Best Breakfast Spots in Cabo: Where We Actually Eat Before 10am

Breakfast in Cabo splits into two camps. There is the beach camp, where you eat chilaquiles with your feet in the sand on Medano and the music has already started. And there is the town camp, where a downtown cafe pours a serious espresso and nobody is in a hurry. We like both, on different mornings. Here is where to go, sorted by where you will be, with the hours we checked.

Downtown Cabo San Lucas

Tropical Kitchen Cabo

Our first answer for breakfast in town. Tropical Kitchen is on Venustiano Carranza between Zaragoza and Morelos, a women-owned cafe doing fresh juices, big salads, and vegan and vegetarian plates alongside the Mexican standards. It opens at 8:30am (9am on Friday and the weekend) and closes mid afternoon, so it is a morning place by design. A 4.9 rating from around 380 reviews, at a $$ price level. Get there before 10 on weekends.

San Lucero Restaurant & Wine Bar

On Calle Cabo San Lucas downtown, San Lucero is a bakery and espresso bar in the morning and a wine bar at night. It opens at 7:30am, which makes it the earliest proper coffee in the center, and it is a $ spot with a 4.8 rating from close to 900 reviews. Pastries, eggs, and a rooftop if you want to sit up top.

Hacienda Cocina y Cantina

Open from 8am, Hacienda does a full Mexican breakfast and is popular for it. It is $$, holds a 4.6 from about 940 reviews, and turns into a lively dinner-and-live-music place later in the day. Good for a table of six that cannot agree.

Bar Esquina

At Av. del Pescador 1, a short walk from the beach, Bar Esquina opens at 8am and is one of the few $$$ breakfasts in town that earns it: good coffee, a real tea selection, and a calm room before the evening live music starts. A 4.5 from around 540 reviews.

Medano Beach

The Office on the Beach

The Office opens at 7am, earlier than anything else on the sand. Tables are on the beach, the coffee is better than it needs to be, and breakfast is one of the things people come for. It is $$$ and carries a 4.3 from over 5,300 reviews, which tells you how many people have eaten here.

Mango Deck

Mango Deck opens at 8am and is listed as a breakfast restaurant, but be honest with yourself about what you want. By late morning it is bar games, live music and a crowd. If that sounds like a good breakfast, it is the right call. $$, 4.4 from roughly 6,200 reviews.

Baja Brewing at Cabo Villas

The Medano branch of Baja Brewing, on Callejón del Pescador, opens at 8am and does breakfast before it does beer. $$, 4.5 from about 1,060 reviews. Handy if your group is staying on the beach.

SUR Beach Club

SUR opens at 8:30am, is popular for breakfast, and is the calmer end of the Medano options. $$, 4.6 from around 1,070 reviews. Stay for lunch if you take a daybed.

San José del Cabo

Ruba's Bakery & Bistro

In the Gallery District on Morelos, Ruba's is the San José morning stop: bakery counter, breakfast plates, good coffee and tea, open from 8am. It is a $ place with a 4.7 from close to 800 reviews.

Nao Cabo

A Japanese restaurant that opens at 7am for breakfast most days (5pm to 10pm for dinner, Sunday 9am to 4pm), with rooftop seating and a 4.8 rating. Unusual for a morning, in the best way.

Flora Farms

Out at Las Ánimas Bajas, Flora Farms serves breakfast 9am to 10:30am Tuesday through Saturday and 10am to 2pm on Sunday. Closed Monday. Everything comes off the farm around you. It is $$$, rated 4.7 by around 3,400 people, and it is the one breakfast in Los Cabos worth the drive.

Todos Santos, if you are making the day trip

Jazamango Cafe opens at 8:30am (closed Wednesday) and Cien Palmas opens at 9am (closed Monday). Both are $$ and both are a good reason to leave Cabo early.

Two places that are not breakfast spots

You will see Salvatore G's and El Farallon on other breakfast lists. Salvatore G's opens at 11am (4pm on Sunday) and El Farallon at 3pm. Both are excellent for dinner. Neither will feed you at 8.

Practical notes

• Hours above are from our listings at the time of writing. Kitchens shift hours in summer, so check before a long drive.
• December through March is the busy season. Beach tables at The Office and SUR fill by 9:30am.
• Tip 15 to 20 percent. Pesos are appreciated for small bills.

Downtown for coffee, Medano for sand, Flora Farms for the drive. More of where we eat is on our Cabo restaurants page.