The Speak Easy Cafe in Peterborough

Lots of different twists on an all day breakfast. Super fast and friendly service, and a delightful server! Extra bonus is they use real mayonnaise. Thank you.

Nice affordable breakfast spot .

Been coming here for years now for breakfast, still 10/10

One of the few restaurants open for breakfast. Good food, service and value.

We had a very good time at Speak Easy. Benedict was so good

Loved it here Great breakfast Food

I always know I m going to get a great breakfast, with super quick and friendly service here. The Speakeasy has been a staple for me since university!

Excellent service, food was delicious and well priced!

The food was solid, atmosphere was really cool but most of all Terie was amazing. Best service ever! She has an incredible energy and is super friendly with great suggestions, which made our breakfast even more enjoyable. Thanks Speakeasy!

Great spot for a little hangover cure. Solid club sandwich and poutine :)

I love this place forevermore my favourite place to go for breakfast and lunch. Always packed so make sure you go early, unless you want to stand in a line or takeout. I hope that this place never closes down !!!!

Wheelchair accessibility: No accessibility washroom and very narrow isles. Food

I never thought we found such this amazing brunch in a small town like Peterborough. Highly recommend this place.

Ordered poutine, came with shredded cheese instead of curds, and the fries taste like cardboard. Everything else we ordered was also not great. This is the second time we have ordered from here as we thought the first bad experience they could just have just been having a bad day. I am baffled by all the high review scores.

This is our favorite breakfast spot! As everyone has said, the eggs benedict is amazing. The servers are always friendly. It is quite small and popular, so its not uncommon to wait for a table but its definitely worth it.

Great food, good size portions, great service. I only wish they had better cutlery, forks and knives are very thin, but in my view it does not affect their rating so I will keep in at 5 stars.

Good food good service

Calm, cozy, and wonderful food. The food is incredibly delicious, and the staff and service are exceptional. There were six of us, and we tried the Benedict, quesadilla, Popeyes omelet, house special, and kids breakfast. They are all highly recommended. Thank you, Speak Easy Cafe, for being in our city!

Good breakfast place. Wheelchair accessibility: Cannot access the restroom. Food : 5/5 |

Kid-friendliness: Super affordable, perfect portion size for kids, and the server was sooo sweet! Food

Wonderful staff

We were looking for a place to order fish and chips when we stumbled into a small restaurant. When I walked in to ask if they served fish and chips, I learned that Sarah, who answered me, was the owner and manager of the restaurant and had just opened the joint with her husband, Hadi. They were Iranians and our compatriots and very friendly and customer-oriented. We ordered fish and chips and tortillas. All the dishes were delicious and fresh. Sarah and Hadi served us two seasonal salads. They also played Iranian music from the 60s for us, and at the end we took a group souvenir photo. The small and compact restaurant was in the style of the movie The Godfather and the photos from this movie covered all the walls of the restaurant, which I fell in love with. The double color of the walls, black and red, was very suitable for the theme of the collection. In short, be sure to visit there; Be sure you will become a permanent customer. ----------------------------------------------------- Discovering an unassuming restaurant by chance, we were delighted to find that it serves excellent fish and chips. Upon inquiring, we met Sarah, the owner and manager, who, along with her husband Hadi, recently established this charming eatery. Both are friendly and customer-oriented Iranians. Our meal included fish and chips and a tortilla, both freshly prepared and delicious. Sarah and Hadi also treated us to two seasonal salads. Enhancing the experience, they played nostalgic sixties Iranian music. The restaurants unique decor, inspired by The Godfather movie, features photos from the film covering the walls, perfectly complementing the bold red color scheme. The ambiance is cozy and reminiscent of a classic cinematic era. We left with a souvenir group photo, a statement to the memorable experience. We highly recommend visiting this gem youll undoubtedly become a regular customer.

Friendly good food good quality

What a great spot. The food is amazing for lunch or breakfast, love the burgers and the Quesadillas. Great staff too and the food is very well priced.

Sensational western sandwich, proper orientation with equal egg to onion/ham ratio, highly recommend

My kids took my wife and I there for Mothers Day. The food and service were fantastic. My wife received a Mothers Day rose, and they took pictures (to be sent later by email). It was great.

Blt is amazing

I love this place,amazing food and great service

We went to this café for breakfast. The portion sizes were large and the food quality was very good. The staffs behavior was very nice and polite. Highly recommended.

We were at this place today for the breakfast and everything was great.

Nice place, lovely guys, and great breakfast. Highly recommended

I used to really love this place but it seems like there are new owners. The woman who I ll assume is the new owner was the worst server I ve had. So ignorant!! And I saw a little kid working there, taking food out to customers and going into the kitchen. A restaurant is not a safe place for a kid to be helping out! I don t think I ll be back, sadly.

It was great.very kind, very delicous,good price

I ordered fish and chips with caesar salad, I really liked it, it was very tasty and the fish had a good taste, I suggest you try it, the staff is very kind and friendly.

It was a very warm, cozy place. Although the plates of other costumers who were ordering brunch and breakfast had perfect smell and very well design, I ordered hamburger as Im not a brunch person. All I can say is that mushroom fried burger tastes like heaven, and I fall in love with the dollar chips and the Cesar sald as the side of the plate. My husband had breakfast, and he was totally satisfied with his plate that I couldnt remember its name but was bacon, sausage, and egg. And ohhhh, I forgot about the French toast with the homemade blueberry comput, which was awesome. Highly recommend, for sure it was a busy place with many costumers so there was a normal waiting time that I believe it worst it. And last but not least, the friendly atmosphere and their hospitality beside their fair prices will sure take me there again and again.

Mmmm. Bacon. And the clubhouse gets a seal of approval.

A good day in a beautiful place with good friends and very tasty and delicious food, the friendliness and hospitality of the manager and staff of the cafe restaurant was excellent. I recommend that if you go to Peterborough, you must visit this cafe and restaurant, and dont miss their delicious hamburgers.

Cute local breakfast/lunch spot. The waitress was really nice! I got an iced coffee to go and it was made to perfection

Friendly staff good food!

Ive eaten here a few times now, the food NEVER disappoints and the people who work there (servers and support staff alike), are always super friendly every time. The atmosphere is what youd expect from a local Diner, mixed with the deco of pop culture mafia and gangster memorabilia, very cool esthetic. Everything is a really good price, and its my go-to downtown Peterborough, ON everytime I get hungry while im running errands or waiting for a GO Bus hands down. Go check it out! Kid-friendliness: Theyre very nice & accommodating with kids, there are seats specially for very little kids and a dedicated menu. My daughter is 11 so she ordered off the adult menu but they are prepared for kids of all ages.

Cute little corner cafe downtown Peterborough. A nice break if you drive by Peterborough.

Hands down the best breakfast in Peterborough. My partner have been trying every breakfast place in town. Lots of great ones, but nothing compares to the OG. Dollar chips are delicious, service is fast and kind. Love this restaurant.

Was a wonderful little restaurant, the food was delicious and very generous portions. The dollar chips are to die for!

Warm atmosphere. The staff were very warm and inviting, always smiling. I was seated immediately. The cafe is very clean. I had the Eggs Benny, which I highly recommend. Very family friendly.

A lil bit crowded but amazing food the breakfast was top notch! Littke bit pricey compared to some places but once you have one of those doller fries it makes up for it! Order was made to perfection and the staff were very friendly!

Came in for lunch a couple of weeks ago with a friend. Ordered a bacon cheeseburger with a pepsi. Food came out fairly quick, and tasted good. Atmosphere was good. Overall worth the stop in

A little chilly when we sat by the door but all in all pretty good place to eat

Awesome food and excellent service they go out of their way to option your food if you are on a diet and wi-fi a great place to meet new friends and have good food

Hit the spot!

Very cool atmosphere with all the old gangster pictures. The food was amazing too.

great breakfast and love the dollar fries!

Great service! Hash browns and hollandaise are both delicious.

Great spot for breakfast! The bacon and the dollar chips are amazing.

Went to have breakfast one morning at the door was locked but it was appx 805am, I gently tapped on the window to ask if they were open, waitress opens the front door and extremely rudely asks if I was one the one banging on the window, and states we open at 8!! , we left immediately, they ll never get any of my or my friends business again.

The best breakfast that I have in a while, so delicious and tons of food. Very affordable.

One of the best breakfasts in town. Located right in the center of downtown, near everything. I had the scrumtious meet lovers omelette, which is LOADED with cheese, bacon, and sausage. Paired with the yummy dollar chips. Dining area was also recently renovated, with a cozy 1920s gangster-esque atmosphere. That lives up to the restaurants namd.

The staff is nice and the pancakes are huge and really good. Even the next day!

Friendly service and fast but the food is nothing to write home about. I ordered Eggs Benedict. The Benedict sauce comes out of a package you could easily make at home for far less money and taste way better. The home fries come out of a bag. Anyone can follow directions for a powdered mix hollandaise sauce and have a big batch sitting in a container ready to pour onto the next batch of eggs being ordered. The meal is definitely not worth the money it s priced at especially if you are picky about food actually tasting delicious. It should be a treat when you go out to a restaurant. The food should be something a little better than you can make at home so it excites your taste buds rather than being and extremely bland.

Friendly staff, inexpensive, extremely quick with making meals. Great food.

Good food, eggs Benedict were great and great service!

One of the best places to get breakfast in downtown Peterborough.

Absolutely love this restaurant

Yummy and lovely service for $15.99. Big portions and good coffee that comes with the meal!

This is my go to for breakfast, good selection of food (including vegetarian options), prices are great, portion sizes are generous. All the staff including the owner are friendly and polite. They even have a buy a meal program for the less fortunate, which I have not seen anywhere else.

Loved the place! Good, pretty straight-forward breakfast and lunch spot. Food, service, portions and prices all right on line with what Im looking for in a breakfast spot. Dollar fries are great!

Food was very delicious, the waiter was very nice to me. Prices are very good. It was $15 for a burger, fries and pop. Great atmosphere with music playing lightly and I would come back here again. Food : 5/5

All around excellent

very good food and fast service

Very good food and fast service

Usually order out but dined in this time and was very happy!! With everything Kid-friendliness: My son loves it every time! Fast service Food : 5/5 |

Bad coffee, not very clean, food is way over priced. Quality and taste..well lets just say, I didnt not take the leftovers home for the dog.

French toast I had today was dry, tasted as burnt oil

Great overall experience.

Kid-friendliness: Had kids menu and provide crayon and colouring book Food

The staff is amazing!!!

20 years and still my preferred place for breakfast.

Had such a great breakfast with my son. Service and food was more than exceptional. I definitely will be stopping in here more often.

Many options, decently priced, and overall good food and service! I enjoy coming here for breakfast any time!

Came here for the first time last weekend with a group of five. We were seated fairly quick considering how busy and small the cafe is. I really like the potatoes that they give on the side. I wish that the English muffin was toasted a little more but other than that it was good and well priced!!

Always great food and service!!!!

Best breakfast in forever! Thanks Vicki. Food

I ordered pancake along with hot chocolate..both were good Vegetarian options: Wraps are good options for vegetarians Food : 4/5 |

A little over priced Wheelchair accessibility: Completely NOT handicap accessible Food : 4/5 |

Good, fast and great service...

We were seated immediately upon entry and were well checked on for food taste and coffee refills. Good serving sizes, very filling food! The bathroom was clean, and you do have to go down stairs though to reach it.

Love this place

Excellent place to have breakfast. Amazing Benedict egg, very delicious. The space is a little small but ok. Food : 5/5

Came here for the first time and its amazing 10/10 would recommend, the server is so sweet i loved it here

Good food and excellent customer service.

Eggs are good toast was good dollar fries little bit soggy but will blame that on the Styrofoam container the sausage however is the most disgusting thing ever super low quality meat that taste freezer burnt and to top it off is the way its cooked they must be boiling them then Browning in the oven and now they just taste gross .

Tasty meat,delicious pancakes

Big portions!

Great food and portions for value

Fantastic breakfast and friendly staff

Love going to this Cafe.. I had the Chicken Ceaser Wrap with fries on the side...excellent as always...staff are friendly...nice and clean tables

Great breakfast, atmosphere and staff. Weve been going here for years. Recently renovated and looking sharp.

Amazing breakfast

This has been my favourite breakfast place in Peterborough for the past fifteen years. I don t know what s happened but I took the family there for Easter Sunday and noticed it was taking longer than usual to get our order out. The kicker was that bacon was so dry that it looked yellowish and plastic. Just a tip for the chef. That s what happens when you cook too much bacon the day before and throw the extra in the fridge to be served the next day. Seriously, it doesn t take ten minutes to cook it fresh.

Cute little Cafe with some great food at a good price. Had the peameal Benedict and the peameal was grilled so perfectly, eggs nice and runny and loved the dollar chips. Really friendly and quick service even when a little busy. Definitely recommend

Always a great meal

I ve been going to amazing restaurant for years and have always enjoyed each and every meal but the staff and owner Vickie is what truly makes this place so special. Vickie has always been so involved in making Peterborough a better place to live and her work in helping our homeless community is wnat touches our hearts. On behalf of Peterborough Cares and Peterborough Vacuum, I wish to thank Vickie for being such an amazing community supporter. I will always support her wonderful Speakeasy Cafe Peterborough. Best of luck on her campaign running for council. Mark my words, she will make us all proud! Thank you Vickie and staff, you re da best! God bless! Camille k Parent

My first time, great food, friendly approachable staff, I will be back

Really nice

Always so good . The fastest breakfast in PTBO.

Great brunch spot in downtown pbto! Delishious food served fast and at a respectable price. Portions are large so make sure to bring your appetite. Dont forget they superb mobster theme of the restaurant! Definitely somewhere I will go again :D

The food was excellent and the service outstanding. Thank you so much. Eggs Benedict is the best

The best breakfast in peterborough. Dollar chips and bacon are unreal. Prices are still great.

Waitress was excellent as was breakfast. I had the Mobsters Mix. 1930s Chicago theme. Menu was extensive and unique mix. I will definitely return soon.

Best breakfast spoon in town. Great food, friendly staff.

Friendly, fast service, good food.

Very good food and great service

Great fries and chicken burgers etc. Thanks for buying our Hockey Candles also hope they were enjoyed:

Cute little breakfast & brunch place! The service was fast and the food was very good.

Great food, good prices, and a lovely atmosphere. So glad theyre open again!

Small unassuming diner with a Capone-era gangster theme. Serves all day breakfast. The atmosphere is charming and the staff are friendly. Food is pretty good as well and I didnt have to wait very long. Nice place if you got the time to sit down and have a bite to eat. Small thing, but I wouldnt have minded hearing some era specific music playing.

Always a great meal, whether it be breakfast or lunch. Food is hot and fresh and super tasty!

Coffee was good

One of, if not the best breakfast I have truly had. Really gives chains like sunset grill a run for their money. The food was just spectacular, I had the Benedict with peameal bacon.The bacon tasted bbq like, or smoked perhaps, whatever it was truly outstanding. The potatos were also fantastic. I wish there was one closer to my home in Burlington but nevertheless I can t recommend this spot enough.

Friendly service and a tasty breakfast Quickly served, even for how busy they were.

Fantastic! I was so hungry that I forgot to snap a photo of my meal. I had the club sandwich on rye bread with mayo and cheese. It s my staple that I get everywhere but this was hands down the best one I ve ever had. Chicken was perfect, portions were perfect, definitely my new fav breakfast joint in Peterborough!

fuhgeddaboudit

Can not park near the place at the best of times. Service is friendly but slow.

Uber pickup

Amazing food and outstanding customer service.

We discovered this randomly, as we were looking for a place for an early lunch. I had the feta cheese quesadilla, which was a first. As somebody that loves cheese, I loved it. My wife got a custom made vegetarian club sandwich. We also got a huge basket of wafflecut fries that were super crispy. Definitely not something you can have everyday, but it was a nice meal.

My familys favourite breakfast place, if you have not been you are missing out. The staff are amazing and so friendly. Great vegetarian options. I cant say enough good things. Make sure you order hollandaise sauce - you wont regret it.

Great coffee ..nice freindly staff.

Amazing staff and food! Portions are super generous for the price. Super fresh!

Ate here a couple months ago... it was great. And food came quick.

Homey atmosphere for brunch. Good price as well.

Good good fast service good price awesome to my 4 year old granddaughter

We went for breakfast it was great Nice clean place Service was awesome Food was great. Try the grilled peameal awesome

Great food, amazing service, the young woman they had working was an excellent server running around a whole place by herself

AWESOME!!! seriously great food and a great price too!!! Loved it, Ill be back

Wonderful staff, goes above and beyond! Best Breakfast in town!!

I ordered the Deluxe quesadilla and it was fantastic

Ordered take out and was very impressed. The food was tasty and portions were a good size.

Oh good breakfast nice little clean place service was good food was all right

Decent breakfast. Excellent service.

A fantastic spot for breakfast! Went about a week ago with a buddy of mine, wait staff was beyond friendly, and had great recommendations. Had the Eggs Benedict, and it was absolutely delicious! Pricing is pretty modest as well, and Im quite a fan of their delayed meals program for the local community. A wonderful spot, definitely highly recommend!

Nice place

An absolute staple in Peterborough. Staff are friendly and helpful. Food is good and service is quick.

An absolutely fantastic place to eat.

Loved it

This is a great breakfast and lunch cafe in the heart of downtown. Great food, fantastic friendly service, and reasonable prices....highly recommend

Delicious!

Food was good. Staff is terrific. Recommend to anyone for a great breakfast.

Cute little restaurant downtown with really friendly service. The food came out quickly and was very good. Prices were reasonable. Loved the wall art that started a conversation with the kids about the gangsters of the 1920s. Was a fun experience.

One of my favorite places to eat in ptbo

Every time I have come here, the food and service has been great. This time we had to wait an hour after ordering to finally get our food, had to ask a random waitress to refill our tea because ours never checked up on us and when we were paying, the woman took tip out from the change we were supposed to get back without asking. Probably will not be returning now.

The service is great and food excellent and price awesome

Really good food, huge portions and extremely fast service. Staff were friendly! Its a really small place but the atmosphere is a unique 20s gangster theme.

Great food, great service. Will definitely go again

Speak Easy is fine, the dollar fries are not my favourite form of breakfast potato and i guess that really sways my opinion. Staff was super great.

Great place for breakfast.

My favourite breakfast place in Peterborough by FAR!

I went the morning of Friday April 3rd to pick up my order. The waitress, she had glasses and straight darker hair, was super friendly and helpful. The food was also perfectly cooked and delicious. My favourite breakfast place in town for good reasons. Try the Rum Runners breakfast if you are feeling hungry.

No masks or gloves on the skip the dishes guy going around town potentially infecting everyone

Breakfast special is what I always order, and it is perfect every time. Service is fast and friendly too. Why cant all diners be like this place?

Yum! Fresh ingredients, generous portion sizes and friendly staff! Ive ordered breakfast meals in the past which has always been perfect, but today instead I had lunch and my BLT Wrap was filling, fresh and delicious! and they still have comfortably-spaced seating for physical distancing measures. I will go back many more times! thanks for a great lunch!

Staff were friendly, the breakfast was amazing. And the waffles, oh my!! 2 adults and 2 kids left with our bellies food and fantastic food. Try it!

This place is perfect.

Friendly staff! Quaint with a unique atmosphere.

Every time I eat here I always leave happy. The food is always good and the staff is wonderful.

Derricious

Great food

Their dollar chips are, like, the BEST potato side youll find for your breakfast. Prices are great and the service is incredibly fast.

Good service distance friendly

I order out almost every weekend, the speak easy cafe is is probably one of my favourite places in Peterborough because of the price for the amount I get and the friendly staff and also the great food! I usually get the blind pig and it has lots of bacon, and my girlfriend get eggs Benedict and the eggs are usually perfect for being in the takeout container the whole way home!

Their Food is Fabulous and the atmosphere is great those 2 things go hand in hand its a really sweet spot for breakfast here in downtown Peterborough

Always delicious! Always friendly service!

Forty five minute wait, they gave us a 50 percent discount..yeah..!!

Love the Speak Easy .Good food , social distancing in place . Fast service

Great place and cheap breakfast

Great food

For an all day breakfast diner to be packed all day, you know theyre doing something right. With reasonable prices and a pay-it-forward board, Speak Easy is keeping in touch with the pulse of down town without losing their personal charm. Always worth the wait, and youre rarely waiting long.

The absolute best breakfast in and around Peterborough! Theres no place better or higher in my books for an amazing breakfast

Great diner food.

It was great as usual

Been there regularly for a couple years now, service always awesome even when its packed. Never disappointed !

Excellent service and food. Was very busy but the two waitress keeping everyone happy was very impressive!