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Shaggy-haired hipsters roll out of bed and sleepwalk straight to Clinton St. Baking Co. & Restaurant (4 Clinton St.; 646/602-6263; breakfast for two $25), where the fluffy buttermilk biscuits and maple butter–slathered blueberry pancakes make you think you're still dreaming. Weekend waits can ruin the reverie, but on workdays the coast should be clear.
Morning light makes the burgundy banquettes and smoky mirrors at Balthazar (80 Spring St.; 212/965-1785; breakfast for two $36) look soft and romantic, and its almond croissants and apple galettes are the flakiest this side of the Seine. Over eggs en cocotte or plush brioche French toast, plot an attack on SoHo boutiques nearby—then return for a dozen oysters at lunch.
British-born Annie Wayte, one of New York's great unsung chefs, creates soulful soups and beautiful greenmarket salads at 202 (75 Ninth Ave.; 646/638-1173; breakfast for two $24), the whimsically rusticated café inside Nicole Farhi's Chelsea Market boutique. We love her full English breakfast—sausage, bacon, poached egg, roasted cherry tomatoes—served in portions dainty enough for you to still squeeze into that size-6 skirt from the boutique's racks.
The sybaritic Café Sabarsky (Neue Gallerie; 1048 Fifth Ave.; 212/288-0665; breakfast for two $25) is the place to fortify yourself with kugelhopf (raisin-studded yeast cake), dense Viennese bread with rosy slices of Bavarian ham, and frothy mélange (Austrian cappuccino).
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