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CT Homemade Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails

Brown Cow Café at Ekonk Turkey Farm

July 23, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

Ekonk! If You Love Ice Cream Brown Cow Café at Ekonk Turkey Farm, Sterling March 19, 2011 All you can eat FREE HOMEMADE ICE CREAM SUNDAES? Corny food bloggers would say, "Yes please!" CTMQ says, well, I can't type the expletives here but there were some excited ones. Especially since Hoang was about 9 months … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: Animals, Birds, CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian, Farms, Hoang, Sterling

Rich Farm Ice Cream

July 21, 2011 by Steve 5 Comments

You Don't Have to be Rich, To be my Swirl Rich Farm Ice Cream, Oxford November 2010 Other locations have opened in Bristol, Middlefield... and Placentia, California! As I was happily going along eating up delicious ice cream listed as “the best” by Jane and Michael Stern in their Roadfood book, I kept getting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian, Farms, Hoang, Oxford

Griffin Farmstead

July 16, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

I Wonder What Gryphon Milk is Like Griffin Farmstead, East Granby June 4, 2011 Talk about confusing. The one thing I’m sure of is that this place is indeed called Griffin Farmstead. And I know the retail area is on Copper Hill Road across from the Griffin Road intersection. And I assume that Griffin Road is named … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: Animals, CT Cheese Trail, Damian, East Granby, Farms

Collins Creamery

June 5, 2011 by Steve 2 Comments

Dreamery Creamery Collins Creamery, Enfield September 2010 Collins Creamery deserves a revisit and rewrite someday. Of all the ice cream places on the "official" "Eat Before It's Too Late List" that we've eaten, as well as my list of "other" great ice creams, I think I've received the second most nudges to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian, Enfield, Hoang

Ice Cream at Buttonwood Farm

June 5, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

We've Buttoned Up the Ice Cream List Buttonwood Farm, Griswold August 2010 When is eating delicious ice cream a sad affair? When it's the last of the 7 Roadfood "Eat Before It's Too Late" ice cream joints on the list I'm completing. I think Hoang shed a tear. A butterfat tear. Of course, Hoang convinced me … [Read more...]

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

Liuzzi’s Cheese

March 17, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

Mama Mia! Liuzzi’s Cheese, North Haven December 2010 North Haven doesn’t have a huge representation on CTMQ. A few little museums and some trails here and there. And there’s this: Liuzzi’s Cheese – which is really much, much more than just cheese – tucked away amidst some ugly industrial and office buildings … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Cheese Trail, North Haven, Other Companies and Businesses

Sweet Pea Farm

March 16, 2011 by Steve 5 Comments

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Sweet Pea Farm Cheese at House of Hayes Farm, North Granby November 21, 2010 Sometimes Hoang just wants to go for a ride. Since gas costs money and it’s really never a good idea to “just drive,” I take the time to plot a route and hit some CTMQ-worthy spots along the way. It had been a while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Cheese Trail, Damian, Farms, Granby, Hoang

M&K Dairy – Ladies of Levita Road (Closed)

March 15, 2011 by Steve 2 Comments

A Hard Cheese is Good to Find… M&K Dairy, Ladies of Levita Road, Lebanon March 12, 2011 This place closed in... I have no idea. Let's guess 2015. … Oh, LeviTA Road, not LeviTRA Road. Oh well. I found this tucked away dairy purveyor on only my second try. Quite frankly, if they didn’t have the name of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, CT Cheese Trail, Farms, Lebanon

Ice Cream at Dr. Mike’s (Bethel)

September 17, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

Doctor, Doctor, Gimme the Ice Cream (Pt 2) Dr. Mike's, Bethel September 2010 (Don’t expect too much different here from the other Dr. Mike’s entry if you’ve read that one - from our visit to their Monroe location.) I thought it was a good idea to hit up both Dr. Mike’s locations. My reasoning was simple: … [Read more...]

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

Ice Cream at Dr. Mike’s v.Monroe (Closed)

July 24, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

Doctor, Doctor, Gimme the Ice Cream (Pt 1) Dr. Mike’s, Monroe July 2010 (Don’t expect too much different here from the other Dr. Mike’s entry if you’ve read that one – from our visit to their Bethel location. which is a good thing, since Dr. Mike's in Monroe has closed - Bethel location is still going … [Read more...]

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

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