The Painted Baker Cafe — Restaurant in Putnam

I haven't been to a restaurant in 5 years now, and I'm glad that my first outing in that long was to this place.

The food was phenomenal, I got a bacon, egg, and cheese on an everything bagel and a side of hashbrowns. With just some water to drink.

My go-to breakfast sandwich place has been the Baker's Dozen, but this placed matched and surpassed them instantly.

The bagel was griddled perfectly. It was fresh, had very little chew and tasted delicious. The quality of the bacon was excellent, and the eggs were cooked perfectly too.

As much as I could wax poetically about this BEC sammich, it was the hashbrowns that stole the show. They were perfectly seasoned, and had a nice balance between the crispy bits and the soft steamed potato bits. You bite in and get a nice crispy potato bite followed up immediately by a center that wad fluffy, and creamy due to being cooked perfectly.

10/10 would come to eat at this place again, and I will be telling everyone I know about this place.

As an addendum, this place has one of the coolest looking, and cleanest bathrooms I have ever used. Which, for me, is a plus. The state of a restaurant bathroom is usually a good indicator of how dirty the kitchen is. This bathroom was spotless, despite it being a very busy weekend lunch rush. That's the sign of a well...

I have been here a few times and the food is great. The service from the waitresses is always good as well. HOWEVER. Multiple times that I have been there it takes a long time to be acknowledged by anyone. It isn’t even that no one is there. Literally the hostess will walk by and not say a word. Not even a good morning. This morning it was particularly aggravating. We walked in. There were three people waiting. We stood there for a minute. A girl passed us. I figured she did not work there because she didn’t say a word to us. A group of 4 walked in through the other door a few minutes later, and the same girl went over to them and let them know there was a wait. Other employees passed us and also said nothing. The party before us got sat, and still no one said anything to us. There was also another woman that came in right behind us that had not been acknowledged. Since they hadn’t talked to us, they probably thought she was with us also. Either way we waited about 10 minutes, no one said anything, so we left. Again, the food and waitress service is good. However, I don’t think I’ll be back because it’s just pretty unprofessional and not good customer...

Food is well prepared. You can tell they use quality ingredients. The bread choices are great and top notch. I know thats a random thing to say but I get toast with my eggs and was expecting just some cheap bread like usual, but they have Rye, Sourdough, Multigrain and the white bread is actually a fresh Italian bread. They dont seem to skimp on the little things at all.

In fact, thats basically what makes them very different and why we keep going back. I have a four year old daughter and they have a kids menu of course, the kids menu has things to draw and mazes on it, but they also bring an entire sheet of stickers, an extra sheet of colored paper and a FULL box of crayons. My daughter is used to just the 2 crayon colors and some napkins to doodle on. This blew us away and now has ensured my daughter only wants to go here for breakfast from now on. With the quality of the food, im ok with that.

Thank you for making some well thought out menu items, really going the extra mile for the kids and families going out to eat, and making it fun and unique. Ill have to take some...