Breakfast & Brunch in Sturgeon Bay

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

• Get Real Cafe

  Order the GRC tuna melt, sustainably caught skipjack on house-baked bread. Owner Veronica Ripp is a Cordon Bleu-trained chef who keeps much of the menu organic and made from scratch, down to the gluten-free sourdough she bakes from her own recipe and the fresh organic juices.

• Gloria's Authentic Mexican Restaurant

  Order the pollo Chihuahua: grilled chicken breast under mushrooms, peppers, onions, and crumbled bacon, blanketed in sharp Chihuahua cheese and poblano sauce. The Ramirez family named the place for German's mother, Gloria, and built the kitchen around her recipes from Chihuahua and Michoacán, in the old Andre's Supper Club building on West Oak Street.

• Gnoshery, The

  Order the Monte Cristo: ham, turkey, and Swiss on French toast brioche with a side of blueberry sauce for dipping. It comes out of the kitchen at this downtown Sturgeon Bay board game café, an offshoot of the Gnome Games tabletop shop, where you eat with a game from the library of 100-plus titles open on the table.

• Morning Glory by the Bay

  The downtown Sturgeon Bay outpost of Morning Glory Restaurant, opened in September 2020 by German and Nery Ramirez in the former Lola May space on Third Avenue. It's a small room with harbor-view windows serving the same all-day breakfast and lunch as the original south of town; the hash brown omelette is a reliable full-plate pick.

• Morning Glory Of Door County Restaurant

  The hash brown omelette is the plate to get: two eggs and ham loaded with onions, green peppers, and mushrooms, then buried under a heap of hash browns and cheese sauce. The kitchen off Highway 42-57 opens at 6 a.m., which makes it a solid first stop before a day up the peninsula.

• Scaturo's Baking Co. & Cafe

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  A downtown bakery and cafe covering breakfast, lunch, and coffee in one easy stop.

• Sunrise Food & Drinks

  A family-run spot on the Egg Harbor Road edge of Sturgeon Bay serving Mexican and American breakfast and lunch, open daily from 7 to 3. Order a proper Mexican breakfast (the huevos rancheros), and note the street tacos don't start until 11.