About
The Root Cafe is a café at 321 Chestnut Street, Friendsville, MD 21531, just off First Avenue next to Anchor Church and close to I-68. It serves coffee, breakfast and lunch from a locally sourced menu, for eat-in or take-out, and is set up as a place where locals and visitors alike can sit down and connect.
Food and Coffee With Local Roots
The cafe says it is committed to fresh, local ingredients, and its menu covers specialty coffee and other drinks alongside breakfast and lunch plates. Dishes the cafe names include its Kendall Trail Avocado Toast and The Cheese Dream, which it calls an 1800s classic. Ice cream is served too.
A Gathering Place in Friendsville
The Root describes its purpose as connecting people to God, to each other and to "the food of our roots." The cafe is in a house, and the owners say the grand champion oak tree in the yard is over 260 years old. Their stated aim is for anyone who comes to town to hunt, fish or vacation to find a place worth coming back to.
Address
321 Chestnut Street, Friendsville, MD 21531