Bickford's Grille

Bickford’s history dates back to the 1920’s when Samuel Bickford opened his first Bickford’s cafeteria. Throughout the next 40 years, Sam, and eventually his son, Harold, worked to expand their cafeteria chain throughout the Northeast and into California. However, it was not until 1959 that Harold introduced a new concept to New England, the first Bickford’s Pancake House – the first such specialty restaurant in New England which opened in Peabody, Massachusetts in October, 1959. The concept was a huge success. Over the next three decades, Bickford’s Pancake House chain slowly grew to include 30 restaurants throughout New England and became a family restaurant that focused on breakfast, along with lunch and dinner offerings. In the 1990’s the number grew to almost 70 and it continued to be known as a great New England breakfast tradition. At that time the menu expanded to include fresh turkey, roasted daily in the restaurants, which is used for the turkey club sandwich, hot open faced turkey sandwich and our traditional turkey dinner. These are still some of the all- time favorites on our menu.