Readers, you’ll be happy to know brunch—the preferred repast of many an Emerald citizen—is booming. Still.

You can credit the surge to a relatively new way of thinking among restaurateurs: rare is the restaurant that opens without some sort of morning menu. If it isn’t in place from the get-go toques are quick to implement one, as Revel, Luc, and Golden Beetle demonstrated.

More neighborhood institutions are brunching. To wit, two weeks ago Cafe Lago rolled out Saturday-Sunday wood-fired offerings, taking a cue from the Harvest Vine and Spring Hill, which just buoyed its existing morning program with a more casual “brunch bar” offshoot. So are breweries and burger joints, like the coming-soon Red Mill Totem House.

Which brings us to this list of brunch and breakfast joints. Plotted are newcomers and dinner houses to recently add a breakfast bill. More will surface soon—Little Water Cantina, Lecosho, even the roving Where Ya At Matt have hinted that —but meantime here’s where to start the day.

Did we leave out one or three? Let us know!