Pepe's makes a great, greasy, wonderful breakfast samdwich!

Yes! Nina's on Calvert and Centre makes a great breakfast sammie made with eggs and bacon either on a croissant, bagel or English muffin.

Elizabeth, you should know this since it's so close to your workplace!

What if it were just cheese, period? Then it could be cheese plates, but also cheese in a sandwich, cheese in a salad, cheese on a cracker, cheese for sale in its own delicious block ...

Love Suburban House's bagel with cream cheese, lox, onion and muenster cheese. You stink for a week and it probably has an entires day worth of calories, but WOW!

I've mentioned the recent breakfast with Crab BLTs at Cafe Hon. I like just a plain BLT for brekkie.

Paper Moon Diner has a breakfast sandwich on their menu. Ham, sausage, or bacon, choice of cheese, on a variety of bread options.

I think they also had a vegetable version, or a third option - having it served between two pieces of French Toast

Does anywhere but McDonald's (and the like) do a breakfast sandwich?

The morning crowd at Steve's Lunch in Cross Street market would like to give a collective "Hi!".

This is a great post. I constantly struggle with finding good breakfast sandwiches. This weekend I went to Sam's Bagels on Light St. in Federal Hill. I wasn't blown away, but I knew I would be guaranteed a fresh egg and cheese on sundried tomato. Check it out.

Edie's Deli & Grill @ 250 Pratt has wonderful breakfast sandwiches...including scrapple!

Zi Pani in Frederick and Eldersburg serves great breakfast sandwiches including a smoked salmon number with tomato, onion and capers. Mmmmm ... capers. Order it with a sundried tomato bagel (toasted) and herb and garlic ... oh damn, I'm drooling ... cream cheese.
You do have to be careful how you eat these things. The guts tend to skwoosh out the end opposite the one you're biting into.

Towson has a couple of places that have somewhat different, but both very good, bagel sandwiches.

Towson Hot fries its eggs perfectly for its bagels. I prefer that one with ham. (To EL: did you not try a sandwich when you were there? http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/reviews/blog/2008/03/towson_hot_bagels.html If not, you should go back!)

I also like Miriam's Cafe (formerly Sam's Bagels) on York Rd near Stoneleigh/Rodgers Forge.

This post also reminds me of a sandwich at a greasy spoon at Aberdeen Proving Ground some years ago (no idea if it is still there). They had a breakfast sandwich called the 9-yarder, as in the "whole 9 yards"--it had eggs, ham, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and more that I sadly no longer remember, all on toasted bread.

New System Bakery makes great breakfast sandwiches -- especially due to the fact that they use their homemade breads. Also, I am a huge fan of Chick-fil-a's Chicken Minis. They are basically chicken nuggets on little bite size buttery soft warm biscuits. mmmmmmmmmm Although my husband thinks chicken for breakfast (especially fried) isn't particularly appetizing. I say bring it on along with a large sweet tea.

mmmm Bagel Works. Although I like their pizza bagel the best. For me, hands down, even tho it's a chain, Waffle House is my breakfast place.

Howard's Deli on Cathedral makes a great scrapple and egg sandwich.

Carey -- I hope you weren't involved in this Waffle House incident.

Why do places nearly always put eggs in their breakfast sandwiches? I can usually (if it isn't a chain) get them to leave the egg off, but, of course, I still have to pay for it.

If it is on a bagel, either the bagel is so good it should be eaten alone (rare, especially outside of NYC) or it isn't worth eating even with innards.

Guess I'm in the sit down, and eat separate things crowd. Even if my idea of a nearly perfect breakfast is good yogurt and olives. With fresh pita, zaatar and a swoosh of olive oil if there is time.

The Full Belly Deli off Rte 32 in Sykesville makes a terrific egg sandwich with bacon!!!!

Does anyone know where I can get a good fried bologna sandwich for breakfast, even settle for an egg and bologna combo?

A Freddie at Bruce Lee's in the Cross Street Market. Perfect cure for a hangover.

Breakfast sandwiches are my specialty! Finding a good one is a favorite of mine. Robert- I fully agree, Howard's on cathedral has some INTENSE breakfast sandwiches, great for a ridiculous hangover...super super super greasy. Right around the corner, City Cafe does some nice breakfast sandwich interpretations with croissants, etc. but they are stupidly priced and on weekends during brunch end up being like 7 or 8 bucks which is unheard of.

I personally LOVE to go to Evergreen and have them doctor me up a toasted bagel with all my favorite veggie fixin's, sprouts, tomatoes, cucumbers, and maybe a veggie cream cheese or a nice runny egg. pretty cheap too!

1. That is the grossest picture ever.

2. I love Steve's Lunch. Hi to the Steve's crowd! I used to get breakfast there every morning before I moved away- they make a mean bfast BLT.

3. The best breakfast sandwich is egg and Taylor Ham but no one around here seems to make it. In fact, aside from the South, the only place I have ever found them in in New Jersey!

Taylor Ham, a guilty pleasure, was invented in New Jersey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Ham

Thank god you've chosen to abandon the TTT cheese plate idea. Maybe I'm just not enough of a foodie, but it seemed like you were forcing that one.

Towson Hot Bagels has Taylor's Ham, but I think you have to get it on a bagel.

Does anyone know where I can get a good fried bologna sandwich for breakfast, even settle for an egg and bologna combo?

There is a place in Timonium called Carroll's Carry Out on Greenspring Drive (the one that becomes Deerco Rd, then becomes Beaver Dam Rd further north) that has fried bologna sandwiches, with or without egg. They also will do scrapple on a sandwich, my fav.

Don't know if they still do, but the Emerald Tavern on Harford Road sold Taylor Ham. It was on a sandwich I believe but not a breakfast sandwich.

Don't know if they still do, but the Emerald Tavern on Harford Road sold Taylor Ham. It was on a sandwich I believe but not a breakfast sandwich.

"Towson Hot Bagels has Taylor's Ham, but I think you have to get it on a bagel" - ok I'm only a cultural Jew but something really is wrong with ham on a bagel!

MISS SHIRLEYS!!!! Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but you could do an entire top ten list just on their breakfast menu alone (served all day, thank you very much!) hmmmmm......

Scrapple on anything--gack!

To Christine the Lioness and Paul R:

City Limits, a dive bar at the end of Fort Ave in Locust Point has the Taylor Ham on their menu. Its not a "breakfast place", though they do open at noon on weekends. A Taylor Ham and a fresh squeezed Orange Crush is a perfect way to start a hungover Sunday morning.

(BTW, several of the co-owners are originally from New Jersey and tell me it IS a NJ original)

Howards in Mt Vernon is known for great eggs and little else.... they serve breakfast all day saturday.

is there an echo in here?

Scrapple on anything--gack!

No, no. You just haven't had good scrapple.

I used to think it was hard to screw up a breakfast sandwich. That is, until places started using microwave bacon, or pre-cooked bacon, or I don't know what it is, but it's not BACON. And around the same time, some places also started using gross egg substitutes, such as the kind you pour from a carton, or worse.

Assuming real bacon, and freshly cooked eggs from a real egg, it is pretty hard to screw up, and lots of places do a fine job. I love a good bacon, egg, cheese, usually on a bagel, but it's even better on a croissant (if I'm feeling like a very bad girl - I'll never forget the day I saw someone make croissants on tv - and all the layers of butter - ye gads!). It's also fine on wheat toast.

I'm too lazy to find the old sandwich post and post there. I just have to say that, based upon comments from folks here, I finally tried Isabella's in Little Italy the other day. The Italian cold cut I got from there was BY FAR the best I have ever had in my life. I'm still glowing. (And the guy who took my order was so very very cute! Ladies - it's worth going there just to see his thick sultry curly dark hair and sweet young smile and full lips... wow!).

Goldbergs, for by far and away the best bagels in Baltimore.

City Cafe has a breakfast sandwhich.

My virtual sister Rosebud wrote You just haven't had good scrapple.
And I probably never will, unless someone slips it to me in disguise.

If you ever serve jury duty in Baltimore County, there is a small lunch room in the courthouse building that makes a mean breakfast sandwich. Fried egg and scrapple sandwich on whole wheat toast: what could be better?

I'm with you Dahlink. I watched the making of scrapple at the Apple Festival in PA one year and that did it for me. None of that stuff will ever be on my plate!

Shoshana - I have to disagree, Goldbergs bagels are too soft mushy and big. A good bagel is at Courtney's in Owings Mills, a great bagel? NY or northern NJ for such thing!

I think the patty melt is my favorite go to breaky sandwich. Seriously. Whenever we go to a diner people are having breakfast, I'm having a patty melt. Mmmmmm.

I'll never forget the day I saw someone make croissants on tv - and all the layers of butter - ye gads!).

I made them once, many years ago - Madeline Kamen's recipe - just to say I had done it. They were amazingly rich and flaky and wonderful - worth every last calorie.

I've also made puff pastry, pate au chou, phyllo dough, and pasta over the years. I just haven't done it in the past several years.

Dahlink - the trick with scrapple is to make your own.

I think fresh out of the oven, with whatever you want on it, Towson Hot Bagels are tops. However, I do have a preference for Courtney's Whole Wheat everything bagel. The seeds and onion/garlic coat the bagel totally and seem to stay on much better than anywhere else. My only complaint is the extra 20 cent surcharge for the "special" bagels. I tend to agree that Goldberg's really aren't "all that."

If you ever serve jury duty in Baltimore County, there is a small lunch room in the courthouse building that makes a mean breakfast sandwich. Fried egg and scrapple sandwich on whole wheat toast: what could be better?

Ha! I had a bacon, egg, and cheese on toasted multigrain from there this morning, as I do most mornings. Although, I do sometimes switch it up for a scrapple, egg, and cheese on a sesame bagel. And after you eat the pancakes from there, you need a nap. No lie.

The breakfast sandwich is for folks that don't have time to eat their bacon next to their eggs and toast, but still need to hit all of the bases expeditiously and don't want to settle for cereal. In addition to this, the ingredients in a breakfast sandwich often equal more than the sum of their parts when married to eachother, slapped between two pieces of various bread product.

My fav's...
The bacon, egg, and cheese at New System Bakery
The bacon, egg, and cheese at Chef's Express in the Womens Industrial Exchange rocked
The bacon, egg, and cheese quesadilla at Papermoon

Out to Lunch at the cantler bldg has good sandwiches, and each day is a different "Special"

This is a great topic! I have to agree with Rebs --- why are City Cafe's bagel sandwiches so expensive?! Are the bagels that much better quality than everywhere else? If I remember correctly, they even charge extra for cheese! Or maybe it's meat.

Panera Bread...try their new bacon and egg sandwhich with white cheddar cheese on grilled ciabatta bread! Also check out their breakfast souffles!