The Friendly Toast Restaurant Review

The Friendly Toast Restaurant Review –This oddball retro diner is a breakfast lovers paradise featuring Almond Joy pancakes, gingerbread waffles, and thick French toast made from six types of homemade bread. The egg choices are dazzling and include crazy ingredients like Mexican sausage, Cuban dirty rice, kalamata olives and banana peppers. Equally outrageous is the décor, which is like a 50’s version of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. The shop’s bright green walls are filled with classic ads (Esso, Sunbeam bread, Magic-Cling bras); and kitschy memorabilia (Nancy Drew book covers, and an old Good Humor truck ice-cream menu). There’s also a female mannequin, strange vintage lampshades, and a large plastic hamburger with eyes and a droopy mustache. This fantasyland is the concept of co-owner Melissa Jasper. Jasper opened the original Friendly Toast in Portsmouth, NH in 1996 when she couldn’t find good scrambled eggs before heading off to work as a University of New Hampshire English teacher. A regular at thrift stores and the Salvation Army, she’s had a love of 40’s and 50’s era Americana since she was 15. But it’s Jasper's food that is the real draw here. Try the pecan–caramelized banana waffles; the pumpkin pancakes with Raisinettes and whipped cream; or the Ole Miss scrambled eggs with cayenne-cheddar toast, sausage and mashed sweet potatoes. They also serve burgers, burritos and creative sandwiches like the “redneck” roast beef with Jack Daniels barbeque sauce. Wash it all down with a one of their wonderful smoothies and frappes; or one of their creative cocktails named after Alfred Hitchcock films. For a fun and magical breakfast experience like no other in the world, take a journey to The Friendly Toast.
The Friendly Toast, Kendall Square, One Kendall Square, Cambridge, 617-621-1200.
http://www.thefriendlytoast.net/
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