Lily’s Cafe (Port Saint Lucie)
***** Lily’s Cafe, 8031 South US Highway 1, Port Saint Lucie, Florida 34952, (772) 237-5549.
Lily’s Cafe is a “mom & pop” neighborhood diner that does breakfast/lunch Tuesday-Friday 7am-3pm, Saturday-Sunday 8am-2pm, closed on Monday. You can check menu/prices at www.lilycafefl.com. The site also has a handful of pictures which will “tell” you as to exactly what you are getting into here. Not really sure how to explain this, but there are mom & pop diners and then again, there are MOM & POP diners. For the record, Lily’s Cafe is a MOM & POP…remember- those movies from the 30s and 40s where some kids would yell, “hey, let’s put on a show”?
Anyway…Lily’s is a fabulous joint, imagine your mom and your aunts making and serving the stuff. For you wiseguys out there, my mom was a tremendous cook and my aunts though not in her league also got the job done. Just to go off on a tangent for a minute–when I see restaurant signs/menus boasting “home cooked” food, my mind always says whose “home.” All I know, is that back in Brooklyn in the 50s and 60s I had a friend Michael R. whose mother was the worse cook maybe in the world, well at least Brooklyn—I guess that’s why Michael R. use to “run away” from home so often.
I recently ate at Lily’s…the menu isn’t huge-but there is enough breakfast stuff, soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, wraps, pies/muffins–so nobody’s gonna go without eating. I tried the french toast, western omelet, chicken salad wrap, patty melt (burger, swiss cheese, grilled onions–on rye toast), french fries. Trust me here, everything was delicious. If I had to put the stuff in-pecking order…the french toast was terrific, the omelet-wrap-melt were also terrific but not as terrific as the french toast was, the french fries were good but weren’t terrific. Now if memory serves me correctly, my mom’s french toast didn”t come close to Lily’s, same for her chicken salad (mom use to add chopped dill pickle to the mix, never really liked that!)–mom never made western omelets- but she did make a mean scrambled eggs with American cheese/ham, her patty melt was as good as the one Lily’s dished up, Lily’s and mom’s french fries were a total tossup (too bad Nathan’s wasn’t my mom or dad or whatever!).
The final result, “assuming” that there really is a Lily back in the kitchen–Lilymom, I’m home from college!!
Lily’s Cafe is a homerun!
Jeff:
pulled this off YELP, nothing but terrific reviews there for Lily’s.
8/7/2011
By far the best breakfast spot in Port Saint Lucie. Visited Lily’s Cafe 2 times, clean, fresh, and professionally prepared food. The service from Toni, is prompt, courteous, and unobtrusive. If you wait too long you will be standing in line. The muffins, waffles, and oatmeal along with Lily’s Fantastic French Toast are sure bets…Try this place before others find out about it.
Wow you absolutely correct Lily’s Cafe in Port St. Lucie is the Best!!! My family and I go here 2 or 3 days a week. We love their crispy almond french toast covered with fresh fruit and Lily’s home made Quiche is delicious too. My husband loves the fresh made soup and the Lily’s Super dupper Club on their fresh baked Multi grain bread. My son had the Big Daddy breakfast sandwich on the fresh baked Hoagie roll it was filled with egg, Taylor ham, home fries and topped with cheese. My 8 year old daughter loved the happy pancake (it was a pancake with blueberries for the eyes & nose, a banana for the smile and the tongue was a strawberry with whip cream for the hair) (it would make any kid HAPPY) and Lily even gives all the kids a toy when they are done eating. To top it all off the fresh baked desserts are FABULOUS, I’ve had the Peanut butter cheese cake, Snicker doodle pie, the sugar free Blackberry, blueberry, raspberry apple pie and my son has had the super large banana split and my daughter loves the Pink lemonade cake with fresh strawberry sauce. Great place ! Great prices and so clean and friendly with oldies music to top it all off. We are so glad we found Lily’s Cafe! Can’t wait to go back tomorrow!!!