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Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods
CT Homemade Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails
Wineries & Meaderies
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Classic Diners & True Taverns*

*Fries at Super Duper Weenie

July 5, 2009 by Steve 3 Comments

Super Stupor (Pt 2) Super Duper Weenie Fairfield If you read a bunch of these Roadfood's Best posts in succession, you may get the impression that I'm a bit snooty about my food and/or I think the Sterns of Roadfood are a little crazy. The truth lies somewhere in between... I like french fries, but I'm not a … [Read more...]

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

Tour Stop 12: One Last Meat Up for Soccer

June 25, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

Game 19 Brazil Grille, Hartford July 8, 2006 Our last stop on the World Cup Tour 2006 was, for me, the most anticipated. I had previewed the Brazil Grill restaurant the week prior by popping my head in during the group play Japan game. Even though it was a Thursday afternoon and the game meant absolutely nothing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: brazil, Ethnic Restaurants, Hartford, restaurants, World Cup 2006

Tour Stop 11: God Save the Beckham

June 25, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Game 18 The Half Door, Hartford June 27, 2006 As with most Americans, I'm a bit of a mutt; A Germano-Scotch-English one. I suppose I'm mostly English, but I look a bit more Scottish I'm told. At any rate, I find a part of me cheering on the Brits at this point in the World Cup. We pasty white guys need to stick … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Non-CT Tagged With: Ethnic Restaurants, Hartford, ireland, restaurants, World Cup 2006

Tour Stop 9: Ed Has a Heart After All

June 25, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Game 16 Goal International Sports Bar, Hartford June 22, 2006 At this point, I'm only writing this blog entry for the sake of consistency. Because our first attempt at a "Brazilian day" was a bit of a failure. Albeit a fun and delicious failure. We opted to watch the game versus Australia on Sunday at Goal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Non-CT Tagged With: Ethnic Restaurants, Hartford, Peru, restaurants, World Cup 2006

Hot Dog at Super Duper Weenie

June 21, 2009 by Steve 5 Comments

Super Stupor? Super Duper Weenie Fairfield It bears repeating - and will be repeated again - I am not a meat eater. I hadn't eaten a beef/pork hot dog for about 10 years before beginning this list of Roadfood's best, um, road food around the country (though, of course, I'm sticking to Connecticut only). So I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink Tagged With: Another Freaking Hot Dog, Fairfield, restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die

*Pancakes at Gail’s… Sort of

June 18, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

Pattycake Pattycake, Baker Steve Gail's on the Common, Ridgefield My Kitchen 2016 Update: This seems like a wholly unnecessary "update," but here goes. As you'll read, Gail's on the Common was closed before the book that contained the list I completed was published. The owner kept a sister restaurant (which had … [Read more...]

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

Doughnuts at Tastease

June 11, 2009 by Steve 7 Comments

Tasteasy Like Every Morning Tastease, 70 New Park Ave, Hartford 2016 Update: Tastease was for sale. Then it wasn't. Then it was closing. Then it wasn't. Then it went through that whole cycle again. And again. Finally, after years of threatening to do so, in March 2016 Tony and Susan sold Tastease. They … [Read more...]

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

*Truffle at Bridgewater Chocolates

June 11, 2009 by Steve 4 Comments

A Truffle not to be Trifled With Bridgewater Chocolates, Bridgewater (Brookfield and West Hartford retail stores) I found out the coolest thing this year; our year of frugality. The traditional sixth wedding anniversary gift is something steel and the modern gift is, get this, candy. Now, we're not a couple who … [Read more...]

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

Hot Dogs at Capitol Lunch

June 11, 2009 by Steve 6 Comments

Delicious with a "Capitol" D Capitol Lunch, New Britain Michael Stern, the food critic who wrote the book that has compelled me to eat certain "must eat" things around the state, sure loves hot dogs. Cripes, of the 60 or so things to eat in Connecticut alone, SIXTEEN of them are gosh darn hot dogs! He … [Read more...]

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

Breweries, Brewpubs & Cideries

June 9, 2009 by Steve 32 Comments

Beer. And Lots Of It I began this particular page in 2008 when there were four breweries in Connecticut: Cottrell, Hooker, New England, and Olde Burnside. Only one had a tasting room (Hooker) and each was pumping out only a handful of beers. There were a few brewpubs operating as well. And we only had five … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink Tagged With: Breweries, Cideries, kombucha

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