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Nancy’s List of 39 Breakfast Venues in Rhode Island’s 39 Cities and Towns … Well, Almost!
- Barrington, Blue Kangaroo Café
- Block Island (New Shoreham), Bethany’s Airport Diner
- Bristol, Beehive Café
- Burrillville, Johnny’s Victory Diner
- Central Falls, Georgia’s
- Charlestown, Hungry Haven
- Coventry, The Cozy Grill
- Cranston, Mesa’s
- Cumberland, Modern Bistro
- East Greenwich, Beacon Diner
- East Providence, Pazi’s Place
- Exeter, The Middle of Nowhere Diner
- Foster, Shady Acres
- Glocester, The Harmony Café (See note)
- Hopkinton, Back in Thyme Herb Kitchen & Farm*
- Jamestown, Slice of Heaven
- Johnston, Scramblers
- Lincoln, Pams Front Street Grill
- Little Compton, The Barn
- Middletown, Atlantic Grill
- Narragansett, Crazy Burger & Shayna’s Place
- Newport, Franklin Spa
- North Kingstown, Oatley’s Family Restaurant*
- North Providence, Howie’s
- North Smithfield, NM Moonlight 2*
- Pawtucket, Rhody Hen Café
- Portsmouth, Cindy’s Country Café
- Providence, Kitchen
- Richmond (See note)
- Scituate, Cindy’s Diner
- Smithfield, Grille on Five
- South Kingstown, Breakfast Nook II
- Tiverton, Country Kitchen
- Warren, Eli’s Kitchen**
- Warwick, The Shanty
- Westerly, The Cooked Goose
- West Greenwich, Amgen dining room (not open to the public)
- West Warwick, Miss Cranston Diner II & Grill
- Woonsocket, Patriots Diner
* Closed ** Closed, but opening under new management
Note: True confessions time. Some locals had recommended The Harmony Café as a great breakfast place in Glocester. While checking recently to see which diners survived the pandemic, I learned that The Harmony Café is not in Glocester—which apparently has no breakfast venues—but in Manville, a village in Lincoln.
Note: Another true confession: I mistakenly overlooked Richmond in southern RI!
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