An inviting and welcoming staff. Serving area is clean and decor is bright and cheerful. Came in…read morewhile hiking the area to get some coffee and a breakfast sandwich. Both were excellent!!! Brought my wife in for a lunch the next day and she liked the service and food also. We will definitely be back again!!!

Great place for breakfast. They have a self serve coffee bar; which I love! They serve the usual…read morebreakfast fare with some specials. Their French toast is great. Their lunch specials look and sound amazing. I'll have to go back and try them first lunch. Service is great. Cool modern diner vibe inside. Ample parking in plaza parking lot.

A local place. Been around for years. Changed owners a few times but the decor, and service and…read moremenu remains the same. Good prices. Good food and friendly service. What you would expext from a local New England diner/Famiky Restaurant Meatloaf and mashed potatoes are my favorite dinner. Breakfast is always good!

GREAT food and wonderful owners and servers. Our lunch bunch goes there all the time. LOVE THE…read moreTURKEY DINNER. Home cooking!!!

Lunch today at Monets table was wonderful! I hadn't been there in decades. Went there today for…read morelunch with some friends & will definitely be back. Previously, I remember going to a wedding shower there and having dinner another time. Since then, I thought they were just doing catering, but fortunately they are open for lunch (I believe Wednesday-Saturday?). And they have a brunch on the weekend. The place was full - recommend making a reservation. We started with the soup(s) they had - 3 types & we each had a different one. A chicken, beef , and vegetable one. I had the chicken salad sandwich special- delicious! And my friends had the 2 different quiche specials. Everything came with a side of a macaroni salad - very good. We split the almond joy crepe - would recommend!! The restaurant is located in a yellow colonial house - beautiful & quaint. We ate inside as it was cold & rainy, however on a nice warm day - the h garden would be wonderful to have lunch.

Fabulous lunch! We were "first-timers" today - but we'll definitely be back after today's meal. The…read moresoups, sandwiches, salads, and desserts were all wonderful. Everything tasted so fresh and perfectly seasoned. My favorite today was the Peanut (African) Soup. I could have eaten gallons of it, but decided it best to leave a bit for others. We're an hour drive away - but worth it.

Upon entering we were greeted with a smile! Seated quickly! Menu provided the Irish coffee with…read morewhipped cream is excellent! Breakfast served with a smile!

So very disappointed in the Biscuits and gravy. When I opened the to go container, there was maybe…read morea Tablespoon of gravy for the biscuits making it soggy and inedible. The gravy should cover the biscuits so you're not able to see them. Next time use a ladle please!

Great, family run business who gives back to their community. Josh the owner is just a great human…read more We love to support local whenever we can. Items can be pricey, but you get what you pay for. Some of my favorites: oatmeal bread, blueberry pancake cupcakes, strawberry rolls, early riser rolls - to name a few. We also love their apple crumble pie, their pepperoni picnic bread, and their sugar cookie pie around the holidays! For me the coffee is hit or miss - sometimes it's amazing other times I don't love it ... maybe have to do with the syrups I choose to be honest. They currently have a bakery location in Ellington and an additional drive thru location down the road in Ellington, a location in Stafford, and will be opening in Hartford in 2026. You can also find them at the outdoor Ellington farmers markets on Saturdays. Highly recommend checking them out. Their staff are all beyond pleasant as well. Their locations or warm and inviting and they pay attention to detail.

Still pricy, still tasty…read more Gone a few more times over the year or so. It's a good bakery, stuff is always fresh and the flavors in each of their cupcakes, muffins, breads, and other misc bakery items is present and forward. They know that they are good, and charge accordingly. Given that there's no direct competition in a 10 mile radius (and I would argue even past that 10 mile radius the pickings are slim) the price is justifiable for the quality you get. As someone who treks a lot around the state, I find that there are many bakeries that do similar if not better items for comparable if not lower prices. But to ask someone to drive 30-60 minutes just to get something a couple bucks cheaper that's tastes about the same? It's a hard sale. I will say that Luanne's is the best in that area of the state, not including the small boutique places that are well off the beaten path. I still come here for the view and ambiance, but I don't order much of their food.

Still good, but still lacking…read more Doing my revisits, and Mitchell's is one of those places that I go to hoping for something new but being disappointed. They do the basics well, and they do try. But anything beyond the norm is usually not so great. My last outing here, got their tenderloin Benedict and a grilled banana nut muffin. The muffin was really good, toasted in butter, sweet but not overly so, no off flavors and nice and warm. The Benedict eggs and English muffin were cooked well. The hollandaise was creamy but needed some salt, and the tenderloin was overcooked and not seasoned. The marinade didn't bring much in the way of flavor, and although the steak did have a little crust it did so at the detriment of the cook of the steak. It was good, but lacking. If you stick to standards you'll do well. It's a good local spot for breakfast fare though

Always a deal for breakfast. With senior discount three of us had plenty to eat with coffee for…read moreunder $30.00. My sister loved the furious sandwich which was packed with egg, bacon cheese and chipotle sauce. My sandwich had plenty of fresh avocado and tomato on grilled rye bread with bacon and egg and cheese.Karen served us with a smile. This place is always full.

Still a top spot in my mind for portion to price ratio. Took home enough food for three days worth…read moreof work lunches tonight. Took babe out here for the first time. She was blown away and stuffed her face like she's never eaten before the food was so good. She absolutely loved the house bread as well as her fettuccine Alfredo. She took a bite of my angel hair pasta and her comment was "they make a good pasta!" I enjoyed my hefty portion of chicken Parm. A couples sat down who's never been there before and asked if I ordered two portions lol cheerfully let them know this was one dinner. We both enjoyed our bartender who has worked there for ten years. We watched her hustle around while enjoying the company around the bar. Well worth the stop and highly recommend getting off route 84 traveling through the area to come.

First visit here today after hearing about how great it was. We were out in CT for a sports event…read moreso we decided to stop for lunch. Starting with the potato skins as an app. They came out completely over cooked and sitting in oil. We couldn't eat them. Strike one. Then we ordered our lunch, sharing a bunch of side dishes, and I also ordered a tossed salad. The meatballs were delicious, the sausage was good. The garlic bread was inedible, sad! Good Italian food needs good Italian bread. This was some kind of focaccia toast with seasoning on it and also over cooked. Strike two. My salad was large and had good amount of veggies. However, the lettuce was translucent and somewhat soggy. It was very weird, I had to google what makes lettuce become translucent, and it sounds like it happens when lettuce gets frozen. Strike three. Our server was very nice, and he apologized for the over cooked app. He also said they have a couple new staff in the kitchen. Not his fault! The 3 stars are for the service.

This was a great way to start my Mother's Day Morning. Food was excellent, and I would so order…read moreanother waffle here. The strawberries and syrup made it so much better. They cooked the eggs and the bacon just right and the ambiance was very relaxing too. Good spot to go for breakfast in the beautiful farm town of Ellington. Service was great too.

Breakfast this morning w three friends. Two live in Ellington nearby, soooooo…read more Service is exceptional. Several of the waitstaff have been here many years, and know what they're doing. My 3 egg Western omelet was perfectly cooked, and loaded w diced ham, peppers, onion and cheddar. Home fries ok, nothing special. Everyone enjoyed their choices....pancakes, breakfast sandwich, etc. Coffee bottomless. Cash only (ATM on-site). No egg surcharge. Ample parking. 4.5 stars

First time stopping by and it did not disappoint! The restaurant was very clean and welcoming. We…read morestarted with the Smoked chicken chowder, which the chef split for us, and it was fantastic!!! They had a $20 Lunch "sampler" with 3 wings, 2 tacos, and some boardwalk style fries. I had the citrus BBQ sauce on the wings and they were really good!! The tacos, I had the pork and the chicken, were super flavorful. The fries, wow the fries were super good!! This was just a great experience. The chef owner is very personable and professional. Definitely worth the visit!!!

Stopped in on a early Saturday evening. Order "House Salsa" appetizer ($5) Salsa came 'house-made'…read moretortilla chips, served on a sheet pan. Chip portion appeared small, larger portion or smaller pan would help. Chips were cold, thinner than most chips I've had. The salsa was nothing special, a little too spicy for the wife. When we ordered our tacos, I was disappointed to learn they were out of steak. They only had chicken, pork and shrimp selections. I ordered "Street Taco", my wife "Southern Shrimp". Since they were out of grilled steak, I asked for recommendation, for Street taco filling which was pork. Tacos are served on soft flour tortillas unless hard is requested. For $1.50 more, I ordered it "Gringo Style"- which includes shredded cheese, sour cream and shredded lettuce. Taco was nothing extraordinary- pork was a little dry, a little too spicy for my taste. More "Gringo" ingredients would have been better. Taco wasn't what I expected, but then again, my experience has mostly been with Taco Bell... A nice perk is that NCT is a BYOB eatery. The eating area is a big open, high-ceiling space, the seating area a combination of tables, benches and high-top bar. A "Day of the Dead" wall-size mural adorns the children's rec area that has a video game machine and rack full of board games. Service was on point, place squeaky clean. The atmosphere highly conducive to a relaxed family outing while enjoying your choice of imbibement. I didn't get a chance to try it, but my wife said her shrimp taco was good. She is a light-weight when it comes to spicy, so I believe her, makes me wish I ordered shrimp, it was not a meat option for the Street Taco I ordered, maybe it should be. My review is 2-stars short mostly for being out-of-steak on a early Saturday evening, and lack-luster appetizer and taco. I still think with some tweaking, this place has potential to become a 5-star spot.

Part of a gas station, good late night grab for middle eastern cuisine. The taste depends on who is…read morecooking that night:

Pretty decent convenience store grub, good prices and basic fare…read more I've been meaning to go to this location for a while now, but given that it's tied to a gas station and the hours were always a little weird, I never had a chance to give them a try. Today I managed to catch them late enough in the day to get something made, so I picked a few breakfast items to try. The location's not a pretty place. it's very much a gas station convenience store with a deli and a bench with stools. This is very much the place you go to when you're going to work and you want a quick bite to eat, and so long as you come in looking for that type of food then it works. The breakfast sandwiches were good enough. Eggs were cooked hard, white american cheese was melty and cheesy, roll was fresh, and the meats were cooked. There wasn't anything special about these sandwiches, but they were good for what they were. If you need a meal and want a basic sandwich, this place is more than capable of handling that type of request. The prices are actually pretty good, the portion is reasonable, and it's not bad. Don't expect awesome, but functional fare.