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In choosing our picks for the best breakfast in New England, we focused on places that serve breakfast every day, not just on weekends. We wanted a mix of new spots and old-timers, classic fare and modern. We also looked for varied menus with lots of sweets and savories…and, of course, consistently delicious food.

Best Breakfast in Connecticut

Bella’s Cafe, New Haven

Owner Rose Foote is a third-generation restaurateur and her particular talent is putting a fresh spin on classic breakfast fare, all in a cozy space in the city’s Westville neighborhood. We love the shrimp and grits served with a homemade buttermilk biscuit, the gussied-up pancakes (carrot cake! Oreo!), the stuffed French toast, and the wild mushroom omelet, all washed down with a cappuccino or a tall glass of fresh-squeezed OJ. And here, breakfast is served all day, so sleep in if you’d like.

Best Breakfast in Maine

Palace Diner, Biddeford

The Palace’s concept is to take diner classics and rework them until they achieve the Platonic ideal of, say, the buttermilk pancake or egg sandwich. Because the kitchen is tiny (just a few feet across), there’s no room for anything extraneous. Every dish has been brought to its essential and perfect form. Do try the corned beef hash, if only on the side. And be sure to arrive early or off-season: The summer weekend wait can be intense.

Best Breakfast in the Boston Area

Lincoln Tavern, South Boston

Whether you crave something sweet, savory, or both, Lincoln Tavern has you covered. Among the signature bites: Fruity Pebbles-studded pancakes topped with cereal milk crème anglaise, breakfast pizza with eggs, bacon, roasted tomatoes, and caramelized onions, and steak and egg chilaquiles in a tangy ranchero sauce. The bar serves up cocktails that are just as decadent as the food—try the iced coffee with Absolut vanilla and Irish cream liqueur. Just know that weekend crowds can be serious, so arrive early or try a weekday instead.

Best Breakfast in Massachusetts

Haven Cafe & Bakery, Lenox

As anyone in Lenox where to eat breakfast and they’ll send you here. This beloved spot earns its kudos with carefully sourced ingredients (locally sourced eggs, organic grain, real maple syrup), an imaginative menu, and a deft hand in the kitchen. A scramble of eggs and smoked salmon is topped with onion confit and served over spinach, avocado toast comes on terrific toasted sourdough, and the pastry counter is loaded with homemade muffins, sticky buns, coffee cakes, and other delights. If you’ve never had breakfast polenta, sliced, griddled, and topped with maple syrup, you’re in for a treat.

Best Breakfast in New Hampshire

Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery, Hanover

Come from the fresh, still-warm donuts, the house-made corned beef hash, and the Cruller French Toast (day-old donuts dipped in egg and griddled to give them an airy interior and a crisp exterior. And if you can, save room for a slice of homemade pie (we love the apple and coconut cream) to finish it off. Lou’s has been serving its singular breakfasts for nearly 80 years and no trip to the Upper Valley would be complete without a stop here. College towns tend to support great breakfast joints, but Lou’s is in a class of its own.

Best Breakfast in Rhode Island

The Cooked Goose, Westerly

This cute cottage-style spot with a view of the Pawcatuck River is the perfect coastal breakfast spot. We’re crazy about the cinnamon roll pancakes and the Spicy Breakfast Tartine (avocado toast topped with 2 eggs, micro greens, and house-made chili crisp). You can order skillet home fries topped with cheddar, bacon, and sour cream or sausage gravy or nacho-style. And not only is the orange juice freshly squeezed, but the granola, coffee cake, and corned beef has are made in-house.

Best Breakfast in Vermont

Mountain Creamery, Woodstock

Homemade sausage and eggs, fluffy buttermilk pancakes and omelets, thick French toast with real maple syrup, or a smoked salmon scramble with a bagel and cream cheese on the side…have your pick. This Vermont stalwart was locavore before locavore was cool. Owner Boris Pilsmaker has a farm just up the road that supplies the diner with beef, pork, turkey, eggs, and vegetables in season. This is a familiar, comfortable place serving familiar, comfortable food, with a commitment to quality and making almost everything in house.

Do you have a favorite New England breakfast spot? Let us know in the comments below!

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This Strawberry-Rhubarb Coffee Cake recipe dates back nearly 40 years, to the kitchen of my grandmother Mary. The daughter of Lithuanian immigrants, she married a first-generation son from Emilia-Romagna and dutifully applied her kitchen talents to his heritage as much as hers. So it was her fried dough recipe—not my fully Italian nonni’s—that yielded the best frittelle on Saint Joseph’s Day.

But of all her standouts, there are two dishes I hold most dear, and the fact that they are both desserts probably says more about my predilections than it does her cooking. Her apple crisp, which we have published in these pages, remains my go-to dessert for fall dinner parties, for comfort, for a visceral memory of her. And then there’s her rhubarb bread, which is tender, sweet-tart, and moist (it’s made, midcentury-style, with vegetable oil instead of butter), with a crunchy sugar topping that always leaves me wanting more.

I still love that rhubarb recipe, but I longed to pretty up its brown-on-brown color palette and add more of that addictive topping. So I doubled the latter, and I added strawberries to both batter and topping for flavor and a pop of color. Switching the baking vessel from a loaf pan to a cake pan increased the surface area, making the results crunchier, not to mention prettier.

Strawberry-Rhubarb Coffee Cake Recipe

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Getting ready for a weekend brunch or looking for the perfect recipe to bake and take to a friend in need? Here’s a roundup of our favorite coffee cake recipes from the Yankee archives.

7 Favorite Coffee Cake Recipes

Apple-Studded Brown-Butter Streusel Coffee Cake

Cooking butter until it turns a rich brown color adds a nutty flavor to this addictive confection. In fact, I don’t think it’s possible to pack in more appealing elements here: buttermilk batter, warm spices, streusel topping, browned butter, and lots of apples.

Best Sour Cream Coffee Cake

“… When we cousins do get together, the host or hostess arises early to make “Aunt Ginny’s Coffee Cake” — which we think is the best sour cream coffee cake out there — for the rest of us. It’s equally good with ice-cold milk or steaming coffee.”

Blueberry Buckle Coffee Cake

Made with wild Maine blueberries and a cinnamon crumb topping, this old-fashioned blueberry buckle recipe is a New England summer favorite. We prefer the flavor of the smaller wild blueberries, but regular blueberries work, too.

Strawberry-Rhubarb Coffee Cake

Made with buttermilk, brown sugar, and fresh fruit, this strawberry rhubarb coffee cake recipe is an early summer family favorite.

Cardamom Crumb Coffee Cake

Cardamom buns are traditional Christmas fare for Scandinavians, which got us thinking about other ways to incorporate the warm and sweetly aromatic spice into a coffee cake. We decided to rework a classic crumb cake by leaving the cinnamon in the streusel and adding cardamom to the cake batter. An inspired combination!

Crumb Coffee Cake

Like the sour cream coffee cake, crumb cake was a Northern European invention, originally prepared with a yeast-raised dough but simplified in the 20th century with the use of chemical leaveners like baking powder. It’s generally thought of as a New York specialty, but it’s found all through New England as well.

Rhubarb Coffee Cake

This rhubarb coffee cake works equally well when served for breakfast, a snack, or dessert (or all three in one day). Rhubarb provides a subtle tartness, while the topping provides a great sweetness and crunchiness.

What tops your list of favorite coffee cake recipes?

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