Kyle Green
Napa Valley is known for its picturesque countryside lined with some of the best vineyards in the world and is a premier destination for wine tours and upscale vacation spas.
You can even explore the area on the Napa Valley Wine Train–a decked-out sleeper train converted into a luxurious transit from winery to winery.
Wine connoisseurs and luxury lovers can delight in wine tastings all day and dine at Michelin-starred restaurants by night.
It leaves your mornings wide open to savor a delicious brunch using California’s famous bounty of farm-fresh ingredients in a beautiful setting overlooking Napa Valley’s incredible views.
I spent my most recent trip to Napa in search of its best brunch spots and was overwhelmed with the diversity of excellent choices.
Best Brunch in Napa
- Southside Napa
- La Cheve Bakery and Brews
- Boon Fly Cafe
- Farmstead at Long Meadow Ranch
- Lovina
- Brix Restaurant & Gardens
- Napa General Store
- Sweetie Pies Bakery
- Calistoga Inn Restaurant & Brewery
- BANK Café and Bar
- Napa Valley Bistro
- FARM at Carneros
- Jax White Mule Diner
- Grace’s Table
- C CASA Napa
If you’re looking for the best brunch in Napa, read on to explore my list of restaurants, bistros, and cafes offering the best dishes, service, and atmosphere for your mid-morning meal.
Southside Napa
Multiple locations
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Owned and operated by Chef and Manager couple Morgan and Irma Robinson, Southside Café is a hip, rustic-chic café that serves fantastic coffee and farm-to-table cuisine sourced from local farmers’ markets.
Chef Morgan combines his California roots and his wife’s Mexican heritage to inform the cuisine.
With its flagship location in Carneros, Southside Café has since expanded to include areas in Yountville surrounded by wineries and in South Napa.
Southside is a coffee house and all-day breakfast and lunch eatery, so brunch is an option seven days a week. They also offer family-style meals on certain menu items like biscuits and gravy and Chilaquiles.
La Cheve Bakery and Brews
376 Soscol Ave, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-294-2142
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La Cheve is a family-owned Mexican bakery, eatery, and pub in Napa’s Imola neighborhood, a few blocks from Tulucay Creek.
Its super cute rustic wooden dining space, amazing fresh-baked Mexican pastries and breakfasts, and local feel have won La Cheve a Best of the North Bay award from Bohemian.
La Cheve is the best place to get authentic Mexican food, cakes, and pastries from family recipes passed down from generation to generation.
They often combine Mexican and American breakfasts with dishes like Flan French toast and Mexican Eggs Benedict.
My favorite dish is the breakfast sandwich on house-made potato bread, with spicy mayo, scrambled eggs, bacon, mozzarella, cheese, house-made chorizo, avocado, and a side of fresh fruit.
Boon Fly Cafe
4048 Sonoma Hwy, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-299-4870
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Located off the busy Sonoma Highway across the road from The Orchard Resort and Spa, Boon Fly Café is a modern roadhouse in a massive bright red barn-like building with a rustic-chic interior.
Named for a pioneer wine farmer who erected the wineries surrounding its current location in the mid-1800s, Boon Fly Café is a bustling and fun atmosphere to enjoy refined, locally sourced meals.
A contemporary roadhouse atmosphere also means a contemporary, upscale take on farm-fresh American food. Surrounded by vineyards, Boon Fly lets you bring your own bottles to the table.
They serve all-day brunch with breakfast offerings like griddle cakes, chicken and waffles, and breakfast burritos while also offering salads, sandwiches, and flatbreads. Whatever you order, don’t miss out on their freshly baked donuts!
Farmstead at Long Meadow Ranch
738 Main St, St Helena, CA 94574
Phone: 707-963-4555
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Farmstead is a general store, restaurant, and café located within the beautiful winery at Long Meadow Ranch in St. Helena.
You can stop in for a wine tasting, a bottle of your favorite wine, or one of their premade mixers, then proceed to enjoy a delicious, upscale lunch or dinner.
They offer Sunday brunch, using the rugged tastes of the surrounding mountains, soil, and nearby coast to create a unique menu with many of the same flavors you encounter when sampling their wines.
Brunch is a multicourse, steak and seafood-heavy meal with shareable small plates, salads, and entrees.
I highly recommend one of their famous Bloody Marys. It’s so delicious you’ll want to buy the mix at the general store on the way out. I loved the deviled eggs with pimento cheese and ham.
Lovina
1107 Cedar St, Calistoga, CA 94515
Phone: 707-942-6500
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Lovina is a family-friendly restaurant in the beautifully wooded surroundings of Calistoga that gets its name from the 19th-century pioneering family matriarch Lovina Cyrus, who is a local heroine in the area.
Lovina’s award-winning restaurant owner Jennifer Bennet has teamed up with Chef Leticia Martinez to provide diners with an authentic California-style menu using local purveyors and vegetables from their onsite garden.
Lovina is a BYOB establishment but also has a wonderful selection of their own to accompany your mid-morning meal if you want a boozy brunch in Napa.
Lovina’s high-end menu features a variety of meat, seafood, and other savory entrees. Vegetarians have excellent fresh veggie options along with Impossible meat dishes and cashew cheese.
Brix Restaurant & Gardens
7377 St Helena Hwy, Napa, CA 94558
Phone: 707-944-2749
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Located in the beautiful winery region of Yountville, Brix Restaurant and Gardens is a farm-to-table restaurant on massive 2-acre grounds with gardens and orchards that supply its menu of Northern California cuisine.
Owned by the Kelleher family, Brix Restaurant has been serving farm-fresh meals and its own wine from the Kelleher family vineyard in an incredible outdoor patio and cozy interior for the past 25 years.
California is known for its temperate weather, and you can enjoy sunny days, crisp mountain air, and views of the massive garden plots and surrounding orchards by dining alfresco on their extended patio.
I recommend taking advantage of the garden’s bounty by trying the summer vegetable frittata with squash, sundried tomato, olives, feta, and baby greens.
Napa General Store
540 Main St Ste 100, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-259-0762
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Located in downtown Napa overlooking the glorious Napa River, Napa General Store is a breakfast and lunch eatery and specialty food and wine store with a friendly, cute ambiance and a wonderful outdoor patio surrounded by flowers.
A favorite for locals and newcomers alike, Napa General Store serves fresh, heaping plates of American comfort breakfasts with a California flair.
Breakfast and lunch are on the menu during the workweek, and brunch on the weekends. I highly recommend ordering some chocolate-filled beignets to accompany your coffee while you wait for the main course.
My favorite brunch entrée is the Napa Scramble, two eggs, mild goat cheese, spinach, and applewood smoked bacon served with breakfast potatoes and sourdough toast.
Sweetie Pies Bakery
520 Main St, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-257-7280
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Sweetie Pies Bakery is a beloved neighborhood bakery and coffee house inside the Napa Mill Building in downtown Napa.
Their incredible pies, pastries, and desserts have been featured on USA Today, and they are especially popular for wedding cakes.
The cozy and casual atmosphere permeated by incredible smells of fresh baked goods and coffee is a wonderful spot to enjoy a pastry and coffee or a full breakfast menu.
You can get breakfast and lunch from Monday through Saturday, with brunch on Sundays. I highly recommend sampling their incredible selection of croissants, pastries, coffee cakes, and more. They also make a delicious quiche with bacon and swiss and fresh vegetable variety.
Calistoga Inn Restaurant & Brewery
1250 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, CA 94515
Phone: 707-942-4101
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The Calistoga Inn is a casual, rustic, and inviting boutique hotel with an onsite beer brewery and restaurant in the town of Calistoga, a prime destination for winery tours.
The eatery is country-chic with New American cuisine featured in lovely, vibrant displays. The outdoor patio is a romantic and friendly place to enjoy a flight of artisanal brews before heading inside for brunch, lunch, or dinner. You can catch live music nightly, too.
Weekend brunch is a small offering of classic American and Southwestern dishes. I recommend trying their hash and eggs, in which they use their own Calistoga Red Ale to braise the corned beef, griddled with peppers, onions, and potatoes, then topped with two poached eggs.
BANK Café and Bar
1314 McKinstry St, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-257-5151
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Located inside downtown Napa’s Oxbow District in the lovely Westin Verasa Napa Hotel, BANK Café and Bar is a cocktail and wine bar and high-end comfort-food restaurant.
BANK uses the Wine Spectator Grand Award-winning wine list from their sister restaurant La Toque while providing diners with contemporary renditions of comfort food using all local farms, ranches, and purveyors.
Weekend breakfast ends early, meaning that you can enjoy a full itinerary of subsequent wine tours. They offer the classic mimosa and bloody mary brunch cocktails made with fresh-squeezed juices and handmade mixes.
I loved their Oaxacan Chilaquiles with pork carnitas, fried farm eggs, salsa verde, avocado, and house-made corn chips.
Napa Valley Bistro
975 Clinton St, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-666-2383
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Napa Valley Bistro is a beloved neighborhood bistro with award-winning food and service in a lively interior and quaint outdoor patio in north Downtown Napa between the Downtown Napa Skate Park and Heritage Park.
Executive Chef Bernardo Ayala and co-owner Ernesto Martinez create a locally sourced, sustainable menu while contributing a large portion of profits to support community projects and charities.
The menu at Napa Valley Bistro is New American cuisine with a Southwestern influence. I especially loved the chicken empanadas with Petaluma achiote marinated chicken, black bean puree, avocado, lime, crème Fraiche, and queso fresco.
FARM at Carneros
4048 Sonoma Hwy, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-299-4880
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Located Deep in the heart of wine country and surrounded by wineries, FARM is a herb, produce, and chicken farm surrounding a contemporary farmhouse dining room.
This Carneros eatery self-proclaims that it’s a garden-to-table bistro, with chefs preparing high-end dishes made from the farm’s own planter boxed gardens and organic chicken coops.
Sunday brunch in Napa is a family-style affair, with large shareable plates accompanied by a selection of light sparkling wines.
The menu incorporates a delicious variety of world cuisines with everything from caviar to braised pork belly pozole. I loved the shrimp and grits with Anson mills grits, ham hock jus, and pickled peppers.
Jax White Mule Diner
1122 1st St, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-812-6853
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The Jax White Mule Diner is a casual Napa-style diner and cocktail lounge. Located in downtown Napa, it has a full cocktail bar, wine list, and selection of craft beers on tap to accompany hearty plates of your favorite bar food and California cuisine.
Their over-the-top brunch cocktails and an extensive menu of breakfast and lunch classics for moderate prices make them an excellent place for a boozy brunch in Napa with friends.
The cocktails at Jax are the best in town, and they have dozens of Mules with flavors from every corner of the world, from the Irish mule to the Oaxacan mule. I had an espresso martini to accompany my hearty plate of steak and eggs over-easy.
Grace’s Table
1400 2nd St, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-226-6200
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Grace’s Table is an upscale and inviting Michelin Bib Gourmand awarded bistro specializing in Latin and Mediterranean cuisine from South America, Spain, and Italy.
Chef and owner Mauro Pando uses his decades of experience in high-end restaurants around the U.S., his world travels, and his Italian heritage to inform his globally inspired menu.
The brunch menu spans the culinary spectrum from U.S. comfort food to Argentine empanadas to French steak frites.
I started with burrata and prosciutto di parma with persimmons, toasted baguette, and aged balsamic, followed by a plate of the fluffiest buttermilk pancakes with powdered sugar and Vermont maple syrup.
C CASA Napa
610 1st St #6, Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-226-7700
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C Casa Napa is a contemporary Mexican food restaurant inspired by the owner Catherine’s travels to Mexico’s Baja California.
C Casa reinvents Mexican food by using organic, non-GMO, and locally sourced ingredients to create a healthy and fresh take on classic Mexican dishes like enchiladas, tacos, quesadillas, and more. C Casa Napa is inside the famous Oxbow Market in North Downtown.
The huge brunch menu at C Casa offers daily brunches featuring bowls, salads, enchiladas, breakfast tacos, rotisserie chickens, and Mexican-style bloody Marias and micheladas.
My favorite dish is the Breakfast Nachos Not with two eggs, house-made tortilla chips, chorizo black beans, pico de gallo, artisan goat cheese, chipotle aioli, cilantro, and fleur de sel.
Final Thoughts
Napa Valley is an upscale district of world-famous wineries, luxurious spas, and b&bs. Their brunch spots reflect the excellence of the region’s food and drink culture, stunning natural bounty, and iconic wine country scenery.
Whether you want a Mexican breakfast, a California-style diner brunch, or a Michelin-awarded bistro, my list of the best places to have brunch in Napa has what you’re looking for.
If you want to continue your culinary tour of Napa, check out my list of top private restaurants in the area.
Did we miss any of your favorite brunch spots in Napa on this list? Leave us a comment below, and we’ll check it out!
