I was last able to eat at Blue Rooster about ten years ago when I last lived in Maryland. I'm happy to report that over the last decade, Blue Rooster has continued to create delicious food in a comfortable setting and served by super friendly people. This place will always be one of my top "hidden treasures". The portions are huge and probably enough to share, but I'm a big pig and my eyes are bigger than my stomach. My kids want to make this a weekly tradition! read more

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Our last meal before we leave the Annapolis area after spending four days from Texas. I found this quaint little breakfast lunch place and once again Yelp had great comments so we had to try it. It's situated in a small strip center, in a quaint little town. It has a very warm feeling when you walk in and just about 10 tables that smell smells great from cooking in their coffee bar. The service is pretty good and they're all real friendly. We started with a latte and a cup of coffee and they're very reasonably priced and tasted great. I had the eggs Benedict and added a side of scrapple. I grew up in the north, but I've been away for 40 years and haven't had it since I was a kid. My wife ordered the three stack of pancakes. Let me caution you their big pancakes and she only ate one. My eggs Benedict were good, but not enough hollandaise and a hollandaise had dried a little bit by the time it came to me. The scrapple was really good just wasn't hot. I wish it would've been more hot when I got my order instead it was just lukewarm, but tasted great. She loved her pancakes and they tasted great. We would definitely come back here when we visit again. read more

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Good service, but I give up. Not everyone can eat black pepper, but they keep putting it on my eggs. Asking for no black pepper works *sometimes.* A shame, because other than that, nice place. Not going back. Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me three or more times. . . . read more

Conveniently located before you cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A cozy little shop that you can enjoy a quick breakfast or lunch before you start your day. The staff is very helpful and they have great coffee choices. read more

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I have gone to the Blue Rooster for years and it's always great. The perfect local breakfast spot

Great sandwich's and coffee. Delicious breakfasts as well. Highly recommend you stop by.

This was my first visit to Blue Rooster Cafe (although I used to love its sister restaurant, Soul). I just stopped in to wait for a friend who was having a PT session up the way. The coffee was great and the everything bagel was soft & fresh, with a big slab of cream cheese. The young woman at the register was very friendly. I wish it was just down the block from my house so I could go more often, but I'll be back! read more

Blue Rooster Cafe - Awesome Everything Bagel - Cafes Near Me - Annapolis, Maryland

In from out of town and was waiting for traffic to die down. Had an amazing breakfast, was treated to some fabulous service and would recommend you try this place asap. It's nice when you find a mom and pop shop that really knows what they are doing. Thank you !!! read more

Great shrimp and grits. Friendly staff. Got a great deal woth local deals so am grateful they support school fundraisers. Pistachio frappe and muffins were also awesome. read more

Bottom Line: Small, cute café serving all day breakfast, lunch and dinner. Blue Rooster Café is one of a handful of places to dine in in the Cape St. Claire area. This small cafe is super cute and serves delicious coffee and comforting food. I most recently popped in for lunch but found myself tempted with Blue Rooster's all day breakfast as did my husband. We both enjoyed our omelet and breakfast burritos. I'm not usually one for breakfast potatoes but I appreciate that Blue Rooster dusts theirs with Old Bay. The logistics at Blue Rooster is that you place your order at the counter and then you find a table. The staff will deliver food to the table. Drinks may be provided upon ordering or be brought to the table just depending on the preparation required and drink queue. On a busy rainy morning the staff was friendly. Parking was conveniently right out front. read more

What an amazing place, great food, friendly staff, family atmosphere. It is a popular local destination and rightfully so. I would highly recommend for a coffee date to a family outing. read more

One of our go to local spots! My son loves it! I often get breakfast to go and order it online and pick it up. The staff is great and it's a cute little restaurant! We have loved everything we have ever got. They also have always ice cream now which is amazing! read more

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Best shrimp and grits I've eaten in a restaurant. The coffee is brewed properly; coffee drinks are prepared carefully to order. The sammies are freshly made and satisfying. When going to the shore, I'll be getting off Route 50 and stopping in here for some sophisticated eats. read more

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Amazing! Local place with a flair!!! I got the peach French toast .. seriously the best French toast ever have had!!! My hubbie got a ham ( real ham) and egg on bagel and he said that was excellent!!! Coffee great and they have a variety of other stuff! Acia bowls etc. Another plus the ambience and cleanliness super and the staff were smiling and so friendly! Thanks Blue rooster! read more

The Benedict was amazing, the potatoes were perfect, and my coffee was delightful. Cute spot, friendly service, I will definitely go back when I'm in town again. read more

Great food for breakfast and lunch. Acai bowls and sandwiches with fries. Salads are awesome. Coffee and chai is also good. Love having good food without leaving Cape St Claire read more

My family and I stopped into the Blue Rooster Café for lunch the other day. What a wonderful place. The food is excellent , the ambience is great , very cozy and relaxing , very welcoming. The staff at the restaurant couldn't have been more helpful. Did I mention how great the food was? Absolutely wonderful !! We all order different things and not one of us was disappointed. I would highly recommend this wonderful restaurant read more

We've lived in the area for a while and never got around to visiting this restaurant. I'm glad we finally did. The Blue Rooster Café is very cute, the staff were friendly, and the food was great. We stopped in for a late breakfast and chose the steak & eggs, shrimp & grits, and the Works on a croissant. Everyone loved their dish! The dining area is nice and cozy and you seat yourself after ordering at the counter. There were several items on the menu that sounded great so we'll definitely be back. We also plan to purchase their coffee beans as the coffee was fantastic. Overall, a very good experience and I know that this will now become a regular stop for us. read more

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Fresh & tasty food in a fun little neighborhood shopping center! Everyone in our party of 7 enjoyed their meal- high marks for the Reuben sandwich, the French Toast Sticks & the BLT read more

Have lived in Cape for 25 out of 27 years of my life, and only experienced Blue Rooster when I started working here a year and a half ago. I regret living in Cape most of my life and never walking into this building before working here. The food is delicious (I'm a sweet breakfast kinda gal, so I'm partial to the cinnamon custard French toast, waffles, and pancakes, but the sammiches and platters are also to die for). 20/10 worth the stop. Also... Did I hear they are in the works for an expansion? Hmmmm ... read more

5 years ago I left a review for Blue Rooster and it wasn't glowing. The food was not great and even seemed pre-prepared. For at least the last 3 years, that all changed so much that I felt the need to leave another review. The food is fresh (or sourced locally fresh (bagels are from naval bagels for example)), and delicious. The only thing that I think is a frozen food item is the hash browns and I'm giving them a pass on that because it's those really good ones and I think they still cook them at the restaurant. The sandwiches in general are really good. The breakfast sandwiches (I recommend having them on the croissant) are very very good. My kids love the pancakes and waffles as well. Everything on the menu is well done. Those are just my picks (I have a hard time ordering new things when I really like something on a menu). My wife and kids have liked everything they've chosen as well over 40 or so visits over the last 2 years. My wife is gluten free and they have gluten free bread that's good! One of the things people don't really talk about is their coffee. It's not bitter coffee like a Starbucks. I drink it with just half and half and it's really smooth. If this place had a drive up, I don't think the coffee would stay a hidden gem. My single gripe about the place is that it's too small. On a weekend, the tables are full as they should be. People want good food and they have it, so they go. They've outgrown the space imo and I don't think they have room to expand on either side of them. It's not a reason not to go. Most people that go there know tables are in short supply and are courteous about eating and leaving so someone else can sit. So please go and enjoy, just know you might have to wait for a table while your food is cooking. And last but not least... The best thing about this place... The staff. Maybe I'm just an old guy, but the people that work here are so friendly. Ask a million questions and they smile and answer every one. Something wrong with the food, no problem. Another smile and they solve the issue. They're so nice to the kids with huge smiles for them each time as well. So at the end of the day, if you wrote this place off a few years ago, go back. They did a complete 180 in the food. No more packaged muffins or bagged bagels. They get gluten free desserts from the Eastern Shore (I'm forgetting the bakery name). Bagels from Naval Bagels. read more

1st time here - likely last time here too. The food was really good but the service and the large amount of flies that were very bothersome diminished the experience. The Cubano sandwich was very good. Very tasty and a large sandwich accompanied by Old Bay fries made for a very good lunch. Also tried the strawberry shortcake pancakes which tasted great! The service was absurd. The young man taking the order missed items as I ordered and then forgot to finalize them, leaving a missed item. Another employee came from the back to assist so maybe a new employee but pretty unbelievable considering there was no one else in line to order so should not have been overwhelmed. The flies. I noticed a couple of flies when I first walked in but it is a restaurant so not totally unusual. I washed hands in the bathroom and discovered I was surrounded by a large group of flies, even though there was a hanging, paper fly strip in the bathroom. Upon sitting down at a table, the flies attacked and didn't stop. Every bite of food was accompanied by numerous flies attempting to land on the food. There was no end to it. I would say there is an infestation. I would give the food 5 stars but the overall experience was a 3 due to the service and the flies. read more

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Passed by this little place and finally made it in. I'm glad. The food was tasty and the ambiance was quaint. We enjoyed a light lunch, just before closing. The staff didn't hurry and that resulted in two magnificent dishes. They also didn't rush us out! We only stayed a couple of minutes past closing. read more

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Management was extremely rude to my group. We were celebrating a wedding trying to get a quick coffee. We were laughing and talking and the manager came over and told us "you can either keep quiet or leave." Food was mediocre at best. Would not recommend coming here unless you're by yourself. read more

Tastes very good , and the Bloody Mary with perfect proportion of ingredients. Walk around afterwards to the grocery store read more

Staff was very friendly and great with kids. Music ambiance was great and not too loud and overwhelming. The food was delicious. I want to come back for the French toast and eggs Benedict. read more

Blue Rooster Cafe - Shrimp and grits - Cafes Near Me - Annapolis, Maryland

Staff was so friendly and helpful. The food was delicious and we LOVED their hand cut fresh French fries!!.. YUM!

Cute spot with excellent breakfast/lunch, ice creams, and espresso bar. Adorable vibe but small, and tables seem in the way. I wish it had a bit more space and in summer hours, some open mic nights read more

very tasty! stopped in here on the way to visit family in Virginia and our expectations were exceeded!! staff was knowledgeable and friendly and the environment was great! if we are in the area again we will definitely be stopping by!! read more

Blue Rooster Cafe - Breakfast Burrito Platter - Cafes Near Me - Annapolis, Maryland

Friendly service at this cozy cafe! Loved the spiced chai lemonade and hash browns with Old Bay. Definitely recommend the Blue Rooster as a breakfast spot before heading downtown. read more

7/1/2023 Ambience: this place fits the quintessential small town feel. However, the decor is lackluster as no indication of "blue or rooster" in its reflection. To maximize seating, the design should have one long banquette on one side of the room with tables of twos. The middle area of the room should have 5-8 tables of fours. The counter/cashier area should be moved to where the merchandise area is (in the back). You don't need to sell merchandise if your foods are great. It's a waste of financial inventory and a waste of space. But if you insist on selling merchandise, just set up a small table and sell only mugs (for tea and coffee). Next to that, set up a small tea area, rather than place it in the front near the door. The other side of the room should allow a flow for people to line up and place their orders and/or retrieve online orders or orders to go. This side area also creates a flow when consumers need to use the restroom. I'm in the schools of Robert Irvine and Gordon Ramsey, organized flow of space, whereas, my husband's opinion differs and says the place is fine as he prefers "organized chaos". Tea set up area needs to be tidier and salt/pepper/condiments on our tables needed cleaning (minus 1 star for the uncleanliness, not the decor). Service: young, hard working staff. Very attentive and courteous. It was semi busy when we were there. The place was somewhat filled and we didn't have to wait too long to get our foods (plus 1 star). Foods: we ordered the Hangover Benny ($16), the Three Egg Omelette ($12), and two teas ($4) = $32. Hangover Benny- poached eggs are tricky to do, but here, it's done right - runny and gooey, yummy! Grilled steak - mine was ordered medium rare. It should have been left to sit a few minutes before serving so the blood stops dripping. But, it's the chance we take when ordering steaks rare or medium rare. Lastly, I was expecting home made hash browns, not store bought frozen ones I would not have minded the frozen ones either if this place didn't advertised as locally sourced. Three Egg Omelette- came with a choice of meat, cheddar, onions, peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes with home fries. Well made omelette. Our choice of meat was scrapple. Ours came with not much scrapples in it. Y'all know how we Southern Marylanders love our scrapples! So, we are gonna have to ding you heavily on that one! Home fries, not much flavors, bland (minus 1 star) for foods overall). Now, the pet peeve - let me preface it with this: my husband, in his heart of heart, believes we are white collar folks. He doesn't go over the the checks before or after paying the bills. He simply just pays it. I'm in the school of us being blue collar folks, working hard, bones aching like blue collar folks. I check the bills. This is to say that he had paid the bill up front before we ate. I didn't get to see the bill receipt until we got home. Now, the real pet peeve- our bill came to a total of $33 (for the food only), not $32. I had noticed there was a $0.25 charge to the onions, $0.25 charge to the green peppers, $0.25 charge to the mushrooms, $0.25 charge to the tomatoes (separate from the omelette). Being blue collar folks myself, I definitely understand that times are hard and inflation is real, but at least give us the courtesy and option to choose whether we should pay for the extras in our omelette as this was NOT explained to us up front (when we placed our order) nor was this indicated on the menu. First, the low balling scrapples, and now the hidden fees! AND, there's a $0.96 charge of processing credit card fee. The world has gone mad! This is not about being cheap, I just don't like HIDDEN FEES. Plain and simple (minus 2 stars). My husband doesn't mind returning to this establishment. I'm on the fence. He may persuade me to return as we are always rooting for the small moms and pops places. read more

We came here on Friday for lunch by luck because the place we intended to go was closed. Boy was luck on our side. I had a delicious ham and Brie grilled cheese sandwich with raspberry jam. Hubby got the Reuben. Super, super tasty. Nice little side salad to go with both. It was so good we came back this morning for breakfast. Hubby got the bagels and lox on an everything bagel. Ate it all. Said the bagel was especially good. I got the cinnamon French toast. Perfection. Crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Served over peaches and blueberries. No need for syrup. Hubby had a bite and declared it money. This from a man that doesn't really like sweets, especially breakfast sweets. Fantastic coffee as well. We will be coming back even though it's about a 25 min drive. So many options for breakfast and lunch. Plus wine and beer. And not crappy beer but good local craft stuff like Burley Oak and RAR and Union. I guess it's good for my waist this place isn't in walking distance. read more

Good food and staff. Would give 5 stars but having a minimum of 18% pop up as a tip choice is a bit high given people are simply handing you food (to go orders). read more

I ordered scrambled eggs and they gave me one big piece of egg the size of an omelette shell, it was overcooked and i also ordered turkey as a side and it was over fried. I returned my meal then ordered an omelette, which was better but I didn't want the home fries, because they were overcooked too, so i opted to get the fruit as a side and they charged me $1.50 for what was the size of a dipping sauce cup. Overall overpriced and not very appetizing. Will not return. read more

Blue Rooster Cafe - Small cup of fruit $1.50 - Cafes Near Me - Annapolis, Maryland

This place has a very cool vibe! My first time in but let me tell ya let me tell ya....their beignets are super legit! And the coffee is great too. Haven't quite got to my meal yet. Cafe du Monde's cousin or something...lol read more

The place is cute. They nailed that. But my iced mocha? I was disappointed there. They've got loads of great reviews so maybe mine was the fluke but I drove away unimpressed. read more

Good little quaint spot in Cape. Don't expect much and you will be pleased. Service is young sooo. But food is good!

Great food, amazing service! The Chicken Pesto Sandwich is delicious TRY IT! The moment you enter you're treated like family.

This place always has a wonderful atmosphere. People are either catching up after a long weekend or after not a seeing each other in a long time. The cofffee is great and they explore past the basic breakfast and put together a better than average Mexican breakfast. Enjoy! read more

Great neighborhood spot! They have really good food at great prices and the staff is always very friendly. Once the kitchen closes at 4 PM, I enjoy walking to the café to grab a coffee. I've gotten chai teas, peppermint, caramel, and mocha lattes and never been disappointed. read more