Where to brunch in Hiroshima: morning spots worth the queue.
Where to brunch in Hiroshima. The morning rooms worth the queue, and the kitchens still doing it right at noon.
Rue Brazil opens at 07:00 in Hiroshima with the morning set the city is credited with inventing: bread, a boiled egg, salad and a cup of coffee.
Order: Morning set A with bread, boiled egg, salad and coffee
Tip: Morning sets stop at 10:30, after which the room switches to sandwiches, curry rice and buttered toast.
Kissa Saeki serves an organic morning in central Hiroshima, and its vegan salad set appears for exactly one hour before the lunch menu replaces it.
Order: The vegan salad set between 10:00 and 11:00
Tip: Weekend service ends at 17:00 with last orders at 16:30, so the morning window is genuinely the best of it.
MoreThan opens at 07:00 on the ground floor of The Knot in Hiroshima, running breakfast, lunch, an afternoon cafe and dinner as four separate services.
Order: The morning plate before the 09:30 last entry
Tip: Last entry for the morning service is 09:30, after which the kitchen changes over to the lunch menu at 11:00.
Hiroshima Andersen runs a bakery market and cafe inside a converted Hondori bank, which makes it the easiest bread-led brunch in the whole city centre.
Order: A Danish pastry and coffee from the ground-floor market
Tip: The bakery market opens at 10:00; the upstairs restaurant keeps separate hours and posts closures on its own channels.
WILDMAN BAGEL opens at 08:00 midweek near Peace Memorial Park, boiling and baking about 20 kinds of levain bagel that stand in for a plated breakfast.
Order: The chewy plain levain bagel, raised on the shop's own homemade starter
Tip: Weekend opening moves to 09:00 and the racks can empty well before the posted 18:00 close, so come early and eat on the park benches over the river.
LUCKY BAKERY opens at 09:30 every day inside Gate Park, where Hiroshima-wheat loaves, rice-flour breads and vegan rolls assemble into an easy picnic brunch.
Order: Hand-kneaded campagne with a salt-kombu rice-flour bread
Tip: It runs every day of the year, covering Monday and Tuesday mornings when WILDMAN BAGEL is shut; the rice-flour breads sell through by evening.