Port Jefferson has a new breakfast house. The Canopy Club is now open at 5 Mill Creek Road, serving breakfast all day and lunch from 11 a.m., seven days a week from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is the first breakfast house from The Canopy Club, a Long Island hospitality company that also runs a catering business and a hot dog cart for private parties.

The menu

Breakfast leans toward shareable plates and a few dishes built around dessert. Pancakes for the Table is four large buttermilk pancakes meant for three or four people, with chocolate chips, blueberries or banana walnut as add-ons. The Canopy Breakfast Platter pairs soft scrambled eggs and hash browns with bacon or sausage and a choice of pancake, waffle or French toast.

The house specialties include:

  • Tiramisu Tempura French Toast, battered in tempura and topped with espresso mascarpone cream and cocoa
  • A chicken-stuffed waffle with hand-pulled chicken, pineapple chutney, hot honey and maple syrup
  • Lemon blueberry pancakes with lemon zest and blueberry compote
  • Fried chicken and poached eggs on a buttermilk biscuit with hollandaise
  • Cajun shrimp over creamy polenta

There is also a pancake breakfast sandwich, with scrambled egg, American cheese, a sausage patty and maple chipotle between two maple butter pancake rounds, served with truffle fries. Omelets come with a build-your-own option of three fillings, along with a classic bacon, egg and cheese on a Kaiser roll, eggs Benedict, avocado toast with burrata, steel-cut oatmeal with pecans and blueberry compote, and a polenta bowl with squash, kale and spinach.

Lunch, from 11 a.m., adds sweet potato gnocchi in sage brown butter, pasta in spicy vodka cream, whipped ricotta toast with honey and lavender, tempura cauliflower in sweet chili sauce, salads, a double smash burger and sandwiches including a chicken cutlet with bacon and chipotle mayo and a roast beef dip. A kids menu covers silver dollar pancakes, eggs and toast, a cheeseburger and grilled cheese.

Coffee and the Club Key

The coffee bar runs all day, with a 34-ounce French press for the table, flavored cold foam lattes (honey sea salt, strawberries and cream, toasted coconut, pumpkin), a raspberry matcha latte and rotating specialty teas. Milk options are whole, oat and almond.

The restaurant also sells an optional membership called the Club Key for $30 a month, billed on the first of each month and canceled at any time. It includes one daily coffee, discounts on Canopy Club events and catering, merchandise drops and a treat on a member's birthday.

Catering and the Lil' Pigs cart

The same kitchen handles catering, from a plated dinner for 40 to a buffet for 300. The company's Lil' Pigs hot dog cart books for backyard birthdays, weddings and block parties around Long Island. Requests for either go through the inquiry form on the restaurant's website.

If you go

The Canopy Club is at 5 Mill Creek Road, Port Jefferson, and is listed with the Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce. Hours are 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Online ordering and the full menu are at canopyclubli.com, and the phone number is (631) 403-4033.

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