The Best Breakfast and Brunch Restaurants in Eugene, Oregon

Strong cups of coffee, eggs, and a stack of pancakes. This is the backbone of a traditional American breakfast — and you can find it all in Eugene. But the city’s restaurants and carts have far more than bacon and scrambled eggs on their menus for breakfast and brunch. Local mainstays like Studio One Cafe near the University of Oregon campus offer a variety of eggs Benedicts to pair with brunch mimosas, while there are increasingly more ways to grab a breakfast sandwich on the go thanks to spots like Lox, Stocks, and Bagels in South Eugene and Only Yolking, a breakfast cart serving egg-in-the-hole sandwiches in the Whit. For a little adventure, there’s even a Creswell entrant to the guide. From fancy small plates restaurants for a posh local brunch celebration to cafes with legit Texas-style breakfast tacos, here’s where to grab breakfast or brunch around the city.

If you’re planning to stick around for a while, Eater’s got a restaurant guide to Eugene for that.

Brenna Houck is a cities manager with Eater overseeing the Cascadia and Midwest regions. She graduated from the University of Oregon, and liked Eugene so much that she decided to move back after a decade away in chilly Detroit, Michigan. She thinks anyone who isn’t a breakfast person is weird.

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