Old Town Café: All Breakfast, All The Time
Old Town Cafe’s Hot cakes, The Number Nine, and a side of homefries. Not Pictured: Chef’s favorite biscuit and gravy…
Tucked into the tip of a triangle block in Bellingham is the most perfect breakfast place that has been home to generations-worth of restaurants since the 1800s and true to it’s name it is The Old Town Café.
One of Bellingham’s best local breakfast spots offering the community a gathering spot for breakfast parties big and small. On nice days, you’ll see the line outside the door, but don’t worry, turn over is quick and the food is so worth it.
The Space
When you walk in the architecture escorts you down a narrow walkway and at the intersection between the two eating spaces, the register, and bar seating will be a little table with a pen and paper asking you to write down your name and number of folks in your group. You can write if you’d like to be seated inside or outside — During the pandemic they had an epic outdoor seating space, but those have since returned to parking spaces, yet they have outdoor seating. They also provide self-serve coffee while you wait.
The wait is rarely that long and it is fun to people watch, enjoy the atmosphere, and chat with your breakfast group or other waiting patrons.
The space offers a lot to look at with it’s walls decorated in it’s history and the handmade artwork which rotates regularly. Just as you get comfy and your tummy starts to grumble from the good smells, one of the waitress’ calls out your name. I adore the staff at Old Town Cafe, they are generously kind but also very efficient at what they do. They know that menu like nobody’s business and that menu is not small.
Old Town Cafe’s Menu
Chef and I are kind of picky when it comes to breakfast (not in the way you’re thinking) simply because breakfast can be one of the easier meals to make at home. We determine eating out sometimes based on how much harder the meal is to make at home. Old Town blends comfort-food, with exquisite ingredients, and a price-point that doesn’t make your wallet cry. With breakfast served all day, 7 days a week, from 6:30 AM - 2:30 PM on most days it’s easy to see why it’s a Bellingham staple.
My favorite dish to order at Old Town Cafe is The Number Nine, which consists of two poached eggs on a biscuit topped with cheese sauce & tomatoes. Served with homefries (or black beans). You can also order it with bacon, but it’s perfect just the way it is.
The Number Nine on the Old Town Cafe Menu
Chef’s favorite was the Biscuit & Gravy, a buttermilk biscuit topped with mushroom-tahini gravy. Served with two eggs and homefries or black beans. But, he has since shifted away from that and will order all kinds of things from the various categories of offerings such as the rotating specials, hotcakes and French toasts, sandwiches — yet the “one the side” option of one biscuit with gravy always appears on our tab regardless of what Chef chooses.
Old Town also offers “omelettes”, chili and soup, and plenty of vegetarian and gluten-free options. According to their website, “Old Town uses as many natural, local, and organic products as possible and makes all its pastries on-site with whole-wheat flour and unrefined sweeteners.” and that care and commitment is something you can taste.
Old Town Café is always our go-to breakfast place. Is it the homefries that keep me coming back? The consistent quality? The ability to park in 2-hour parking and not have to worry about paying? Maybe the fact I can gather a group of six friends for breakfast and not have to worry about finding a seat. Old Town is just one of the best breakfast places to me, when I think eating out for breakfast, I think: Old Town.
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