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Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods

Chicken Pot Pie at Dottie’s Diner

May 28, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

Chicken Pot, Chicken Pot, Chicken Pot Piiiiiiiiiiiiie Dottie's Diner, Woodbury Since this page was written, Dottie's has moved. They now have a bigger and better space on the same road, slightly south of the original location. They've also redecorated in way that tells me that my family is not welcome at Dottie's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Damian, dottie's diner, Hoang, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Woodbury

A Wiener in Mianus

May 15, 2010 by Steve 5 Comments

I Had to Have a Wiener in Mianus [With apologies to Jackass and others who have previously documented this same experience.] I just spent an entire day with my friend Rob C doing CTMQ things in Greenwich and Stamford. We saw a bunch of museums and several other types of things you’ve come to expect from this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Another Freaking Hot Dog, CTMQ After DArk, Greenwich, unique restaurants and/or food

Ice Cream at Big Dipper Ice Cream Factory

May 3, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

Prospecting For Deliciousness Big Dipper Ice Cream Factory, Prospect May 2010 This is getting tricky. Hitting places “on a list,” which has become sort of a CTMQ household joke, to spice up the drives back up from visiting my family in Delaware is starting to become more difficult. For obvious reasons, each time … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian, Hoang, Prospect, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die

Donuts at Coffee An’ Donuts

March 23, 2010 by Steve Leave a Comment

Coffee An a D would be nice Westport 2016 Update I don't really have much of an update for this page, as Coffee An' is still named Coffee An' and it's in the same location and still has a terrible parking lot and still makes good donuts. So I'll tell a story. We (all four of us) stopped in recently on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Damian, doughnuts, Hoang, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Westport

Donuts at Neil’s Donut and Bake Shop

March 23, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

Boola Boola for Neil’s Yalesville (Wallingford) 2016 Update Neil's is another excellent Connecticut donut purveyor. Not only do I love their donuts, I love their location. Right off of the Wilbur Cross in Wallingford, they make a for a great stop on my way to New England Brewing Company. Or to my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Damian, doughnuts, Hoang, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Wallingford

*Fries at Swanky Franks (Closed)

March 16, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

Less Swank, More Salt Swanky Franks, Norwalk Swanky Frank's closed in 2017. I promise: I'll return to Swanky Franks someday and have a proper sit down diner experience and order these fries again. Promise. (Update: this never happened... see above.) Because this review of their fries - one of Roadfood's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Hoang, Norwalk, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die

Apple Pie at Beardsley’s Cider Mill

February 21, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

A Pretty, Crumby Pie Beardsley's Cider Mill, Shelton October 2009 I revisited in 2024 and it's much the same, except they've added a distillery in a separate building a few hundred yards away. It's called White Hills Distillery here's my visit. Ah, bliss. An October weekend in New England with a trip … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Damian, Hoang, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Shelton

Pizza at Carminuccio’s

February 11, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

Veggie Tales Carminuccio's Pizza & Subs, Newtown It sure is nice to live in a state which arguably has the best pizza in America. I usually get no argument when I say that except in New York City. Elsewhere, they just look surprised, make some lame effort at talking up their local pie, and then go crawl away once I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Newtown, Pizza, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die

Hot Dogs at Blackie’s

January 14, 2010 by Steve 4 Comments

Grinning Like a Cheshire (Hot) Dog Cheshire, on Old Waterbury Road Cost: Really cheap Yup. More hot dogs. And I think at this point working my way through the Sterns’ Eat Before You Die list, I’m not quite halfway through all the hot dogs on the list! At least they are cheap and easy. Imagine if they had such … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Another Freaking Hot Dog, Cheshire, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die

Mrs. Bridges’ Pantry (Closed)

December 22, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Cheerio! Have You Anything to go with my Cheerios? “A Little Slice of Britain,” Woodstock November 2009 Mrs. Bridges' closed in early 2019. I try to limit the stuff I write about in these untamed sections of the blog. I really do. The stores have to be very, very unique or interesting to make the CTMQ grade … [Read more...]

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