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Northshore October 2025
  For upward of 20 years, The Friendly Toast has been a comfort food hangout in the heart of Portsmouth, plating up pancakes and eggs with buttery bread to loyal followers whose appetites often were piqued by a wait to get in. The restaurant later added a Cambridge location, and, after being purchased by local restaurateurs in 2013, has now brought its combination of eclectic décor and tasty food to the Burlington Mall. The Friendly Toast catches your eye with vintage kitsch that ranges from the odd – a selection of dog paintings covers one wall in Burlington—to the welcome-y nostalgic, such as Storyland stickers
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