Egg sandwiches are the perfect breakfast - portable, delicious, covers all the food groups (more or less) - and what elevates one from good to great is choosing flavors that work well together, and making sure the whole thing has some semblance of structural integrity. The list below of breakfast sandwiches ranges from the traditional to the wild - some are open faced, some have eggs outside the sandwich, some utilize unusual ingredients. But rest assured this is as wide ranging a egg breakfast sandwich roundup you'll see.
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Outstanding Egg Sandwiches in New Orleans
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ManhattanJack
You can get a regular bacon, egg & cheese on a regular bagel at breakfast palace Manhattanjack's, but why would you, when you could have the pretzel bagel sandwich, with egg, ham, Swiss cheese, and dijionnaise on a pretzel bagel.
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Toast
While Toast has excellent biscuit breakfast sandwiches and breakfast taco Tuesdays, but nothing compares to its Croque Madame, with sunny side eggs topping rich grilled ham sandwich.
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St. James Cheese Company
The downtown outpost of St. James features a Spanish take on the egg sandwich, the Lomo Bocadillo. This open faced sandwich layers crispy grilled cured pork lomo, Manchego cheese, arugula, pimento aioli, and a fried egg on a baguette.
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biscuits & buns on banks
This breakfast place has all kinds of breakfast sandwiches, but it may be the only game in town that serves a bacon and egg sandwich between waffle quarters.
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Wakin' Bakin'
This place is the bomb with burritos. Check their daily specials board, bro.
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Elizabeth's
Breakfast sandwiches take an elegant turn with smoked salmon and brie cheese.
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DISTRICT. Donuts. Sliders. Brew.
Check out District's savory breakfast options with this biscuit breakfast sandwich with egg and miso-praline-maple bacon.
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Stein's Market & Deli
Named for neighborhood chef Michael Stoltzfus, this scrambled egg sandwich is made with either corned beef or pastrami with Swiss cheese and spicy brown mustard.
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Cake Cafe & Bakery
Cake Cafe does do great traditional breakfast sandwiches. They also magically create stuffed bagels, with the yumminess already in there.
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Gracious Bakery + Cafe
A standard elevated with Gracious's outstanding green onion bread, this egg and smoked cheddar cheese has aioli and optional bacon or ham as well.
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Satsuma
Both locations of Satsuma serve the longtime favorite Green Eggs and Ham - a pesto scrambled egg, shaved Nueske’s ham, melted swiss, and red onion on croissant.
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Killer Poboys
"Big" Killer Poboys standalone restaurant on Dauphine is open for breakfast and lunch, and features a cheddar omelette poboy with aged cheddar cheese, herbed aioli, and your choice of bacon, ham, or sweet potato.
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HiVolt Coffee
This third wave coffee joint has plenty of killer food, including its classic breakfast sandwich, made with egg, tomato, white american cheese, kefir herb dressing, and avocado (if desired) on baguette. Check out their soon to open uptown HiVolt Bakery, where they'll be adding a biscuit sausage egg sandwich and a croissant egg sandwich as well.
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Willa Jean
Besides Willa Jean's many breakfast biscuit options, the scrambled egg sandwich with baby spinach and gruyere served on a sweet, gently toasted Hawaiian roll is a fantastic way to start the day.
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Humble Bagel
What are bagels but delicious, chewy vehicles for breakfast sandwiches? Get eggs and cheese, or eggs, cheese, and meat (bacon, sausage, or ham) and prepared to be very full, because it's a two-egger on a large bagel.
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