Where Snacks Get the Royal Treatment Rosie's Royal Chocolates, Southington April 2022 We live in an age of repurposing empty factories. These buildings are very often hulking ugly brick structures with massive open floors and giant windows. Some have become loft apartment buildings, some now house breweries or … [Read more...]
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Coles Road Brewing Company
What a Long Strange Trip It's Been Coles Road Brewing Company, Berlin June 2021 The married couple who own and brew at Coles Road Brewing in Berlin, Paul and Lea Marchinkoski have slowly built up and improved upon a pretty well respected little central Connecticut brewery. Sure, we have other husband and wife … [Read more...]
Sichuan: Song
Sing It! Song, West Hartford April 2021 I am wholly unqualified to write this page. I know, I know... I've said this many times before on this website, and especially when it comes to writing about restaurants, and especially about cuisines about which I know nothing. I am a white man. I grew up mostly in Delaware … [Read more...]
Clocktown Brewing Company
Countrytime in Thomaston Clocktown Brewing Company, Thomaston June 2021 Tick, tick, tick... the countdown to when I will say something terrible about Clocktown. It's surely a question on many of your minds. Because surely everyone reading this is aware that I've been friends with one of the owners, Ed Daigneault … [Read more...]
Farmer’s Cow Calfé & Creamery
Ice Cream with Calfvin Farmer's Cow Calfé & Creamery, Mansfield March 2021 Just another typical 75-degree March day in Connecticut. After some hiking up in Chaplin, I rewarded my son with some ice cream. That's just how these outings have to work sometimes. Fortunately, there's often a new-to-me homemade ice cream … [Read more...]
Al’s Hot Dog Stand
Relish Connecticut's Bounty Al's Hot Dog Stand, Naugatuck April 2022 I started "completing" the Roadfood "Eat Before You Die" list what? a decade ago? I actually plowed through the 60 or so places that was still open and then Michael and Jane Stern released another version of their fun book with a slew of … [Read more...]
Third Place by Half Full Brewery
"Only Wanna Co-Work With Youuuuu" Third Place by Half Full Brewery, Stamford April 2022 In October 2024, Half Full closed their original location, leaving on this one open. Since, I guess, a little beer is brewed here, I'll keep this in the breweries list though the huge majority of Half Full beer is now … [Read more...]
Cheshire Craft Brewing
Enhance! Cheshire Craft Brewing Company, Cheshire March 2022 In the race to be the first to open a brewery in Cheshire, there was a clear winner: Cheshire Craft Brewery. Now, I don’t think anyone viewed it as a race, and I know that these guys set things in motion well before the behemoth Counter Weight Brewing … [Read more...]
Lakeside Diner
Lake With a Side of Home Fries Lakeside Diner, Stamford April 2022 Lakeside Diner appears on the Roadfood Eat Before You Die List for its donuts. Recency bias is a very real thing that we all suffer from. Try as I might to fight it, it's impossible to completely disengage from its clutches. If you're not … [Read more...]
Fat Orange Cat Brewing (Closed)
FOC! (It's Closed) Fat Orange Cat Brewing Company, East Hampton Multiple Visits The brewery closed its taproom in December 2021, moving the entire operation to a contract at Twelve Percent Brewing Project in North Haven. FOC was located in a quiet residential section of East Hampton. FOC always closed … [Read more...]
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