What Chef Bobby Flay Eats for Breakfast Every Day

Seriously, Bobby Flay REALLY LOVES Greek yogurt. The high-powered celebrity chef eats it for breakfast, along with berries and some very specific tea choices

By Sam Dean

June 25, 2013

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What Chef Bobby Flay Eats for Breakfast Every Day

Welcome to My Morning Routine, where we take a look at how people kick-start the day. And by "people" we mean celebrities.

You know Bobby Flay. He's the Emmy-winning Iron Chef with all the TV shows, cookbooks, and restaurants (and Burger Palaces) around the country, a man who brings three chimney starters to his backyard barbecues, and a man who, despite being one of the biggest food celebrities out there, is still able to hold it down on the line at one of his busiest restaurants, the Mesa Grill Las Vegas. And now, you shall know him by his Morning Routine. The guy likes yogurt, loves berries, and has a tumultuous relationship with coffee.

I normally wake up between 5:30 and 6:30, have some flat mineral water, then work out. It's usually either a run on the treadmill or a run down the West Side Highway, or a Soul Cycle class, which I've been into for probably a year and a half.

Then I eat breakfast. It usually consists of something like Greek yogurt with some fresh berries and honey or pomegranate molasses. Or I'll make a smoothie with Greek yogurt and blueberries. My favorite smoothie's really simple: Greek yogurt, lots of fresh blueberries, and at Whole Foods they have this juice, it's a black currant juice, and that's what I use in my smoothie.

And I definitely use fresh berries for my smoothies, not frozen, and I'm a huge berry fan in general. My favorite are blackberries, but I like blueberries for smoothies because they don't really have a lot of seeds in them. But I eat it all. Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries. Gooseberries.

Every once in a while I'll change things up and splurge if I have a breakfast meeting or something. I just love eggs and thick-cut bacon. But I try not to do that very often.

But I really love Greek yogurt. I love the richness and the thickness of it, and the tanginess, and I still like that when I'm eating it I really feel healthy. And full disclosure, I do some work with Fage, but I've been eating Greek yogurt since it came on the scene about 5 years ago. When they asked me to do work for them, it was like, "No problem at all!" I already loved the stuff.

I'm drinking very little coffee right now, probably 90 percent tea to 10 percent coffee. My problem with coffee is that, once I start drinking it, I drink a lot of it. In the last three years, I really got off it. I do coffee binge sometimes, but I would say that 90 percent of the time, I'm off it. It's not as much fun without it, though, I can say that much. So instead, I'm drinking a lot of English Breakfast tea these days, with a little bit of honey and a splash of milk.

I like mornings way more than nighttime. I'm a total morning person. By 11 o'clock I can barely keep my eyes open, but I love waking up early. It feels like new beginnings--what's going to happen that day. So my daily routine mostly revolves around the mornings, because it kind of sets me for the rest of the day. That's why I work out early, so I can have energy to tackle the things I need to tackle. After breakfast, after 10 o'clock, my day can go in so many different directions, whether I'm cooking in one of my restaurants or flying to one of my restaurants or shooting a TV show or working on a cookbook, it's really different every day. But the one constant of my life is the morning. Even if I'm on the road or in a hotel, it's basically the same thing.