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Best breakfast restaurants

The Signature Chorizo Skillet -- scrambled eggs and

Newsday/Rebecca Cooney

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Any local diner can make you eggs, but how many places can serve you a breakfast that will make your day?

Few enough. Which is why epicures who may lose count of their favorite dinner spots can usually name only one place they cozy up to for breakfast.

Individuality, coupled with a respect for simplicity and tradition, is what keeps a breakfast spot percolating. That's certainly true of the following dozen, which, minor shortcomings aside, have the right ingredients to rank as top-of-the-morning kinds of places.

--Compiled by Joan Reminick

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Atlantica on the Ocean $$$ | New American, Seafood 80 W. Broadway Long Beach The best course at Atlantica on the Ocean is visual: great views of the waves ...
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BlonDee’s Bistro & Bar Breakfast, Lunch, Wraps, Salads, Small plates, Tapas 26 Clinton Ave. Huntington Owner Dena Fenza said the place — which used to offer only breakfast and lunch ...
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Brownstones Coffee, Sandwiches, American 55 Merrick Rd. Amityville Brownstones in Amityville used to be just a coffeehouse. Not any more. ...
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The CookRoom Breakfast, Diner, Lunch, Burgers 25 Middle Country Rd. Middle Island At this gleaming vintage diner, Annie Mandler serves a homestyle menu that includes such dishes ...
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Cornucopia’s Noshery $ | Breakfast, Lunch, Panini, Salads, Sandwiches, Soup, Wraps 194A Park Ave. Amityville In an attractive sun-splashed space with a counter and tables -- and some of Long ...
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Eastport Luncheonette Luncheonette, Restaurant 497A Montauk Hwy Eastport Warm welcomes are a specialty at this popular luncheonette, whose owner Noreen Glynn, offers a ...
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Glen's Dinette $$ | Breakfast, American, Lunch 23 E. Main St Babylon A fixture of Babylon town since the late 1940s, this dinette has breakfast and lunch ...
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Jo Jo Apples Cafe $ | American, Breakfast 85 Lido Blvd. Point Lookout A charming all-American restaurant that specializes in pancakes--smothered in strawberries, blueberries or bananas. There are ...
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Left Coast Kitchen & Cocktails $$$ | American, New American, Beer, Wine bar, Gastro-pub, Breakfast 1810 Merrick Rd. Merrick Merrick gastropub where the kitchen puts great detail into its menu of both classic and ...
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Maureen & Daughters Kitchen $ | American, Breakfast, Lunch, Kids 108 Terry Rd. Smithtown This cute, quirky breakfast nook, a cash-only establishment on Terry Road, has garnered the attention ...