Our annual guide to morning food, featuring the best places to get brunch in each part of the county
Verbena Kitchen
Must Order: Not Avocado Toast
A brick-walled North Park joint with a shifting seasonal menu, Verbena shines for its commitment to in-house everything: sausage, pickles, even hot sauce. Instead of a standard avo-on-sourdough situation, the eatery stuffs California’s national fruit with poached eggs, mushroom hummus, bulgar wheat, and vinegary pickled shallots.