A laid back cafe in Montreal with my sweetheart. A french omelet and some good coffee. We only get to see each other for a few days every couple months, and breakfast is always our favorite meal on those mini-holidays. Holding hands across the table, sipping coffee, plotting out the day.

Kombucha tea and breakfast tacos with smoky salsa, sitting outside on a patio, probably a bit hungover.

My dream breakfast is a picnic breakfast in the french countryside away from everyone under a bare tree. In the basket? Fresh baguette, homemade apricot jam, and some fresh salted butter with french press coffee. Heaven.

chai latte, small amount of peaches and cream oatmeal, a small bowl of mixed fruit - no raspberries and to suny side eggs! Early in the morning, let's say 7 am and alone with my newspaper.
Eating alone sounds kind of bitter, but if someone were to eat with me in the morning, I would get too consumed with conversation and not have the time or willpower to hit the gym

Breakfast is indeed my favorite meal. I like both sweet and savory. If I cook both, it is usually blueberry pancakes using the recipe from "The Tassajara Bread Book", by far the best pancakes ever, and a side of savory meat. I always share this meal with my wife and any of my kids that show up for breakfast.

My dream breakfast would be not to have to worry about the amount of fat/calories/cholesterol in bacon/hash browns/eggs/crepes/waffles/etc. You get my drift ;). I love breakfast foods but I stick to cold cereal style steelcut oats in milk with dates and a yogurt cup for the sake of not putting any more pounds on.

French toast + bacon; preferably with the latter stuffed in the former.

Idlys with sambar, curry leaf and coconut chutney, and rava onion masala dosa and a strong, strong cup of black coffee. Chennai, Tamil Nadu, pure South Indian style!

My sister and I were city kids and Air Force brats, so going to my grandmother's house in Alabama was like visiting a foreign country. Our first morning there she served us a breakfast that our mother would never have approved - it was much too much of a muchness. Now, a good 35 years later (and granny still hanging in at 95 years) it's a breakfast I reference often in the context of being Southern and offering your guests the world: she made us buttered grits, patty sausage, link sausage (in case we didn't like patty), bacon, buttermilk biscuits served with butter, cane syrup and/or fig preserves and fluffy scrambled eggs- impossibly yellow and tasting of bacon grease. At the time I politely nibbled on a biscuit (stupid city girl) - it's in retrospect that I appreciate that gorgeous plate of food. The over-serving was because she rarely saw her grand daughters and wanted to feed us all in one go - but there's love in the making of biscuits and grits -that meal is my go-to in terms of breakfast comfort.

I have been trying to figure out what this is a picture of. I have even polled a few people at work about it. What is the red swirly chunk?

Maybe a lovely screened in porch of a farmhouse, weather not too warm with a little breeze, something good to read and the food would be chewy thick bacon, real hash browns (NOT home fries!), big organic fruit bowl, a latte and fresh-squeezed blood orange juice. If some other nice person is there who also likes to eat and read, they are welcome.

amyrose13 - I would guess flavored homemade marshmallows.

I miss weekend breakfasts back home with my mom, always Twig's benedict at Twig's Diner (http://www.yelp.com/biz/twigs-diner-barberton)

Chilaquiles rojos with a side of sliced papaya & canteloupe, washed down with a glass of fresh mango juice. Enjoyed on the outdoor patio next to the lake on the campus i studied at in Mexico. (Coffee came a little later in the day.) I still dream of that meal sometimes...

homemade cinnamon rolls with some rich coffee with cream and caramel, all alone outside on a deck somewhere looking at the mountains

My favorite breakfast is always The Great Breakfast (2 eggs over-easy, 2 sausage links, 2 bacon, 2 pancakes w/butter & syrup, 2 slices of wheat toast, panfries) and a bottomless cup of coffee at the Belmont Hall Restaurant in Manchester, NH. I love a good breakfast at home, too...but you can't beat good ol' diner food.

My dream breakfast would be rising with the sun and creeping into the kitchen while my other half slumbers, and waking him up with the smells of swedish pancakes, lingonberry jam, thick cut bacon, greasy sausage, fresh fruit and fluffy scrambled eggs (all guilt free, naturally), with a pot of coffee and fresh OJ and the soothing sounds of Jose Feliciano. Ahh.

Eggs benedict with smoked salmon instead of ham, er....canadian bacon. And a side of breakfast sausage and fruit. With a cup of darjeeling tea.

Sitting on the back porch of my multi-million dollar house overlooking my estate, which abuts either a private beach or a nature preserve.

Oh yeah, and my husband is the one who cooks it for me. Hahahahhahahaha.

You said this was a dream, right?

A toast (or more) of real homemade bread (Azóia, Mafra, Alentejano, Saloio, etc)

Homemade butter from Azeitão.

Serra Cheese.

Homemade jams: tomato, blackberries, pumpkin.

Pastéis de nata. Plenty! Mil-folhas.

Tea. Espresso with milk.

A small round table covered by a white cotton tablecloth, white porcelain and crystal glasses.

By the splendid sea of Sesimbra.

Hmmmm.... Heaven. :)

amyrose13 - The photo is peppermint-flavored marshmallows and cocoa!

simple: a tall glass of ice-cold, freshly squeezed orange juice and a simple bowl good-old fashioned raisin bran cereal; skim milk and a sliced banana on top. No frills, no fuss, I save that for the dinner table!

Setting: my front porch in the summer time, reading vanity fair, alone!

Mmm. This post is making me hungry. Breakfast is my absolute favorite thing. Not just favorite meal, favorite *thing* :)

I would say my ideal breakfast would be shared with my hubby (tho he's not a breakfast fan!) or a couple of close girlfriends, outside somewhere beautiful, and would consist of:

-something sweet (old fashioned french toast or or some sort of flaky pastry)
-something savory (a really really good omelet cooked with plenty of butter)
-endless supply of french press coffee

The breakfast I have been dreaming about for over 4 years now is at The Garnish House B&B Cork City, Ireland. Hands down, nothing since compares. Fresh scones, steel-cut oats, currants/berries, yogurt/meusli, real butter, tea, ... sigh .. priceless.
http://www.garnish.ie/breakfast

Two eggs over easy, perfectly seasoned pork sausage, fried potatoes and onions, a side order of baked beans, rye toast with real butter and strawberry jam, a small glass of grapefruit juice and lots of coffee. I've never found a restaurant that got it quite right, especially the fried potatoes and onions, so I just cook it at home.

I don't have a particular "must" food--I like lots of different breakfast foods--but perfection means really strong coffee prepared au lait (in a bowl), and it never gets cold. That and a certain someone is on hand and not complaining about coffee breath.

Whole grain toast with salted butter and honey and a big cup of bottomless coffee with real cream...the latest issue of "The Sun" or one of the Dark Tower books, sitting in a cozy chair with a kitty in my lap, a fire blazing and the snow coming down outside.

Alternatively, a "vada pav" sandwich (fried potato fritters stuffed inside a fluffy roll with spicy cilantro chutney) on a train in India, off on a new adventure!!

fresh German brotchen with nutella and coffee.....morning bliss

Dream breakfast? Easy! Anywhere, anytime, dim sum and the morning paper, with T!

by the way what's in the picture, it looks like beef bones and coffee;/

This is so fun to ponder and I have loved all the responses!

I'm torn and there's no rules, so I have two:

Option A: tortilla española and endless cafe con leche, a wonderful book, enjoyed alone while I sit looking effortlessly fashionable (it's a dream, right?) at a sidewalk café in Madrid. I miss those cafes. And being alone. Ha!

Option B: a good Jewish bagel, lox and cream cheese, a gigantic bloody mary, a huge cup of black coffee and my all of my best friends around the table in Milwaukee with the entire day ahead of us.

Nasi lemak. Or fried Chinese cruellers dipped in hand-squeezed soymilk...

...McD hotcakes FTW, too.

Breakfast at New York, New York in Miami.

2 eggs poached, potatoes, everything bagel toasted with cream cheese and some fruit salad.

Delish.

Endless coffee in my favorite purple speckled mug with blueberry and white chocolate scones with frosting, walking down the street to the beach with my boyfriend. Yum!

I'm imagining a farm fresh poached egg with sauteed chanterelle mushrooms and bechamel sauce on crusty toast, with hash browns, fruit salad and a really good artisan latte. At a table with a white tablecloth, in a beautiful garden under a trellis of wisteria flowers, sitting across from the Old Spice guy. Well, you did say dream!

Right now with me really wanting spring to come so It wouuld be a fresh fruit salad with all types of fresh berries and tropical fruit and a crumb topped coffee cake. I don't like to cook in the morning so I would have to bake the cake in the pm and toss together the fruit I cut the night before, in the am.

I have two--the first is French cheese, baguettes, sliced fruit, those tiny, European yogurt cups, Nutella, coffee, juice and various charcuterie shared with friends around the dining table in a tiny French flat before spending the day skiing in the Alps; and the other is the fresh eggs, beans, tortillas, avocado and other deliciousness homemade by the fabulous Mexican housekeeper and served to me and my husband on a sundrenched balcony on the Mayan Riviera.

Spring: Herb omelet, raspberry jam on brioche toast and earl grey tea at home.

Summer: Blueberry pancakes with berries from the garden, melon & bacon, and strong black coffee on the back porch.

Fall: French Toast, scrambled eggs and sausage at the diner down the street.

Winter: walnut and brown sugar oatmeal, grapefruit and fresh squeezed OJ, cozy on the couch with a book and a blanket.

my current favourite is a couple of spoons of oats and a chopped date soaked overnight in milk - with a(n N)espresso on the side

an occasional fresh croissant from the bakery up the road is good too (although this tends to be eaten as I am paying.....)

1 perfectly poached egg atop fried potato, onion and pepper.

2 (or 5) slices of thick cut, crispy bacon

fruit salad with strawberries, pineapple, blueberries, raspberries, and banana

Coffee

Spicy bloody mary

my girlfriends (with our husbands happily playing golf and gone for HOURS so we can gossip and drink and relish in each others company)

Me and my family, my brother and his family, my father and my late mother sitting around a large table eating barbacoa on corn tortillas, pork tamales, and menudo. With plenty of fresh cilantro, onion, and limes.

spinach and goat cheese frittata, a breakfast pastry-- I'm not picky, it could be a scone, a muffin, or a roll, as long as it's totally deliscious and just sweet enough, berries and mango, a cafe au lait that tastes just like the ones at Cafe Fanny in Berkeley, and a blood orange mimosa. On my paito, with the wisteria in bloom. And it tastes like I made it, but I didn't.

Mine is with friends and love in a café next to the Bosphorus on a lazy Sunday morning with lots of simit, cheese (full fat white and goat), tomatoes, home-made jams, butter, olives and lots and lots of Turkish style black tea with endless chatter...

perfect breakfast,..ummm cup of nescafe with some kaya toast preferably alone...;-)

I would be in Austin, Texas with my husband eating migas with a steaming mug of black coffee. And a mimosa or three.

Tofu scrambled eggs w/ salsa or a chili relleno if I feel like splurging.

My favorite breakfast is the desperado from Julian's in Providence, RI. Its eggs benedict but instead of ham it's served with avocado and fresh salsa. A side of the mushroom boursin cheese hash and a bowl of fresh fruit. For drink a spicy bloody mary (the best I ever had). Enjoyed with my bf and some friends and not having to wait for a table.

http://www.juliansprovidence.com/

All of these breakfasts sound so decadent and delicious! I was going to choose a brunch buffet at a neighborhood restaurant, or a greasy breakfast at a hole-in-the-wall diner, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of staying at home in my PJs, curled up on the couch with my husband and pugs, munching on whatever we scrounge up - usually eggs and toast.

My dad makes my dream breakfast - in his outdoor kitchen on his 9 acre slice of heaven. First, the best pancakes in the world (seriously - he makes the best pancakes EVER), with real butter & real maple syrup, topped with a fried egg over medium so the yolk is nice and runny; thick, crispy, peppery bacon on the side; hot strong coffee; and a nice ripe peach to end with. Actually, this meal would probably end with a nap :)

Sitting in a ryokan in Japan, with a Japanese breakfast that includes rice, miso soup, and grilled sanma (pacific saury). I've done it before, and it's just so light, delicious, and refreshing.

anything that involves a runny egg

Poached eggs on a whole grain english muffin, fresh fruit salad, and a green tea latte made with skim milk. I would love to eat it outside at a table in a garden, but with our apartment that is not possible.

I am from England sooo would have to say a full English, but my way! sliced pan fried till soft tomatoes in olive oil and lots of crushed black pepper, then sprayed with balsamic lightly, thick rounds of bacon brown edges, some (85% + pork) sausages (possible middle white pork if available) quite well done, mushrooms hint of lemon till brown in places, maybe some mini hash browns, thick buttered doorstep toast, and a glass of champagne (well you did say dream!) tea maybe x

It would be about 8:30 AM. My wife and I would be sitting at the table with the sunshine on our faces inside of our screened in porch.

To start, I would have a fruit mixture with a small glass of tomato juice. As I eat, I watch good TV or read the newspaper

Then I would move to a big stack of blueberry pancakes with lots of maple syrup and a few walnuts on top, along with a nice cup of either Sumatran, Arabic, African, or French Roast coffee (as long as its bold, dark, and smoky). A cup just black, then a cup with some milk and maybe sugar, then back to black for the rest of the meal.

After I finish the pancakes, I move on to the main course: a hearty prime rib with A1 and horseradish on the side, along with link sausage, two eggs over easy, hashbrowns that are smothered, covered, and chunked (if you live in the South, you know what it means:), white toast with an assortment of jam, and two biscuits with tomato gravy on top. The whole time, im drinking an endless supply of dark, rich, smoky coffee.

I have another small glass of tomato juice and a bit of milk to wash it down.

Then for dessert, a big slice of blueberry pie with a slice of melted cheddar cheese on top. I eat it slowly, with three cups of coffee, then I finish it and wash it down with a bit of milk. I round out the meal with one last hearty cup of coffee, before brushing my teeth, kissing my wife, and heading to work.

Or crawling back in bed haha, either one is fine.