
Ben’s Bread demonstrates the easy great thing about the breakfast sandwich.
Self-contained and multifaceted, the breakfast sandwich is pretty much as good at waking folks up as it’s at placing them again to sleep. The formulation is easy—an egg or two, possibly some cheese. Presumably sausage or bacon. All inside some kind of bread that isn’t often simply bread. Seattle’s breakfast sandwich titans flip to biscuits, bagels, and all method of english muffins. Even the occasional pretzel challah roll or Japanese-style melonpan. It’s onerous to enhance on simplicity, however some pickled daikon or a hash brown patty is usually a welcome flex. Behold, the steaming-hot, paper-wrapped promise of Seattle’s absolute best breakfast sandwiches.

Morsel
College District
The city has just a few certified biscuit specialists, however this frill-free espresso store nails two important ability units: biscuits tall as a beehive and rippling with butter, and fillings sandwiched inside which might be intelligent sufficient to carry their very own amid all these fluffy carbs. The Spanish Fly—manchego cheese, arugula, peppery aioli, and egg yolk drizzling down folds of prosciutto—will impress you with its nuance, but additionally slay that hangover.
Sunny Up
Numerous
A meals truck devoted to breakfast sandwiches? The brilliance of this concept is matched solely by that of Sunny Up’s sandwiches, made with sq. telera rolls—the type used for Mexican tortas. Italian seasoning offers new dimension to the Sausage Patti Smith. The vegetarian Frida Avokahlo truly makes kale appear decadent. The Mia Ham, the Nina Smoked Salmone, the Ruth Tater Ginsburg all pack a formidable quantity of culinary intrigue. The one factor higher than the femtastic sandwich names: these harissa-dusted hash browns.

Melissa Johnson greets the morning (and a buyer) at Volunteer Park Cafe.
Volunteer Park Cafe and Pantry
Capitol Hill
Baker Melissa Johnson channels the common-or-garden bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches of her Lengthy Island childhood. However certainly her neighborhood deli wasn’t spreading eggs in a pan to cook dinner skinny as a crepe, then folding the fragile outcomes right into a housemade poppy seed roll with American cheese and bacon, must you need it (it’s best to need it). The steamy filling softens the roll a tick, making this a uncommon sandwich that will get higher because it travels.
Peloton
Central District
The bicycle store–slash–cafe may coast (argh, no pun meant) on the inherent Seattle-ness of motorbike chain repairs and vegan avocado toast underneath one roof. As a substitute, the newly expanded cafe presents greens as an act of indulgence. The home breakfast sandwich (like most dishes right here) is available in vegetarian, vegan, and “bursting with sausage” variations; ciabatta is a complicated changeup from biscuits and english muffins. If morning feels a little bit early for sophistication, contemplate the Scorching Mess, a Midwestern tater tot casserole masquerading as a sandwich.

Nice State Burger
Numerous
Think about the fast-food breakfast of carefree youth, rebuilt with grown-up elements: native eggs, nitrate-free bacon, english muffins from Rudi’s. However the native burger chainlet achieves breakfast greatness you solely dream of at a drive-through: an extra-crunchy hash brown patty tucked contained in the sandwich. How did this not change into normal many years in the past?
B-Facet
Capitol Hill
How can a tiny spot with an excellent tinier menu reduce such an imposing determine on our breakfast panorama? It begins with an egg and Beecher’s Flagship cheddar, seemingly innocuous inside a righteously toasted english muffin. However inexperienced onion punches up the egg, and pickled daikon forges an unlikely alliance with nation ham from the well-known Benton’s in Tennessee. Like the remainder of B-Facet’s menu, it remixes flavors throughout continents, then finishes issues off with distinctive sizzling sauce.

To construct a greater breakfast sandwich, Saint Bread appeared to Japan.
Saint Bread
College District
Can one of many city’s finest breakfast sandwiches actually be this simple? The model at this Portage Bay bakery, housed in a former motorboat restore store, is all about including dimension to the necessities. Japanese-style melonpan buns sport a crisp cookie cap and an sudden whisper of cardamom. American cheese tops the fried egg, doing its patriotic obligation to assist this suave sandwich channel its internal McDonald’s breakfast.
Queen Anne Espresso Co.
Queen Anne
A simple café retains its home breakfast sandwich easy—egg, slab of cheddar, the crunchiest bacon. As a result of actually, it’s only a framing gadget for a swaggering knot of challah pretzel bun. Each comes studded with salt and sporting the sturdy softness of the ladies in a Dove advert marketing campaign. Even higher—it’s out there all day.

Breakfast stacks up at Rachel’s Bagels and Burritos (which additionally makes nice biscuits).

Rachel’s Bagels and Burritos additionally makes a restrained biscuit sandwich.
Rachel’s Bagels and Burritos
Ballard, Lake Metropolis
A pleasant byproduct of Seattle’s bagel growth: all these nice bagel sandwiches. When the previous Pork Chop and Co. went all in on its bagel and burrito alter ego, it enshrined a breakfast sandwich lineup that traipses by way of all of the meals teams. Roasted pork loin with hummus; scrambled egg with kale and mushrooms; slabs of roasted delicata with prosciutto and truffle cream cheese. The combos reveal this place’s restaurant roots, however the ability degree on the bagels out the bakers as completed dough nerds. Sure, the burritos are additionally nice, however the duo of biscuit sandwiches deserve your consideration.
Dahlia Bakery
Belltown
The english muffins that anchor Tom Douglas’s enduring breakfast sandwiches are puffier, extra free-form than the same old tightly scripted rounds. The Severe Pie–Dahlia Bakery hybrid nonetheless fills them with grown-up takes on breakfast flavors: completely fried egg, a number of arugula, a number of spice within the aioli. T-Doug’s Severe Biscuits are again, however these basic sandwiches stand the take a look at of time.
Little Jaye
South Park
If this offshoot of West Seattle’s Woman Jaye had been wherever aside from an workplace park tucked between two highways, it will be completely mobbed always with Instagrammers posing underneath the enormous portrait of Bob Ross portray Dolly Parton and Anthony Bourdain as American Gothic. However as a substitute of getting to attend in a large line, clients can waltz proper in for a breakfast smashwich. The delicate roll simply barely accommodates a McDonald’s-style crispy hash brown, runny fried egg, and lacy-edged smash-cooked sausage patty. A slice of American cheese and slather of spicy mayo pull it collectively, but when that lacks sufficient hearth, Little Jaye shares a formidable assortment of sizzling sauces.

The “fancy” breakfast sandwich, weekend’s solely at Ben’s Bread.
Ben’s Bread Co.
Phinney Ridge
My sympathies to the folks for whom this bakery isn’t on the best way to work, as a result of, to paraphrase the nice Seattle-based movie 10 Issues I Hate About You, the distinction between like and love is that I like the weekend breakfast sandwich at Ben’s Bread, however I love the weekday model. And in case you love the “fancy” weekend model? Perhaps that’s since you haven’t had the weekday one. Each have the velvety easy squares of souffled egg, however the weekend model prices $1.50 extra, and trades out the famend sourdough english muffin for a brioche bun and the American cheese for Beecher’s Dulcet. On weekdays, clients can improve with crispy bacon, on weekends it’s sausage or greens. Each are good, however breakfast sandwiches are an on a regular basis pleasure, at their finest when easy and nice.
Mas Cafe
Wallingford
It’s the small issues that make Mas Cafe’s breakfast sandwich so a lot better than the same old good-enough neighborhood café model. Extra particularly, the small bacon. See, by chopping the heaping pile of crisped meat, Mas demonstrates a deep understanding of the mechanics of a breakfast sandwich: Each chew carries the meaty taste, and the extraordinarily melty white cheddar holds it in place. The lacy-edged egg is cooked sufficient that the yolk gently seeps into the remainder of the sandwich with out spurting out or soaking the toasted bun, the caramelized onions rival the unique Paseo, and flecks of cilantro and crimson pepper add further oomph. Mas additionally provides a little bit extra colour to the morning with a rainbow of Mexican-style recent fruit and vegetable juices.