Where to brunch in Hamburg: morning spots worth the queue.
Where to brunch in Hamburg. The morning rooms worth the queue, and the kitchens still doing it right at noon.
EM Breakfast Club on Neuer Pferdemarkt in Hamburg's Sternschanze runs an all-day breakfast menu of bowls, eggs, pancakes and shakshuka from a corner cafe.
Order: The shakshuka with merguez; the bowls with grain and seasonal fruit.
Tip: Walk-in only; weekends fill from 10:00. Vegan and gluten-free options on the menu.
Cafe May runs a daily Hamburg-style brunch buffet across several Hamburg locations, with Franzbroetchen, eggs, cheeses and pastries year-round at fixed €19.
Order: The full buffet with Franzbroetchen, fresh fruit, cheese, eggs, pastries and quark.
Tip: Weekend brunch fills from 10:00; bookings only for groups of six or more.
Cafe Koppel on Lange Reihe in Hamburg's St Georg runs vegetarian and largely vegan weekend brunch plates and a daily lunch menu from a courtyard cafe.
Order: The vegetarian brunch plate with houmus, dolma and cheese.
Tip: Garden tables in summer; bookings only for groups of six or more.
Cafe Paris on Rathausstrasse near Hamburg's Rathaus runs a French brasserie weekend brunch, with the art nouveau dining room and a long zinc bar.
Order: The Croque Madame and the pain au chocolat with espresso.
Tip: Weekend brunch from 09:30; the ground-floor saal is the busy room.
Mother's Fine Coffee on Davidstrasse in Hamburg's St Pauli has been one of the city's first bagel cafes for two decades, with daily-baked bagels.
Order: The lox bagel with cream cheese and red onion.
Tip: Walk-in. Kitchen closes 16:00; coffee runs into late afternoon.
Strandperle on the Elbe sand beach at Oevelgoenne in Hamburg runs a summer beach-side cafe with Fischbroetchen, coffee and pilsner deck-chair brunch.
Order: The Fischbroetchen and a bottle of Astra on the beach.
Tip: Open daily Apr to Oct; bus 112 to Neumuehlen drops you a 10-minute walk from the beach.
Vincent Vegan at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof opened in 2021 and runs a fully vegan fast-food counter from 10:30 daily. Located in Altstadt. At Hachmannplatz 16.
Order: The vegan breakfast burger; the kebab.
Tip: Card payment only. Order at the terminal; you get an animal name when your order is ready.
Erika's Eck on Sternstrasse in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel runs a 21-hour-a-day breakfast and Imbiss menu, with Schnitzel, Mettwurst and Bratkartoffeln around.
Order: The open-faced Mettwurst Brot and the Bratkartoffeln plate.
Tip: Closed daily 14:00-17:00; open the other 21 hours. Cash and card both accepted.