The Best Breakfast in Sherman, Texas

The only restaurant in Sherman built around breakfast rather than serving it on the side, and the one we would send a visitor to first. The menu runs pancakes, French toast, omelets, skillets and eggs Benedict, with chicken and waffles, cinnamon roll pancakes, a migas platter and a crab Benedict as the specialties.

It closes at 2.30 every day, which tells you the kitchen is not splitting its attention with a dinner service. The business is family owned and now runs four Texas locations, with Sherman alongside Fort Worth, Waxahachie and Garland, so the Sherman room is not a one-off experiment.

The best breakfast taco in Sherman comes out of a tamale shop, which is the kind of thing a search result will not tell you. The morning menu runs breakfast tacos, huevos rancheros and chile relleno, and it opens at 7, so it competes directly with the cafes rather than being a lunch place that happens to open early.

The room is small with limited seating and a lot of the trade is takeaway, so plan around that. Ask for the spicy salsa, which regulars say is kept back rather than put on the table.

If your morning starts before the cafes do, this is the only answer in town. Momo's opens at 4.30 a.m. and is done by noon, and it holds a 4.5 average across 114 Yelp reviews, the best score of any breakfast counter in Sherman with a sample that size.

It is a donut shop, so set expectations accordingly, but it is the most consistently praised one in Grayson County and it is positioned on the FM 1417 corridor rather than downtown, which makes it the practical stop if you are heading out of town north or west.

The closest thing Sherman has to a coffeehouse breakfast. The morning menu is a breakfast sandwich, a breakfast bowl with eggs, cheese and your choice of meat, and oatmeal with apple, banana walnut, blueberry or cranberry almond. Coffee is locally roasted, with cold brew, nitro and frappes on the espresso side.

It is the pick when you want coffee that was chosen rather than poured, and a plate that is not a stack of pancakes. The sister location at Gateway Village is in Denison, so the North Travis Street address is the Sherman one.

The other side of the Sherman donut argument, and the closer of the two to downtown. It holds 4.3 across 42 Yelp reviews, and one reviewer's line about the best donuts in the Sherman and Denison area has been quoted around enough to become the shop's unofficial pitch.

West Lamar Street puts it about a mile from the Grayson County Courthouse, which makes it the one to grab on the way into the square rather than a destination.

Southern Maid is a Texas donut franchise rather than a Sherman original, and that is why it sits below the two independents above. It earns a place because it is listed in the Lake Texoma travel guide's Sherman directory as a breakfast counter, it has a phone number that answers, and it covers a corner of the city the other two do not.

If you are heading to Loy Lake Park or the fairgrounds in the morning, this is the stop that is actually on the way.

We have included Sweetberries because it is the only sit-down breakfast and lunch cafe in Sherman besides Eggsquisite, and because it is the one place locals point to for homemade biscuits. It is ranked last on purpose.

The reviews are genuinely mixed, 3.3 across 53 reviews on Tripadvisor, which is the lowest score on this list by a clear margin, and it is the only Sherman entry in Tripadvisor's biscuits-and-gravy category. Go for the biscuits, go in with realistic expectations about the rest, and go to Eggsquisite if you only have one breakfast in you.