This Rivertown neighborhood spot from the master cake-baker behind Debbie Does Doberge recently launched an all-day menu, and it’s heavy on breakfast and brunch items. There is bananas Foster French toast, red velvet Elvis pancakes, a grilled caprese, and a beignet, bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, among other items, and of course, doberge cakes and dobites. The menu is served Wednesday through Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

This swanky new Metairie restaurant with a country club feel and individual gazebo dining serves upscale American cuisine using ingredients from an onsite herb and vegetable garden and beef from a local cattle farm. The new weekend brunch menu is best enjoyed outdoors (now that it’s fall), specializing in housemade pastries and biscuits, shareable dips and snacks, and hearty breakfast sandwiches. Served Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Uptown has a sunny new breakfast and brunch destination housed in the former Toast on Laurel Street. Steven Green’s menu is creative and fun, not to mention vast given the current trend toward five-item lists — a pretty shakshouka and fresh scrambled tofu bowl mix with over-the-top plates of peanut butter mousse waffles and cannoli French toast to offer something for everyone. It’s open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and until 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

This is the new restaurant from Edgar “Dook” Chase IV, grandson of the legendary Dooky Chase’s restaurant founder and culinary icon Leah Chase and her husband Dooky Chase. While the Chase family may be best associated with gumbo, fried chicken, and shrimp Clemenceau, Chapter IV aims to do something different while honoring its legacy. The daytime spot celebrates brunch on weekends with live music, lively cocktails, fried oyster BLTs, fish and grits, and fried chicken sandwiches, to name a few dishes.

This charming, beautiful new restaurant in the LGD is a delight — family-owned, friendly, and elegant. It’s also already serving brunch, a rarity for most new restaurants. On Saturday and Sunday, the normally seafood-centric menu gets a mid-day makeover with dishes like stuffed French toast, boneless short ribs with poached eggs, crab meat eggs Benedict, Gulf shrimp salad, and a BLT.

Brunch is served Tuesday through Sunday at this LGD neighborhood gem, now with a menu from former Bacchanal chef Lydia Solano. Both dinner and brunch got a revamp, with the former offering a succinct handful of classic and over-the-top dishes. There’s chia seed pudding with custard cardamom strudel, an oxtail cake eggs Benedict, and Spanish-style torrijas, topped with blackberry compote and plantain custard.

Less than a month after opening in its elegant, soaring Warehouse District space, Plates is serving brunch — a good move for a sprawling downtown space in close proximity to the Convention Center and World War II museum. The regular lunch and dinner menu adds items like chorizo hash, a Spanish tortilla, and steak and eggs, or for something on the lighter side, greek yogurt with granola or a bocadillo.

Couvant, the elegant French brasserie in downtown’s chic Eliza Jane Hotel, serves brunch Friday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Refined, technique-driven dishes merging French and American South flavors include a berry pain perdue; duck confit and waffles with foie gras butter; and a crawfish hash with sweet corn, rosemary garlic potatoes, and a sunny-side-up-egg. Couvant is also offering a handful of $25 unlimited brunch cocktails — bloodys, Palomas, sangria, mimosas, or brunch punch.

This French Quarter hotspot with a high-touch design and great vibes has introduced brunch — bulgogi and grits, anyone? Brunch offerings follow the same flavorful mashup formula as the regular menu — Asian-American and Korean-centric, but with a good dose of New Orleans flair. The breakfast potatoes are outrageous, a great side to pair with crawfish and grits or the baco breakfast tacos and extravagant cocktails. Served Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There’s a brand new, seven-day-a-week brunch spot in the Warehouse District — that also specializes in whiskey. The menu is whimsical and creative, from the dishes to the brunch cocktails — for instance, a Pig Pop Tart with cochon de lait stuffed inside a pastry drizzled with a Crystal Hot Sauce glaze (there’s also quiche, biscuits and gravy, a Creole omelet, avocado toast, and more). For cocktails, the Cereal Milk Punch, Y’all is pure nostalgia: bourbon shaken with cereal-infused milk and rimmed with crushed cereal. Brunch is served 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily.

The city’s newest special occasion destination is Miss River, the main restaurant in the new Four Seasons hotel. Brunch is served Saturday and Sunday, featuring creations like duck eggs Creole; beignets and ham; and poached eggs and creamed spinach on toasted brioche bread with hollandaise and caviar. Of course, the cocktails are just as over-the-top: Bloody marys with garnishes like pickled quail eggs, okra, and steamed shrimp; and mimosas served from a roving mimosa station.

This new cocktail bar in a beautiful Bywater space opened at the beginning of June, marking the building’s first occupant since Oxalis closed in 2017. Justini’s is the brainchild of Jessica Robinson, serving a menu of colorful, pretty cocktails as well as bar snacks like tacos, salmon bites, and wings. For brunch, served Saturday and Sunday, there’s a small menu of dishes like avocado toast, fried chicken and French toast, beignet sticks, a hot sausage croissant, and catfish Dauphine.