The Pelham Street Grille

At The Pelham Street Grille, the homemade strawberry jam comes with the toast. So do the bacon-wrapped meatloaf at lunch and the potato, cheese and onion perogies on the comfort-food side of the menu, both built in-house rather than ordered in. The Fonthill Village address runs breakfast and lunch from eight in the morning to three in the afternoon every day of the week, with one carved-out exception: Friday evening, when the kitchen turns over for haddock fish and chips between four-thirty and seven-thirty. The shape is small and specific, and it has held in downtown Fonthill since Catherine and George Lafreniere opened the dining room in July of 2016.

Breakfast is the daypart that carries the menu. Florentine and Pacific eggs Benedict anchor the signature page, with hollandaise built to a consistent finish and the poached eggs the kitchen does not let waver. Waffles arrive with fresh fruit and whipped cream. The breakfast special bundles eggs, a meat choice — bacon, ham, or sausage — home fries, toast, and the strawberry jam, and it stays available from open to close rather than retiring at eleven. A Spanish omelette holds a corner of the menu the way it would at a working diner. The lunch turn brings burgers made fresh each day, a Reuben on the sandwich page, and a side choice of home fries or French fries.