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    The Optimist Cafe

    4.7 (26 reviews)
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    Dogs allowed
    Outdoor seating

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    Menu - breakfast all day

    Service and staff are friendly and efficient. We had breakfast sandwiches and coffee. Not that the house mustard is spicy!

    Standard breakfast sandwich on plain bagel
    Logan D.

    Pros: -Lots of baked goods to choose from! -Very tasty bacon -Nice view of the hills and trees

    Dirty Chai & a scone - both delicious!
    Katarina L.

    Incredibly cute cafe tucked right by a little antique shop and farmer's market. I had a few hours to kill before a wedding so I took a drive looking for a place eerily similar to this. Basically I just wanted good coffee and something sweet. The antique shop next door was just a bonus. Ordered an oat dirty chai latte and a raspberry almond scone and took them right out to the patio to enjoy. They have a bunch of tables out there and it was so nice to relax, read and sip in the sun. After the crowd thinned a bit I moved over to one of the seats with a footrest and got dangerously close to falling asleep out there. The latte was fantastic, just right amount of chai. And the scone?! Perfect, not too dry. Loved every single thing about this little cafe. Definitely recommend a visit!

    Gazpacho soup.
    Steven Jon K.

    This place is a real gem with a wide variety of pastries, breakfast, and lunch choices. Everything is made fresh and you can meet a lot of the local residents. There is an outdoor patio with an excellent panoramic view of the valley below and the mountains in the distance which some artists use for painting. The gazpacho soup is my favorite item.

    Entrance to heavenly bagel sandwiches.
    Tracy S.

    This new business is owned by seasoned (heh) professional Chef Keith. He makes the bagels every morning himself, and they are amazing! Folks who used to go to his prior gig in Peterborough will recognize the signature baked goods and sandwiches on the menu. Keith's added a bunch of new items as well, and the new layout includes both indoor and outdoor seating. I highly recommend anything with the house mustard. I'd drink that stuff straight from a container, it's so tasty.

    The cafe is on the right and is attached to an indoor New England Goods shopping "consortium".
    Kim M.

    What a gem! The owner is super friendly and he really appreciates his customers. Everything is baked fresh, including the bagels. Others in my group ordered pastries that were just finishing up in the oven - the owner brought them to us outside while we were enjoying the view. I enjoyed a breakfast bagel sandwich - you get to choose from 5 or 6 fresh baked bagel choices.

    Delicious
    Cory C.

    Out in the area for the first time this season and came across this new cute breakfast joint. Chatted with the owner and encouraged him to claim his Yelp page We ordered the Egg & Cheese on Everything and the Egg, Cheese, & Steak on Sriarcha Maple. Both were delicious and the previous reviewer wasn't kidding about the mustard, it's great. Pleased to see alternative milk options (Oat and Almond) and Oregon Chai (my dirty Chai was delicious!). Bagels are light and fluffy. Oh so good. Beautiful patio with a killer view and right next to the farm stand and NH shop. Highly recommend!

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    This place was great. They have a fluffernutter latte and so many incredible food options. Wish it was closer so I could go more

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    Best breakfast place in the area. Clean and comfortable. Food is excellent. Always busy and reasonably proces

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    Super friendly and wonderful unique choices of food. Warm and inviting and the owner thanked us for coming! Don't see that much anymore.

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    Great coffee, friendly service, comfortable. We will definitely return here. Try the almond croissant with your cappuccino.

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    Kimball Farm - Clam strips and onion rings.  Thats the half pint size.

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    So I've wanted to go here for awhile but we just never had the chance. Today my daughter and I…read moredecided to take a ride and have lunch. Its always busy here but tje line moved fairly quickly. You order at a window and they call out your number when the food is ready. We meant to order two clam strip dinners bit we somehow ordered two half pints of clams. We also ordered onion rings. After we received the food we went back and ordered the fries. I was slightly bummed because I really wanted to try the coleslaw. They have a nice seating area inside and they have seating outside as well. There is also a nice gift shop and restrooms. The portion size was really big and the clams cooked perfectly! The onion rings were so good! Fries were edible but not great. I wish they had hand cut fresh fries but they dont. Next time I come i think I'll try the haddock. Also right next to the food is ice cream! We ordered two thick frappe and they are THICK! We will be back!

    Absolutely amazing! Beautiful location. Inside and great outdoor seating. Takes credit cards…read more Plenty of parking space even for large campers. We shared the fisherman's platter and had left overs. It had 2 large pieces of fish, a ton of scallops, shrimp, and clams, fries and coleslaw. Batter is light and fresh so whoever said they refry in the oil is foolish. We then had ice cream. A mini is still a ton of ice cream. Overall, we had an amazing experience and would travel back again as it was 90 minutes away but worth it.

    The Optimist Cafe - bakeries - Updated May 2026

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