The Best Breakfast Sandwiches in Chicago

Get completely ready to up your breakfast recreation with the subsequent guide in the Ambitious Kitchen area Chicago Series. Abra and I have been all about the city hunting for the ideal eats and treats about — test out the best salads, cookies & sandwiches! Try to remember to adhere to @AmbitiousKitchen on Instagram to see all of our guides and movies.

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We’re so psyched to share the absolute ideal breakfast sandwiches in Chicago that make the perfect, mouth watering weekend brunch or weekday decide on-me-up. These cafes and places to eat are a will have to-try out if you live in Chicago or if you are traveling to! You are going to recognize a pair of our favs that have been showcased in our earlier guides, so you know they are an wonderful go-to.

1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar from Sunflour Bakery & Cafe: 4250 N Marine Dr.
2. Biscuit Egg Breakfast Sandwich from Hexe Coffee Co.: 2000 W. Diversey Pkwy.
3. Steingold’s Classic Lox from Steingold’s Deli: 3737 N Southport Ave.
4. The Bestest Vendor from Smack Dab: 6730 N Clark St.
5. The Potato-Nator from Tempesta Current market: 1372 W. Grand Ave.
6. BLT + Egg on a Biscuit from The Biscuit Man: 1612 W Irving Park Rd.

Get just about every of the breakfast sandwich deets below!

Sunflour Bakery & Cafe

Abra 1st found out Sunflour Cafe when she moved to the Buena Park neighborhood and fell in enjoy with really a lot every single menu item. It is positioned inside the Go Grocer at the bottom of an apartment developing, so it’s really a hidden gem. They have excellent espresso beverages, mouth watering pastries sourced from about the city, home made vegan hummus with enjoyable flavors, and tons of incredible lunch & breakfast sandwiches. The sandwiches are tremendous new and their new baguettes are everyyyything.

• The Really Hungry Caterpillar: this breakfast sandwich does not mess all over. For these mornings wherever you need to have some serious sustenance, select up this delish sandwich with ham, scrambled eggs, cheddar, muenster, spinach, honey mustard and mayo on a toasted baguette. The baguette is good and toasty with the excellent, tender chew on the inside of. Abra isn’t a enormous mustard lover but the honey mustard adds a total new aspect to the sandwich. Indeed, it’s wonderful for splitting, also!

Hexe Coffee Co.

Hi, old friend! Hexe is back in our tutorial with a different need to-get menu item. We have shared their unbelievable vegan & gluten cost-free chocolate chip walnut cookie in our cookie guideline, and their scrumptious turkey sandwich in our primary sandwich guideline. They opened back again in 2019 and have astounding coffee beverages, baked products, cocktails, and of system, sandwiches. Now it is time to pull up to their patio, get a super entertaining coffee consume and get their famed breakfast sandwich.

• Biscuit Egg Breakfast Sandwich: I attempted this natural beauty a couple of weeks in the past and it was SO delectable and filling. Their savory biscuit has a ideal crumb and they leading it with scrambled egg, cheese, and your option of bacon or sausage. I went for the sausage mainly because it is handmade right there! Obsessed. They also give you jam on the facet mainly because who does not really like a sweet & savory combo? Their biscuit sandwich is served until finally it’s marketed out, so I recommend obtaining there proper in the early morning to snag one particular!

Steingold’s Deli

Steingold’s opened back in 2017 and rapidly turned a single of the most preferred bagel places in Chicago. They’re acknowledged for their one of a kind requires on regular Jewish deli recipes, and they were being named one particular of the very best eating places in Chicago by Food stuff Community past year less than the “Modern Deli” class. You will obtain the best, New York style bagels with that fantastic chew, additionally tons of sandwiches and sides like pastrami, lox, smoked whitefish salad, BLT, and more. They typically launch constrained version bagel & product cheese flavors on their Instagram, too! Every single weekend in May possibly they are showcasing a blueberry buttermilk pancake bagel with lemon ricotta maple cream cheese. OMG Yes.

• Steingold’s Common Lox: we switched it up from eggs to share the astounding signature lox sandwich. It is piled significant with residence remedied Skuna Bay lox, product cheese, crimson onion, tomato, capers and pickled cucumbers on your selection of bagel. We went with the everything bagel and chive cream cheese and the flavors were *chef’s kiss*. They surely do not skimp on the lox and the fresh new veggies insert the great balance. If you are a admirer of lox, this sandwich is a must try out in Chicago!

Smack Dab

We’re heading up north to Roger’s Park to find the coveted Smack Dab cafe. Abra found Smack Dab a pair of yrs back and it’s just one of her all-time favs. Not only do they have wonderful menu products like biscuit breakfast sandwiches (we’ll get to that), donuts, breakfast burritos, pleasurable coffee beverages & Friday night time pizzas, but they also function challenging to profit the neighborhood all over them. On the to start with Wednesday of every month, they serve up a no cost group supper with vegan & gluten free possibilities for anyone in the local community who would like/requirements 1. They also donate $1000 worth of food to The Love Fridge each month — a mutual aid group that performs to spot neighborhood fridges across the metropolis.

• The Bestest Vendor: this unbelievable breakfast sandwich has scrambled egg, cheese, sausage, garlic chive mayo & bacon jam on their signature tacky biscuit. The garlic chive mayo is extraordinary and the sweet & savory bacon jam takes this sammie to the following stage. Pair this sandwich with a delightful coffee consume like the “Spring in Blue-m Latte,” which has incredible blueberry sage syrup, and even a home made cake donut (rotating, enjoyable flavors!)

Tempesta Market place

You may possibly understand Tempesta from our sandwich guidebook simply because they’re really a person of the ideal in the biz for all forms of sandwiches. You’ll also uncover yummy sides, meats & cheese for charcuterie boards, wine & gelato in the market place, so there’s definitely something for everyone. It is a person of Abra’s all-time favs, so we experienced to get their famed breakfast sandwich.

• The Potato-Nator: *warning* this breakfast sammie is huge, messy and absolutely delightful. It has a massive hash brown patty, bacon, pickled purple onion, lettuce, tomato, American cheese, a sunnyside up egg, ‘nduja aioli and ‘nduja scorching sauce on a butter brioche bun. WHOA. This baby is more of a knife-and-fork sandwich and we’re not mad about it. Get some added napkins completely ready and pull up a chair on their seasonal patio with this just one!

The Biscuit Man

In situation you’re wanting to know if breakfast sandwiches are designed even improved on freshly baked biscuits, they are. The Biscuit Guy is counter-support style situated inside of of the Extended Home in Ravenswood — a cozy bar with unique cocktails, coffee & a roomy beer garden. Zeeshan Shah began The Biscuit Guy back again in 2015 after operating at lots of award-successful restaurants and bars in Chicago. You will uncover a go-to spot for one of a kind breakfast sandwiches all on comfortable, properly flaky, housmade biscuits. Get pleasure from it at the Extended Room bar or patio with a coffee consume or a very little brunch cocktail!

• BLT + Egg on a Biscuit: this wonderful biscuit sandwich has a tacky scrambled egg, bacon, spring lettuce, aioli and tomato jam. The tomato jam provides a wonderful sweetness paired with all of the savory things, and the biscuit is severely SO gentle and delightful. There is almost nothing worse than a dry biscuit, and The Biscuit Man certainly knocks it out of the park. We advise splitting this sandwich and their “Basic Biscuit,” which has their signature tomato jam and goat cheese. The combo is unreal.

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