Adirondack Mountain Coffee Cafe — Restaurant in Town of Jay

So the restaurant and its location are great. Food is pretty good, and coffee good too. However, that’s where the good ends. Once we arrived, there was a 25-30 minute wait which is understandable since it’s brunch time on a Sunday and one of a few decent restaurants in what seems to be a pretty remote area. However, what was not understandable is the fact that once we were seated we sat for 20 minutes (in the main restaurant, not even outside!) without even being acknowledged or given so much as a water on a 97 degree day where we just sat outside and waited for 25 minutes. Waitresses rushed by constantly, but nothing, not even a “I will be with you as soon as possible.” Once they finally took our food order they didn’t even come check on us once and we had to flag them down to get boxes and the check. Whether this was the waitresses fault, I do not know but this place is NOT managed correctly. As someone that waitressed AND bussed for years in my 20s (not that long ago, I assure you) I know how efficient restaurants run. Hostesses seat and manage the front, sometimes arranging for water unless the bussers do it, waitresses serve, and bussers clean and prepare tables. Ideally, you have an expeditor helping manage orders coming in and out, but if you’re short staffed you won’t always have this option I know. However, other than the seating and reservations, they have these waitresses doing everything… water, drinks, food, food prep and expediting, bussing, and so on. This is not an efficient way to run a busy restaurant that they’re obviously trying to expand but don’t even have the manpower to currently staff as it is. So honestly, I don’t blame the waitresses here - I blame the management and/or owners. Glad we don’t live nearby because we’d obviously...

On our last day visiting the Lake Placid area we stopped at Adirondack Mountain Coffee Cafe for breakfast. What a gem of a place! The breakfast that is being served here is absolutely leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else in the region. Their breakfast is made fresh using quality ingredients and the French toast is insanely out of this world delicious. You can taste the difference in quality compared to other restaurants in the area.

Their omelettes are fluffy and full of flavor and YES!!! they serve real maple syrup with their amazing home made pancakes and French toast. The atmosphere is fantastic and the service is top notch. The location is everything you would expect from a restaurant that is located in the mountains.

Let’s talk about the coffee which is being roasted on site and served with breakfast. The owners method of roasting coffee beans is exceptional which makes the coffee buttery smooth and ridiculously delicious with every sip. Their specialty Sunrise on Marcy blend is a masterpiece. We bought several packages of their whole beans sunrise blend for brewing at home.

Adirondack Mountain Coffee Cafe is serving the best breakfast and the best damn coffee in the Adirondack Mountain area without question. The coffee beans being roasted here should be sent in for competitions. I buy my roasted coffee beans from Elevator Coffee so when I say this spot is making great roasted coffee beans, it’s making competition style roasted...

Accommodating, friendly, helpful folks run this hidden gem, situated inside the refurbished, last building from a fairytale theme park, popular in the ‘60s and ‘70s. We walked in and immediately felt the welcoming vibe of a high class, down-home cafe. This cafe is an expansion of an existing coffee roasting business, with a roasting machine on display...and the coffee is no joke! High octane, roasty and delicious, it left us revved up for a chilly, winter ADK mountain hike. The menu is chock full of traditional breakfast options and some incredible riffs on the standards. My husband ordered the salmon omelet, filled with fresh fish, cream cheese, capers, and caramelized onions. He let out an eye-rolling mmmmm not just on first bite, but every bite! And the home fries were golden and crispy. I eat vegan, so my options are always limited. But I asked the server if I could have the vegetarian omelet over home fries instead and not only was she willing but very attentive to my needs. She claimed not to know much about vegan eating, but without my saying so, knew that I would want dry toast and no cheese...and the chef specially prepared my home fries pan-fried, since they’re usually deep fried in oil that is also used for animal-based dishes. The spread was to die for, fresh, and perfectly sating! We bought some of their homemade maple fudge (they had about 10 flavors), which my husband plans to snack on at the top of...