Tom's Country Kitchen
10:04 - 10:47 am
Tom’s Country Kitchen is a quaint, one-room diner that holds just about 10 tables and serves breakfast to the local crowd and travelers north of the Pocono Mountains. Tucked back behind a gas station, this place is an easy miss, but definitely a hidden gem. The country decor takes you back a few decades, including the placemats where of the 15 ads, three of them are for guns (and don’t forget the giant Bible verse). You can tell the staff has been doing this for a while, and the menu was simple and straightforward. Two tips: 1. Yes, you do pull through the gas station parking lot to find it. 2. You will need cash.
Bethany
The coffee was good. Not too bad, not the best. I did enjoy the cup of milk instead of creamer. The water was not chlorinated. With no breakfast wrap on the menu, I kept it simple with two eggs over medium, white toast, pork roll, and home fries. The waitress immediately asks if you want peppers and onions on your home fries. How can you say no to that? I can’t, so I got them. I have to say that it was one of the best breakfast plates I've had in a while. The eggs were perfectly cooked. There was no brown on them whatsoever, the egg yolk was super runny, and the white was cooked perfectly. Outstanding, 10 out of 10. The pork roll was very thinly cut. I would have liked a little more crisp or brownness on the outside, but this pork roll tasted different from other pork rolls that I've had. It had a softer, more tender texture and definitely had a more smoky flavor compared to what I am used to, but it was still good. The home fries slapped. The oil or butter that they used had such a good flavor. The peppers and onions were awesome. It definitely needed a little bit of salt and I always like ketchup with it, but man they were good. The toast was just good. Just simple white toast with a good amount of butter got the job done.
Ben
I got my usual but I also added onions and peppers to my homefries after it was recommended by the waitress. The home fries were really good. They almost felt more home-made and less mass-produced. I think the bell pepper still had a little bit of crunch which is fine. I thought maybe I would have liked it a little bit more if the onions and peppers were cooked a little bit harder but it was still pretty dang tasty. The Eggs Benedict was really good. The English muffin was probably fluffier than usual and really sopped up extra sauce. I feel like the ham was pretty thin. It definitely didn't look synthetic like how Canadian bacon can get sometimes, but it didn’t have grizzly bits like how an actual piece of ham can get sometimes. The Canadian bacon was really tender. The egg was perfectly done. The yolk went everywhere to the point where I almost didn't have enough bread to sop up all the yolk and hollandaise. The hollandaise was really tasty. They added the paprika for visual flair but you obviously can't taste it.
We impulse ordered a pancake after seeing them on the table next to ours. We ordered one with cranberries and pecans in it. We could have lived without the cranberries. Ben recommended putting bananas in there with the pecans and that honestly would have slapped so hard. The pancakes reminded us a lot of the Butter Valley pancakes, especially that they are not cooked super well done. They are lightly cooked, which is Bethany’s favorite style of pancake. They were super buttery, light, and fluffy but they definitely needed the syrup on there for extra sweetness. We wouldn't get the cranberry and pecan fillings again but would definitely get just a plain one next time. Ben could go there and eat a stack of pancakes for breakfast.
Rating
Cozy, comfort food