Carpenter Street Saloon

Monday through Friday, Carpenter Street Saloon is the only place for locals to have a sit-down breakfast. Luckily, the food here is excellent. What the menu lacks in variety is made up for in flavor.

What should I eat at Carpenter Street Saloon?

Yes, it’s a tavern, but locals like this place for breakfast of plate-size hot cakes and breakfast sandwiches that include all the usual ingredients or, if you wish, the Mid-Atlantic fave, scrapple.

They start you out with bottomless cups of coffee, regular or decaf. Eggs are excellent, cooked exactly to your order. The toast is not the standard squishy, sweet stuff; they serve bread that has substance. The plate-sized hotcakes are tender and served with butter and syrup, definitely above average. The Amish sausages are made with natural casings that hold in all the maple-syrup-sweetened pork juices. They have fun breakfast sandwiches like scrapple, mayo, and egg on a hamburger bun, and there is Old Bay seasoning on every table.

The servers at Carpenter Street Saloon know everybody and are very friendly. And because everybody else knows each other, they will probably send a “have a good morning” your way just in case.

*original post by Emily Chandler*