Sure wine dinners, DJ gigs and afternoon Saturday brunches are fun, but we think mornings might also be where the good life is. Imagine waking up early (yes, early) and meeting friends in your yoga pants for coffee and a muffin at a rare spot that opens at 9am, not 11:30am. Or even grabbing a real breakfast before heading to work. Nice, right? Now set your alarm and go do it with the help of our round-up.

Ohana Cafe

50/4 Sukhumvit Soi 24, 02-661-1930. Open daily 8am-7pm
Not only is Ohana Café open bright and early, their glass-box architecture offers the tranquility of the morning sun and lots of garden foliage. It’s also good both for groups and for solo internetting or book perusing from their small, charming travel book library. And the food lives up to the décor, with a serious coffee and tea list from all over the world, lots of baked goods and dishes for any sort of appetite.
Recommended: The decadent should get their waffles (B150), which are huge and come covered in strawberries and whipped cream. For something smaller get their croissants (B45), which are legit and made exclusively for Ohana, from French flour and French butter.

Le Blanc

15 Sukhumvit Soi 39, 02-259-4353. Open Mon-Sat 9am-6pm
A simple, family operation run by a Japanese couple with great enthusiasm for French baking, Le Blanc reminds us of a neighborhood bakery in Paris, drawing in families from nearby condos in the area. Their baking area is behind the display, which means everything is made in-house, so you canliterally have pastries fresh out of the oven. Their small eating area has a few tables and great light from their window wall facing the street. If you get there early, you can grab the one long couch with a friend or two. While they do breads and baguettes in the afternoon, mornings are for pastries and viennoiseries like croissants, pain au chocolat, little tarte and danishes.Recommended: They do a coffee and pastry set for B100. You can’t go wrong with any of their baby tarts (B40-45), with their amazingly firm and flakey pastry. Get the poire orange which has bits of chocolate in it. If you’re really attached to eggs, on weekends, they do an egg and bacon/ham set too.

Café Tartine

Athenee Residence, 65 Wireless Rd. (entrance from Soi Ruamrudee), 02-168-5464. Open Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 9am-8pm, Sun 9am-6pm
In your frantic, nighttime beeline for Hyde and Seek, you may have overlooked this little slice of Paris morning life. Café Tartine is perfect for a solitary breakfast or a group hangout, with simple birch wood tables and chairs and floral tiles. Its endless rows of Ricard and Perrier along the walls offer a soothing, austere ambience whose counterpoint is the array of lovely baked goods fit for breakfast or lunch.
Recommended: If you’re feeling particularly Francais, go for their traditional breakfast set of croissant, café latte and orange juice (B99). Or you can amp it up further by going for the extra large bowl of hot chocolate (B105) like a countryside schoolboy. Other simple breakfast options include the pain au chocolat (B70) and the toasted baguette (with jam and butter, B60). If you while away the whole morning here, the lunchtime croques, sandwiches and platters of cheese and cold cuts are also very atmospherically French.

Little Home Bakery

413/10-20, Soi Thonglor, Sukhumvit Soi 55, 02-185-1485. Open Mon-Fri 9am-9pm, Sat-Sun 8am-9pm
If being hip before noon is too much for you to handle, we suggest this modest little place on Thong Lor. Little Home Bakery is the sort of diner that time has forgotten, remembered mostly by long-time residents and expats who come here for their solid American breakfast offerings, including strong coffee, bakery goods and standard Thai dishes for lunch and dinner as well.
Recommended: They do a very cheap American breakfast set (B165) that includes two eggs, bacon, coffee, orange juice and pancakes. But since pancakes are their specialty, got for a whole plate of them (B90). They also do nice waffles with strawberries at B90.

Kanom Fashion Bakery

122 Sukhumvit Soi 49 (Soi Klang), 02-391-2428. Open Mon-Sat 9:30am-8:30pm, Sun 9:30am-6pm
The branch on Sukhumvit 49 is a great (and slightly rare) combination of mostly Thai dessert treats and savory pies, a beautiful, contemporary space and parking. The fashion theme suggested in the name is far from overwhelming, too, so no early-morning self-loathing. Instead, enjoy their enormous, bright windows and perhaps even their outdoor garden, where you can demolish their giant stack of fashion magazines with endless cups of coffee and pie.
Recommended: Their specialty is egg tarts, which they supply citywide. Mini ones are B35 for two, and the regular ones are B40 a piece. Also try their croissants which come plain, with ham and cheese, sausage and with spinach (B20-40). The mushroom pies (B35) are generously stuffed.