The Ugly Duckling

Your favorite local breakfast watering hole. Breakfast, Lunch, Burgers all day.

Located at 1430 E 5th St, Dayton, OH 45402, The Ugly Duckling operates as a breakfast restaurant serving Dayton in Ohio. This page gathers the practical details people usually look for before visiting: where it is, how to reach it, when it opens and how customers rate it. Besides its main category, the business also describes itself as diner, hamburger restaurant, lunch restaurant, so it may cover more than the name suggests.

Breakfast is its own restaurant category in the United States. Diners serve eggs, pancakes, hash browns and bottomless coffee from early morning, sometimes around the clock; breakfast and brunch restaurants open around 7 and close in the early afternoon; delis and sandwich shops sell egg sandwiches and bagels to go and switch to lunch by 11. Weekend brunch, roughly 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is the busiest shift of the week, and well-known spots run waits of 30 to 60 minutes; many now take reservations or a waitlist through an app. Expect large portions, free refills on drip coffee and a tip of 15 to 20 percent for table service. Creperies, waffle houses and bistros round out the group with sweeter or European-style menus.

Hours are published for 6 days a week. On most of those days it is open 7 am–3 pm. Note that it does not open on Wednesday. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. You can reach The Ugly Duckling at (937) 951-2040; calling is usually the quickest way to ask about availability, prices or directions. More information is available on its website, uglyduckling.cafe.

Customers rate it 4.5 out of 5 on Google across 866 reviews, placing it among the better-regarded breakfast restaurants in Dayton.

Dayton is in Ohio, in the Midwest, where summers are warm, winters are cold and snowy, and most errands are done by car; businesses keep steady year-round hours with the usual holiday changes. Traffic in Dayton peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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