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Best Breakfast Sandwiches: The Classics

November 14, 2013

Besaw’s

Besaw’s Bacon-Avocado Sammy ($11) is a dream on a brioche bun: two perfectly fried eggs, bacon, tomato, avocado, and an herbed goat cheese spread. Plus, it’s served with Besaw’s fabulous garlicky home fries. 2301 NW Savier St; besaws.com

Kenny and Zuke’s

The Big Shot Breakfast Sandwich ($9.45) from Kenny and Zuke’s is a classic pastrami sandwich, plus scrambled eggs. Simple enough, but with pastrami this good, who needs anything complicated? 1038 SW Stark St; kennyandzukes.com

Redwood

The Breakfast Sandwich ($10) at Redwood is proof that anything is acceptable breakfast food if you put an egg on it. The tender roasted pork shoulder, rouille, and arugula salad on ciabatta would be more than adequate at lunch or dinnertime; but with the

Shut Up And Eat

There’s a reason they want you to stop talking: you won’t be able to multi-task when trying to fit this skyscraper of a sandwich in your mouth. Unbelievably, this version of the bacon egg and cheese ($6.50), stacked high with delicious garlicy spinach on

Big-Ass Sandwiches

If you’ve got a terrible hangover but still believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, the Big-Ass Breakfast Sandwich ($9.50) from Big-Ass Sandwiches is for you. It’s a ciabatta roll overloaded with your choice of sausage or bacon, egg

Lovejoy Bakers

Sometimes simpler really is better. That’s certainly the case with the Lovejoy Deluxe ($6.50), which stuffs bacon, a fried egg, friseé, and bleu cheese into the Pearl District bakery’s delicious ciabatta. You really don’t need anything else. 939 NW 10th

Yolk

If a morning repast of animal products between bread doesn’t make you feel on top of the food chain, then the Mary Had A Little Lamb ($8)—emphasis on the “had”—might just do the trick: it’s a lamb sausage patty with squash puree, brussels sprouts, and a

Portland Penny Diner

This casual counter from the Vitaly Paley empire celebrated our fair city’s love of the unique with the PDXWT ($4.50), perhaps the most out-there combination of sandwich fillings under five bucks: duck bologna, sauerkraut, egg, coffee mayo, and American

Bunk

Bunk's breakfast sandwich ($6) is the ultimate classic formula, executed perfectly. Your choice of bacon, ham, or sausage comes with a fried egg and Tillamook cheddar cheese on a New England style hard roll made especially for Bunk by Fleur de Lis Bakery

Photography by Bunk Sandwiches

Just what you’d expect. The ancient formula of egg, meat, cheese, and bread is a time-tested and winning combination. That’s not to say the formula doesn’t get tweaked—this is Portland, and people aren’t satisfied to serve a glorified McMuffin and call it a morning meal.

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