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Where to eat early in the morning
Before 7am, most restaurants are closed. The places that are open — diners, bakeries, breakfast taquerias, Chinese bakeries, dim sum houses, doughnut shops — are a particular world, and some of them are at their best at dawn.
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Early-opening restaurants serve people starting their workday: construction crews, nurses, commuters, travellers. They tend to be quick, cheap and hearty.
Bakeries and doughnut shops are best early, when everything is fresh from the oven. By mid-morning the best items are often sold out.
Opening hours vary and change, especially around holidays. Check before you go, particularly if you're relying on one place before an early flight or shift.
What to look for early in the morning:
- Confirmed early hours — Open by 6 or 6:30am.
- Fresh baking — Bakeries and doughnut shops.
- Quick service — Counter or diner.
- Coffee that's good — Essential at that hour.
- Something to take away — Breakfast burritos, sandwiches, pastries.
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Savor Scout takes a sentence rather than a category, so the criteria above can go straight into the box. For this, something like “open early, breakfast, coffee, quick” works — it reads menus and reviews for those specific things and comes back with one place and the reasons it picked it.
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What usually goes wrong
Assuming listed hours are accurate, brunch spots that don't open until 9, and long sit-down breakfasts when you're short of time.
What to eat
Worth considering here: Breakfast burritos, Donuts, Bakeries, diners, Biscuits and gravy.