Sugar Buns Airport Cafe

Stopped off here for breakfast driving from DC to eastern shore. Easy to get to-​about a minute off route 50. Very comfortable and you can watch the various airport activities (including three huge military helicopters materializing from the fog). Just had an omelet which was delicious. The only negative was that the waitress (who was very pleasant) asked me if I wanted to «sample» their «signature» sugar bun. I said yes just to be polite, figuring I’d get a small complimentary sample-​however I was given a whole bun and charged for it. So minus a star for that.

This is a great stopover spot on the way to the beach — whether traveling by car or plane… Good food. Good service.

The food was good, but be sure to allow more time than you think you will need there. The Chicken salad sandwich was out of this world, and the onion rings are worth trying! That said it took over an hour to get our food. The staff is friendly and reasonably priced. I’ll be back to try the breakfast.

I’m a big fan of small airport cafes, particularly ones who’s menu isn’t delivered by the weekly Sysco truck. General Aviation pilots will know its a bit of a cliché to go out for a hundred dollar burger, but hey, I was at the airport for business anyway, and I happened to be in the mood for a burger. Well it did deliver… a nice juicy 8 once patty, which the owner mentioned was 100% Angus beef. I’m not sure I can taste Angus from other beef, but the burger did deliver. The fresh cut fries were a nice touch, but I like crisp fries, and they were a bit underdone for my liking. As others mentioned, your meal starts with a sugar bun, a nice touch and quite tasty.

Had breakfast on Sunday morning, get there before 9:30 gets busy. Very good breakfast and he homemade sugar buns are very good also. Had the eggs Benedict the dish was good the next time I’m going to try the chip beef everything is homemade according to the owner. Recommend all to come and enjoy it is at the airport you can watch plane take off and land. They should offer plane ride.

Cool airport diner. The food will exceed your expectations, try the Elvis French Toast, or any of the vast array of Breakfast or Lunch specials.
All tables have a great view of the Runway. Lots of activity when the wind is out of the South. Cool terminal building and worth a stop as you pass through Easton. Or even better bring the kids or grandkids to keep them entertained. There are a few outside tables.
You will pay a little more then Easton Diner, but the atmosphere, attitude and food are all well worth it.
…and did I mention the Sugar Buns, they live up to their name! Yum!

Excellent food. We were staying in Easton and found this place on Unilocal.The only real downsides were that it’s not very clean and there are flies all over the place but again the food is so homemade and yummy!

Not impressed whatsoever. The owner pressed hard to sell the food and quality but the reality was highly overpriced food and not the award winning quality we were led to believe. We should have known when all the seats weren’t filled at lunch on a Sunday. Back to Kay’s at Cambridge for all our food flights.

Stopped here for a quick lunch and found everything overpriced and food quality poor. My wife had a breakfast dish, huevos rancheros for $ 14. They had some sort of greasy meat balls and basically scrambled eggs, there was a side of greasy fried diced potatoes.
I had the chicken steak sub ($ 9.50)which used pressed chicken and was also greasy.
With coffee, ended $ 30+ for a terrible lunch. Much better options nearby.

We found this place last year when returning to Virginia Beach from West River, Md. It’s located in the airport facility in Easton, Md. We stopped again this year on our way back home. It was for lunch this time instead of breakfast. We once again sat at the outside tables so our dog could stay with us. It was too hot to keep her in the car. My wife had a spinach omelet that was just «yummy». I had the New England lobster roll. It was a bit pricey but it consisted the almost entire lobster cut up into huge chunks. Excellent. We also had a side order of the onion rings based on our server’s recommendation. They were excellent — fresh cut very sweet Vidalia onions in homemade batter. The staff here is very friendly and appreciative of their customers. Alas, there were none of the famous sugar buns available, they had been sold out earlier in the morning. I’m sure we’ll stop again on our next return trip.

This was a quirky little breakfast place on our drive to the beach from annapolis. Loved the sugar bun. Everything was Nice and hot. I’d describe it as non-​greasy diner food. The only downside was I purchased the Unilocal voucher and the nice waitress never heard anything about it, and wouldn’t honor it. So don’t buy the voucher!

This was a great find. Was over visiting the ex and my daughter and took them out for breakfast. Thanks to fellow Unilocalers we tried this quirky little restaurant and were thoroughly impressed. It was a Saturday morning and there was ample seating at 9:30am. You could see the occasional aircraft taxi, takeoff and land.
We started with two pots of tea which is served as a proper Irish tea complete with lace doilies. Having heard how delicious the sugar buns were we decided to split one amongst us. (3) The sugar bun was super fresh, very light with a tasty frosting.
For breakfast we had the everything omelet, chipped beef and Ohh La La eggs benedict. We picked and shared each others food.
Chipped beef is… well, chipped beef. Unless you get it here. It was buttery loaded with beef and just awesome. Everyone in the party loved it with the one who ordered it saying it was the best she ever had.
The eggs benedict started with a croissant layered with brie, ham, poached eggs topped with hollandaise sauce. Another dish that everyone loved and one that was prepared well.
The everything omelet was a mix of tomato, green pepper, mushrooms, onion, sausage with pepper jack cheese. I was expecting these to be inserted or folded into the middle of the omelet. Instead the bulk was scrambled into the eggs with the cheese in the middle. Not bad, just different. We polished it off but it was lacking when compared to the buttery chipped beef and the tasty eggs benedict.
All of the meals came with home fries. I normally kill my home fries with ketchup. These were evenly browned, crispy chunks of potato that were lightly seasoned. (hint of Old Bay?) The only home fries that I never coated in ketchup or hot sauce. In fact everyone in out party was eating them BEFORE their main dish and it was agreed that they were excellent.
We heard that they made their own corned beef hash from scratch and couldn’t resist a side order of that. Like all the other dishes, it was tasty and well executed. Definitely superior to the normal canned version you usually are served.
The owner cruised the tables checking to make sure that everyone enjoyed the meals. And explained that the «Tea Service» was a way to honor her mother.
Alright, I got longwinded here so lets wrap it up:
Pros:
Quirky, friendly laid back atmosphere.
Good food with served their own special twist.
Proper tea service
Good service
Cons:
Its out of the way and I worry that this treasure will have a hard time building the customer base needed to keep it around.
I will visit this one again and hopefully soon.

Wow! I feel like I found a hidden gem. Who would have thought that you could get such a great breakfast at a regional airport! The sugar buns were light with a fantastic icing. My wife had the buttermilk pancakes which were great, but the showstoppers for us were the homemade hash browns and the everything omelette. One of the best breakfasts that I’ve had in a long time. My wife loved her hot tea in the fine china. Nice touch!

Stopped in not knowing what to expect and was pleasantly surprised. This little, airport diner is quaint and clean. There were many breakfast options. The cream chip beef is a must have (yum) and the eggs in a nest were good and reasonably priced. We shared a sticky bun; however we should have just ordered more cream chip beef. We will definitely be back!

Awesome breakfast and absolutely lived the sugar buns!
Went there for the first time this summer and what a cute place. Service was excellent!

Old-​school diner with views of the private airport runway, harkens back to a time when flying was a novelty. Eclectic tea china makes for a fun twist to this traditional diner experience, served in memorial of the owner’s mother.
Ambiance is quiet and cosy, food is home-​cooked and simply served. The sugar bun is a must-​have.

I was looking for a breakfast spot on a Sunday morning after spending the weekend with friends. They recommended this spot to me, although they hadn’t been there yet. My 5 year old son and I decided to try it out.
This café is tiny and located in the airport. I arrived and had to wait about 8 minutes to be sat, even thought there were only three other parties in the restaurant, and several open tables. There seemed to only be one waitress working, and she was trying her best, but was moving slow. We were finally sat. After looking over the menu, we waited another 15 minutes or so before the waitress FINALLY came over to take our order. I watched as she attended to every other table before she came back to ours. .. Disappointing, especially since my son was starving! She finally took our order. We waited, and waited. .. and waited. My son had drank all his juice because he was so hungry, and not once was a refill ever offered.
FINALLY the food came. We ate, and it was good, but nothing special. Thinking that perhaps we missed whatever «magic» this place is supposed to have, I ordered a sugar bun to go. I split it with my son. It is basically a croissant-​type «bun» with a smear of cream cheese frosting on top. Meh. .. Not great. The whole experience took about 1 hour and 20 mins. So much for «Sugar Buns,» we thought it was a bust. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless they have a LOT of time on their hands to wait around. Oh. .. This place ain’t cheap either — $ 35 for children’s pancake and juice, an eggs Benedict, cup of joe and a pastry. Do yourself a favor and skip it.

Giving a one-​star rating to this awful place is more than it deserves. Both the service & food were terrible.
I flew in with my wife and young son one weekend morning hoping for an enjoyable, memorable brunch. What we got was waiting 75 minutes (that’s not a typo) for a bowl of mac n’ cheese for my son and two BLT’s. I had a rental aircraft that I needed to return to an airport across the bay and was literally running out of time with which to eat. I informed the two waitresses on duty, who literally shrugged. They could’ve cared less. The food, once it finally arrived, was terrible.
My experience there was once of the worst «dining» experiences of my life. They’ll never get my money ever again, and should do the general public and aviation community a service and just close up shop. Disgraceful.

My husband knows better than to visit Sugar Buns and return without a sticky bun. They are substantial and simple — great pit stop if you’re deciding between fuel locations.

Good lobster roll (for MD), crabzilla sandwich huge & very cute with pimento eyes on toothpicks & lots of bacon for the legs. Order more than one sugar bun for 4 people because they are delicious! Menu very clever, sandwiches are named after airports with the ingredients matching the location. A little pricey but well worth the experience. Just don’t tell Guy Fieri about it!