatoes and creamy picante buttermilk dressing? It’s just so hard to choose; you may have to go back again and again.
10. Persephone Bakery
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Location: Jackson, Wyoming
What to order: Egg sandwich
The Saucy Details: Persephone Bakery
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A semifinalist in the 2020 James Beard Foundation Awards, Persephone Bakery bakes “with heart, hard work and creativity.” Items can be ordered and shipped across the country, but those in Jackson get to sample the fresh menu offered for breakfast and lunch daily.
Its mouthwatering egg sandwich gives you a choice of ham, bacon or heirloom tomato with gruyere cheese and Dijon aioli on a croissant. You can also add avocado for extra buttery, creamy goodness! Says one Yelper, “You can’t leave Jackson without trying this spot.”
9. MTO Café Downtown
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
What to order: Breakfast sandwich
The Saucy Details: MTO Café Downtown
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After a night on the town, nothing beats a hearty breakfast in Las Vegas. Except for MTO Café’s comfort food-filled breakfasts! Its classic egg sandwich is completely customizable with two eggs of any style and a choice of cheese, bacon or sausage and chipotle aioli on a brioche bun.
One Yelper described the sandwich as “gooey and hearty,” while another said the sandwich is “enough to put you in a food coma.”
8. Callie's Hot Little Biscuit
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Location: Charleston, South Carolina
What to order: Sausage, egg and pimento cheese buttermilk biscuit sandwich
The Saucy Details: Callie's Hot Little Biscuit
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You’ll find traditional Southern homemade biscuits at Callie’s so fabulous that "The New York Times," Today Show and "Oprah Magazine" have sung their praises. You can even order biscuits to be delivered at home to create your own egg sandwich recipes at home.
But, if you can visit Charleston for fresh, hot, award-winning biscuits, run, don’t walk! While you can sample a variety of biscuit flavors from cheese and chive to country ham to blackberry, it's buttermilk biscuits topped with eggs and sausage or bacon for the win.
7. Husk
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Location: Nashville, Tennessee
What to order: Biscuit breakfast sandwich (if available)
The Saucy Details: Husk
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Just south of historic Broadway, Husk is so traditionally Southern that it claims, “If it doesn’t come from the South, it’s not coming through the door.”
Explore Southern flavors through an ever-changing menu, including a biscuit breakfast sandwich with a sunny side up egg that one Yelper says is “made to perfection.”
6. John's Roast Pork
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What to order: Cheese steak and eggs breakfast sandwich
The Saucy Details: John's Roast Pork
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Although it’s famous for having some of the best cheesesteaks in Philly — even the James Beard Foundation nominated it! — family-owned John’s Roast Pork offers all-day breakfast sandwiches that should also get national recognition.
Pork roll combined with egg is a top choice, but just scour the Yelp reviews and you’ll find a steady stream of raves about a number of different egg sandwich combinations.
5. Mike & Patty's
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Location: Boston, Massachusetts
What to order: Grilled crack
The Saucy Details: Mike & Patty's
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This esteemed Bostonian breakfast sandwich spot may be small, but its selection of egg sandwiches is mighty. You can’t go wrong with the grilled crack fried egg sandwich with double bacon and a combination of American, Swiss, cheddar and gruyere cheeses on buttered sourdough.
Then again, Carolina caviar’s fried egg, sausage and pimento cheese on a house-made English muffin is a good second choice. The only negative is that the vegan one sandwich is made with an egg and isn’t really vegan. It’s still yummy for those who do eat eggs, with vegan smoked gouda, blue oyster mushroom hash and maple-sriracha syrup, also on an English muffin.
4. Koko Head Café
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Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
What to order: Egg handwich
The Saucy Details: Koko Head Café
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Many delectable dishes are made from scratch daily at this island-style brunch house, but the egg handwich is one of its best. Made with two creamy French-style scrambled eggs, the sandwich is topped with bacon, cheddar, local greens and maple tabasco on a toasted bun.
It’s so good that more than one Yelper claims it’s the “best egg sandwich I ever had.”
3. Miss Shirley’s Café
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Location: Baltimore, Maryland
What to order: Ham ‘n eggs sammy
The Saucy Details: Miss Shirley Café
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"Restaurant Hospitality Magazine" rated Miss Shirley’s as home to the best breakfast sandwich. For egg lovers, it’s the ham ‘n eggs sammy that hits the spot. Made with a fried egg, Havarti cheese, Taylor pork roll, Applewood smoked bacon, red and yellow tomato, bibb lettuce and chipotle aioli on a triple-sliced flaxseed brioche roll, this monster sandwich is an “over-the-top good dish,” according to a Yelper. The added Comeback sauce topper certainly will make you want to go back for more!
2. Denver Biscuit Company
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Location: Denver, Colorado
What to order: The Dahlia
The Saucy Details: Denver Biscuit Company
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As its name implies, biscuits are this breakfast-spot specialty — and the must-have egg sandwich is the Dahlia. This fried egg sandwich is topped with house-made apple butter and a sausage patty and then covered in maple syrup.
Such a hot spot is Denver Biscuit Company that "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" featured it as a top American stop. Upgrade The Dahlia with French toast bread for what one Yelper says, “is the type of breakfast they serve in heaven.”
1. Luke
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Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
What to order: Croque madame
The Saucy Details: Luke
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The Creole-inspired brasserie is in the heart of New Orleans, just steps from the French Quarter. Here, it’s not your traditional egg sandwich that is famed. Instead, it’s a croque madame, a grilled ham and Swiss cheese sandwich made with local and traditional Creole meat and a fried egg on top.
Said one five-star Yelper, “The egg was perfectly cooked and I broke the yolk so the whole sandwich had the wonderful flavor of it. The ham was perfectly sweet and salty and I’m not sure what they do with the bread to this sandwich, but it was melt-in-your-mouth delicious.”