August First is open for (booze-free) breakfast all day on Sundays. Enjoy avocado toast, tofu scrambles, yogurt smoothies, breakfast sandwiches and a long list of daily house-made pastries such as flakey biscuits glazed with Vermont maple syrup.

Head to self-proclaimed “fine diner” Monarch and the Milkweed for former Hen of the Wood pastry chef Andrew LeStourgeon’s pastries. But stay for the bacon cheddar Gruyere quiche, waffles with house-churned butter, blueberry pancakes, cocktails, and cannabis confections.

For an elegant France-meets-Vermont brunch, there’s Leunig’s. This beloved bistro offers an impressive Sunday morning spread of everything from duck confit poutine to classic French fare, plus local cheese and charcuterie. A waffled Croque Madame comes with Vermont’s North Country Smoke House ham, Gruyere on a Belgian waffle with béchamel and a sunny egg. Here, “steak and eggs” means filet mignon with béarnaise and asparagus. Located on the Church Street Marketplace, diners can clink champagne flutes of mimosas while slurping oysters and enjoying the charming view.

Since 1990, Mirabelle’s has provided downtown Burlington with elegant pastries and desserts. Dine in their café for an equally sophisticated (albeit alcohol-free) breakfast. Popovers with scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, crème fraîche and hash browns are the stand-out.

Breakfast and lunch are served all day, every day at this twenty-year-old crowd-pleaser. The extensive menu includes everything from nutty house-baked granola with maple syrup to gingerbread pancakes, biscuits and gravy, huevos rancheros, omelettes and beyond. Wash it all down with local beers and Bloody Marys.

The mimosas are five dollars on Saturdays at Winooski’s famed Misery Loves Company. Creative snacks like cheddar beignets with honey butter, small plates like tater tots with smoked fish, trout roe and crème fraîche, or 18-hour smoked brisket hash with fried eggs and salsa verde make it a brunch stand-out.

The long wait for a table is a good clue that there’s something tasty ahead at Sneakers, the 35-year-old Winooski breakfast joint. Locals flock here for French toast dipped in Kahlua batter, fluffy buttermilk pancakes, omelettes, and cocktails.

Spend Sunday morning in Winooski’s historic Champlain Mill at Waterworks. Choose from a long list of brunch cocktails and classic breakfast items, and enjoy them while watching the rapids of the Winooski River flow by. In winter, they’ll be frozen: an equally magnificent sight.