The menu at this Harlem brunch spot combines its owners’ Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican, and Bangladeshi American backgrounds. Chicken vindaloo arepas and lamb neck curry are available all day, and on weekends, hot chicken sandwiches, date and pistachio french toast, and other brunch items join the menu. An hour of bottomless mimosas is priced at $25 per person with the purchase of an entree.

This restaurant in Woodside has two sides to its menu — “Himalayan inspired” and “American” — representing owner Dawa Bhuti’s heritage and New York upbringing, respectively. There are Himalayan dishes like pillowy momos, kewa datsi (a Bhutanese stew), and thentuk (Tibetan pulled noodles with beef), as well as some American brunch classics like pancakes, French toast, and a burger with Russian dressing. The mix-and-match possibilities make Dawa’s a standout option for brunch in Queens, with something for every mood.

If you haven’t been able to secure a reservation at this Greenpoint hot spot, a table at brunch might be easier to swing. The weekend menu is chock full of hits, like the numbing celtuce salad served at dinner, and new items like a five-spice Taiwan toast drizzled in honey and an egg and cheese-stuffed dan bing made from tater tots. The restaurant’s famed BDSM chicken, which sells out in minutes at night, might be the most elusive order in Brooklyn right now, but during brunch hours, it’s served as a sandwich that’s more readily available — and just as delicious.

For brunch in north Brooklyn, there’s no better place than Chez Ma Tante. This popular neighborhood bistro, from the same team behind Le Crocodile and Bar Blondeau at the Wythe Hotel, takes its cues from French cooking with its menu of cheesy quiches and pig’s head terrine. Okay, yes, and those legendary pancakes: No meal here is complete without them, and they come two to an order with a crispy outer crust that’s not too sweet or dense.

Choose breakfast from small menu that includes homemade soy milk, scallion pancake with egg, chile wontons, radish cake, garlicky cucumbers, zia jiang noodles, or a breakfast set for two with just about everything. Every single item will likely knock your socks off, as will dinner at this super special, very small venue from Richard Ho.

Edith’s Eatery & Grocery opened in Williamsburg last year, bringing a Jewish restaurant, bakery, delicatessen, and grocery store to the neighborhood all in one. For the purposes of this guide, it’s also a pretty pleasant place to sit down with a plate of pastrami and eggs or cheesy syrniki pancakes during brunch. Be sure to take a lap through the restaurant’s grocery area, whose shelves are “lined like a museum” with international ingredients and snacks.

All-day cafe For All Things Good opened in Bed-Stuy during the pandemic and immediately found fans with its take on vegetarian Mexican cooking. Two years later, the restaurant now has a second location in Williamsburg, where customers can order cheesy gordita breakfast sandwiches, mini tlayudas drizzled with salsa macha, and other dishes found at the original. New the menu in Williamsburg is a breakfast tetela, served with avocado and a runny egg in a pool of salsa roja.

With breakfast served every day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., brunch, breakfast, whatever you choose to call it, can be had just about any day, any time. Choose between a standard $30 set or a large $35 set, plus add-ons which might include dishes like roasted fish, tsukemono, uni, or ikura. Okonomi is the daytime version of what’s Yuji Ramen at night.

Happen to be in Williamsburg with some time to kill before brunch? Put your name down at Baby Blues. This modern diner with Greek twists opened on Montrose Avenue last fall, but the secret is already out: The restaurant is walk-in only and there are only a handful of tables, so don’t be surprised to be quoted an hour wait at peak brunch times. Once inside, lemony Greek potatoes, fig jam toast, and HLT (halloumi, lettuce, tomato) sandwiches await.

Brunch brings breakfast tacos and duck chilaquiles to the menu at Colonia Verde, a Latin American restaurant in residential Fort Greene that’s set a few feet below street level. Step down, or through the restaurant into the quaint backyard, and order from a short menu with steak and eggs and calentado, a Colombian breakfast the restaurant makes with duck fried rice and scrambled eggs.

This reliable Bed-Stuy restaurant churns out an all-day brunch menu anchored by fried chicken, seafood, and Southern sides. There’s steak with eggs, chicken with toast, catfish with grits, and plenty of other pairings sure to scratch a brunch craving. Non-brunch staples like crab cake sandwiches and shrimp po’ boys are served all day.

Brunch is served until the modest hour of 3 p.m. at Fort Defiance, a Red Hook restaurant and bar that opened down the street in 2009, and relocated during the pandemic, pivoting to also become a general store. The menu is short and sweet, listing huevos rancheros, chicken fried steak, a banh mi sandwich, and a few other dishes. Sides include fries, hash browns, buttermilk biscuits, and sourdough toast. After more than a year of awaiting a liquor license, as of last summer, the back bar area also serves cocktails like the Irish coffee.

The lines that stretch out the door of Tom’s Restaurant aren’t as bad as those at, say, Bubby’s or Clinton Street Baking Co. in Manhattan. They move quicker, for one, but also don’t be surprised to find an employee of the restaurant passing out orange slices or something else to chew on while you wait. The Prospect Heights diner has been family owned since 1936, serving classic diner fare — egg creams, corned beef hash — that probably won’t blow your mind, but might just cure your hangover.