So thankful for Yelp in times like these! Found Sylvia's while browsing Yelp on our vacation to Acadia! What a perfect stop for delicious and inexpensive food! The diner is in a strip mall with plenty of parking. We walked in and sat ourselves and were immediately asked our beverage order. Unfortunately, they were out of crab so we couldn't get the crab roll but that didn't mean the rest of our food wasn't scrumptious! Hand carved meat, hand battered onion rings, and plentiful serving sizes had me full at the end of my meal! This is a must stop for anyone traveling to the area! read more

Sylvia's Cafe - Haddock Sandwich with Hand-Cut Fries - Diners Near Me - Ellsworth, Maine

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Nice breakfast joint. Friendly staff and good food and service. Cornbeef was very good

Quint essential hometown cafe. Americana is well represented at Sylvia's. Enjoyed a great breakfast and some good old fashioned home cooking. read more

Sylvia's café has the best breakfast I've ever had! They have homemade baked beans and homemade bread. Breakfast are to die for love, this place! read more

Great service, great omelettes, good coffee and lots of local color. The home fries were real from potatoes and the OJ was tasty.

Nope! Hard pass on the service Should've looked at it better before we tried it Xxxxxxxx. read more

Came here and sign says "not open for the whole week."Sucks! Drive 20 mikes to eat here. I guess this is business in Maine. Will look someplace else and move on. read more

Excellent food, staff and prices. Highly recommend. They have a wide selection of food, all home cooked,

Wow this place was just what I was looking for with my mom at the end of our trip! Coffee was fantastic, I had french toast with berries and syrup and it was so delicious. Fast, friendly service can't be beat. read more

First time here. Visiting from Texas. Had an amazing loaded omelette with home fries and blueberry muffin. Sweet little café Beth was our waitress she did a great job! If I lived in this area I would come to this little café every day. read more

Sylvia's Cafe - Loaded omelette blueberry muffin and home fries - Diners Near Me - Ellsworth, Maine

A must stop for breakfast after leaving Mount Desert Island. Do yourself a favor and get the crab omelette. Great service and one of the best breakfasts you'll ever have. read more

Sylvia's Cafe - BEST CRAB OMELETTE EVER - Diners Near Me - Ellsworth, Maine

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Great place. Several days in this area visiting Acadia np. We ate breakfast here three times and was very pleased each time. Great service in a clean comfortable homey setting. Family ran and waitresses I bet are long timers.... Super Capable efficient thorough at their job with just enough friendliness without being bothersome Food is out quick even when busy. We were a pretty early but they can have a line form as morning progresses. People cleaned their plates or asked for take out containers if unable to finish. I know I finished my scrambler plate later one morning and even cold it was tasty. Well worth hunting this gem down at the mill mall.... read more

Simple, homemade breakfast. The wild blueberry pancakes were light, fluffy and full of fresh blueberries. Great food at a great price. Highly recommended read more

Yummy!! I had an excellent turkey-only Monte Cristo, and my husband had a cheese steak omelet, which was overflowing with meat and veggies. The service was friendly, though the food took a while, like 25 minutes. We liked this place, though!! read more

Nice cafe! Our waitress was attentive and friendly. The breakfast as awesome! (Wonderful blueberry pancakes). Nice and clean.

We were looking for a perfect breakfast and Sylvia's did not disappoint. Perfectly cooked eggs and omelet- French Toast was light and fluffy. Biscuits and gravy reminded me of my Mother's. It was a bit of a drive from our campground but we'll worth every mile. read more

Amazing, friendly service and delicious fresh food. Baked goods were amazing, corned beef hash is home made, eggs perfectly cooked. Even the toast was good! Breakfast combos include coffee. Just a great all-around experience. read more

First time customer and will definitely be back in the future I love the laid back vibes in here Our food was really good and our server Beth was great! read more

Inside mostly locals, a few tourists like us leaving town. Crab omelet was great. Biscuits and gravy were good - exactly what I expected in a good way. Pancakes were good. Fruit on the side had sugar on it - reminder to ask for plain next time. Our waitress was wanting - tired and unfriendly, and also forgetful. Would come again for a convenient breakfast coming from/going to Acadia. read more

What a great breakfast this morning at Sylvia's Cafe in the mini mall !! Great food, great service and plenty of parking especially for the those who are traveling and pulling or driving big rigs !! Don't miss a visit here when you are in the area!! read more

We four had breakfast at one of their four outdoor picnic tables. Service was great and fast. Lots of people coming do "to go." Hash really is home made and delicious. Stuffed French toast was soooo gooood. Tasty omelet all with large complimentary coffee. Not greasy!!! Great place. Add a fancy plate and a chi chi garnish you could be at a NY hotel. We'll return whenever we can. read more

Many staff members were not wearing masks. Tables felt too close together to be socially distanced. Service was extremely slow despite it not being very busy. With all of the high reviews, I was expecting much better. Pretty disappointed. read more

Stopped by here once on the way to Acadia National Park. I ordered the oven roasted turkey sandwich with a side of chips to go. The sandwich was pretty good, very heavy on the turkey. The staff was very friendly and accomodating. read more

Great food, quick friendly service. A great breakfast place with plenty of food choices. The blueberry stuffed French toast was crisp and tasty, not too sweet. Portions are great, some items like French toast, pancakes and eggs you can choose how many you want and all with a mound of home fries on our plates . We have visited on each of our trips to this area and are never disappointed. read more

Biscuits and gravy were wonderful. My wife got a Belgian waffle but it didn't have strawberries or wiped cream guess you have to ask for it.

Great local place. Lots of local people here both mornings we were there. Breakfast was well cooked and definitely filling. read more

Sylvia's Cafe - Placemat. - Diners Near Me - Ellsworth, Maine

This place is a hidden gem. We come here every year when we visit bar harbor for breakfast and it is by far the best breakfast we have ever had. They cook their egg dishes perfectly and the staff is always more than friendly. Highly recommend! read more

On reflection, I think it a 3.5 star place. For lunch the other day we had iced tea, we came back for breakfast and the coffee was just ok My wife had a monticristo which was nice but my corned beef hash was average Hence the down grade read more

Breakfast is really good. I ordered corned beef hash, which appears to be made in house. I would have left a better review if the service was better. Our waitress wasn't very attentive, and we feel like she forgot about us read more

Standard diner fare. Nothing fancy. My blueberry French toast was a bit bland and the blueberry topping was ice cold. Someone else had the homemade sausage gravy and biscuits which was very good. Belgian waffle was soggy. Dishes seemed hot or miss and coffee was just okay. read more

We stopped by at this place on our way out from Acadia. This diner in a strip mall is a gem! A perfect cozy place for a quick bite. We were seated right away. Our server was polite, friendly and very welcoming. We had meatlovers omelet, camp cakes with Kiełbasa and a side of corn beef hash. Everything we ordered was really tasty. Loved their meatlovers omelet. I would say their camp cakes are a must try, a different take on regular pancakes. If you go in on a weekend or a holiday they can be very busy and it might take a little longer to get the food. If you are a big group it could take some time to get seated based on what time of the day or week you go there. Overall we had a great experience. Will definitely stop by this place next time we are in the area. read more

You guys. $7.99 lobster roll. WUUUUUTTTTTTTT??? This cute little diner gets infinite plus points for $7.99 lobster roll, and their willingness to accommodate special requests. Want your lobster with light mayo? Done. Want it on a whole wheat roll instead of the New England split bun? Done. Super nice service, good food (hearty chunks of lobster in the roll - not shredded, great curly fries!), and - one more time: SEVEN NINETY-NINE LOBSTER ROLL! read more

Food is diner food. Best breakfast in town. Their monte christo sammich is made with what I assume to be actual roasted turkey, crisped Canadian ham and shredded Swiss cheese rather than cheap coldcuts. French toast bread cut a little on the thin side. Biscuits here are more like corn bread consistency then real biscuits, sausage gravy just okay. Corned beef hash is homemade with onions and definitely worth the $5 for a small side. Reuben's are solid though light on the meat. Go there! Seriously best spot. But stick to breakfast. But I had a botched encounter with their end of day staff when restaurant was empty after a busy Saturday cleared out. Not the end of the world but I ordered a chefs salad, spinach instead of iceberg, w blue cheese dressing. (Standard salad bar quality, but decent and satisfying none the less.) Instead I got an iceberg salad with a small side of spinach seconds later with an apology of the server. Then they switched out the spinach and iceberg at my request, brought me more spinach at my request bc the toppings to greens ratio was straight up ratched, ebur ach time I had to wait to get her attention or get checked on as she was busy with closing sidework. Then, after I had poured an entire cup of what turned out to be *ranch* dressing all over the salad. So I sent it back, server dumped it, came back and said something insinuate it wasn't ranch but actually blue cheese. Listen, maybe they're the same color and consistency but I know the difference a MILE AWAY and you should too. Ranch is nasty and should only be consumed while drunkenly housing buffalo wings and pizza crusts. Even then, if you're not down with blue cheese IDFWU. Also what's up with people using iceberg for salads still? But listen lady, even if you have to pop open a lid or sniff test that shit. If someone orders a premade side of condiment and it turns out to be the wrong thing, no harm no foul. But once you've deposited dressing and tossed an entire bowl of salad, there's no going back. Anyway she offered me something else but after all that uncomfortable back and forth my dining companion had already finished his meal and I had been picking at his. I have served for years. At over a dozen restaurants, a diner once, four star cloth napkin and table cloth recite-specials-from-memory fine dining in big cities, and high volume outdoor seasonal spots grossing a hundred grand of sales in one revenue day. Also shitty dives. I've served the pants off people and I've made my fair share of mistakes, I've experienced mistakes, hell one is bound to if one has eaten out their whole life. Everyone has a bad day, we all fuck up sometimes, but at least be real. But that wasn't a fuck up, it was a series of unfortunate events, a comedy of errors. Also I don't get when places that have soda fountains or bars that have guns and charge you the soda price for seltzer. It's just water. With a tiny bit of co2 gas. And ice. Costs maybe 3 cents to make, takes no labor to "make" nor is more time consuming than pouring a regular water. read more

This is your classic diner with cracked black plastic seats, swiveling stools at the bar and built up dirt in the edges of the linoleum floor. If I were a local I think everyone would have known me by name. We went for breakfast on a cold weekday morning. The restaurant was half-filled. We were greeted with a smile. We both went for omelets. I had a ham broccoli and cheese, with toast and home fries that I added peppers and onions to. I'm glad I added the peppers and onions because even with them the home fries could have used a bit more flavor. The toast, made from homemade bread, was great. My omelet had plenty of fillings and there were big chunks of real ham, not deli ham. The coffee was adequate, but I am tough with coffee. I prefer a richer, bolder roast and this wasn't that. Overall it was a solid breakfast and a decent option. read more

Just ate there, today labor day 2020. When we arrived we were greeted kindly by the hostess, who gave us our wait time. When we sat down the bus boy set up our table and was nice. Our server was an older lady with short curly hair. She took our order in a bit of a rush. I went to ask her a question and she responded with an attitude. When she brought our orange juice she slammed it on the table and spilled some on our utensils and napkins and sprinkled any that spilled on her hand on our table. She slammed the coffee on the table, and threw the creamer and sugar at our table. I saw her interact with other guests in a friendly manner, taking time to answer their questions and discuss the options. When we interacted with her she was very abrupt and curt, and rolled her eyes. She gave me attitude when I finally asked for napkins to clean up the spilled orange juice and utensils. We got the meatloaves omelette, which was good, and stuffed french toast with blueberries, which was bland. I don't know why she was so rude to us in particular. The only difference I saw with us and the other patrons was that we were the only ones that were not white. If you decide to go here and are a person of color, maybe keep this in mind. I ask the restaurant to please treat all your patrons kindly, even if they look different from you. read more

Oh my, what an experience. We stopped for breakfast on our way home. The food was delicious and inexpensive. The highlight of our visit would have to be Dad taking the food-eating challenge - The Hibernator Challenge. He was not able to finish but he and the boys had a great time trying! read more

Love the crab omelet. also the wall of hot sauce is a great feature. read more

Sylvia's Cafe - Sylvia wall of sauce. - Diners Near Me - Ellsworth, Maine

This is a jewel! Great breakfast an none of the three of us could finish our breakfast as it was huge. I wish we had more time to try this place again, but we have to move on today. read more

We were looking for breakfast on our way back from Bar Harbor and found this place here on Yelp, located in a strip plaza/mall. We came on Labor Day and it was PACKED. We only waited a few minutes for a table but soon after we were seated a line formed outside. Prices and portion size are good. We waited awhile for our food to come, longer than a usual wait, even though it was busy, and we were starving. The wait staff worked really hard though and they were running around getting orders, filling coffee mugs, and clearing tables the whole time. Food was standard breakfast fare. Would return again if in the area. read more

Sylvia's Cafe - #4. 2 eggs, bacon, home fries and toast (and coffee). Yum. - Diners Near Me - Ellsworth, Maine

Very good food! We were visiting and the place was packed. After a long wait we ordered club sandwiches. Real carved turkey and whole potato fries and hot. Delicious. If their is a own side they need more wait staff, but nobody seemed like in a rush. read more