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Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods
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Lobster Roll at Westbrook Lobster

August 25, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

I'm Not Sure I'd Pay $17 Bucks for any Other Sandwich 346 E. Main St., Clinton, CT Cost: $16.99 each "I'm only seventeen, you ain't seen love, ain't seen nothing like me She's only seventeen, seventeen" Those horrible and creepy lyrics are from 80's hair-metal band Winger's song, "Seventeen." In this case, … [Read more...]

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

Lobster Roll at Johnny Ad’s

August 25, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Eating Lobster Rolls Really Ad’s Up Johnny Ad's, Old Saybrook With each successive trip to the beach this summer, we've been trying to pick off CTMQ items. A Freedom Trail site here, a rock of interest there. But mostly, and keep my beautiful wife happy with my pursuits, we've been knocking eats off the "500 … [Read more...]

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

Cheeseburger at Shady Glen

August 11, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

I Feel Shady Eating Cow Shady Glen, Manchester As CTMQ readers may know, I don't eat dead cows (or pigs or goats for that matter). However, for the hugely important purposes of the site, I've cast aside my aversion to the meat industry (really, I don't care about the cows themselves so much) in an effort to sample … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Historic Restaurants and Bars, Manchester, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Shady Glen

Ice Cream at Shady Glen

August 11, 2009 by Steve 13 Comments

Made in the Shady Shady Glen, Manchester August 2009 Shady Glen makes a few appearances on CTMQ. One for their Unique and delicious fried cheese plate, one for their burgers being one of Roadfood's best burgers, and this one - for its ice cream being on that same Roadfood list. I'm sure I'll … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian, Historic Restaurants and Bars, Manchester, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Shady Glen

Polish Food at Polish National Home (Closed)

August 10, 2009 by Steve 6 Comments

ZachwycajÄ…cy! Polish National Home, Hartford June 2009 The building was sold to a church in December 2022 and no longer exists at the PNH. In researching this write-up I came across the same theme over and over. So I'll follow tradition and dispense with the mild cliché right off the bat - The Polish National … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, Hartford, Historic Restaurants and Bars, Poland, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die

Hosmer Mountain Soda

August 7, 2009 by Steve 21 Comments

I Wonder if There's an Actual Hosmer Mountain Around Here? Hosmer Mountain Soda, Manchester/Windham My title question was answered by a Hosmer employee in the comments. Yes, there is. See below. No disrespect to Manchester and Willimantic, but Hosmer Mountain Soda may be the best thing about those two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Damian, Manchester, Soda, Windham

Maugle Sierra Vineyards

August 6, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

I Straugle with the Name Maugle Maugle Sierra Vineyards, Ledyard July 11, 2009 "Maugle." I've tried and tried to find the derivation of the word and have come up with nothing. Perhaps it's a family name? A rather non-Spanish sounding Spanish word of some sort? I don't know. All I could find was this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Wineries Tagged With: Hoang, Ledyard

Knipschildt Chocolatier/Chocopologie Cafe

August 6, 2009 by Steve 3 Comments

No Chocopologies Here House of Knipschildt/Knipschildt Chocolatier/Chocopologie Cafe, Norwalk June 13, 2009 Fritz Knipchildt's chocolate ventures have gone through a myriad of changes over the years and now, in 2020, the business is called The House of Knipschildt. An outpost in New Haven wasn't open long and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails, Superlatives Tagged With: CT Chocolate Trail, Norwalk, restaurants, unique restaurants and/or food

UConn Dairy Bar

July 24, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

I Dream of Jonathan. There. I Said It. UConn Dairy Bar, Mansfield May 24, 2009 & Other Visits CTMQ is far too big and often unwieldy. It has sprawled from being just about museums into all sorts of directions and sections. I recently began eating Jane and Michael Stern's "Eat Before You Die" Roadfood items across … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: Animals, Colleges & Universities, CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian, Farms, Hoang, Mansfield, Storrs, UConn

UConn Dairy Bar Cheese

July 23, 2009 by Steve 7 Comments

Juustoleipa! Juustoleipa! Cheese at The UConn Dairy Bar, Mansfield Since Connecticut's cheese makers haven't banded together yet to create the Connecticut Cheese Trail (a la the CT Wine Trail), I'm striking out on my own. And my first strike was at my alma mater: UConn. And the moderately famous Dairy Bar to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, CT Cheese Trail, Farms, Finnish, Mansfield, Storrs, UConn

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