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Best Breakfast Sandwiches: The Alt Bread

November 13, 2013

Brunch Box

Brunch Box offers a wide array of breakfast sandwiches; shown here is the Lumberjack ($7), a meat lover’s dream with bacon, sausage and ham, as well as fried eggs, cheddar and grilled onions, drizzled in maple syrup and served on french toast. 620 SW 9th

The Big Egg

The Big Egg cart offers several delicious breakfast sandwiches and wraps, but the seasonal special Monte Cristo ($8.50) has a devoted, cult-like following. And with good reason: an over-medium egg, gorgonzola cheese, applewood smoked ham, and maple glaze

Meat Cheese Bread

With that name, you might assume this Stark Street sandwich shop would stick to the basics. But they don’t just eschew tradition, they beat it up and leave it crying in the corner with the Maple ($7.50), a sandwich that’ll do just the same to your mornin

PBJ's Grilled

PBJ'S Grilled is famous for its creative twists on the classic kiddie lunch, and the Good Morning ($6.50) does not disappoint. Cart-made peanut butter, applewood bacon, maple syrup, vibrant blueberry jam, and an egg ooze invitingly from between two slice

Flavour Spot

Chicken and waffles is already basically a perfect food. You know this, and so do the fine folks at Flavour Spot, who’ve gone and made it even perfect-er by taking away the need for utensils. Their secret weapon, though, is the honey and whipped butter t

The Egg Carton

The Foster-Powell neighborhood’s unofficial sandwich, the FoPo Cristo ($7), updates the traditional French-toast sandwich with both Canadian and domestic bacon, and the one-two punch of sweet and spicy mustard and strawberry jam. 5925 SE Foster Rd; eggca

Some mornings you’re just a bit too groggy to think outside the box. We’ve all been there. So let these fine establishments do that thinking for you, shoving a bevy of hangover-annihilating deliciousness between breadstuffs that you might not have thought were sandwich-ready. Well, think again—once you’ve got some food in your stomach, that is.

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