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Cafe Yaya is an all-day neighborhood cafe in Lincoln Park from the team behind Galit, and it opens early enough to catch the weekday breakfast crowd. The menu blends Levantine, French, and Southern ideas, which sounds like a lot until you meet the smoked lamb bacon in a BLT. Order at the counter, stay for the lemon pound cake, and expect a casual, low-key morning that stays well under fine-dining money. Eater has it on its Chicago breakfast list.
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- Eater Chicago’s Best Breakfast Spots
- The Infatuation The 29 Best Bakeries In Chicago
One number, weighted & current 78
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Stuffed breakfast boreka
“a menu of distinctive breakfast offerings like the stuffed breakfast boreka, filled with lamb merguez, potato, garlicky labneh, and tomato jam”
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LBLT
“the LBLT, which involves Yaya’s own smoked lamb bacon and za’atar aioli”
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Zesty lemon pound cake
“End the meal with the popular zesty lemon pound cake.”
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Shakshuka buns
“The pastry counter is full of hits: shakshuka buns with tomato sauce and eggs, date cake punched up with rose, pistachio apricot scones, and walnut baklava.”
The Infatuation
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