Breakfast Club - Cityscape Phoenix
Rating
Family of 4
Roughly $55 to $85 for two adults and two kids before tip, with coffee and juice included.
Duration
1 hour
Best Ages
Best with kids 2 to 12, and easy enough with a baby if you go early. Breakfast is the friendliest meal to eat out with small children because everyone is fresh, the food comes fast, and pancakes are not a negotiation. Toddlers do well as long as you beat the weekend rush and are not standing in a lobby for 40 minutes first. Tweens and teens tend to like the look of the place and the fact that the menu runs beyond pancakes into bowls, toast, and sandwiches. The one hard limit is time of day: this is a breakfast and lunch restaurant, so it is not a dinner answer.
About
Breakfast Club sits inside CityScape at Jefferson and Central, which makes it one of the few good breakfast options in the core of downtown Phoenix rather than out in the suburbs. If you are staying downtown, in town for a game, or heading to the Children's Museum of Phoenix or the Arizona Science Center afterward, this is the walkable morning stop, and that convenience is most of its value to a traveling family.
The room is bright, white, and modern, with the kind of look that gets photographed. Kids read that instantly as a special occasion, which buys you goodwill before anyone has ordered. The menu runs the modern brunch range: pancakes and French toast on the sweet side, eggs, toasts, bowls, and sandwiches on the savory side.
For families, the useful detail is that the sweet plates are large. One order of pancakes is realistically two small children's worth of breakfast, and ordering four separate entrees for four people usually means carrying a box out.
Timing is the whole game here. Downtown weekend brunch demand stacks up between roughly 9:30 a.m. and noon, and waits in that window commonly run 20 to 45 minutes. That is a lot to ask of a four year old who was told they were getting pancakes.
Arrive at opening on Saturday or Sunday and you will usually walk right in. Weekday mornings are calm throughout. One more scheduling note that catches visiting families off guard: this is a breakfast and lunch restaurant, so it closes in the early afternoon and is not a dinner answer.
Confirm current hours on the website before you build a day around it.
On logistics, there is no free parking downtown. The CityScape garage is directly underneath, and rates rise when there is an event at Footprint Center or Chase Field. The smart play is to park once and stack the morning: breakfast here, then a short drive or a rideshare to the Children's Museum, which is among the rainy-day and summer options in the city.
The dining room is compact at peak brunch, so plan on folding your stroller or leaving it in the car. Nothing has been published about changing tables or nursing space, so ask the host on your way in rather than finding out later.
Age Suitability
Parent Logistics
Stroller-Friendly
Limited
Nursing / Changing
Unknown
Kid Meals
Limited
Setting
Indoor & Outdoor
Rainy Day
Great option!
Plan Your Visit
Best Time to Visit
Right at opening on a weekend, or any weekday morning. Downtown Phoenix brunch demand stacks up hard between about 9:30 a.m. and noon on Saturday and Sunday, and a 9 a.m. table and an 11 a.m. table are two completely different experiences with a four year old. Weekday mornings are calm. Hours are breakfast and lunch only, so confirm the closing time on the restaurant website before you plan a late arrival.
Wait Times
Close to zero on a weekday morning, and commonly 20 to 45 minutes on a weekend between 9:30 a.m. and noon. If there is an event at Footprint Center or Chase Field that day, add to that. Put your name in and walk the CityScape plaza with the kids rather than crowding the entrance, and ask the host to text you.
Nearby Food
You are inside CityScape at Jefferson and Central, which is a full block of food. If someone in your group wants something other than breakfast, there are casual counter-service and fast-casual options within the same complex and directly across the street, plus coffee within a one-minute walk. Block 23 is one block north with a grocery store on site, which is the quickest fix for a kid who has rejected everything on every menu. Walk two blocks toward Chase Field and you add pizza, burgers, and ice cream.
Why Kids Love It
This is a breakfast restaurant that leans into the fun end of breakfast, which means pancakes, French toast, and sweet plates that look like a treat rather than a meal. The dining room is bright, white, and photo-friendly, and kids notice that immediately; it feels like a special occasion without anyone having to dress up. Food comes out fast for a brunch spot, so the gap between sitting down and eating is short, which is the single most important variable when you have a hungry six year old.
Pro Tips from Parents
- Arrive at opening on Saturday or Sunday. The difference between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. downtown is the difference between walking in and waiting 40 minutes with a kid who was promised pancakes.
- Park once in the CityScape garage and make it a downtown morning. Breakfast here plus the Children's Museum of Phoenix or the Arizona Science Center a few minutes away turns one parking fee into a whole day.
- This is a breakfast and lunch restaurant, not a dinner option. Check the current hours on breakfastclub.us before you plan around it, since closing time is early afternoon.
- Order one large sweet plate to share and one savory plate per adult. The sweet dishes here run big, and four separate entrees usually ends with two of them going home in a box.
- Ask for a table rather than counter or high-top seating when you check in with young kids, and ask for a high chair at the same time.
What to Bring
- A stroller you can fold quickly, since the dining room is compact at peak brunch
- Your own diapers, wipes, and changing pad, since changing facilities are not published
- A card for the CityScape garage, which is billed separately from your meal
- A quiet activity or two for the weekend wait
- Sunglasses and a hat for the walk across the plaza in summer
Cost Info
Estimated Cost (Family of 4)
Roughly $55 to $85 for two adults and two kids before tip, with coffee and juice included.
Add $5 to $20 for the CityScape garage depending on the day and whether anything is happening downtown.
Check the current menu at breakfastclub.
us for exact pricing, since brunch menus get repriced often.
Tips to Save
- Split rather than order per person.
- A stack of pancakes here is large enough for two small kids, and adding a side of eggs or bacon to share costs far less than a second full entree.
- Order water and one coffee instead of a round of juices; specialty drinks are where a brunch tab quietly doubles.
- Go on a weekday if you can, since you are not paying event-rate parking and you are not burning 40 minutes of everyone's patience in a lobby.
- If you are downtown for something else that day, park once in the garage and let that one fee cover breakfast plus the museum or the ballpark.
