National Brunch Price Index

Plan your brunch.
Know your budget.

Compare documented menu prices, check what’s included and estimate your order.

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How the research works

Golden waffle sandwich and fries with The Flying Cock flag at the New York City restaurant
The Flying Cock, New York City. Top Brunch Spots photo collection.
Priced observations
556
Restaurant branches
179
Places
131

Coverage across all 50 states and Washington, DC.

This publisher-selected panel describes the restaurants and items collected. Local coverage varies.

The findings

Brunch prices, dish by dish.

These categories offer different starting points for a food budget.

All dish categories and sample sizes
Descriptive Category Summaries
CategoryNamed PricesBranchesObserved RangeMedian Of Branch Examples
Avocado Toast3333$10.00 To $24.00$15.25
Breakfast Burrito3029$10.25 To $28.00$16.00
Breakfast Sandwich4946$6.00 To $22.00$15.00
Breakfast Tacos11$15.00 To $15.00$15.00
Breakfast Wrap11$20.00 To $20.00$20.00
Chicken And Waffles3131$10.95 To $26.00$17.00
Egg Breakfast1716$9.95 To $20.00$16.48
Eggs Benedict8668$10.95 To $39.25$19.00
French Toast7669$9.00 To $28.00$16.00
Omelette6749$9.69 To $30.00$17.00
Other Breakfast Main1313$13.00 To $24.00$16.00
Pancakes7268$6.00 To $26.00$15.00
Shrimp And Grits99$10.95 To $29.00$21.00
Steak And Eggs3333$15.00 To $39.00$28.00
Waffles3532$8.99 To $28.00$15.95

The details

Check what comes with it.

A pancake stack and a breakfast with eggs, potatoes and bacon are different orders.

Compare portions, included sides and optional additions before deciding which price fits your plans.

Portions

Serving size and number of items.

Included sides

What comes with the listed dish.

Optional additions

Drinks, extras and supplements.

Open the source menu to inspect the details.

Your order

Build your brunch budget.

Choose a dish and party size. Add verified coffee where available.

Compare a defined main-and-coffee order with tax context, or use the nationwide dish planner below.

Build your estimate

Each tool states its scope. Main-and-coffee estimates include modeled tax where established; the nationwide planner excludes tax. Optional tips and unconfirmed charges are excluded.

New Research: Main + Coffee

Look Beyond The Price Of The Plate

Explore 30 specified orders at 11 branches in 10 cities. Check the meal, coffee, published charges and tax before setting your budget.

Selected menu examples, checked October 25, 2026. Dishes and coffee types differ. Estimates are conditional; final bills have not been verified.

$33

A Breakfast With Coffee Included

Lumière’s American Breakfast includes eggs, bacon, potatoes, toast and a choice of coffee, tea or juice. Adding another coffee price would overstate this order.

Los Angeles Menu

$1

A Refill Can Be A Separate Purchase

Two Hands lists a $4 drip coffee and a $1 refill on both the Dallas and Nashville branch menus. Buttermilk Kitchen lists its $5 drip coffee as bottomless.

Inspect The Branch Sources

4%

A Published Charge Changes The Calculation

At Residents in Washington, a $20 pancake order plus $6 drip coffee models at $29.74 with its 4% charge and 10% tax, before optional tip. This assumes a pre-tax charge base and excludes unconfirmed charges. Group stacking remains unresolved.

Washington Menu

The same order is repeated for every diner. Optional tips are excluded. A group gratuity may already apply; check the conditions before adding a tip.

Love Life Cafe Miami

2616 NW 5 Ave, Miami, FL 33127, United States

Breakfast Burrito + americano. 1 diner.

Main × 1
$17.75
Coffee × 1
$4.50
Menu subtotal
$22.25
Published charge model
Unestablished
Tax model
Unestablished

Combined Model Unavailable

Use the verified menu components; the unresolved terms prevent a combined estimate.

  • Miami’s additional restaurant levy depends on branch licensing and revenue conditions that are not established here.
Inclusions, Charge Conditions And Sources

Included: One listed breakfast burrito; substitutions excluded.

Coffee: One Americano; size and refill terms unknown. Refill terms are unestablished unless a price is shown. Coffee types and sizes differ between branches.

Charges: No applicable charge documented for this selection; other charges remain unconfirmed. Additional-charge policy not established. Americano is explicitly different from drip coffee.

Tax: 6% state plus 1% county surtax is established. A separate 1% restaurant levy depends on on-premises alcohol licensing and gross revenue over $400,000, subject to geographic exceptions. The branch revenue condition is not established publicly. Its combined rate and tax-inclusive model are withheld.

Checked October 25, 2026. Actual final bill unverified. No restaurant contact or transaction observation.

All 30 Orders, Branch Sources And Remaining Gaps

Each row is a named main with its listed coffee choice, before charges, tax and optional tips. These meals are not identical baskets. Open an order to inspect its tax and fee conditions.

What Remains Unestablished

Miami’s branch-specific restaurant levy eligibility; some group gratuity tax treatment and percentage bases; Residents’ simultaneous charge bases; and any undisclosed mandatory or payment charges. Missing terms remain unknown. No menu model is a certified final bill.

Meal Research Methods And Downloads
Scope
30 specified main-and-coffee orders at 11 branches in 10 priority cities, selected for usable official menus. Ten operator groups; the two Two Hands branches share an operator. Supplement to the national 556-price panel, not an additional 30 unique national observations.
Collection
Official menu and government-source review on October 25, 2026. Archived collection timestamps can fall on October 26 UTC. Prices can change after checking.
Unit
One named main with its listed inclusions and one specified coffee choice per diner. Coffee is included only where the named main explicitly includes it. Sizes, dishes and coffee types differ; these are exact orders, not a standardized basket or city average.
Calculation
Integer cents; each modeled charge and aggregate tax rounded half up to the nearest cent. One selected order repeated for every diner. Restaurant per-item rounding or actual billing may differ. Optional tips, alcohol, substitutions, other purchases, delivery and unconfirmed charges are excluded.
Fees
Published rates and party thresholds are evidence; a percentage base is not assumed to be confirmed. A single taxable surcharge can be illustrated conditionally on the pre-tax food-and-drink subtotal. Multiple simultaneous charges, unknown gratuity tax treatment or an unresolved branch tax rate prevent a combined model. Removable charges have separate retained and removed scenarios.
Missingness
No charge disclosure is not evidence of no charges. No receipt or operator-confirmed final bill was collected. All model totals are conditional and actual final bills remain unverified. Unknown refill terms prevent a refill estimate; they never mean a free refill.
Geography
Dine-in branch addresses only. Chicago and Nashville special-district boundaries were checked against public address points and the effective 2026 official boundary descriptions or map. Miami restaurant levy eligibility is unresolved. Rates are scoped to this edition, not general advice for every transaction.
Comparability
Do not rank cities or describe national affordability, typical consumer spending, hidden-fee prevalence, inflation or price changes from this convenience sample. Package differences and shared operators matter. A one-time observation is not a time series.
Tracking
These exact branch, dish, portion, coffee and policy identifiers form the repeat-collection baseline. Future matched observations must retain source dates, changes in inclusion and explicit missingness. Renamed dishes and menu replacements are not automatically price increases.
Corrections
Top Brunch Spots is responsible for selection and calculations. Report a correction through the site contact page, identifying the branch, order, source and date. Public-source research only; no restaurant messages or consumer survey responses are part of these findings.

The original national panel and its downloads retain their separate version. These orders overlap that panel and must not be added to its observation count.

Find a dish

This is the preserved national menu snapshot. For the 11 rechecked branches, inspect the expanded main-and-coffee research. Residents’ dish names differ between source captures; that difference is not a measured price change.

553 individual-main examples and 3 per-person packages, labeled separately.

556 Source-Linked Price Observations

Prefer the complete file? Download All Named Prices And Sources.

Estimate your order

This comparison uses the original national snapshot and excludes tax. The main-and-coffee model has the expanded branch checks and tax context.

Compare one listed dish per person at two restaurants. Different servings are not standardized meals.

Catherine Rooney’s

1616 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, DE 19806

French Toast · $13.00 Per Person · Individual Main

Food
$26.00
Selected Coffee
Not Included
Documented Charges
$0.00

$26.00

Food And Selected Coffee Only; Charge Rules Unconfirmed

    Food and selected coffee only. Additional-charge rules were not established; this is not a complete bill.

    Menu, policies and sources

    Additional-charge rules were not established. Missing terms do not mean zero charges.

    Friday 11 AM to 2 PM; Saturday and Sunday 10 AM to 2 PM.

    Official Food Source · Checked 2026-10-25

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    Le Cavalier

    42 West 11th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

    Brioche French Toast · $19.00 Per Person · Individual Main

    Food
    $38.00
    Selected Coffee
    Not Included
    Documented Charges
    $1.14

    $39.14

    Modeled Subtotal Before Tax And Optional Tip

    • Sustainability Surcharge: 3%: $1.14

    Includes only the documented applicable charge shown below. Other terms were not exhaustively verified.

    Menu, policies and sources

    The menu lists 3% on all checks and 20% gratuity for six or more. The combined charge base is unresolved; a combined amount is withheld when both apply.

    Saturday 10 AM to 3 PM; Sunday 9 AM to 3 PM.

    Official Food Source · Checked 2026-10-25

    Official Charge Source · Checked 2026-10-25

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    The research

    Follow the evidence.

    Inspect the sources, dates and calculations behind each finding.

    1. Official menu
    2. Verified observation
    3. Calculation
    4. Finding
    Source-check period
    October 22–25, 2026
    Original panel: regular-coffee prices
    8 branches
    Original panel: charge policies
    18 branches

    Most covered places have one sampled branch. Unknown policies remain unknown.

    The national panel is a baseline snapshot. The main-and-coffee supplement has separate sources and methods. Price-change findings require comparable future observations.

    Full methodology and limitations
    What This Study Measures
    Published dine-in breakfast and brunch menu examples at the exact restaurants listed in this edition. All 50 states and Washington, DC have approved prices. The dataset is a publisher-selected panel, not a registry of all U.S. restaurants or a probability sample of diners.
    How Restaurants Were Selected
    The full existing inventory was audited for discovery. Collection then followed 1,665 U.S. branch candidates in the existing city shortlists plus 27 researched branches in the nine added state markets. Existing source-linked pilot observations were retained. Accessible, eligible prices were approved; blocked, unpriced and ambiguous sources remain in the collection ledger. The much larger inventory outside this collection panel remains a discovery frame, not measured price evidence.
    Dishes, Portions And Packages
    Each row is one named dish at one exact branch and its published price in USD. Recipes, portion counts, included sides and meal periods differ. A full griddle set may contain eggs and meat; a plain stack may not. Packages, children’s items, sides, sharing plates, beverages and ordering-only prices are not pooled into individual-main statistics.
    Source Verification
    Manual source reviews retain official menu and identity URLs. Structured entries require a matched official street address and ZIP, an eligible meal section, and a named menu item with an adjacent visible price matching its menu data. Ambiguous, conflicting and multi-location cases are withheld. Editorial QA removed a side misclassified in menu data and corrected sandwich categories. Restaurant operators have not independently confirmed every price, and no independent methods review is claimed.
    Category Summaries
    Category summaries use the median of selected prices within each branch, then the median of those branch medians. Counts, ranges, place coverage and source groups accompany the summaries. These describe this panel. They are not national consumer-spend estimates or standardized baskets, and should not be used to declare a city cheapest.
    Geographic Definitions
    States are assigned to the four Census regions and nine divisions. Places follow restaurant postal addresses; municipal boundaries were not independently geocoded. A suburb keeps its own location rather than inheriting a parent guide’s city. Overlapping guide associations never duplicate a branch nationally. International and unresolved territory guides stay outside the U.S. region totals.
    Order Calculations
    The planner models one selected named item and, where requested, one verified regular-coffee order per person. Prices are converted to integer cents before multiplication. Tax, optional gratuities, other purchases, booking and seating availability are not inferred. A modeled order is not an observed bill.
    Charges And Payment Conditions
    Required, removable, group-threshold and payment-dependent charges remain separate. Unspecified payment with a relevant payment-dependent fee withholds the combined estimate. Multiple applicable charges with an unresolved stacking base withhold the total. An unverified policy does not become a zero-fee promise. Cash/debit scenarios do not establish all possible payment terms.
    Coffee Comparisons
    Only a priced regular-coffee order verified for the same branch is modeled. Cup sizes and refills are not standardized. No coffee amount is substituted from another restaurant or chain branch. Extra coffee is withheld for packages with unresolved beverage inclusions.
    Collection Dates
    Individual rows preserve their actual source-check dates from October 22 to October 25, 2026. A retrieval date does not prove the menu was newly printed. Older or undated files currently linked by operators retain that limitation; users should confirm changes directly.
    Missing Information
    Source URLs attempted, successful responses, branch candidates, approved prices, policy-reviewed branches and coffee-priced branches are distinct denominators. HTTP success is not editorial approval. The downloadable panel ledger retains unapproved candidates and scope gaps; missing prices, fees, hours or ownership are not imputed.
    Weighting And Sensitivity
    Branches with many selected dishes do not receive extra weight within category medians. Regional and category mix can still affect pooled descriptions. Source-domain groups are reported only as clustering proxies, not verified ownership counts. No population weights, margins of error, inflation rate, or restaurant affordability ranking is produced.
    Interpretation Limits
    Accessible-menu and prior editorial selection create bias. Small state or local samples cannot represent all local restaurants. Mains with different portions and inclusions are not equivalent meals. The source-linked explorer supports specific choices and reported menu examples; it does not measure actual diner behavior, transactions, service quality, taste, or typical total spending.
    Updates And Corrections
    This version is a source snapshot. Rechecks must preserve branch and item identities, portions, dates and charge terms. Expanding coverage is not inflation. Corrected or withdrawn observations require a new version and a change note; the original baseline and five-city pilot downloads remain unchanged.
    Editorial Responsibility
    Top Brunch Spots compiled the study. Official restaurant menus are cited for factual prices and policies. The charts and modeled calculations are original Top Brunch Spots work.
    Contact And Corrections
    Send source corrections and media questions through https://topbrunchspots.com/contact/. Include the version, named item, exact branch and source-check date.
    National, regional and local coverage

    All 50 states and Washington, DC have approved named prices. The study includes 131 cities and communities. Restaurant-rich markets, menu accessibility and earlier editorial selection still affect the sample.

    All 50 U.S. states and Washington, DC have approved restaurant-menu price examples, grouped by Census region. Counts describe this panel.
    State coverage is geographic breadth, not a representative sample of restaurants in each state. Source: Top Brunch Spots menu panel; Census Region Definitions.
    Coverage By Census Region
    RegionBranchesCities And CommunitiesStates And DCIndividual-Main Prices
    Northeast3413981
    Midwest262312105
    South584917210
    West604613157

    Download Regional Category Cuts. Download State Coverage.

    Local Reporting And Planning Links

    Each link opens the existing explorer with a place filter. A small local sample supports a named restaurant example, not a claim about all restaurants in that city.

    Northeast
    Midwest
    South
    West

    Collection And Missing Information

    Collection followed 1,692 branch candidates from the city shortlists and the nine added state markets. It recorded 3,770 source URL outcomes, including 3,517 successful responses. A successful response is not a verified menu or price.

    This edition approves 556 named price examples at 179 branches. Coffee was priced at 8 branches; charge terms were documented at 18. Missing prices, hours and policies remain unestablished. Inspect The Candidate And Missing-Price Ledger.

    Findings and reporting angles

    Verified Named Prices In All 50 States And Washington, DC

    This edition contains 556 priced examples at 179 exact branches in 131 postal places. Individual mains and per-person packages are separate.

    Publisher-selected menu panel, not a probability sample or a census of restaurants. Geographic breadth does not establish national representativeness.

    Source 1; Source 2.

    A Six-Person French-Toast And Coffee Order Adds $27.60 In Listed Group Gratuity

    At Mulberry Street Tavern in Des Moines, six $18 French-toast orders and six $5 coffees make a $138 menu subtotal. The listed 20% gratuity for six or more adds $27.60, producing a modeled $165.60 subtotal before tax.

    One exact branch, six identical selected mains and one listed coffee order each. Cup sizes and refills are not standardized; no optional tip or extra purchase is assumed. September 14, 2026 menu checked October 25.

    Source 1. Inspect The Calculation

    Rosewild’s Listed Card Fee Adds 72 Cents To Two $12 French-Toast Orders

    Two $12 French-toast orders make a $24 food subtotal. Applying the listed 3% credit-card processing fee to that selected subtotal adds $0.72, for $24.72 before tax. The cash/debit scenario keeps the fee separate.

    One Fargo branch and one defined food-only order. Larger parties may also face a service charge; combined stacking is withheld when the base is unresolved. This is not an observed customer bill.

    Source 1. Inspect The Calculation

    French Toast And Coffee For Two At GG’s Waterfront

    Two $20 French toast orders and two $4.25 drip coffees make a $48.50 menu subtotal. The listed 18% service fee adds $8.73, bringing the modeled subtotal to $57.23 before tax.

    One exact-branch illustration in Hollywood, Florida. No sides, optional tip or other purchases are assumed. Food, coffee and service-fee sources were checked October 25, 2026.

    Source 1. Inspect The Calculation

    Two Lula Cafe Burritos Add $7.20 In Listed Service Fees

    Two $18 burritos make a $36 food subtotal. Applying the menu’s 20% all-check service fee adds $7.20, for $43.20 before tax and additional purchases.

    One Chicago branch and one selected order. Coffee was not priced in this case; no optional tip is assumed. Menu and fee checked October 25, 2026.

    Source 1. Inspect The Calculation

    A Removable Surcharge Changes This Beatrix Order By $1.36

    Two $14.95 burritos and two $4.50 coffees total $38.90. The listed 3.5% surcharge adds $1.36, for $40.26 before tax. The operator allows customers to request its removal.

    Fulton Market only. A removal request is not proof the charge has been removed. No optional tip or other purchases are assumed. Sources checked October 25, 2026.

    Source 1. Inspect The Calculation

    Regular Coffee Adds $6.00 To $10.00 For Two In This Panel

    The study has 8 verified regular-coffee observations. One listed coffee order for each of two diners adds the stated range before applicable charges and tax.

    Selected branches only. Cup sizes and refills were not standardized; this is not a national coffee-price estimate. Individual source dates are preserved.

    Source 1; Source 2; Source 3; Source 4; Source 5; Source 6; Source 7; Source 8.

    Group Charges Have Different Thresholds And Conditions

    Siena Tavern lists an 18% service charge for six or more. The Strand House lists 20% automatic gratuity for eight to ten and an inquiry route for larger parties.

    Two documented policies, not an estimate of how common group charges are. Siena’s separate removable surcharge has unresolved stacking terms; no combined quote is claimed. Sources checked October 25, 2026.

    Source 1; Source 2.

    Baltaire’s $95 Package Reaches $114 With Its Listed Service Charge

    The per-person brunch package is $95. Its listed 20% all-table service charge adds $19, for a modeled $114 per person before tax, extra drinks and supplements.

    A shared-start, one-main package, not a standalone-entree comparison. No optional tip is assumed. Menu and fee checked October 25, 2026.

    Source 1. Inspect The Calculation

    Selected French Toast Examples Range From $9.00 To $28.00

    The study contains 76 named French toast examples at 69 branches. Their published food-only prices range from $9.00 to $28.00.

    An observed range among selected recipes, portions and branches. These are not market minimums, city averages, standardized portions or an affordability ranking. Use each row’s original collection date.

    Source 1.

    Earlier research files and version history

    The original 52-row ledger retains 46 included named mains and six exclusions. The five-city pilot retains its 84 examples. Their source dates and files are preserved. Enlarging the panel does not measure inflation.

    Original Observation Ledger. Five-City Pilot Prices.

    • Expanded from the five-city pilot to approved named prices in every U.S. state and Washington, DC.
    • Added nine published city guides and 27 exact-branch restaurant profiles to fill the missing state-market guide coverage.
    • Collected official source outcomes across the existing U.S. city-shortlist panel, retaining unresolved sources and candidates.
    • Added state, Census region, division and postal-place fields; suburbs are not silently counted under a parent guide’s city.
    • Separated main dishes from starter, side, sharing, children’s, delivery and package examples; portions and source-check dates remain visible.
    • Added payment-dependent charges and more verified regular coffee observations while preserving unknown terms and unresolved charge stacking.
    • Preserved the original 52-row baseline and the five-city pilot as immutable earlier versions. The larger sample is not a time-series price change.