Best Soul Food Breakfast in Oakland · Oakland, CA
Lois the Pie Queen has served Southern breakfast and soul food in North Oakland since 1951, when Lois Davis turned her acclaimed pies into a full restaurant. Chicken and waffles, pork chops and eggs, grits, and buttermilk biscuits fill the plates — but the sweet-potato and peach pies are the namesake draw.
Family-run across generations and considered for landmark status, Lois the Pie Queen is a cherished Oakland institution where the pie, and the welcome, have never changed.
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Founded by Lois Davis in 1951, this family spot's sweet potato pie and Southern breakfasts made her Oakland royalty.
Yes — Lois the Pie Queen is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Soul Food Breakfast in Oakland, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best soul food breakfast in Oakland for 2025 for seven decades of sweet potato pie and Southern breakfasts fit for a queen.
Lois the Pie Queen is in Oakland, CA.
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