Boston has an exciting culinary scene with restaurants offering a wide variety of cuisines. No matter what neighborhood you live in or which ones you visit, you can find excellent food any time of day, including brunch on the weekends. Brunch offers the best of breakfast and lunch, and the restaurants in Boston do it right. Here are some of the best places to get in the city.
Avenue Kitchen & Bar
Avenue Kitchen & Bar in Ball Square in Somerville has unique brunch menu items that you won’t find anywhere else. The menu includes bread pudding French toast, and a unique bacon burger benedict. This comes with a burger pattie, sliced bacon, cheddar cheese, and hollandaise sauce. You should also try the avocado toast benedict with multigrain bread, smashed avocado, tomato, crumbled feta, hemp seeds, and hollandaise. The breakfast bowls are also a hit. You can get bacon and Brie, the ranchero bowl, or the planted bowl without any meat.
Avenue Kitchen & Bar serves brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Pazza on Porter
Head to East Boston and the newly opened Pazza on Porter for dishes such as the bird’s nest made with breaded soft boiled eggs that are fried and served in a Parmesan cup with smoked prosciutto, or the lemon ricotta pancakes, which are a must. These buttermilk pancakes have fresh ricotta and lemon zest in the batter, and they come topped with fruit and blueberry honey butter. You’ll also find carbonara on the brunch menu along with the Pazza burger and Sunday dinner. This is fresh pasta with a ragu of pork loin, sirloin, sausage, and meatball.
Boston Chops
The South End location of Boston Chops offers brunch on the weekends. You can stop by for lobster benedict or a basil goat cheese omelet, or for bigger appetites, the steak, and eggs. This dish comes with a 5 oz. beef tournedo, eggs any style, homefries, and toast. The huevos rancheros are also an excellent choice. This is braised beef cheek, over easy eggs and avocado mousse, that all comes wrapped in a tortilla. Boston Chops brunch menu also features lunch items such as the burger with house bacon, BC sauce, and cheddar cheese, or the steak frites.
Cafe Luna
Best of Boston voted Cafe Luna best breakfast in 2019, and this includes their brunch menu. This is the place to go for a lobster and avocado omelet or a grilled pear, bacon, and Gorgonzola omelet. If you prefer a traditional Western omelet, you can get it here too, along with cinnamon swirl French toast, or double thick Belgian waffles. The house specialty lemon ricotta pancakes come topped with fresh berries and lemon curd, and you can also get buttermilk pancakes or Oreo buttermilk pancakes.
Another Cafe Luna favorite is the homemade corned beef hash. The plate comes with two poached eggs, and either toast or home fries.
Brunch in Boston means you can sleep in and still get your breakfast favorites on the weekends. These restaurants served an elevated version of brunch that is worth waiting for.
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