All 10 Chick-fil-A Breakfast Sandwiches, Ranked

It’s breakfast time, you’re near a Chick-fil-A, and you’re going for it. But the breakfast menu is surprisingly large, so you have some choices on your hands. What are you going to order, provided you get there before 10:30 a.m.? 

Here are all 10 breakfast sandwiches at Chick-fil-A, ranked. 

This is a chicken restaurant. This is not a diner. If you want a simple, chicken-less breakfast sandwich, there’s no reason you should be at Chick-fil-A. The place makes a decent piece of fried chicken, so just get one snuggled in a buttery biscuit and call it a day.  

It makes sense that you may not want fried chicken first thing in the morning. While I still think your local pastry or coffee shop is probably going to have a better breakfast sandwich than Chick-fil-A, the truth is that the egg sandwiches here are a lot better than the ones at some other chains. The eggs are luscious, the cheese is melty, and the English muffin ain’t half bad. 

While my heart lies with the weird little egg disc that McDonald’s sells, this is a pretty good breakfast sandwich.

Back to chicken. We’re leap frogging here. Spicy chicken is a strange thing to order in the morning, but it’s oddly reminiscent of a spicy breakfast sausage patty. It’s a bold start to the day, yet I’m here for it. 

The only thing keeping this further down than the Spicy Chicken Biscuit is the biscuit itself. Or maybe the egg. Which came first? A biscuit works really well when chicken is involved, but with a bunch of ingredients like eggs and melted cheese, it can be hard to handle. Most of my biscuit sandwiches fell apart pretty quickly. 

Here we go. I had some conceptual problems with this mother and child reunion, but I guess I eat chicken fried rice, so how different is this really? Chicken and eggs together. Weird. 

Chick-fil-A is lucky that it makes decent chicken and decent eggs. I liked this far better than I expected. There’s no way I’m coming back to order this type of thing again, but I can’t deny that it was pretty damn good. 

As mentioned above, I need an English muffin to lock in all the contents of my sandwich, and biscuits just fall apart. The muffin is gonna win every time. 

Chick-fil-A’s bacon has a pretty decent smoky flavor, but that’s where the good stuff stops. It’s soft and tiny and crunchless. I am not in the business of soft bacon. Not now, not ever. 

I’ve mentioned this before in the archive of my breakfast “journalism,” but I think it’s important to restate. A biscuit is a paradox of a breakfast sandwich vessel, because if it doesn’t crumble, making it easier to hold as a sandwich, that means it’s a bad biscuit. A good biscuit will crumble more but be harder to hold. Let’s just call the whole thing off. 

The mysteriously named “Egg White Grill” is even more mysterious when you unwrap it, for mine seemed to contain no egg whites. Maybe Chick-fil-A’s egg whites are yellow. That would be a surprise to me. Either way, the grilled chicken in this sandwich isn’t bad, but grilled chicken and eggs is a combination that makes absolutely no sense to me. Who’s eating this?  

This is the least tolerable chicken and egg combination that Chick-fil-A’s got, and it’s a shame because this really isn’t a bad piece of food at all. It’s dense as can be, and even though the salsa they provide is nice, this thing desperately needs some more acid. We’ve got cheese, hash browns, fried chicken, and eggs in a tortilla. You might find yourself gasping for air between bites. 

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