Could you eat beignets for breakfast every day in NOLA? Probably. When your body needs anything other than fried dough before 10am, visit these places.
No shade to sugar grits—that's not the New Orleans way—Creole and Cajun-style eggs, and plenty of morning drinks—we rarely turn down a brandy milk punch, Bloody Mary, or bellini, especially when they're this fantastic.
Sometimes we sit outside at Jockey's, the tavern next to Toast near the Fairgrounds, around midnight watching and smelling the staff cook bread, sauces, and jellies for the next morning.
Powdered sugar-dusted puffed pancakes come with a variety of sauces, the tastiest being lemon curd.
Getting there between 6:30 and 7:30am on weekdays gets you two eggs, bacon, grits, a biscuit, and a cup of coffee for $8.Molly's is this restaurant group's morning middle child, following Turkey and the Wolf and Hungry Eyes.
The Garden District's breakfast spot isn't second to anyone. Food like country ham with hollow cheese puffs, fried chicken biscuits, and grand slam McMuffins with an American flag is so wonderful.