10BEST
Top 10 for THE Best Breakfast in the Triangle
10BEST is a travel guide by the travel experts of USA Today.
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Editor’s Pick for Best Bargain in Durham
American Egg Board
Brigs Restaurants were awarded the GOLDEN EGG AWARD by the American Egg Board for “creative menuing and promotion of eggs.” The award is only occasionally given to any restaurant. Brigs also had the pleasure of serving on the American Egg Board’s Foodservice Advisory Council for nearly a decade.
Cary Living Magazine
Best Breakfast
Best Weekend Brunch
Cary Magazine
Best Breakfast
- 2019
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Best Ladies Lunch
Best Sunday Brunch
Cary News
Best Breakfast
- 2017
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- 2002
The Cary New stopped publishing in early 2018.
City’s BEST
Thanks AOLCityguide! We especially love (and agree with!) the editors’ “An egg-ceptional breakfast is guaranteed!”
Best Breakfast
AOL discontinued its CitysBest for the Raleigh area after the 2008 awards were announced.
CitySearch
Online voters got to select their favorite businesses in different categories in random years.
Best Breakfast
Best Brunch
Best Lunch
Best American Food
The only voting for restaurants in the Triangle since 2005 was in 2010. Results of the 2010 voting have since been altered for some reason. In every category, all of the winners are now listed as tied, and some newly listed winners were not even open in 2010.
The Destination Guide
The Destination Guide named Brigs Restaurants 2011 Best Breakfast in their Best of Raleigh series! The Destination Guide has reviewed Charleston, Columbia, Savannah, and more!
See our short video HERE!
Durham Herald-Sun
Best Breakfast/Brunch
- 2017
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Best Mom and Pop
Best Burger
Best Kept Secret
Best Take-Out
The Herald-Sun discontinued its Reader’s Choice Awards after 2017.
Eno River Media Productions
“Members of ERMP and the North Carolina film and television industry, affiliated industries, and their families are allowed to nominate and then vote for a final yearly winner in selected categories for restaurants within the state of North Carolina that have proudly and professionally served those patrons mentioned above in the past year during their participation with a movie or television project or during the normal conduct of business.” 2014 is the only year that included a Brunch Cuisine category.
Favorite Brunch Cuisine Restaurant
iHeart Radio
In both years that iHeart Radio listeners voted in 12 different dining and entertainment categories, they named Brigs Restaurants as THE Best Brunch in the “Triangle’s Top 12“!
Best Brunch
Independent Weekly
Best Breakfast
- 2017 Wake County
- 2016 Wake County
- 2015 Wake County
- 2015 Durham County
- 2014
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- 2004
Best Kid Friendly Restaurant
Best Brunch / Best Sunday Brunch
- 2017 Wake County
- 2014 Wake County
- 2013 Wake County
- 2012 Wake County
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“Since 1988 Brigs Restaurants have clung to the noble belief that breakfast should be served throughout the day. And for that we are ever grateful… Brigs has established itself as a clear local favorite, marked by the inevitably long weekend lines and the swarm of regulars.”
LocalEats
Where The Locals Eat publishes dining guides listing the top restaurants in each of a number of U.S. metropolitan areas. They then determine who they consider THE BEST in specific categories.
Best Breakfast
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Best Diner
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LUX Magazine
LUX Magazine awarded Brigs Restaurants two incredible LUX Restaurant & Bar 2017 awards.
Best Daytime Restaurant in North Carolina
Small Family Restaurant Chain of the Year – Southeast USA
Metro Magazine
Best Breakfast
Best Eggs Benedict
Metro Magazine stopped publishing in 2013 just before 2013 Maggy Award results were published.
Midtown Magazine
Midtown Magazine readers vote for The Best of Raleigh a/k/a Diamond Awards. Brigs has been among the very best every year!
Best Breakfast
Best Weekend Brunch
Moms On Main
Triangle Moms On Main voted for Mom’s Choice Awards. Triad Moms On Main is still very active. However, Triangle Moms On Main dissolved a few years after we won this award.
Best Restaurant for a Ladies Lunch
- 2011 – Brigs at the Forest
Nextdoor
Brigs Restaurants were again voted Neighborhood Favorite for Best Breakfast and Brunch in nearly 500 of the neighborhoods near our five locations!
Best Breakfast
- 2018 (All 5 Brigs locations)
- 2017 (All 5 Brigs locations)
Best Brunch
- 2018 (All 5 Brigs locations)
- 2017 (All 5 Brigs locations)
Thank you! We are proud to be your neighbors, too!
Spectator Magazine
From 1989 through 2001, Brigs Restaurants was awarded over twenty BEST IN THE TRIANGLE awards (as Winner or Runner-Up) from Spectator Magazine including:
- Best Breakfast
- Best Brunch
- Best Sunday Brunch
- Best Eggs Benedict
- Best Pancakes
- Best Omelets
- Best Grits
- Best Caesar Salad
- Best Lemonade
- Best Restaurant in Cary
- Best Restaurant for Women “To Lunch”
In 2002, Spectator Magazine was purchased by, and dissolved by Independent Weekly.
Triangle Downtowner Magazine
In the annual Best of Downtowner Awards, readers once again voted Brigs Restaurants a Reader Favorite for Best Breakfast in the Triangle!
Best Breakfast
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2012
TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor awards those restaurants and hotels that maintain a rating 4.0 or better over an entire year of numerous reviews their Certificate of Excellence! We are pleased that all of our restaurants have won this award.
Certificate of Excellence
Thank you to everyone who posts great reviews of Brigs on TripAdvisor and all other websites!
Voice Places
For one year only (that we know of) The Village Voice readers voted for “Best of” for the Raleigh-Durham metro, and we were a winner!
Best Sunday Brunch
Wake Forest Weekly
Best Breakfast
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
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- 2012
- 2011
Best Side Dish
- 2015 (Brigs’ Broccoli Salad)
- 2013 (Brigs’ Broccoli Salad)
Best Sandwich or Burger
- 2017 (Brigs’ Reuben)
- 2015 (Brigs’ Reuben)
Wake Living
In the sixth annual Readers Choice Awards by the quarterly magazine Wake Living, readers once again voted Brigs Restaurants for Best Breakfast/Brunch Spot!
Best Place for Breakfast/Brunch
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
WRAL Out & About
In the second annual WRAL Out & About Voter’s Choice Awards, WRAL viewers voted Brigs Restaurants as THE Best Brunch in the Triangle, and runner-up for Best Breakfast in the Triangle! It was the first year for the Brunch category.
Best Brunch
Best Breakfast
WRAL Out & About did not have a Best Breakfast or Best Brunch category in 2017 or 2018.