Honeycomb Cafe

Honeycomb Cafe is a coffee shop in Scarborough, Maine. It serves donuts, drinks, sandwiches, muffins, bagels, salads, soups, smoothies, cinnamon rolls and French toast, with breakfast and lunch menus that include meat-lover, vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options. Sandwiches come on homemade biscuits, focaccia, English muffins, croissants, bagels or wraps, with choices such as vegan eggs, extra egg, hashbrown and homemade donuts. Named sandwiches include the Casco Bay, with mushrooms, caramelized onions and goat cheese; the Breakfast Burrito, with roasted potatoes, avocado, peppers, onions, cilantro-lime sour cream, cheddar and pickled jalapenos; the Tuscan Turkey; the Garden Sprout; the Little Bird; the Habanero Ham; the Salty Sue; the Pine Point, with housemade corned beef and fresh herbed hollandaise; and the Figgy Piggy. The cafe also offers stuffed French toast, a buttermilk pancake short stack and a Veganrito. It holds a rating of 4.70.

The kitchen makes its food fresh daily, and the menu accommodates vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and meat-lover diets alike. Honeycomb Cafe uses carbon neutral coffee and compostable cups, and it supports its community through efforts such as a Pride donut whose proceeds go to a local organization. Merchandise, including hoodies and t-shirts, is designed by an in-house baker. Weekly specials have included strawberry rhubarb French toast, a French toast bake of bread pudding with cheesecake filling topped with warm baked apples and streusel, a mocha with raspberry cold foam and chocolate shavings, and bananas foster stuffed French toast with mascarpone and caramel sauce. The Portland Press Herald praised the creative breakfast sandwich options, and customers have called it one of the best breakfast and lunch spots in Southern Maine.

The cafe sits on Pleasant Hill Rd, about 0.3 miles from Borrow Pit and 0.6 miles from the Pleasant Hill neighborhood and the Scarborough Fire Department Pleasant Hill Station. Pleasant Hill Primary School is about 0.7 miles away, Pleasant Hill Disc Golf about 0.8 miles, and Wainwright Recreation Complex about 0.9 miles.

Honeycomb Cafe has earned a positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it, and its breakfast and lunch menu has drawn notice across Southern Maine.