Chez Panisse Cafe ★ 4.7
Chez Panisse Cafe serves a la carte California lunch Tuesday to Saturday. Pizza, rotisserie chicken and salads. The most accessible Alice Waters experience.
Where to brunch in Berkeley. The morning rooms worth the queue, and the kitchens still doing it right at noon.
Brunch picks
Gather Restaurant ★ 4.3
Gather's weekend brunch Saturday and Sunday. Farm-sourced egg dishes, grain bowls and plant-forward plates. Hotel Shattuck dining room fills fast. Book ahead.
La Note ★ 4.2
Berkeley's most in-demand weekend brunch. Provencal courtyard with pain perdu, lavender lemonade and eggs with herbes de Provence. Waits run 30-45 minutes.
Angeline's Louisiana Kitchen ★ 4.1
Cajun weekend brunch: shrimp and grits, biscuits and red-eye gravy, New Orleans French toast and eggs Creole. House-spiced Bloody Marys. Live music Sundays.
Saul's Restaurant and Deli ★ 4.1
Berkeley Jewish deli for weekend brunch. Lox and bagels, matzo brei, pastrami eggs and Dr. Brown's soda. Open from 09:00. Booths fill by 10:30 on Saturdays.
Eggy's Neighborhood Kitchen ★ 3.9
Gourmet Ghetto brunch with a plant-filled patio. Fried Chicken and Waffles Benedict, omelets, Avocado Toast and mimosas. Open from 09:30 six days a week.
Homemade Cafe ★ 3.9
Berkeley breakfast institution since 1979. Challah French toast, omelets, Southern specials and biscuits. Budget-friendly, no frills, genuinely good.
Boichik Bagels ★ 4.4
Nationally acclaimed best bagels in America. Available from 07:30 daily until sold out. Smoked salmon on an everything bagel is the Berkeley Sunday pick.