Best Breakfast and Brunch Places in Rochester

"Named for the famous late Detroit boxer, this restaurant by his namesake serves all-day brunch seven days. The menu features southern favorites, including cinnamon roll flapjacks, bananas foster French toast, bread pudding, key lime pie flapjacks, shrimp and grits, and Joe Louis’s favorite, country fried steak cheese grits."

"With a name like Original Pancake House, you’d probably guess they would make it on this list. Original Pancake House has a pancake for seemingly every type of pancake eater out there. Hawaiian Pancakes are stuffed with pineapple and topped with tropical syrup and sugar."

"So the lady with the gold hair tried to tell me what I've been ordering for years that they don't make no more because she called it something ..."

"Even though Axle Brewing is the new kid on the block, it is quickly making a name for itself. Craft beer aficionados are putting Ferndale’s Axle Brewing and Livernois Taproom at the top of their list for its easy drinking, classic styles with a commitment to special ingredients. Hyper-local yet traditional and approachable, Axle’s taproom is a family-friendly and relaxed environment to throw back a few incredibly pleasing, distinctly Michigan craft beers."

"One of metro Detroit’s oldest and most celebrated microbreweries, Dragonmead serves a laundry list of beers in regional Belgian, American, German, Scottish, Russian, and English styles. At 10 percent alcohol by volume, the Final Absolution Belgian tripel packs a wallop, but is worth every sip. Dragonmead now features a location in St. Clair Shores in addition to its Warren outpost."