The best places for breakfast in Liverpool

Malmaison Liverpool Bar & Grill is much more than just another soulless hotel restaurant. With its dockside location and terrace, celeb fans and cool boutique vibes, it’s one of Liverpool’s most impressive dining destinations.

Voyagers in The Halyard Liverpool is in the league of hotel restaurants that become a destination in their own right. A sophisticated and well-travelled menu of small plates combined with inviting modern design make it a standout addition to the Ropewalks. Expect an individual take on cool, casual dining.

Open since 2010, BSC is something of an institution and the place to go if you’re in need of caffeine sustenance. Breakfast, brunch and all things cheap and lunch-like are also on the menu, while the Scandi stripped wood and art-adorned walls make it a great place to chill out.

Head to the Tower Building, on the corner of Water Street and The Strand to find the charming, plant-filled haven that is Cafe Lucaya.

Within spitting distance of the bombed-out church, Cafe Tabac has been rolling with the changes at the top of Bold Street since 1974, and the establishment’s latest upgrades have included expanding outside and serving up all-day brekkie as well as late-night drinks.

Liverpool’s acclaimed deli and restaurant Delifonseca has a loyal following thanks to its irresistible victuals from the UK and beyond.

Following in the footsteps of other successful models in the region, with communal dining tables and a mezzanine served by a choice of resident kitchens, this 100-year-old warehouse-turned-foodhall is one of the Ropewalks newcomers breathing life back into Duke Street.

Situated in an airy loft space in a grade II listed Victorian building this warm and inviting vegetarian cafe offers panoramic views of the city.

The perfect brunch spot on Renshaw Street, Hardware is themed loosely around the Rapid Hardware shop it replaces.

Hawksmoor Liverpool opened in the beautiful Grade II-listed India Buildings, to much excitement in late 2022.

Housed in a former tea room over two floors of an art deco building, LEAF’s name and USP was meant to be, and indeed over 60 varieties of loose-leaf tea are served, alongside coffee and cake, cocktails, beers and wine, and an eclectic menu running from breakfast right through.

This women-run family business is inspired by Molly’s great nan Minna, who turned a plot of land behind her council house into an allotment and encouraged her neighbours to grow their own veggies there. This interest in sustainability and community has fed into Minna’s cafe.

Papillon is a quaint-looking bistro-style restaurant, complete with baby pink paintwork and pinstripe canopy to match. In fact, it looks more like something on a French postcard than somewhere you’d find in the middle of Liverpool. 

Press Bros Coffee opened in this corner spot on Lark Lane after winning everyone over with its sausage patty melts at the Baltic Market. It’s the perfect place for a coffee shop, in amongst the indie shops and just a short stroll from Sefton Park (get your takeouts here before you go).

Tempest on Tithebarn is a social space filling your days from early-morning Neighbourhood Coffee and freshly baked pastries and cakes to late-night parties and cocktails. In between, there’s bagels, brunch and lunch by day and burgers and small plates as the sun goes down.