Best Breakfasts in Utah

Best Breakfasts in Utah
- Revised 28 Jan 2019

Check out our OTHER FOOD REVIEWS, including Best Omelettes in Utah and Best French Toast in Utah at TasterTestersClub.BlogSpot.com 

Note that all these places have some if not many mediocre breakfasts. But the meals below are the winners. from dozens of places and hundreds of breakfasts we've tried. 

12-way tie for First Place: (IF YOU ORDER THE RIGHT THINGS!)

OUT OF BUSINESS: 1.(tie) Cafe 300, Provo. Omelettes and French Toast (note our post, "Best Omelettes in Utah." a. Their omelettes (and everyones) is better when limited to 2 or 3 veges with cheese and meat on the side. Customize it as "Avocado-Mushroom-cheese" for a great omelette! 
b. Custom order the Play Misty for Me (not on menu): sausage gravy over bacon over eggs-over-easy over whole wheat toast. 
c. their French toast is among the top 3 in Utah (see our French Toast test)

1.(tie) Blue Plate Diner. Sugarhouse, SLC. Eggs Benedict

1. (tie) Left Fork Grill, Murray
a. amazing breakfast sandwich - they make their own sausage
b. great buttermilk pancakes
c. best huevos rancheros in the state!

1. (tie) Belgian Waffle and Omelette Inn
a. Customize an omelette as "Avocado-Mushroom-cheese" for a great omelette! 

1(tie). Village Inn
a. sausage benedict: poached eggs, English muffins, grilled green and red cubed bell peppers, grilled onions, pepper jack queso on top. A 
g. CUSTOMIZED: scrambled egg fajita crepes (sub out the chicken for bacon.) It comes with grilled red and green bell peppers, grilled onions, pepper jack cheese inside, and pepper jack queso sauce on top of the crepes. A

1. OUT OF BUSINESS: (tie) El Azteca, Bulldog Ave. Provo location. Horchata French Toast + cuchi cuchi quesadilla (custom added scrambled eggs to their spinach-tomato-cheese, apple pico quesadilla 

1.(tie) Communal, Provo.  their Salmon Hash & Eggs (note their French toast dropped from #1 to #21 when they quit making their own bread. See our "Best French Toast in Utah" list.

1.(tie) Original Pancake House. Sugarhouse, SLC. California Eggs Benedict + several pancakes (best pancakes in the state, followed by Cafe 300). Our fave: pecan pancakes

1 (tie) Slate, Provo
brioche French Toast. alone B+. with banana foster A-
e. crunchy French Toast. Alone C+, with fruit C+, with syrup B-
f. broken yolk sandwich B/B+
g. Farmer's Omelette (bacon C+) B/B+
h. housemade corned beef B-/B
i. stuffed tomato (scrambled eggs, feta, tyme, s and p, italian sausage, spinacy, tomato with no seeds, baked) A
j. hashbrowns and black pepper. BEST IN STATE A-

1. (tie) Guru's, Provo
a. breakfast burrito A-
b. Cowboy Benny (rates a B- BUT MAKE IT AN A- with these requested changes: substitute the biscuit for whole wheat toast, order the eggs over EASY (runny yellow - or they'll cook it too hardl they usually do even with this request), and ask for extra sausage gravy with chunks of sausage over everything.
c. blue cakes. Best blueberry pancakes in the state. Worth trying: Original Pancake House in SLC (their pecan pancake) and Denny's buttermilk from scratch pancakes as of 2016
d. bananas foster pancakes (perfect, mild fosters sauce)
e. almost crusted French toast with cream cheese center, on whole wheat bread

1. (tie) Joe's Cafe, Orem
a. n/a
b. pancakes 
c.  Belgian waffle - order the blueberry with no blueberry sauce, just the berries and whipped cream
d. hashbrowns (B+/A-)
e. vege omelette (sauteed veges and cheese)

1. (tie) Egg and I, Salt Lake valley, several locations
Egg and I

a. Seasonal Benedict A+ Jan 2016, consisting of:

1. sauteed spinach

2. sauteed onion pieces

3. bacon pieces on top

4. cooked canned green chile

5. sliced fresh avocado

6. jalapeno cornbread (thin sliced)

7. hollandaise sauce

8. poached eggs

b. turkey cranberry sandwich C

c. bisquit B

d. gravy B+

e. biscuit and gravy combo A-

f. sausage C-

g. grilled potatoes A

h. grits C+

i. chicken apple walnut sandiwch: chicken, apples, walnuts, celegry, green onion, mayo, lettuce, tomatto, grilled raisen bread B- 

j. above sandwich filling (no bread) B/B+

k. tomato herb sandwich B-
l. french toast (similar to Joe's Cafe, Orem) C/C+
m.bacon  B-
n.Parisian benedict (shredded swiss, ham, tiny sliced pieces of portabella mushroom, croissant (too think), poached eggs, hollandaise sauce, green onion, Total: B
o. potato soup C++

Left Fork Grill, Midvale
huevos rancheros (the best in Utah!) (contains an orange-colored sauce A-, plus stewed tomato, green vege strips - cactus likely, onion, crispy fried corn tortilla, perfect egg.) total: A
sweet corn scramble, with white cheese, a few cubed tomato pieces, and lots of corn. total: C+ With berry jam B-. With black beans B. 
buttermilk pancake A (best in state so far)
bisquit alone B
gravy A
gravy and biscuit A
sausage A
eggs A
french toast B-/A, with syrup: same grade

The following are in no particular order - they all have good items (and bad) - so we recommend you get only the good items listed below.

1. Jerry Sports Grill, Orem. Breakfast sandwiches, especially the hoagie with bacon, sausage, ham, and eggs.

2.  Sundance Foundry Grill. Joe's Scramble. The secret is the sliced mild Italian sausage, along with veges and scrambled eggs. Also get their Trout Benedict. The dry, salty trout perfectly compliments the rest of it.

3. Mimi's Cafe, national chain
a. pain perdu French toast (not their original French toast)
b. Le California Avocado BLT Omelette B+
c. strawberry waffle perdu A-
d. croissant breakfast sandwich (brie cheese, scrambled egg, bacon, spinach, dried tomato - but sub it out for real tomato) A

4. Tortilla Bar, Orem NOW OUT OF BUSINESS.

5. IHOP, national chain. 
a. Garden Crepes with scrambled eggs and veges inside and hollandaise on top 
b. brioche French Toast. (The brioche French Toast alone rates a B- but the 3 different toppings (only one still served) pulls it up to a B+/A-.)
c. Ham and scrambled eggs, swiss cheese is too strong and Denny's eggs are better. B-

6. Taco Bell, national chain - 3 items only:(we tried them all)
a.waffle taco sausage
b. waffle taco bacon (A-)
c. A.M. Bacon Taco (B+)
IN DETAIL:
1. Waffle taco with sausage A

2. Waffle taco with bacon A-

3. A.M Bacon taco B+

At Taco Bell, the items go downhill from here:

4. Crunch Wrap Bacon. Voters grades ranged from C+ to B+

5. Sausage Melt. Voters' grades ranged from C- to B-

6. Egg sausage burrito. Voters grades ranged from C to B-

7. cinnebon. B-

8. egg sausage burrito. Voters grades ranged from C to B-

9. egg bacon burrito. Voters grades ranged from C to C++

10. egg steak burriot. Voters grades ranged from C to C+

11. caramel apple empanada (lunch item) C

Worth mentioning: Taco Bell's competition, Del Taco throughout the western U.S., has a better-than-average breakfast burrito of eggs and cheese with their meat sauce. It beats out their other breakfast offerings with an A- grade.

7. Village Inn, national chain. Breakfast crepe + BLT with egg + egg burrito

8. Denny's, national chain. 
a. Apple pie French Toast (seasonal). It's really an apple crisp. It goes from a B to a B+/A- with fruit toppings.  
b. Their standard French Toast rates a B, It is pulled up to a B+/A- 
c. Grand Slamwich: mayo, maple spice spread, American cheese, shavedham, bacon, sausage, scrambled egg, potato, bread. C-
d. Moons Over My Hammy sandwich: ham, scrambled eggs, swiss and American cheese, grilled sourdough. B+

9. Penny Anne's Cafe, 3 locations Salt Lake Valley
a. own recipe pancakes B+
b. bacon, sausage, eggs, etc. B
c. wheat and marble rye toast if buttered and hot A-
d. we tried nearly all the pies - get the chocolate mousse and coconut pies!

old #9: OUT OF BUSINESS: Norma's Pies, American Fork. Bacon, sausage, or vege quiche WITH HOUSE-MADE SAUSAGE GRAVY

10. Del Taco, western chain. Egg burritos + breakfast burritos

11. Gandolphos, small national chain, and Rocco's, Provo (original location for Gandolphos with same recipes) - two best breakfast sandwiches by far:
a. Breakfast sandwich on Kaiser bun: pastrami, eggs, and American cheese (as much as we dislike American cheese) A- -
b. Breakfast sandwich on Kaiser bun: bacon, egg, American cheese, and sausage B+

12. Mickey D's (McDonald's), national chain. What? Really? Sausage Egg McMuffin is surprisingly good. (Their sausage patties rates #1, but anything with bacon on it is ruined by their cheap, pre-cooked bacon.)

13. Einstein Bagel, national chain. scrambled egg in bagel; optional other items with it. 

14. Subway, national chain. We tried every sandwich in both flatbread and Italian white hoagie bread. The hoagie bread was almost always better. Nothing rated higher than a B/B+. We suggest you NOT GET the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich or the steak, egg, and cheese sandwich on either flatbread or hoagie bun. We also recommend you NOT get the Black Forrest ham, egg, and cheese sandwich on the flatbread - only get it on the hoagie. We recommend the cheddar-jack shredded blend for the cheese choice, and that you  get tomatoes on it. We also tried them separately with avocado spread, which was OK if you like that, but the straight tomato was a bit better.
2011:
a. flatbread bacon and egg with cheddar/jack and tomato and cucumber A
b. English muffin with same fillers C-
Another test there:
a. Ham, salami, egg on flat bread B, with mayo B/B+. 2nd test: A-
b. am, salami, egg on Italian sub plain: B/B+, plus mayo B+
c. Cheese and egg on flat bread B-/B, plus mayo B-/B. 2nd test: B/B+
d. Cheese and egg on Italian sub B, plus mayo B/B+
e. Turkey, ham, bacon, egg on flat bread B-, plus mayo B-
f. Turkey, ham, bacon, egg on Italian sub B, plus mayo B/B+
g. Ham and egg on flat C. 2nd test: B
h. Ham and egg on Italian sub B, plus mayo B-
2nd test only:
i. Bacon and egg on flatbread C+
j. Steak and egg on flatbread C+/B-
k. Ham egg and cheese on Italian sub B+/A-

15. Marley's Sliders
a. sausage egg cheese slider B+
b. pastrami slider A -
c. bgreakfast burrito B+
d. cinnamon bun A

16. Popeyes, national chain
(breakfast served at airports and perhaps some other locations:)
a. sausage and egg breakfast bisquit (served at SLC sirport): sausage B-, egg B-; biscuit B-, combo B-/B

17. Magleby's, Springville, Provo
a. sausage gravy A
b. bisquit B+
c. combo of both above: A-
d. breakfast potato B-
e. scrambled eggs C
f. raspberry lemonade B/B+
g. real oj B+A-
h. banana french toast B-/B
i. with bananas B/B+
j. with banana and whtie syrup B/B+
k. regular french toast C+
l. FT with raspberry B-/B
m.FT with raspberry and cream B+
n. FT combo above plus whtie suace C++
o. pancake C
p. white omelette (strong asiago chese, spinach, and tomato) C

17. Original Pancake House, Sugarhouse and Sandy
APRIL 2017 TEST:
a. Pecan pancake B, with maple syrup and butter B+
b. blueberry pancake B, with butter only (better with no syrup): B+
c. plain pancake B
AUGUST 2013 TEST:
a. pecan pancakes A
b. California Club Benedict (current bacon quality A-). (Formerly it was served with much more tomato, in small cubes, piled on, plus avocado, but now it only has a few slivers of tomatos. So ask the server for more tomatoes like it used to be. In 2008 when it was an A+). Now: B+
c. blueberry pancakes D
d. scrambled eggs (not fresh/real) D
e. nutella waffle B
f. belgian waffle B-
g. ditto with fruit B
h. french toast C
i. Greek omelette D
Nov 2008 test:
j. crepes D+
k. fruit topping: fresh banana, peaches, strawberries A+
k-1. above fruits plus whipped cream on waffle A+
l. thick bacon A+
m. basted egg (served cold on our test and too thick of cooked egg white) B-
AUGUST 2010 TEST:
a. swedish pancake B+
b. silver dollar buttermilk pancakes B--
c. blueberry pancakes A+
d. Belgian waffle C++
e. Sourdough pancakes B++
f. "Joe" (scramble with sausage, onion, spinach; REQUEST TOMATO on the side to add to it!) A-
g. Dutch treat with fruit variety B
h. hash browns "breakfast potatoes" A- -
i. banana foster french toast B
j. sausage links B+/A
k. buttermilk pancakes with fruit topping B+
NOVEMBER 2008 TEST:
a. crepes D+
b. belgian waffle C+/B-
c. fresh banana, peaches, strawberries and whipped cream for waffles A+
f. toast C+
g. California bendict: chopped cubed tomato, avocado, basted eggs, English muffin, great hollandaise sauce, great bacon but ask for it more crispy: A
OCTOBER 2008 TEST:
a. bacon, chicken, avocado, tiny amount of tomato, sadly, no cheese - which they need to add!) B-
b. sausage links B-
sausage patt C-
potatoes C
plain pancakes A (voted B in April 2017)


LIKELY NO LONGER SERVING BREAKFAST (but still in business:)
Wingers (their only two great items out of all tried)
a. Trash Hash: A+ with hollandaise sauce; A with hollandaise sauce plus white gravy; A - with with gravy alone.

b. Veggie Scramble (ask for more tomatoes in it). B+/A- 

OUT OF BUSINESS: 
Baked, Provo
a. french toast breakfast sandwich B+
b. "best breakfast sandwich" (bacon B/B+, sausage B-/B, ham C+) total: B/B+
c. sourdough pancakes C+
d. ditto with whipped cream and strawberries or just whipped cream  B+
e. house made whipped cream A
f. buttery syrup A
g. pancakes with buttery syrup B+