13 Best Breakfast Restaurants near Middletown

“if you like biscuits and gravy then you will LOVE it at Rise and Shine. I used to live down south and its not even close. Even in New Orleans I could not find a place that even comes close to how good Rise and Shine does the biscuits and gravy. They also have an amazing Irish Benedict. Actually everyone I have brought there has loved whatever they get. Some of the lunch/breakfast specials are very different and delicious.“

“I just want to start out by saying the Weekend Before Thanksgiving got away from me. I was hospitalized overnight Sunday into Monday and woke in a panic Monday. I was scheduled to make a lasagne for my family Thanksgiving gathering for Thursday. I posted on the Middletown Facebook page and Carmella messaged me! She assured me she could handle a lasagne for 20-25 people and boy was she right! I picked it up Wednesday at 3pm. She came out to say Hi, her staff was excellent & courteous. There were other folks there picking up Thanksgiving take out. My family was thrilled and the lasagne was excellent. As I am tryping this, I am eating the last piece at almost 2am Tuesday morning. Kudos to Carmella and all involved. We will be in to try out breakfast soon. One Million Stars and Many Thanks.“

“yummy! best breakfast food around!“

“My husband and I tried this place for first time for a breakfast date. The ambience is very cozy, and the food and service are magnificent! We will be going again and will recommend this cute spot to others.“

“consistently amazing with food, service, friendly staff, clean and overall great experience.“

“Good morning😃 we went for a first time for breakfast this morning and it was amazing. People are friendly and nice.. We will go back again, and I will tell my family and friends! 🧡🥰🍩🍩“

“We love Josies ! From the home made bread and muffins to the great staff we always have a great time .“

“Great breakfasts and super service.“

“In the area for business, avoiding big chain coffee shops, stopped into Bob's for a coffee and guess what happened......the nice man getting my coffee says no charge. Who does that? Bob's coffee shop, THAT'S WHO. Thanks.“

“Honestly, I was there about 3 years ago and food was excellent but service was bad, because no coffee refills....Fast forward to yesterday....MUCH improved ?. Had 4 refills on coffee, bacon was cooked ON POINT, well done just as I like. Home fries were nice and tender too. Service excellent. I enjoy stopping there when my car is being worked on across the street. I no longer live in Central part of CT but my when car needs repairs, I will return to CJ s for a bite to eat!“

“The place is amazing!! Never had omelettes like that anywhere. Everything is excellent. And the service was great. You will NOT be disappointed. Great little spot.“

“I travel to Newington Connecticut and searching for a good breakfast, I found this gem. First of all was founded by a Puerto Rican like me(Luz Ramos). The flavor of Waffle with the Mapple syrup was perfect. The fried egg with bacon over Waffle and cheese was fenomenal. They serve a potato with a sweet flavor that make me happy. The coffee is better than other coffee around..The total price for two people was $37.00. Update I come back before my flight to Puerto Rico and met the founder in person Luz is a beautiful soul. They bring me the speciality dish chicken waffle that was unique, they use only natural ingredients. This time the coffee was perfect so all it's good. 5 of 5“

“TL;DR Love the place! Avoid Tomas 🫩

I love the food and the other servers, but Tomas... I've kept this in for so long but my brother in Christ I can't stand that server 😭 We've had three separate incidents with that man and that's the reason why I can't come here if I know he's there.

The first incident we had with Tomas he had us waiting for nearly an hour because he gave our food to the wrong table. Whatever, I'm not going to make a big deal about it and the situation was made a little better when he offered to give us some drinks for free. But then he completely forgot about the drinks and we had to ask him TWICE about it, and then he eventually gave us our food and our drinks but at what cost. My friend gave him their card to pay for our meal and he charged them twice, so we had to come back the next day to get it corrected but he sorta fled the scene.

The second incident is when we ordered and he gave our side pancakes to the wrong table. Things happen, I get it, so we didn't fuss about it. But AGAIN it took him another 20 minutes to bring them out since he kept forgetting. We paid via the app this time so he couldn't charge us twice like the first experience.

Third experience he kept forgetting about our refills; multiple times he would check in on the tables around us but us, and when we would ask him if he could just get out refills he would disappear and not come back. We paid through the app again and we just left without our refills, or else we would've never left the building 💀

Last time we went we were almost stuck with Tomas again, until my friend asked the manager if we could get anyone BUT him and they obliged without any question. His reaction to our request was very understanding, which means they're probably aware of Tomas and all his complaints! Please do something or talk to the guy, I have to constantly avoid getting him as a server or coming here in general because I don't know how I'll react if I'm stuck with him taking my order 🤦🏻‍♀️ So the place is great and all the other servers are wonderful! Just NOT him!“