Waking up on a cold winter morning is easier when you know piping hot coffee and a tasty winter brunch are just a few minutes away. Featuring plush armchairs, cushy booths and toasty fireplaces, these eateries are the way to warm up on a chilly day around the Main Line area.
Black Cat Cafe
42 Berkley Rd., Devon
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This Devon nonprofit serves breakfast until 2 p.m. every day. It’s a Best of the Main Line and Western Suburbs winner for best chef, gluten-free fare, takeout menu and chef again from 2022 through 2024. Stop by to say hi to the cats and kittens that call this restaurant home and enjoy pancakes, French toast, cream-chipped beef and more in the soft-lit dining room.
The Gables at Chadds Ford
423 Baltimore Pke., Chadds Ford
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Open from 11 a.m. every day of the week, The Gables at Chadds Ford is a delightful Brandywine eatery with booths lining the walls and natural light spilling in through wide windows. During early spring and late fall, it offers outdoor fire pits to warm up in the fresh air, but during winter, you’ll probably want to stay inside for brunch. Try the Kennett Square cream of mushroom soup to start before moving on to the farmhouse breakfast (crispy prosciutto and fried eggs over home fries with choice of melted cheese), Grand Marnier French toast or vanilla bean Belgian waffles.
Rosalie
139 East Lancaster Ave., Wayne
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Located in the historic Wayne Hotel, this Italian soul-food stop in Wayne offers winter brunch from 10 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Find plush sofas, comfy booths, cushy armchairs and soft lighting with a hearty meal that warms the soul. The eatery also offers an enclosed heated patio for diners craving a little fresh air. Be sure to try the breakfast bread platter that comes with amaro cake, croissants and zucchini bread before moving on to larger courses like the Sunday gravy shakshuka or egg in the hole.
Spring Mill Cafe
164 Barren Hill Rd., Conshohocken
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Soft lighting and an upscale vibe spotlight the Sunday prix-fixe winter brunch menu at Spring Mill Cafe. The menu features French dishes with high-class presentations. Try starting with brioche topped with whipped cream and berries before moving on to the breakfast cassoulet, gaufres aux frites or mushroom and gruyere omelet.
A Taste of Britain
503 Lancaster Ave., Wayne
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This British cafe was been hosting Main Line diners since the early ’90s. Where its French counterpart in Conshohocken is upscale, A Taste of Britain is more casual. Try warm scones fresh from the oven, Cornish pasties or the ploughman’s platter. For the full British experience, order the delightful full afternoon tea served on a tower.
Will and Bill’s Brewery and Restaurant
324 Swedesford Rd., Berwyn
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Father and son Will and Bill Mangan’s comfy neighborhood restaurant is lined with booths and filled with soft padded chairs. The roaring fireplace adds warmth to the dining room, where brunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends. All entrees during that period are $19.95, and each includes a complimentary bloody Mary, champagne cocktail or pint of WB’s craft beer. The bananas foster French toast and bacon and eggs poutine are particularly hearty. They also make for great hangover cures.
The Whip Tavern
1383 N Chatham Rd., Coatesville
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The Whip’s Sunday brunch is served next to a toasty fireplace from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays. The restaurant creates its English dishes from local, sustainable ingredients and dairy farms from nearby Chester and Lancaster Counties. The Welsh rarebit and Scotch egg are British favorites while the scrapple eggs Benedict and full English breakfast will warm you up down to your toes.
White Dog Cafe
200 West Lancaster Ave., Wayne; 379 Lancaster Ave., Haverford; 981 Baltimore Pke., Glen Mills; 181 Gordon Dr., Exton
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Every White Dog Cafe is a little bit different. Glen Mills and Chester Springs locations have fireplaces, the Haverford location has plush armchairs and millwork that offers a vintage charm and the Wayne location paved the path on the Main Line for its more recent sisters. Each also has a slightly different menu, but be sure to look for the warm donuts, country breakfast (with scrambled eggs, scrapple, sausage gravy, biscuit and home fries) and pumpkin cheesecake stuffed French toast.
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