Restaurants, Foods, Diners, Taverns, Ice Cream, Cheese, Chocolate, Breweries, Brewpubs, Cideries, Kombucheries, Wineries, Meaderies, Distilleries, & Soda Makers
This page now serves as a fairly robust jumping off point for the many food and drink sections of CTMQ. The state has maintained some culinary “trails” over the years and I’ve added a few more based on some “Best of” books as well as my own interests.
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Aero Diner, Windham
Put on your elastic waistband pants as we eat at Connecticut’s Best, Historic, and Unique Restaurants!
I’m eating and traveling through Roadfood’s “Eat Before You Die” lists and the 1000 Places to See Before You Die in the USA list, as well as our historic restaurants as well. Let’s throw in Connecticut’s unique and nationally recognized foods, a “Connecticut Restaurant Tour of the World,” and our olde timey soda makers too. Even if I find it difficult to write about food, Let’s get eatin’!
Who doesn’t love Homemade Ice Cream, Cheese, and Chocolate?!
Finally, something on CTMQ my whole family can get behind! While the state does maintain the Chocolate Trail, the other two I’ve made up and maintained for years. And my family loves me for it. Let’s hit the Connecticut Homemade Ice Cream, Cheese, and Chocolate Trails!
C’mon and belly up to the counter at Connecticut’s Classic Diners & True Taverns
Both diners and taverns seem to be disappearing at an alarming clip. Which is pretty terrible, as a bunch are iconic, historic, and/or just plain great places to go. So hurry up and check them all out with me!
Let’s celebrate and drink at Connecticut’s Breweries, Brewpubs & Cideries!
From less than 10 breweries and brewpubs when I started documenting them to over 100 in 2021. Pure craziness… Join me for a beer or four at each and every one!
Come relax and sip at Connecticut’s Wineries & Meaderies!
Often prettier (and more established) than our breweries, the state’s wineries continue to plug along and I am determined to visit all of them!
Oh, you want the hard stuff? At Connecticut’s Distilleries?
There are only a relative handful of distilleries in the state as I write this… but there were only a handful of breweries a few years ago too. Let’s go boozin’ on the Connecticut Spirits Trail!
Jim says
October 11, 2009 at 10:32 amCheck out a C-Town grocery store for some unusual food! Try the menudo… Watch out though, the one in New Britain had biting flies that took a chunk from my scalp!
Ed McGoe says
April 28, 2011 at 6:16 pmHello;
If you want the very best ice cream on the planet….visit RICH FARM ICE CREAM on ROUTE 67 in OXFORD. We have not had better anywhere including the highly touted 4c’s in Centerville,Ma.
Ed
BobbyG says
March 9, 2012 at 1:14 pmI personally adore Rich Farm Ice Cream, by far the best ice cream I have had in CT and a close second only to Loan Oak’s up in New Hampshire. Love it!!
Staci says
June 25, 2012 at 4:27 pmYummY!!! Rich’s ice cream is the best (Oxford), Big Dipper (Prospect), and I still love Dippy’s ice cream on Lakewood Rd Waterbury, which used to be Carvel!!
Think I need to go get some ice cream, right now!
Richard Beyer says
January 2, 2013 at 7:14 pmThe best ice cream is Salem Valley Frams Ice Cream on 20 Darling Road in Salem, CT 860-859-2980 next to the interchange of Route 11.
Andrea Swiedler says
June 7, 2013 at 10:16 amYou should try Clamps on Route 202 in New Milford, just south of Marbledale. There really is no sign, a very small one you won’t see when driving by on the side of the building that says “Clamps est. 1939”. We all wait impatiently for Clamps to open, usually sometime at the end of April. The chalk board comes out announcing the opening which starts my mouth to watering. It is not just a great place to eat, it is a long standing tradition for many who live here or visit the area, especially those who are heading north to nearby Lake Waramaug.
Since there is no sign, no phone, no indication of where it will be, I will give you a hint, it is just about across the street from Sawyer Hill Rd in New Milford!
(and don’t forget to try the onion rings!)
John Charlie says
December 15, 2017 at 1:47 pmRich Farm Ice Cream, by far the best ice cream I have had in CT