Dallas' Six Best Breakfast Spots
Crossroads Diner
This is how hash was meant to be.
Corned beef hash is one of the most abused diner dishes in existence. Often the meat is pulled straight from a can and tastes only of sodium and nitrites. The beef cured here has a certain saltiness, sure, but it still tastes like beef, which is the whole point. If isn't your thing, they turn out plenty of eggs and bacon, too. And those pecan they add to the pancakes are worth the surcharge, for sure.
Jonathon's
Catherine Downes It has eggs and bacon, therefore, it's breakfast.
Go ahead and wait in line for brunch on the weekends at Jonathon's, and get ready for a long one. Oak Cliff locals have come to depend on this house-turned-diner to start their day off right, and they come in vans. The weekdays on the other had are relatively quiet. You can read the paper and sip on coffee until your eyes start to buzz. Who needs kidneys, anyway?
Smoke
Foodbitch The blueberry pancakes at Smoke
If you have plans for the day, Smoke is the last place you want to come for breakfast. An early meal here requires a three-hours nap, minimum, on a bed dressed with fluffed pillows and freshly laundered linens. If late morning naps are your thing, get ready for some of the biggest, fluffiest pancakes you've ever encountered, alongside house-smoked sausages and a ton of smoked brisket. Forget the bed: You're going to need a stretcher. If breakfasts were already on notice, Smoke puts them right on the danger list.
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