Best Brunch Bliss Spots Restaurants in Near North Side

Beatrix - Streeterville is an all-day neighborhood restaurant and coffeehouse where bakery cases, vegetable-leaning plates, and comfort classics draw hospital staff, hotel guests, and locals from early breakfast through late dinner. The menu leans on recognizable American dishes with health-conscious twists, plus standout desserts and a serious coffee program. It has become a default choice in Streeterville for reliable, slightly polished everyday dining.

A high-energy breakfast-and-brunch room where bagels share space with scramblers, benedicts, and griddled sweets, Yolk Streeterville is one of the neighborhood’s most validated morning spots. The move for bagel lovers is to treat it like a diner-meets-bagel shop: build a bagel-and-cream-cheese plate or turn the bagel into a loaded breakfast sandwich alongside coffee and sides.

Marisol, set inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, serves vegetable-forward New American plates, a standout burger, and seasonal proteins in a dining room that mirrors the museum’s clean, contemporary aesthetic. It pulls a mix of museum-goers and neighborhood regulars who treat it as a calm, design-minded alternative to louder Streeterville spots. The cooking is more careful and market-driven than the casual setting might suggest.

Kanela Breakfast Club brings a slightly Greek-leaning brunch menu to Streeterville, with lox-and-bagel plates and fried egg bagel sandwiches sharing space with pancakes and crab cake benedicts. It’s a sit-down option where the bagel set skews more composed and cafe-style than grab-and-go, with enough variety to please both bagel traditionalists and brunch grazers.

A Gold Coast standby for Southern-leaning American comfort in a warm, garden-y room that works for brunch or an easy dinner. The kitchen’s sweet spot is classic comfort done with restraint—crispy chicken, rich sides, and desserts that feel built for lingering.

A Wrigleyville donut-and-coffee counter that stays strongest when you treat it like a donut run first, with fried chicken as a bonus lane. The lineup leans classic-with-a-twist: glazed and old fashioned styles alongside filled and seasonal flavors, built for quick grabs before the neighborhood gets loud.

Brass Tack, the Waldorf Astoria’s brasserie, leans into seasonal, Midwestern-inflected American cooking and uses Chicago Restaurant Week and holiday prix fixe dinners to showcase multi-course menus built around dishes like porterhouse steak, citrus-brined chicken, and refined desserts. It’s less formal than a traditional tasting temple but offers structured, multi-course experiences in a polished hotel setting.

A Gold Coast staple since the early 1980s, Tempo Cafe is a big-menu diner where bagels show up in classic Nova lox plates and as supporting players to enormous skillets and omelettes. Locals lean on it for reliable, late-running breakfasts and straightforward lox-on-bagel setups before shopping the Mag Mile.

A stylish hotel-dining brunch that works best for polished group catch-ups and cocktails-with-food pacing. Keep the order focused—one signature brunch plate plus one shared side—so you avoid the ‘wide menu’ trap and get the strongest execution.

Tucked inside the SPACE 519 concept store, The Lunchroom is a 40-seat cafe serving vegetable-forward, California-style takes on American lunch standards, plus brunch plates and pastries. Portions skew lighter and presentations cleaner than neighboring hotel spots, with an emphasis on salads, toast-based plates, and composed sandwiches. It’s more of a daytime hangout than a destination dinner, but fills a real gap for fresher-feeling food near the Mag Mile.

Chapel Street Cafe & Restaurant is an Australian-influenced all-day spot off Delaware Place, serving coffee drinks, brunch plates, and bistro-style dinners under high ceilings and big windows. It skews more relaxed than the hotel fine dining nearby, pulling in locals for thoughtful breakfast and burger plates after shopping or museum visits.