Forget the 60-degree eggs and rarefied plates of potato hash (aka home-fries) and strut instead into a place like Stone’s Café and Bakery, a happy-go-lucky breakfast and lunch joint that’s held its own for years along Route 115 in North Yarmouth.

I went there this morning just in the mood for a stick-to-the ribs sort of Sunday breakfast.  The place was packed, and I got one of the few empty stools at the counter.  The two blackboard specials were biscuits and sausage gravy with eggs and home-fries or baked beans with eggs, home-fries and toast.

Black specials including drinks and desserts

I’ve had their baked beans before, and they were fantastic: thick, beany, just sweet enough but still a savory stew.

The waitress serving me was a young college student who helped me decide which special to order.  “If you love biscuits—ours are homemade–I’d go for sausage gravy over biscuits,” she advised.

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