From its austere beginnings a few years ago, Lemon Press has evolved into a lovely full-service restaurant. While maintaining its organic identity (even though “organic” is a marketing term), they have developed a menu containing some beautiful and delicious recipes. Lemon Press is at 41 Main Street, in the spot formerly occupied by Arno’s. They open each day at 8am for takeout and sit-down service, and close at 3pm (2pm on Sundays). They reopen for dinner at 5:30pm on Wednesday through Sunday.
We stopping in for breakfast, and ordered coffee, tea, pancakes for one of us and eggs over easy for the other. Imagine our surprise to see that Lemon Press is one of the few restaurants in the US to bring you tea in an actual teapot, with the hot water already steeping the teabag!
What started out in our minds to be just pancakes, turned into a lovely dish of Rose water Hotcakes ($15) with whipped cream, farm berries, candied sesame seeds and cardamom syrup. You can see the two sausage patties ($5) in the background. This was a delightful presentation and utterly delicious.
Likewise, the eggs over easy and toast turned into 2 eggs, bacon, breakfast potatoes, micro salad and whole wheat toast (butter provided) for just $15.
We noted that there is a pepper shaker on each table, but no salt or sugar. They did bring sugar for our tea, and probably would have brought salt if we’d needed it. Service was simply excellent.
The bill with tax but before tip was $43.34, and we couldn’t have been more impressed.
