Tiffany’s tasteful new eatery CAFE’S A GEM

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S turned into lunch for hundreds of hungry diners Friday as the famed jeweler’s new cafe struggled to meet demand on its opening day.

A crush of well-heeled customers greeted the opening of the 40-seat Blue Box Cafe, the first restaurant for the 180-year-old luxury retailer on Fifth Ave.

“My breakfast at Tiffany’s has now turned into lunch — and hopefully not dinner,” said Kristen Taekman, 40, a blogger and former star of “The Real Housewives of New York City.”

At 10 a.m., prospective diners eager to shell out $29 for breakfast were told the wait was one hour. By noon, it had ballooned to two hours. “I was thinking of kind of bailing and then coming back, but then I heard someone’s been in line since 6 a.m., and they still haven’t seen it,” Taekman said.

Those lucky enough to get a seat at the fourth-floor eatery were treated to a starter and main that included avocado toast, a croissant with jam, and an extravagant fruit bowl.

By the time SoHo resident Karim Benz arrived at 10 a.m., the line stretched almost all the way to the jeweler’s glass doors.

“There was a big line this morning I was not expecting,” said Benz, 45.

Benz managed to get a peek of the cafe bathed in Tiffany blue before calling it a day.

“The place is wonderful but it’s very, very small,” he said. “We’ll come back.”

The cafe opened 56 years after Audrey Hepburn famously munched on a croissant while looking into the jeweler’s windows in the opening scene of the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

The cafe also offers a $39 lunch and a $49 high tea featuring a scrumptious spread of finger sandwiches.

Photos of the elegantly appointed cafe flooded social media throughout the day.

“In line from 6:30 a.m. for breakfast at Tiffanys for the first time,” one diner wrote on Instagram along with a photo of her meal. “I was the first one in the door to have breakfast here.”

The spiral staircase leading to the cafe features a trio of nearly 15-foot-high light chains.

The eatery itself is finished with herringbone marble and green amazonite stone. “The space is experimental and experiential – a window into the new Tiffany,” Reed Krakoff, Tiffany’s chief artistic officer, said in a statement.