Best family restaurant in Littleton? (Colebrook, Washington: appointed, hotel, buy)

[Mustard]

Heading to Littleton tomorrow from the Upper Valley. Anyone know a cool place for a family to have lunch? Looking for a local place, not a chain or fast food.

Thanks!

[DareToDream]

Originally Posted by Mustard

Heading to Littleton tomorrow from the Upper Valley. Anyone know a cool place for a family to have lunch? Looking for a local place, not a chain or fast food.

Thanks!

Mustard - I'm sorry I wasn't around last night or this morning to give you names of some places - by now I'm sure already up here! Where did you go for lunch?

[Mustard]

Hey, DaretoDream, that's OK. I posted my message a bit late to get any kind of reply in time. We ate at the diner. Very nice people, just a couple minutes wait, and good food. Then we went to the candy shop down the street . . . I have never seen a candy counter like that in my life. Amazing.

[DareToDream]

Originally Posted by Mustard

Hey, DaretoDream, that's OK. I posted my message a bit late to get any kind of reply in time. We ate at the diner. Very nice people, just a couple minutes wait, and good food. Then we went to the candy shop down the street . . . I have never seen a candy counter like that in my life. Amazing.

Glad you liked the diner - we go there quite often - the people there are very nice. We learned, though, that you don't go during "normal" meal hours if there are a lot of people in town - breakfast either really early or later than usual, lunch, either 11 a.m. or after 1 p.m. and for dinner, never around 6 p.m. unless you want to wait Ah, you went to Chutter's! Did you buy the place out?

What was your impression of the town? I'm always interested in hearing someone's impressions!

[Mustard]

Dare,

We thought Littleton was cool. I'm interested in the history of the town because of all the historic building markers on main street. It had a good vibe and polite people. We commented we want to go back in the late spring to see the town when everything is in bloom too. Myst be a good lifestyle there. When things get too congested in the Upper Valley we will probably move north. Wondering what the small towns around Littleton are like.

Cheers.

[BChambers]

A lo of people like the diner. Why?

[DareToDream]

Originally Posted by Mustard

Dare,

We thought Littleton was cool. I'm interested in the history of the town because of all the historic building markers on main street. It had a good vibe and polite people. We commented we want to go back in the late spring to see the town when everything is in bloom too. Myst be a good lifestyle there. When things get too congested in the Upper Valley we will probably move north. Wondering what the small towns around Littleton are like.

Cheers.

Glad you liked Littleton! When everything is in bloom it's very pretty. We like the lifestyle - it's quiet (to us), friendly and once you learn your way around, there are quite a few things to do at various times. We enjoy it immensely.

Which small towns around Littleton are you interested in? Each seems to have it's own "character" if you will.....

[DareToDream]

Originally Posted by BChambers

A lo of people like the diner. Why?

I don't know about anyone else, but we like the diner because of the food and the people who either eat there or work there and usually go there for something "quick"<g>. We also like the Oasis, Topic of the Town, Miller's Cafe and Bakery and the Eastgate. We haven't been to the new place yet, Baliwick's? (or something like that) in the Thayer's Inn, but quite a few people we've talked to have liked that. There are a few other places we've been, too, but I can't remember the names now. The only place I really didn't enjoy was The Coffee Pot. I don't know if it was a bad day or what, but the food wasn't all that great and the waitstaff acted like they just didn't want to be bothered.

[Colebrook]

Dare to dream,

Thayers Inn use to have a pretty good sea food restaurant in the downstairs area. Is that were Baliwick's is now? Topic of the Town always has good food and good service. The wife and I went to the Mexican spot, we were disappointed. It seems the kitchen doesn't change the oil in the fry-o-later on a regular basis. The fried ice cream tasted like the chicken livers we had for an appetizer.Not to good.

[DareToDream]

Originally Posted by Colebrook

Dare to dream,

Thayers Inn use to have a pretty good sea food restaurant in the downstairs area. Is that were Baliwick's is now? Topic of the Town always has good food and good service. The wife and I went to the Mexican spot, we were disappointed. It seems the kitchen doesn't change the oil in the fry-o-later on a regular basis. The fried ice cream tasted like the chicken livers we had for an appetizer.Not to good.

I'm not sure where the seafood restaurant was in Thayers, so not sure if Balliwicks is in that area - if you are looking at Thayers from the front, it's to the right, I *think* it's street level (if that's what you mean by the downstairs area?). Was the Mexican spot Alburrito's? We go there frequently and have never experienced what you experienced. Do you know if John was there when you were? When he's there everything is fresh and we've never had the "cross-over" taste.

Didn't you say you were going to the Mt. Washington for dinner over the holidays? How did you like it? We had relative from out of town take us there in October. It was kinda funny - they told us they were staying in Bretton Woods and to meet them there for dinner. I asked if they were sure we were supposed to meet them at Bretton Woods and not the Mt. Washington Hotel and they were adamant that they weren't staying at the Mt. Washington, they were staying at Bretton Woods - the white hotel with the red roof <g>.