Cove Cafe

Love the ambiance! Cute, cozy and comfortable! Love it’s «small town» vibe ! Their french toast and waffles are my favorites.

Cannot say enough about this place. Cozy cottage-​like café with the best blueberry pancakes on the planet. I’ve been coming here for years every October when I visit Ogunquit. Always high quality excellent food. Delicious coffee. Go early to get a table. Close to the Marginal Way walkway. My son loved his omelet and said it was much better than a similar omelet he got at a more popular Ogunquit breakfast eatery.

Friendly, clean, great breakfast. Very small inside. Must be comfortable in tight quarters. Great cup of coffee and nice tea selection. Closes early 11 or 12 depending on the mood I think. Lol

tasty, but next time i would opt for crabcakes vs. crab meat, asparagus & cheddar omelette. very friendly staff, quick service. sentimentally adore this place. cleaned our plates in my dad’s honor. it was his hands-​down favorite. he would go for his first breakfast of the morning as soon as they were open, while waiting for the rest of us to get our acts together. then he’d have his second breakfast when everyone was ready. miss you dad…

Year after year we head to Ogunquit and we always look forward to having breakfast at the Cove Café so we can indulge in the Amazing Blueberry Waffles with mascarpone Heaven!!! This is by far the BEST breakfast place! We look forward to it and it never lets us down. Excellent again Sept 2015
Kudo’s to the cook

Was recommended by a local on his favorite breakfast spot and he couldn’t have been more right!!! Fantastic food with great service and very little wait time, loved the breakfast sundae along with the tasty hash omelette!!! Will go back for sure :-)

As far as vacation breakfast places go, this page is among the best! It’s a quaintly charming little place with fantastic omelets. Try the oatmeal molasses toast, yum.

this breakfast was phenomenal! just as good as one of the more famous breakfast joints around here.
it’s not cheap though — $ 40 (without tip) for a crab/​spinach/​bacon/​cheddar omelette with potatoes and toast, a strawberry/​blueberry/​banana/​pecan waffle with excellent whipped cream and a side of maine maple syrup, a side of ham, and 3 coffees.
staff was normal friendly, and there was no wait for a table :)

Excellent breakfast, perfect portions, quality instead of quantity! We had the eggs benedict, and the lobster benedict, came with a small side of potatoes. It was cooked perfectly and the lobster was sweet and meaty.

We have been to Ogunquit many, many, many times. We don’t live very far away and due to living in a tourist town, we don’t usually get to go out and be tourists until Spring or Fall. There is no parking and you’re paying such close attention to the oncoming cars and people walking on a semi-​narrow road that bends, you can easily miss this gem. From the outside, it looked like a place no one knew about. You open the door and it’s packed! How did I not know about this place before?! While it is small and in close quarters, they have the tables strategically placed that once you sit down, you don’t feel crammed in. Love the set up. It must be a local favorite! The service and the food was EXCELLENT! The blueberry syrup is soooo good! My husband loved his omelet and the homefries were delicious. I don’t like potatoes and even I liked them. That says A LOT! The fresh, grilled (homemade) blueberry muffin and BLT were FANTASTIC. I can’t wait to go back!

Wow breakfast only and what a treat.
Crab cakes, scrambled eggs and home fries.
Service and food were very good.
NOT your typical overpriced Perkins Cove faire.
Go there!

Good, if average breakfast. Hash didn’t have tons of flavor but was fresh and clearly house made, which we appreciated. Homefries were seasoned well but a bit dry. Staff was very very friendly and attentive.

Best omelet of the trip. Dad had the pancakes and concurs — best breakfast around.

Previous reviewers are right: family-​run Cove Café has the best breakfast in Ogunquit. Located in a cute little house just outside Perkins Cove, this breakfast joint is friendly, quaint, and serious about grub.
They whip up an amazing array of omelets, breakfast sandwiches, waffles, pancakes, and more. In a town where most establishments make enough money by feeding rubbery eggs to clueless tourists looking to pass the time until their lobster dinner, Cove Café treats breakfast with the respect it deserves. The quality of the food was superb. The bacon, eggs, and waffles were excellent, providing just the right amount of fatty deliciousness to kick start your beach morning, and the home fries were seasoned to perfection (a lost art among short order cooks).
The little kitchen is overseen by Jeb the paterfamilias, who incidentally looks like he might spend the winter teaching 19^th century English literature at the University of Southern Maine. While you wait for your waffle with fresh berries, walnuts, vanilla butter, and His Majesty Real Maine Maple Syrup, you can read the epic Dufresne family newsletter on the back of the breakfast menu and get intimately acquainted with their professional accomplishments, athletic exploits, hobbies, children, friends, and pets. Sadly, though, they do not specify whether they have an ancestor who made a legendary jailbreak from a Maine prison in the 1960s.

#1: they let me take my coffee in… Two thumbs up on that alone! Family owned business, food was excellent, service was great! Small but cozy about eight tables and some barstools. Check this place out next time in Ogunquit! Blueberry muffins and pancakes were excellent…

After reading the good reviews we gave this place a go. It certainly wasn’t bad but 2 orders of french toast, bacon and eggs and a side of sausage was a fifty dollar bill with the tip.
The service was good and there was nothing wrong with the food. I should have asked because I didn’t see it but they don’t appear to have a children’s menu and even if they did, the waitress didn’t let on when we ordered the $ 9 french toast for our daughter. What is the sense in bringing a six year old kid 3 thick slices of toast, covered in half a pint of berries with at least a cup of whipped cream. Everywhere you go in this area there are brochures about feeding the hungry. But yet like most restaurants they have no problem wasting copious amounts of food. A $ 4 single piece of french toast is all a kid needs.
If you have a fat wallet this place would be FANTASTIC for breakfast.

A perfect breakfast. I had the special Belgian waffle with bananas, strawberries and blueberries with marscapone on top. Absolutely perfect. So much so I went back again and had it again. It was better the second time! We are going there again tomorrow and every morning on our vacation. I don’t need to try somewhere else when I find exactly what I want.

I was in town for the weekend and heard rave reviews about this quaint little restaurant. The food was absolutely delicious and the wait staff was great. The crab cakes and blue berry pancakes were the best I’ve ever had. It was a great experience!

Our favorite breakfast place, and the line running out the door speaks for itself. Great menu selections, and the coffee’s very good. I particularly love the lobster omelet; my husband most recently enjoyed the Fisherman’s Breakfast (ironic name!). Service is friendly and fairly attentive. Charming. clean décor. Another place to sit by an open window, and people watch :) Recommend.

This place is awesome!
It looks like it’s family run, but not sure. Everybody was so in sync with each other.
The food is DELICIOUS!
The oatmeal molasses toast is unique and SO SO good.
The blueberry pancakes divine.
We both had omelets and both ate everything on our plate!!!
VERY crowded, but a well oiled machine.