Try these 6 cafes for the best cooked breakfast in Inverness

Breakfast is often referred to as the most important meal of the day, and there is one dish that is guaranteed to start your day off right – a fry up.

There are so many things to love about a full cooked breakfast. The crispy bacon, fluffy hash browns, sweet tomatoes, the list goes on.

There are plenty of eateries that serve a full cooked breakfast in Inverness, so I have rounded up my top picks to make your search that little bit easier when you next fancy one.

North Gateway Café

Based just off the A9 – a stone’s throw from Inverness – North Gateway Café is a dog-friendly space serving all day breakfasts daily. Amazing, right?

There are full veggie and Scottish breakfast options, as well as breakfast rolls, avocado toast, and much more.

Address: North Gateway Daviot Wood Picnic Site, Inverness IV2 5BD

You can opt for a full Scottish breakfast at North Gateway Café.

Girvans

Italian artisan coffee and patisserie – all of which are handmade daily in-house – are not the only enticing menu items customers can indulge in at Girvans.

There is also a Scottish breakfast featuring two free-range eggs – fried, poached, or scrambled – grilled bacon, Stornoway black pudding, a pork sausage, potato scone, mushrooms, and toast with tea or coffee.

A vegetarian option is on the cards, too, boasting the same ingredients but without the bacon and black pudding and with a vegetarian sausage and baked beans.

Address: 2-4 Stephens Brae, Inverness IV2 3JN

A fruit Danish pastry available at Girvans. Image: Sandy McCook/DC Thomson

Simpsons

Breakfast is served at Simpsons every morning between 9am and 11.30am.

The venue’s Highland breakfast features a range of items (of your choosing) with fresh toast, house tea, filter coffee or fruit juice.

Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free breakfast items are also available.

The hot breakfast selection includes hash browns, vegetarian haggis, Lorne beef sausage, grilled tomatoes, scrambled eggs, and baked beans.

Address: Culloden Road, Inverness IV2 5BA

A selection of dishes available at Simpsons. Image: Paul Glendell/DC Thomson

Comfort Foods

Comfort Foods offers wholesome cooked breakfasts daily, seven days a week.

Amazing, right?

One option includes The Full Monty, featuring locally sourced sausages, bacon, black pudding and haggis, as well as eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, a tattie scone and toast.

Vegetarian and vegan alternatives are also available, along with lighter dishes such as French toast and porridge.

Address: 22 Church Street, Inverness IV1 1EB

A large cooked breakfast, anyone? Image: Supplied by Comfort Foods

Café de Paulo

Located in the Victorian Market, breakfast at Cafe de Paulo is sure to impress.

The café offers an all-day full Scottish breakfast and all-day veggie breakfast for customers, so you have from 8.30am to 3.30pm Monday to Saturday and 8.30am to 3pm on Sundays to try one out for yourself.

Address: Arcade 7, 9 Queensgate, Inverness IV1 1PQ

Cafe de Paulo proprietor Juan Paulo. Image: Jason Hedges/DC Thomson

Velocity Cafe and Bicycle Workshop

If a vegetarian cooked breakfast in Inverness is what you’re after, then put Velocity Cafe on your radar.

Their vegetarian and gluten-free breakfasts boast seasonal and local produce where possible.

Ingredients include fried egg or scrambled tofu, garlic mushrooms and spinach, roasted tomato, housemade haggis, housemade sweet potato hash brown, smoky housemade beans, sourdough toast, and vegan butter.

Address: 1 Crown Avenue, Inverness IV2 3NF