Estes Park is home to many restaurants, delis, and cafes with breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. Go where the locals go and start your day off right with a visit to one of these places to grab breakfast in Estes Park.
Mountain Home Café
A no-frills breakfast café, Mountain Home Café serves up some of the breakfast in Estes Park. With breakfast classics and sandwiches, plus home-style American dishes, you can’t go wrong! Choose from an extensive breakfast menu full of pancakes, omelets, homestyle scrambles, and breakfast sandwiches.
Claire’s Restaurant & Bar
While they serve more than just breakfast, Claire’s Restaurant & Bar offers an extensive breakfast menu. Items featured include five different kinds of eggs benedicts, breakfast burritos, classic biscuits & gravy, and so much more. While they have a comfortable dining atmosphere inside, be sure to take advantage of their outdoor patio during the summer months in Estes Park.
Notchtop Bakery & Café
With a focus on local and organic ingredients, Notchtop Bakery & Café serves up a hefty breakfast and lunch menu that you can feel good about eating. A few visits here, and you will see why many locals choose this as their breakfast place. Get started with breakfast at Notchtop Bakery and Cafe and order some sandwiches to go for lunch out on the trails for later.
Egg of Estes
For good home cooking, stop in at the family-friendly diner, Egg of Estes. Here is where you will find most locals enjoying their breakfast in Estes Park. Choose from benedicts and waffles to gourmet coffees and freshly made juices, get your start here at the Egg of Estes.
Big Horn Restaurant
While there is certainly plenty of good options to choose from at the Big Horn Restaurant, they are best known for their breakfast. Really you can’t go wrong with any of the breakfast options, but some of their more popular items include the larger-than-life breakfast burritos, French toast, fluffy pancakes, and perfectly cooked hash browns to accompany any plate.
Scratch Deli & Bakery
As a small bakery located just outside of downtown Estes Park, the Scratch Deli and Bakery is the perfect option for grab-n-go breakfast in Estes Park, to take with you on the trails. Enjoy freshly baked bread, tasty breakfast burritos, breakfast sandwiches, and more. With its location just outside the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, it makes for a great stop for a picnic breakfast or lunch to take with you in the park.
Stay at Brynwood on the River

Of course, if you would rather make your own breakfast, our cabins, vacation homes, and motel rooms at Brynwood on the River offer full kitchens/kitchenettes – perfect for making your meals like at home. Our variety of rentals also feature cozy interiors, and other modern amenities such as Wi-Fi and cable T.V. Many of our cabins offer private hot tubs on the deck and wood-burning fireplaces inside! Whether you are looking for a place by the river or one with a mountain view, we have the perfect mountain retreat waiting for you at Brynwood on the River.




