Ultima Guide 2026: The Best Breakfasts

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Breakfast from 11am to 11pm

Breakfast from 9am to noon

The Georgian restaurant from Novikov Group, Family Garden and AB Group makes the Ultima Guide for a second time — as it did in 2025. The reason is plain: hospitality here operates at Caucasus altitude. Breakfast wears a distinctly Tbilisi accent, with an Adjarian plate of shoti and beef sausages, an omelette with sulguni, and Georgian-style fried eggs with tomatoes. The familiar classics from elsewhere are present, too: pancakes, draniki and yoghurt. Any remaining resistance to an early start is softened by syrniki with salted-caramel mousse, berry porridge, cherry khinkali and, naturally, complimentary coffee. Herbal and classic teas, cherry and quince compotes, fresh juices and house-made lemonades round out the offering.

At this stylish café beside Tashkent City Park, morning is allowed to last: breakfast is served until almost nightfall. The classics are all accounted for — an English set with sausages and potato rosti, shakshuka, salmon Benedict, syrniki, pancakes and waffles with scrambled eggs. For those inclined towards a lighter start, there is an omelette with guacamole, green-buckwheat porridge, tvorog casserole and a particularly charming chia bowl of fresh berries, fruit and mini croissants. Those after more heft can turn to the main menu for a smash burger, chicken katsu, pasta or bowls. Coffee, signature tea, carrot detox and cherry cocoa take care of the drinks. Before leaving, stop at the dessert counter for a Napoleon, tiramisu or medovik in a jar. An emergency glucose stash has its uses.

This Novikov Group and Family Garden restaurant channels the sunny ease of an Italian resort. Bright walls and tablecloths, striking paintings and furniture, vast windows, and so many lemons that the designers appear to have hidden them on a bet. The breakfast menu has a similarly clear sense of order. Porridges run from millet with mango to oats with Dorblu; eggs appear as a stracciatella omelette, shakshuka or poached eggs with salsiccia; bowls come with prawns or trout. For a more substantial start, choose beef cheeks with bulgur, crêpes with courgette and ham, or a trout hash brown. Sweet dishes include lazy vareniki, a croissant and syrniki with crème pâtissière. Coffee is on the house with any breakfast, though fresh juices, loose-leaf tea and lemonades pair equally well with the morning menu.

Breakfast, 9am–1pm

Breakfast from 9am to 4pm

For a morning of fresh seafood, there is no need to book a cruise or a holiday: Kaspiyka brings the best of the distant coast straight to the table. Breakfast might mean a croissant sandwich with salmon or shakshuka with prawns, but the real draw is the build-your-own morning menu. At a fixed price, diners can put together their preferred — or most unrestrained — combination of seafood, eggs, vegetables, bread and toppings. An omelette with grilled prawns and cream cheese, fried eggs with crab and tarama, a poached egg with trout and hummus: the possibilities are open. Coffee and tea come with the food; at weekends, the restaurant gives in to hedonism and includes a glass of sparkling wine on the house.

Breakfast from 10am to 1pm on weekdays; from 10am to 2pm at weekends

At Ora, an Ultima Guide Users’ Choice winner, sleeping in carries no judgement: breakfast continues long after lunch. Bread claims the largest share of the morning menu, with toast and bruschetta served with fish, avocado, cheese or beefsteak. The classics have not been left out, though they go slightly off-script: a truffle omelette, syrniki with mascarpone cream and millet porridge with condensed milk. For anyone unwilling to choose, there are sets: a health-focused breakfast with green salad and prawns, an English version with its familiar cast of ingredients, and the chef’s own with marinated fish and scrambled eggs. The bar list has something for every taste and mood, from sorrel and celery detox drinks or fresh carrot and orange juices to classic coffee and house teas.

At AB Group’s meat restaurant, breakfast holds its own against the main menu. The Alpine set pairs sausages with sweet-potato fries and tzatziki. The French breakfast, made for two, brings a croissant, eggs, mortadella and red caviar to the table. The Greek version is built around eggs, a grilled chicken cutlet and pita. Vegetarians are well served, too: choose the Lebanese set of fried eggs and vegetable spreads, or the Turkish one with menemen, tahini and cheese. Syrniki come with caramel or sour cream; blini are filled with meat; porridges are scattered with berries and nuts. For a Benedict with a point of difference, it is served on a croissant with trout and red caviar. If none of the set breakfasts fits the moment, the build-your-own menu lets you compose your own version from eggs and toppings. Coffee classics can be made with alternative milk, while Chinese loose-leaf tea and freshly squeezed juices complete the drinks list.

Breakfast at Shevchenko: 11am–1pm on weekdays; 11am–3pm at weekends

Breakfast at City: 10am–1pm on weekdays; 10am–3pm at weekends

Breakfast from 9am to noon, Monday to Friday; until 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays

On the third floor of Tashkent City Mall, Ribambelle serves breakfast across the generations. Mothers may opt for a protein omelette with prawns or brioche Benedict with avocado; fathers have fried eggs with sausages or draniki with beef mortadella. The older generation is considered, too: berry porridge and blini that can hold their own against grandmother’s, and a traditional breakfast of beef pastrami, lecho and katlama for grandfathers. The children’s menu includes a morning section of its own. All day, younger guests can choose tvorog doughnuts or chicken sausage with mashed potato, then head off under the care of activity leaders to conquer one of the restaurant’s two play areas. Drinks are time-tested classics: a proper coffee and tea selection, freshly pressed juices, detox blends and protein smoothies.

Breakfast from 9am until close

Another Ultima Guide 2026 «People’s Choice» has a breakfast menu that makes choosing just one thing difficult. Ricotta syrniki, an omelette with mozzarella, brioche with stracciatella: house-made cheeses appear throughout the menu. Elsewhere, there are berry-topped porridges, blini, pancakes, Belgian waffles and croissants with a range of toppings. The wood-fired omelette with broccoli and mortadella is the clear favourite. For those who skipped dinner the night before, there are potato pancakes with red caviar, chicken schnitzel with avocado and a country-style sausage platter. Even at breakfast, Syrovarnya is often full, so booking ahead is wise.

Breakfast from 8am to 1pm

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Dom 29 sends its regards from another time: worn sideboards, lace tablecloths, floral lampshades and china from a glass-fronted cabinet. It is almost like visiting one’s grandmother. The menu belongs to the same world. All-day breakfast brings thin pancakes filled with tvorog or mushrooms — or, should a sudden urge for splendour strike, black caviar — alongside cheese-and-sausage sandwiches, oladyi and cherry vareniki. Every bite stirs memories of getting ready for nursery in the morning. The wholesome porridges once so unpopular with children are lifted with berries, candied fruit and wild mushrooms. Crab is folded through softly scrambled eggs — enough to make the ritual of «one more spoonful for Mum» entirely redundant. Drinks run from house-made compotes and freshly squeezed juices to coffee classics and a serious tea selection of ivan chai, Assam, sencha, an Altai blend and more.