Breakfast & Brunch in Fish Creek

7 places, each with a quick take from us — kept current as hours and seasons change.

• Blue Horse Beach Cafe

  $

  A coffee and breakfast spot across from the beach in Fish Creek: an easy pairing with beach time.

• Donuts By Design

  Build your own donut here: pick the base, a filling, a frosting, and three toppings (more if you want them). This Fish Creek shop makes them fresh and hands them over warm, so the fun of choosing pays off on the first bite.

• Julie's Park Cafe & Motel

  $$

  The simplest possible pick if Peninsula State Park is the whole point of the trip: a small motel right at the park entrance.

• Shiny Moon Cafe

  Climb the stairs above the Fish Creek Market for the duck confit hash with banana peppers and a rotating single-origin drip. The cafe comes from Angie and John McMahon, who started Door County Brewing Co. in Baileys Harbor before turning to breakfast and lunch.

• The Cookery

  $$

  Order the whitefish chowder. Forty-plus years in and it's still the benchmark.

• Welcker's Lounge

  Steve and Lisa Devroy turned an 1889 building that once crossed the Green Bay ice by horse team into a 1920s speakeasy, with staff in period dress and an original grand piano still anchoring the room. Order the Wisconsin Old Fashioned during the 3-to-5 happy hour, or the Fresh Catch Pretzel that arrives on a hook.

• White Gull Inn

  $$$ · Fish boil nights vary by season — reserve ahead.

  The definitive Door County fish boil, and their cherry-stuffed French toast won Good Morning America's best-breakfast title for a reason.