This Little River restaurant will make you fall madly in love with brunch again, even if you never even liked it that much to begin with. This is because the food here is phenomenal, and Rosie's makes the best brunch dishes in Miami. The menu revolves around Southern food, and both the sweet and savory sides of the spectrum are well-represented. You can get a gorgeous stack of fluffy lemon ricotta pancakes or fried chicken and biscuits that look like they just came back from a photo shoot.

You’ll walk into Edan Bistro and wonder if you’re at the same restaurant that serves the best Basque food in Miami. The deli case near the kitchen sits emptier than your rumbling stomach, and the walls are mostly bare. But rest assured, this is special occasion food in the kind of atmosphere that welcomes your most casual outfit. Definitely get the crispy fried eggs with Iberico ham and black garlic mayonnaise.

So many of the strong Peruvian flavors that make Maty’s one of the best dinner spots in Miami are also present for weekend brunch. The ricotta toast has ají amarillo jam and the challah french toast has whipped cream infused with ají limo. But the one thing you have to get is the fried chicken and picarones, a very Maty’s spin on chicken and waffles that is one of our favorite dishes in Miami right now. There just isn’t a brunch menu around with more interesting flavors than this.

Going to Schnitzel House at 11am kind of feels like breaking into your favorite bar during the day. The blinds are closed, the lights are on, and you start to think that maybe you shouldn’t be there. But you should, because their weekend brunch is great. There are some excellent brunch-exclusive dishes on the menu—like their take on chicken and waffles (called schnitz and waffles), which comes with crispy little chicken nuggets heaped onto a thin waffle.

Brunch usually involves predictable suspects like chicken and waffles, french toast, and eggs benedict. That’s not the case at Doya. The Mediterranean spot has an Aegean breakfast platter that includes 16 assorted cheeses and mezze like spicy tomato and muhammara. Their poached eggs doused in labneh and paprika are criminally delicious. They have oven-baked eggs made with thick slices of juicy sucuk. You can also order from their regular menu during brunch if grilled prawns are more your speed.

La Fresa Francesa looks like a whimsical Parisian souvenir shop designed by a Hialeah abuela. With its old timey French music and flowery tablecloths, you will not find a cuter weekend brunch in Miami. If you're looking for a filling morning plate, get the quack madame. Tender duck is pressed between cheesy sourdough so deliciously heavy you’ll need to take ujjayi breaths between bites.

One of Miami’s best bakeries has a second location in MiMo. This Caracas outpost feels more like a proper cafe, with an expanded menu, sleek dining room, and the same great cachitos. The new stuff on Caracas’ menu includes sandwiches like an excellent BEC on a sweet potato bun, a crispy broccoli and cheese sandwich, jambon beurre, and mushroom toast. It works well for any and all laidback brunch plans. You can also come here alone with a laptop to get some work done.

Los Felix is the brunch to book if brunch kind of bores you. The dishes at this Coconut Grove spot are exciting and creative, but not overly fussy. The bowl of chilaquiles is delicious even without the optional (but highly encouraged) pork belly and caviar add-on. The masa pancake has a subtle corn flavor and the egg tostada comes with the most perfect fluffy scrambled eggs we’ve ever met.

Krüs Kitchen serves one of the most exciting dinners in Miami. Brunch here is no different. The smoked coconut rice is very similar to dinner’s, except the brunch version comes with trout roe and cilantro chimichurri instead of cilantro aioli (and we actually like it better than the dinner version). The menu changes a lot, but if you see french toast, order it. It comes with confit pear, chantilly cream, maple syrup, a touch of cognac—and it’s like crème brulée in bread form.

There’s no shortage of expensive brunch buffets in Miami, but Edge is our favorite. In the back patio of the upscale hotel steakhouse they cut through tomahawk steaks at a pace that would overwhelm a predatory cat. After you’ve had your fill of that, dedicate any remaining room to the great pastry/dessert section—and also take advantage of the small a la carte menu that supplements the buffet (get the ricotta pancakes).

Chug’s is a great mix of vintage and modern. It has the DNA of a classic diner, but serves food that's exciting and interesting. It’s a great call for a quick coffee and pastelitos, but also works if you want to eat like a bear preparing for hibernation. If you’re trying to do the latter, make sure to get the excellent cast iron pancake and La Completa, a hefty plate of three eggs, potatoes, and Cuban toast. A slice of passion fruit cream pie for dessert is also a very good idea.

Brunch is served on Klaw's rooftop, which overlooks Biscayne Bay. Some of the seating is technically inside, but they keep the doors open and every table has a panoramic view of emerald waters. The food is just as lovely. You can go full Dr. Evil and order caviar service and a massive seafood tower while trying to devise a way to attach laser beams to a shark's head. Or stick to oysters in shallot and cucumber mignonette, guava cream cheese waffles, or our favorite: the duck steak and eggs.

Since this excellent MiMo food-truck-turned-bagel-shop usually sells out before close (and quicker on the weekends), it's wise to place an online order bright and early. We often struggle to decide between the King Guava, a salty/savory work of bagel art that includes guava jam, crispy potato sticks, and a fried egg—or the EB Original with scallion, bacon, and a roasted jalapeno that gives off the perfect amount of heat. But whatever you get is going to be the best bagel in Miami, hands down.

Zak The Baker, especially during tourist season, can be a bit nuts and doesn't take reservations. But we still believe the Kosher bakery is worth braving even the winter Wynwood crowd. Plus, they'll text you when your table is ready, which allows you to kill time by wandering around Wynwood for 30ish minutes. When you're seated, prepare for delicious forms of bread that include: an outstanding salmon Reuben, a perfect bagel, and more minimal (but delicious) toasts and pastries.

Blue Collar’s brunch menu is broken up into three main categories: eggy stuff, sandwichy stuff, and syrupy stuff. If any of those sound good to you, come here, because Blue Collar is one of the most consistently delicious spots in Miami. Whether you want something a little out of the ordinary, like the shrimp benedict, or a brioche french toast that everyone at your table will immediately regret not ordering, this MiMo spot will make you happy you didn’t stay in bed.

Though drag brunch has now spread far and wide across the country, very few places have been doing it for as long as the Palace has. This place is still a blast, and though they do drag shows at night, you want to be here while the sun is out. It’s $55 per person, which includes food and bottomless mimosas. The food is food, and not the reason you come here. You come to sip as many mimosas as you want for two hours while witnessing the best sidewalk drag show of your life.

Jackson Soul Food is an Overtown institution. As the name implies, they’re known for soul food, but they’re only open until 2pm Wednesday to Friday and until 5pm on weekends, so people usually come here for breakfast, lunch, or brunch. They’ve got a big selection of breakfast dishes like eggs and sausage, pancakes, and breakfast sandwiches. But one of the best things you can get here is their fried catfish, which works just well as a brunch dish, especially if you get eggs and bacon on the side.

There are a lot of very good things available at this casual neighborhood spot, but you should come to brunch for two of them in particular: the Pinch burger and the insane feat of engineering that is their stuffed french toast. It’s an entire loaf of brioche that has an oozing pool of guava in its center. Splitting it open and watching it all spill onto your plate is both soothing and satisfying, like a babbling creek or Niagara Falls—if both of those things were filled with hot guava.

Jimmy’s is one of Miami’s favorite old-school diners, where the employees have served through multiple presidential administrations and the flat top in the kitchen has seen more grease than the official John Travolta fan club. Come here if you want to get far, far away from any sort of brunch where the menu tells you the restaurant’s official hashtag. Get something with eggs and take advantage of the bottomless coffee until you feel like you can overhead press a Honda Accord.

At Aguacate, strangers will wander over to your table and ask for food. They’re just friendly chickens though, and you’re technically in their territory. This Tamiami vegan spot is an animal sanctuary that makes an excellent breakfast burrito, french toast, veggie burger, and great smoothies. Everything is 100% vegan and they serve breakfast all day, so it’s a great brunch option on weekdays or weekends.