The Great Breakfast Sandwich Tournament of 2019
In April 2019, we hosted a Breakfast Sandwich Tournament.
It’s been a while.
But now that every website, TV station, radio station and restaurant have finished their various March Madness style brackets, we figured it was the perfect time to decide “Who has the best breakfast sandwich in Buffalo?”. We’ll be posting the polls on our Instagram stories as we did with last year’s wing tournament, I think it’s obvious why.
Let’s clarify how we got here and some rules.
We decided that to be eligible, the restaurant needs to regularly serve breakfast sandwiches. This made several of our favorite restaurants ineligible because we aren’t including places with one great brunch/weekend only sandwich. We are looking for your every day breakfast sandwich. The seeding was a semi-collaborative effort that focused on quality of the sandwich AND the longevity of the restaurants below. If you have an issue with this tournament… you can yell at our own Tom Burtless. This was his baby and he did the hard research of eating every breakfast sandwich he could find (within a reasonable amount of time).
The reaction to our announcement on twitter has been really fun to see and we’ve been jotting down the restaurants we missed for the next time we run this poll.
The Bracket (see it broken out here)
1. Spot Coffee (Multiple Locations) vs 16. Undergrounds Coffee (Old First Ward)
2. BreadHive Cafe (West Side) vs 15. Public Espresso (Downtown)
3. Elmwood Market (Allentown) vs 14. Perks Cafe (Multiple Locations)
4. Bagel Jay’s (Multiple Locations) vs 13. Caffeology (Allentown)
5. Feature Eatery (Downtown) vs 12. Rowhouse Bakery and Restaurant (Allentown)
6. Remedy House (West Side) vs 11. Sweetness 7 Cafe (West Side)
7. Louie’s Texas Red Hots (Multiple Locations) vs 10. The Grange Community Kitchen (Hamburg)
8. Mayback’s Deli (Amherst) vs 9. Elm Street Bakery (East Aurora)
The Schedule & Results:
Thursday, April 11th.
1. Spot Coffee (727) defeated 16. Undergrounds Coffee (699)
9. Elm Street Bakery (852) defeated 8. Mayback’s Deli (397)
4. Bagel Jay’s (811) defeated 13. Caffeology (534)
12. Rowhouse Bakery and Restaurant (748) defeated 5. Feature Eatery (355)
Friday, April 12th
2. BreadHive Cafe (1,137) defeated 15. Public Espresso (373)
10. The Grange Community Kitchen (1,142) defeated 7. Louie’s Texas Red Hots (348)
14. Perks Cafe (722) defeated 3. Elmwood Market (714)
6. Remedy House (736) defeated 11. Sweetness 7 Cafe (665)
Monday, April 15th – Round Two
9. Elm Street Bakery (1,509) defeated 1. Spot Coffee (1,163)
4. Bagel Jay’s (1,487) defeated 12. Rowhouse Bakery and Restaurant (991)
2. BreadHive Cafe (1,713) defeated 10. The Grange Community Kitchen (1,686)
6. Remedy House (1,269) defeated 14. Perks Cafe (1,087)
Wednesday, April 17th – Final Four
9. Elm Street Bakery (804) defeated 4. Bagel Jay’s (441)
2. BreadHive Cafe (966) defeated 6. Remedy House (347)
Friday, April 19th – Final
2. BreadHive Cafe (758) defeated 9. Elm Street Bakery (344)