Cafe MG 538
Known For
- •Breakfast burrito with avocado
- •Leo's salsa
- •2-egg plate with potatoes and muffin
- •Ham and cheese sandwich
Insider Tips
Best Time
Morning to early afternoon; busiest around breakfast service before noon.
Ideal For
Pro Tip
Ask for Leo's salsa on the breakfast burrito and take a seat on the sunny patio by the Hoag parking structure.
This is a small Newport Beach café that does breakfast like it matters. The breakfast burrito with avocado is worth detouring for, especially when Leo's salsa arrives in a squat plastic cup and flips the whole equation. Tables spill onto a sunny patio beside the Hoag parking structure, where nurses, visitors and locals eat the same honest plates. Food comes fast, unpretentiously made and still warm when it hits the plate. Prices are low enough to feel wrong in a good way; portions do not skimp. There is a freshness to the eggs and potatoes that suggests someone is paying attention at 6 a.m. The staff is unabashedly sweet, the kind that remembers names and orders. Sit outside, order the burrito with extra salsa, and watch the hospital crowd cycle past.
Price Level
$
Website
cafemg538.comContact
+1 949-524-3005
Outdoor Seating
Hours
- Sunday: Closed
- Monday: 6:30AM - 3PM
- Tuesday: 6:30AM - 3PM
- Wednesday: 6:30AM - 3PM
- Thursday: 6:30AM - 3PM
- Friday: 6:30AM - 3PM
- Saturday: Closed
Drifter Insights
Excellent quality, understated presence
Only 42 reviews but 4.3 stars
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