Luk's Bar & Grill has opened its second location in front of Mel's Funway Park in Litchfield. This restaurant & bar building has been home to several former restaurants over the years including Day of the Dead Taqueria, Mel's Restaurant, Gale Motor Pit Stop, Naticook Grill, Woodman's Seafood, and Shorty's. The place was redone.
Like the Hudson location, the food menu offerings consist of traditional pub fare, pizza and a few Italian dishes including steaks, seafood, chicken, fried baskets, salads, burgers, sandwiches, and appetizers. The prices are moderate, most burgers & sandwiches $13-$18 and most dinners $14-$22. The bar offers 12 draft beers, bottle can bees/seltzers, wine, liquor, mixed drinks, and cocktails. They offer drink happy hour Mon-Fri & Sun. I was told the food happy hours with half off selected apps with entree purchase are going to be offered on Mon-Wed, just like in Hudson.
I stopped in at Luk's in Litchfield after work and the place was packed on a Friday afternoon. I found an open seat at the packed bar. There are 3 flatscreen TVs in the bar lounge area, which has 20 high seats around the bar, regular table seating and high top seating along the windows. There is also a cozy dining room with tables and booths and outside patio seating.
The bartender gave me a food menu and an ice water with lemon. I started out with a Large Meatball Ricotta Pizza ($17.99 plus tax) topped with a zesty red sauce base, house meatballs, roasted red peppers, caramelized onions, fresh basil, shredded mozzarella and ricotta cheese on top of a Neapolitan pizza crust, firm thin crust and slightly thick edge crust. The toppings were heavy and the crust was a bit flimsy. This pizza was spot on great! I did get a box for 6 of the 8 slices to enjoy later.
For an entree, the Baked Haddock ($18.99 plus tax) with choice of two sides (chose garlic mashed potatoes & cole slaw). The baked haddock was hot and flaky topped with buttery herbed ritz cracker crumbs. The garlic mashed potatoes were smooth and the light creamy cole slaw had thick shredded cabbage, red cabbage & carrot, very firm and had some tart flavor.
I finished the haddock dinner and 2 slices of the tasty and filling pizzas. The check was printed out already, which was $38.92 (cash)/$40.12 (card) with tax and before tip. The food here was very good and the service was very attentive with 2 bartenders taking care of things. I haven't been to Luk's in quite a while, but now that Litchfield is open, I can make the short drive here for great meal and some mini golf afterwards. read more