Tory Hill Cafe

The best description is breakfast like its the first time you or your child had ever tried to make breakfast… and you didn’t have anything fresh — everything was out of a can & sort of brownish.
Service is good.
You can’t really screw up breakfast too badly anyway but don’t expect to be pleasantly surprised by anything. The silver wear is paper thin stamped sheet metal and the tops of every community bottle are crusty & filthy.
There is really no excuse for using canned vegetables anymore and not cleaning anything, except not giving a s**t.
A fair to middlin’ breakfast in the year 1971

This place is great! Food is all made in house (as far as I know). They have a broad selection and special requests seem to be no problem. Fresh food, friendly staff… a great place to sit with the locals (I am one). Stop in for a great meal.

Great place, off the beaten path. We love it. Amybeth Hurst, Portland, ME

I’ve been several times over the past year for breakfast with friends, once for lunch. Breakfast is served all day, and it’s reliably good food with interesting egg selections, homemade bread for toast. Eggs Benedict is always done perfectly, hard to achieve. The fish chowder at lunch was excellent, not thickened with flour, lots of fish. The waitstaff is always always pleasant and helpful. The atmosphere is local diner. We’re lucky to have it nearby.

At the time there were no fresh blueberries. But we loved our breakfast.

I don’t know why, but if a road sign in Maine says you’re going north, it means: you are going west; you are going south; you really are going north. Maybe. About the only direction it won’t say is East. Don’t ask me why. So, if you travel out of Portland heading north on Congress Street (Route 22, north) you will travel many miles in a west-​southwest direction, wherein you will turn to the northwest — for about 5 miles — and dead end into another route. So it was during one of these futile peregrinations that I stumbled across the Tory Hill Café, and I’m glad I did.
Now, bear firmly in mind, that this is a small-​town eatery. This is not a city restaurant. It’s small, neat, even cozy in that special way that New England towns are. The folks are friendly, the service prompt and attentive, the menu interesting for its combinations and the specials on the board are both intriguing and reasonably priced.
So what’s not to like?
The coffee came quickly: The refills without asking. I ordered one of the specials — Beef Tips with gravy, mashed potatoes and green beans with garlic bread. Got to tell ya, the beef was both RARE and tender, something you don’t usually find. The potatoes were home made and good (although I still don’t like the shape of getting them served from an ice cream scoop). The string beans were from a can. So, they tasted like they came from a can. Not bad. Just not good. But, remember, this is a small town diner — for the locals — and the price reflects it. Where can you get succulent beef tips with all the trimmings for 8-​bucks and change?
I didn’t stay for dessert. I still needed to figure-​out where I was and how to get to where I was supposed to be, and how to get there, but I will be back again. All in all, if you are in the area and hungry, you can’t do much better IF you remember that it is a local place for plain home cooking at a very nice price.