For breakfast in the Santa Ynez Valley, start early in Buellton: Ellen's Danish Pancake House opens at 6am daily. In Los Olivos, Felix Feed pours coffee from 6:30am. For brunch, The Victor in Santa Ynez serves weekends 10am to 2pm. In Los Alamos, Bob's Well Bread runs all-day breakfast Thursday to Monday. Solvang has its own breakfast guide.
The short version
This week
- Nov6–8Buellton Fall Festival · Visit Buellton
Avenue of the Flags; Fri 4-10pm, Sat-Sun 12-10pm; carnival rides, live music on two stages; Ales on the Avenue beer and wine tasting Sat (tickets) · Free · by City of Buellton
- FriNov 6NatureTrack Film Festival · Visit NatureTrack Foundation
8th annual; reception 6pm, program 6:45pm at the SYV Grange Hall · $25 · by NatureTrack Foundation
- SatNov 7SYV Historical Museum Vaquero Benefit Dinner & Auction · Visit Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum
42nd annual · Tickets (early bird from Aug 1) · by Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum
- SatNov 7Alma Rosa Fall Harvest Dinner · Visit Alma Rosa Winery
Winery event; check access on the listing · Not published · by Alma Rosa Winery
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Who opens first, and who does brunch?
| Place | Town | Breakfast or brunch hours |
|---|---|---|
| Felix Feed & Coffee | Los Olivos | Daily 6:30am–2pm |
| The Tavern at Mattei's Tavern | Los Olivos | Breakfast daily 7–11am; Sun brunch 11:30am–2pm |
| Queen Cup Coffee | Los Olivos | Mon–Thu 7am–3pm; Fri–Sun 7am–5pm |
| Lucky Penny Los Olivos | Los Olivos | Daily 8am–8pm |
| Los Olivos Grocery | Santa Ynez | Breakfast on the patio; see menu |
| The Baker's Table | Santa Ynez | Breakfast and lunch; order online |
| PONY Cocktails + Kitchen | Santa Ynez | Breakfast to dinner, 7 days |
| The Victor | Santa Ynez | Weekend brunch Sat–Sun 10am–2pm |
| Roblar Winery & Vineyards | Santa Ynez | Sunday brunch & tasting 10am–4pm |
| Bob's Well Bread Bakery | Los Alamos | Thu–Mon 7am–4pm; kitchen to 3pm |
| Plenty on Bell | Los Alamos | Tue–Sun 8am–3pm; closed Mon |
| Norman at Skyview | Los Alamos | Weekend brunch Sat–Sun from 10am |
| Ellen's Danish Pancake House | Buellton | Daily 6am–2pm |
| Mother Hubbard's Restaurant | Buellton | Daily 7:30am–2pm |
| Vega Vineyard & Farm | Buellton | Weekend brunch Sat–Sun 10am–1pm |
Where to eat breakfast in Los Olivos
Los Olivos is a walking breakfast town: coffee from 6:30am, a tavern breakfast and an Airstream with brunch burritos, all within a few blocks.
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Coffee & pastry at Mattei's · Los Olivos
Felix Feed & Coffee
The earliest coffee in Los Olivos, at 6:30am every day, on the grounds of Mattei's Tavern. Pastries come in small batches, and later in the morning there's the signature Late Risers Toast.
Go if early risers get coffee here at 6:30am.
- Open
- Open every day. Daily 6:30am–2pm
- Booking
- Walk in
Go with a last-minute plan (walk-ins welcome) · your date
More details
Go for: Coffee at 6:30am
- Small-batch pastries
- Late Risers Toast later in the morning
2350 Railway Avenue, Los Olivos, CA 93441
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Collette14713, CC BY-SA 4.0 Editor's pickRanch-style tavern in an 1886 stagecoach stop · Los Olivos
The Tavern at Mattei's TavernReserve
Michelin Guide In the 2026 selection
A sit-down breakfast every day in the Auberge resort's tavern, with the last breakfast seating at 10am on Sundays, when brunch takes over from 11:30am to 2pm.
Go if brunch should come with a stagecoach-stop backstory.
- Open
- Breakfast daily 7–11am; Sun brunch 11:30am–2pm
- Fee
- Sunday brunch prix fixe $65
- Booking
- Call 888-218-4941
Go with your date · a crowd (room for groups)
Book a table · OpenTableWebsite
More details
Go for: A proper sit-down breakfast
Connections The Inn at Mattei's Tavern is an Auberge Collection hotel with a Michelin Key, and The Tavern is its restaurant. Source
Press Listed in the Michelin Guide. Michelin Guide, 2026
Press Eater LA's best places to eat around the Santa Ynez Valley. Eater LA, Aug 18 2026
2350 Railway Avenue, Los Olivos, CA 93441 · 888-218-4941
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Coffee caravan with brunch burritos · Los Olivos
Queen Cup Coffee (Airstream caravan)
Queen Cup serves from an Airstream caravan on Nojoqui Avenue, open every day. Its brunch burritos are prepped in house with fresh salsas, alongside squaffles and espresso drinks like the Dirty Horchata.
Go if Airstream coffee and a brunch burrito sound right.
- Open
- Open every day. Mon–Thu 7am–3pm; Fri–Sun 7am–5pm
- Booking
- Walk in
Go with a last-minute plan (walk-ins welcome) · the kids (kid-friendly)
More details
Go for: A breakfast burrito to go
- Brunch burritos with house salsas
- Squaffles baked in house
2900 Nojoqui Avenue, Los Olivos, CA 93441
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Wood-fired pizza, coffee & pastry · Los Olivos
Lucky Penny Los Olivos
It opens at 8am for coffee and pastries, with a Dutch baby until 11:30am, then fires up the 900-degree wood oven for pizza. Eat on the picnic patio.
Go if pastries at 8am and pizza by noon, one stop.
- Open
- Open every day. Daily 8am–8pm
- Fee
- Dutch baby $12 (until 11:30am)
- Booking
- Walk in or order ahead
Go with the kids (kid-friendly) · a last-minute plan (walk-ins welcome)
More details
Go for: Pastries, then pizza
- Pastries and craft coffee from 8am
- Picnic patio
2902 San Marcos Avenue, Los Olivos, CA 93441 · 805-691-8159
Mattei's Tavern in Los Olivos, where breakfast runs daily from 7am.
Breakfast and brunch in Santa Ynez
A patio on Highway 154, three Sagunto Street options and a winery that does Sunday brunch.
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Market, deli and patio on Highway 154 · Near Los Olivos
Los Olivos Grocery
A gourmet market on Highway 154 with a breakfast menu served on its enclosed outdoor patio, a coffee and bake bar, and cheese and cured meats to pack for the wine trail. Balloon flights meet in its lot.
Go if patio breakfast beside the wine-trail cheese counter suits you.
- Open
- Breakfast on the patio; see menu
- Booking
- Walk in
- Getting there
- On Hwy 154 at Roblar Ave, about 2 min by car from Grand Ave in Los Olivos and 7 min from Sagunto St in Santa Ynez
Go with a last-minute plan (walk-ins welcome) · a crowd (room for groups)
More details
Go for: Patio breakfast on the 154
- Breakfast menu on the enclosed patio
- Coffee & bake bar
2621 Highway 154, Santa Ynez, CA 93460 · 805-688-5115
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Bakery café on Sagunto Street · Santa Ynez
The Baker's Table
Amy Dixon, baking in the valley since 1998, has run this Sagunto Street café since 2012. Expect croissants, macarons, galettes and sourdough, plus breakfast plates.
Go if croissants and macarons beat a full plate.
- Open
- Breakfast and lunch; order online
- Booking
- Walk in or order online
Go with your date · a last-minute plan (walk-ins welcome)
More details
Go for: Croissants on Sagunto Street
- Breakfast and lunch menus
3570 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93460
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Editor's pickNeighborhood bistro & cocktail bar · Santa Ynez
PONY Cocktails + KitchenReserve
Eater LA Eater LA's best places to eat around the Santa Ynez Valley
A Sagunto Street bistro serving breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner seven days a week, so it covers the morning when the bakeries are busy.
Go if nobody in your group agrees on breakfast or brunch.
- Open
- Breakfast to dinner, 7 days
- Booking
- Book on OpenTable
Go with a crowd (room for groups) · your date
More details
Go for: Brunch on Sagunto Street
Press Eater LA's best places to eat around the Santa Ynez Valley. Eater LA, Aug 18 2026
- Breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner
3558 Sagunto Street #A, Santa Ynez, CA 93460 · 805-691-9187
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“One of the hottest seats to get in the valley”
Eater LA, Aug 18 2026 Live-fire restaurant at The Genevieve · Santa Ynez
The VictorReserve
Eater LA Eater LA's best places to eat around the Santa Ynez Valley
Weekend brunch on the grounds of The Genevieve hotel, cooked over a Josper charcoal oven, with a patio heated all year by an outdoor fireplace. There's a kids' menu.
Go if twinkle lights and a fireplace improve any brunch.
- Open
- Weekend brunch Sat–Sun 10am–2pm
- Booking
- Reservations recommended
Go with your date · the kids (kid-friendly)
More details
Go for: A weekend brunch reservation
Press Eater LA's best places to eat around the Santa Ynez Valley: "one of the hottest seats to get in the valley". Eater LA, Aug 18 2026
- Heated patio with fireplace
- Kids' menu
3631 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93460 · 805-695-2999
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Editor's pickWinery with a farm restaurant · Outside Santa Ynez
Roblar Winery & VineyardsReserve
95 pts Wine Enthusiast on the 2023 Cabernet Franc Reserve
Sunday brunch with produce from the winery's own farm next door, served alongside the tasting room. Leashed dogs can sit outside.
Go if Sunday brunch should end with a wine flight.
- Open
- Sunday brunch & tasting 10am–4pm
- Booking
- Book ahead Thu–Sun
- Getting there
- On Roblar Ave at Hwy 154, about 9 min by car from Sagunto St in Santa Ynez
Go with the dog (dogs allowed) · a crowd (room for groups)
More details
Go for: Sunday brunch with a flight
Press Matt Kettmann gave its 2023 Cabernet Franc Reserve 95 points. Wine Enthusiast
- Dogs outside on a leash
3010 Roblar Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460 · 805-686-2603
- 10amweekend brunch at The Victor
- 10amSunday brunch at Roblar
- 2pmThe Victor brunch ends
- 4pmRoblar brunch ends
From each place's own hours, Oct 2026.
The best breakfast in Los Alamos
Two Bell Street favorites and a weekend brunch by a hilltop pool. Bob's and Plenty both take early-week days off, so check before you drive.
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Harold Litwiler from Santa Ynez, USA, CC BY 2.0 Stone-oven bakery & café · Los Alamos
Bob's Well Bread Bakery
Eater LA Eater LA's best places to eat around the Santa Ynez Valley
Naturally fermented bread baked by hand in a stone-deck oven, with all-day breakfast until 3pm. The breakfast sandwich puts house-made turkey sausage and scrambled eggs on an English muffin or biscuit. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Go if bread this good deserves a Thursday-to-Monday trip.
- Open
- Open Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday; closed Tuesday, Wednesday. Thu–Mon 7am–4pm; kitchen to 3pm
- Fee
- Breakfast sandwich $13.50
- Booking
- Walk in
Go with your date · a last-minute plan (walk-ins welcome)
More details
Go for: Bread-first breakfast
Press Eater LA's best places to eat around the Santa Ynez Valley: "a superlative breakfast for the road". Eater LA, Aug 18 2026
- All-day breakfast until 3pm
- Closed Tue & Wed
550 Bell Street, Los Alamos, CA 93440 · 805-344-3000
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From-scratch café on Bell Street · Los Alamos
Plenty on BellReserve
Produce comes from its own garden and the family's farm a few miles away, cooked from scratch on the old Junction Saloon site. Breakfast and lunch run Tuesday through Sunday, with a Friday dinner.
Go if garden-grown breakfast on a historic saloon site appeals.
- Open
- Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday; closed Monday. Tue–Sun 8am–3pm; closed Mon
- Booking
- Walk in
Go with your date · the kids (kid-friendly)
More details
Go for: Garden-to-plate breakfast
Connections Since spring 2026 Plenty has been run by the Rowles family of Dovecote Estate, owners of the Thompson Vineyard, with founding chef Jesper Johansson still in the kitchen. Source
508 Bell Street, Los Alamos, CA 93440 · 805-344-3020
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Poolside restaurant at a hilltop motel · Los Alamos
Norman at SkyviewReserve
Skyview's poolside restaurant, led by chef Tyler Cole, opens at 10am on weekends for brunch. Park at the bottom of the hill and call, and staff will drive you up.
Go if weekend brunch by a pool sounds ideal.
- Open
- Weekend brunch Sat–Sun from 10am
- Booking
- Walk in; call for a ride up the hill
Go with your date · a camera (big views)
Book a table · OpenTableWebsite
More details
Go for: Brunch by the pool
- Call for a pickup from the lot
9150 US-101, Los Alamos, CA 93440 · 805-344-0104
Breakfast in Buellton
Two diners on Avenue of the Flags, and a farm brunch out on Santa Rosa Road.
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Danish pancakes since 1947 · Buellton
Ellen's Danish Pancake House
Danish-style pancakes and breakfast served until closing, in a Buellton dining room that Discover Buellton dates to 1947. It opens at 6am every day.
Go if Danish pancakes at 6am solve the morning.
- Open
- Open every day. Daily 6am–2pm
- Booking
- Walk in
Go with the kids (kid-friendly) · a crowd (room for groups)
More details
Go for: Danish pancakes at 6am
- Breakfast all day
272 Avenue of the Flags, Buellton, CA 93427 · 805-688-5312
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Breakfast diner on Avenue of the Flags · Buellton
Mother Hubbard's Restaurant
Omelets, house-made corned beef hash and chicken-fried steak at a diner serving classic American food for more than 40 years, with outdoor seating, a kids' menu and vegan options.
Go if corned beef hash is the whole plan.
- Open
- Open every day. Daily 7:30am–2pm
- Fee
- Corned beef hash $21.70
- Booking
- Walk in
Go with the kids (kid-friendly) · a crowd (room for groups)
More details
Go for: A classic diner breakfast
- Kids' menu and vegan dishes
- Outdoor seating
373 Avenue of the Flags, Buellton, CA 93427 · 805-688-3912
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1853 ranch with a farm restaurant · Edge of Buellton
Vega Vineyard & FarmReserve
94 pts Vinous on the 2023 Dal Prato
Weekend brunch at a Santa Rosa Road winery and working farm that says it was voted best brunch in the Santa Ynez Valley. After, the kids can feed the farm animals, and dogs are welcome under its posted policy.
Go if goats after brunch keep the kids happy.
- Open
- Weekend brunch Sat–Sun 10am–1pm
- Booking
- Reserve via its website
- Getting there
- Just south of Highway 101 on Santa Rosa Rd, about 2 min by car from Avenue of Flags
Go with the kids (kid-friendly) · the dog (dogs allowed)
More details
Go for: Brunch with farm animals
Press Billy Norris gave its 2023 Dal Prato 94 points. Vinous, Aug 29 2025
- Animal feeding and kids' play area
- Dogs welcome under posted rules
9496 Santa Rosa Road, Buellton, CA 93427 · 805-688-2415
What about breakfast in Solvang?
Solvang has its own breakfast guide, built around Danish bakeries and aebleskiver: see the best breakfast in Solvang. For more meals around the valley, see our Los Alamos restaurants and Santa Ynez restaurants guides. Flying first? The balloon rides meet at Los Olivos Grocery, right by its breakfast patio.
Plan your day
- MorningBreakfast first: Best coffee in the Santa Ynez ValleyBy town, plus where to work
- MiddayGo tasting: Sta. Rita Hills wineriesCold-climate Pinot, 1971 vines
- EveningBook dinner: Buellton restaurantsHitching Post 2 to wild ales
- LateNight out: Solvang happy hoursSpritzes, Industry Night, 8pm deals
- OvernightFind a bed: Santa Ynez hotelsPolo bungalows to a rooftop pool
Quick answers
Where is brunch in Los Olivos?
The Tavern at Mattei's Tavern serves Sunday brunch from 11:30am to 2pm, with a $65 prix fixe. For something quicker, Queen Cup's Airstream on Nojoqui Avenue makes brunch burritos every day from 7am.
Where can you get brunch in Santa Ynez?
The Victor does weekend brunch Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 2pm, and Roblar Winery serves Sunday brunch from 10am to 4pm. PONY on Sagunto Street serves breakfast and brunch seven days a week.
What is the best breakfast in Los Alamos?
Bob's Well Bread on Bell Street serves all-day breakfast until 3pm, Thursday to Monday. Plenty on Bell cooks from-scratch breakfast Tuesday to Sunday from 8am.
What time does Mattei's Tavern serve breakfast?
Daily from 7 to 11am, with the final seating at 10am on Sundays. Sunday brunch runs 11:30am to 2pm.
When is brunch at Vega Vineyard?
Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 1pm, with the regular menu available all day. Reserve through its website.
What are The Victor's brunch hours?
Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 2pm. The Victor highly recommends reservations.
Sources
tap to open
- Felix Feed & Coffee
- The Tavern at Mattei's Tavern
- Queen Cup Coffee (Airstream caravan)
- Lucky Penny Los Olivos
- Los Olivos Grocery
- The Baker's Table
- PONY Cocktails + Kitchen
- The Victor
- Roblar Winery & Vineyards
- Bob's Well Bread Bakery
- Plenty on Bell
- Norman at Skyview
- Ellen's Danish Pancake House
- Mother Hubbard's Restaurant
- Vega Vineyard & Farm
Last updated Oct 20, 2026. Our own guide. No business pays for coverage. Hours come from each place's own site; Ellen's, which has no website, posts "Hours EVERYDAY 6am - 2pm" on its own Instagram (checked Oct 24, 2026). Hours change, so check before you drive. Spot an error? Corrections.
