Smithfield Gourmet Café & Bakery

Smithfield Gourmet Café & Bakery serves breakfast, lunch and Sunday brunch from a menu that changes with the seasons. Its sandwiches, such as the Main Street Monte Cristo and the Bakery Burger, sit alongside soups like she-crab and Brunswick stew, and the kitchen bakes bread on site every day. Desserts are a specialty, including cakes, pies and the fall Pumpkin Crush Cake.

Bread and meals can be taken to go, and lunch reservations are made by phone. The cafe has been on Main Street in Smithfield since 1993, in a historic building, and it sets out bistro tables on the sidewalk in warmer weather. Its menus draw on the owner's recipe collection and on locally grown produce when it is in season.