Follow the path to the Slammer

Past the picnic table and up the hill. It’s big!

Home of the Slammer

“The Slammer”

Fried egg, cheese, bacon, hash brown and jalapeño bacon cream cheese on a homemade buttermilk biscuit

12.50

Home of the Slammer

Quick-service sandwich shop and cafe serving the Blue Hill Peninsula since 2020. Breakfast and lunch, all day.

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A tall breakfast sandwich on a homemade biscuit with sausage, a fried egg, cheese, a hash brown and cream cheese
The front of the cafe: gray shingles, a lit OPEN sign in the window, flower boxes and a pink bench
The counter with blueberry scones, wrapped treats and coffee mugs under hand-lettered signs

Crowd favorites

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  • A Buffalo Chicken Wrap cut in half, with a bag of Cape Cod potato chips on red checked paper

    Buffalo Chicken Wrap17.50

  • Most popular

    Grilled Reuben

    Shaved pastrami, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and house thousand island dressing on marble rye

    17.00
  • Staff favorite

    The “Beefy Captain”

    Roast beef, cheddar cheese, grilled mushrooms, roasted garlic, brown mustard and mayo on wheat bread

    17.50
  • A Caesar salad with croutons and lemon slices on a sunny table

    Caesar Salad12.50

  • Local fav!

    Blue Ribbon Chicken

    Fried chicken patty, ham, Swiss, tomato, lettuce and mayo on a toasted brioche bun

    13.00
Three homemade bagels on a lavender cloth, with blueberries scattered around them
Golden baked rolls filled with spinach and roasted peppers, cooling on a wire rack
A biscuit sandwich with sausage, egg, cheese and spinach, cut in half

Made here, from scratch

Our biscuits and bagels are homemade, and so are the croutons and every dressing on the menu. We even rinse every leaf of romaine by hand for our Caesar salads.

  • Buttermilk biscuits
  • Bagels
  • Croutons
  • Garlic caesar dressing
  • Ranch
  • Tzatziki
  • Buffalo sauce
  • Tuna salad

Lately at the hive

Specials come and go

A few recent ones from our Facebook page. Follow along so you don’t miss the next one.

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  • A bacon jalapeño biscuit sandwich with seared ham, Swiss cheese, red onion and sauce

    Parker’s Twin

    Our first-ever bacon jalapeño buttermilk biscuits, with seared ham, Swiss, red onion and Magic Sauce.

  • Lobster meat on a homemade cheddar chive biscuit

    Lobster Cheddar Chive Biscuit

    Fresh lobster tail, claw and knuckle on a homemade cheddar chive buttermilk biscuit, with hot garlic butter.

  • A grilled buttermilk biscuit sandwich with ham, melted Swiss cheese and a dark jam

    The Morning Sun

    A homemade buttermilk biscuit, grilled and buttered, with seared smoky ham, Swiss and house-made maple bacon-onion jam.

  • A tuna salad sandwich on wheat bread with lettuce and tomato

    The Schooner

    Our classic tuna salad, made from scratch, on white, wheat or rye with crispy lettuce and sliced Roma tomatoes.

  • A frozen chai latte topped with whipped cream and cinnamon, inside the cafe

    Fuzzy Feels

    Our spin on a frozen dirty chai latte, dreamed up by our newest employee.

How Humblebee got its name

Humblebee Cafe opened in 2020, right in the middle of the pandemic. Owner Megan Tyler grew up Downeast, and she was perfecting her buttermilk biscuits long before she ever planned to open a restaurant.

Our building on Ellsworth Road used to be Peddler’s Wagon, the garden and nursery center Megan visited as a kid. The name tips its hat to that history, and to beekeeping, which she had gotten into around the time we opened. Bees work hard and they work together. Humblebee is a play on bumblebee.

Those first months there were no dishes and no dining room, just to-go boxes, a pickup window and tables out in the old greenhouse. The greenhouse is still where most of our seats are.

The black front door with the Humblebee Cafe logo on the glass, a barn light above and window boxes beside it

Pull up a seat

Eat in the dining room, out in the old greenhouse, or at a picnic table when it’s nice out. Or take it to go.

  • The greenhouse seating glowing at dusk, with people at tables inside
    The old greenhouse, all lit up
  • A strawberry milkshake with whipped cream and strawberry swirls, with the dining room behind it
    A milkshake in the dining room
  • Picnic tables on a gravel lot beside autumn trees, under a blue sky
    Picnic tables for sunny days

Come see us

Wednesday to Saturday
7am to 3pm
Sunday to Tuesday
Closed

Breakfast and lunch served all day! We take short breaks now and then, and we post them on Facebook.

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The side of the cafe after a snowfall, with the pink bench in the snow
Snow or shine, look for the pink bench

Love our food? We also do catering!

Give us a call or send an email to ask about catering your next get-together.