Home Run Cafe

In my never-ending quest to visit awesome privately-owned breakfast spots, I drove on down to teeny, tiny Lake Placid. They are known as "The Town of Murals" and are world famous for them and perusing them makes a very nice day trip! Tens of thousands of folks do it every year. All those folks need to eat and bunches of them go here and rave about it! Hence my trip.Arriving- Your GPS won't work very hard as this place is easy peasy to find. BTW, they are usually open every day starting at 6:00 AM. Breakfast and lunch only. Street parking, the slanted drive-in style is the name of the game here. It's free.Pro-Tip- This is Snowbird country and many restaurants close for a week or two during the summer. My advice, call first before you visit.Ambience- Tiny one-room place with Florida kitsch and a mild baseball theme which extends to the menu. Typical booths and tables. They also have a counter that seats six with an open kitchen. I found everything spotless!Customer Service- I was tag teamed by two servers and they were both great so no complaints.Food- Standard American menu with the glaring omission of a list of omelets. What the hell! In keeping with the baseball theme, you can order a single, double, or triple meaning the number of eggs and pieces of meat. I ordered the Double with sausage and home fries, and it set me back $9 pre-tip.My coffee was great. My eggs and sausage were spot on, but read on to hear about the home fries.Over-the-top, spectacular home fries, easily on my Top 5 list of all time! The cook/chef uses his own custom seasoning and it's amazing. They were perfectly cooked, not greasy, and there wasn't a single burnt piece! I moaned with every bite! See my attached a close up pic. For me, these folks hit a grand slam 5-star home run!

Breakfast was very good. The service was excellent. Great little small town diner. Reminded me of the old days.

This place hit it out of the park on our first visit here. Great service, good , fresh food, and reasonable prices. We will be back.

Great location downtown Lake Placid. . Great food choices and great food presentation... Open kitchen, friendly staff and amazing management team. (Owner is soooo cool)You have to try this place... I totally recommend this spot for breakfast... limited seating though, but it's worth the wait

One of our local favorites.Friendly hard working crew, good service, great food cooked to your satisfaction.Open 6AM for an excellent breakfast .Nice menu variety.

Definitely a Home Run! Breakfast was excellent! Homemade bagels outstanding! And the service was just as great. Don't pass this one.

Went this morning. First time, never again. Not many people started off great. Then our server came over we ordered. She brings our toast out about 10 min before our food when I asked for hot toast when my food comes out she threw out attitude. No clue why, I was not rude about it she kept arguing with me that it just came out it was hot. Well it wasn't and even if it was it would be really cold by the time my food arrives. I asked for med bacon came well done. Don't order a side of bacon, you get 2 pieces. When she brought our food asked if we needed anything else I said only my bacon please again attitude saying in a min. After she brought it out didn't see her again until the check then asked if we wanted anything else. I was going to complain until she asked someone to get her dad and I figured why bother. Food was decent. Service sucked!!!!

After reading the previous reviews my wife and I had breakfast at Home Run Cafe today and definitely 5 stars. In my case I had a BLT w fries, just to try the fries and they were awesome. My wife had two eggs w sausage and home fries. Eggs were perfectly cooked, sausage was excellent and home fries delicious. The cafe is open 7 days a week, from 6AM till 2PM, so not sure why one reviewer stated it is nearly always closed. As for the service it was great as was the coffee.

We have been here at least a dozen times sine they opened. My quick review is this: the quality and portion size of the food (especially the American fries) has always been, service has been excellent and overall it just a very hospitable and friendly place.We like the baseball decor which adds a bit of ambiance to the place.Try it, you won't be disappointed!

Wanted to love it. Certainly did not. Food was cold and greasy and service was non existent. Coffee was weak and cold. Was very disappointed to not like it. We usually live little hole in the wall places.