Cafe on the Green
About
Cafes
Cafe on the Green is the best place to spend your leisure time tasting delicious food and enjoying the nice atmosphere. After visiting our restaurant you will definitely have a wish to come back!
Location
Adress: 5 Kirby Rd, Washington, CT 6793
Phone: (860) 868-7781
Work Hours
Reviews
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Stella F.
Anything from the grill is delicious. One of few casual inexpensive places to grab a bite around this area. I wish it was open for dinner! You'll often see a mix of students from the boarding school nearby, local workers, and others stopping by for a bite. Right next to the post office, so it gets the name the "Po". Highly recommend!
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Abby M.
Coffee tastes burnt. Got an egg white and Swiss breakfast sandwich. English muffin wasn't toasted. Took 15 min and there was no one else in the cafe. I think it's part of the meal plan for the local school. Would recommend grabbing coffee before coming to town!
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John B.
I should have known by the fact that at 12:30 PM on a lovely summer Saturday, there was 1 customer in the Cafe when I entered. The girl at the counter didn't look up from her book until I asked to order a BLT. She looked at me as though I had just told her to clean the bathrooms. The sandwich was the worst BLT I can remember. Barely warmed bread passed for toast, a folded over leaf of lettuce on one side, a slice and a half of yellow-green tomato, and 1 piece of partially cooked bacon, still cold from the cooler, crumbled over the lettuce. Tasteless. As I was leaving the restaurant, the bored girl called out, "Bus your own table, please." No, thanks. And never again.
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Eileen K.
Café on the Green (most recently "Crossroads", but if you want to sound like either an insider or a local call it the 'PO', which is its undying other name and means you can have a meal AND do your post office business in one stop) reopened back in January under new management.. If you haven't tried it yet or recently, it is definitely worth a visit. It is a clean, well-lighted, unpretentious throwback of a place (soda fountain) buzzing during the school year with a mix of school kids in blazers from the nearby prep school, locals, tradespeople and visitors. In the summer you'll find tennis players, families, college kids-turned-house painters, local regulars, ladies who lunch, etc. It now has A/C (yeah!), new tables outside with a view of the Green, wifi (also yeah) and SOCO ice cream at the soda fountain. Most important is the quality/price ratio of the breakfast and lunch: it's good. They make the potato chips that come with any sandwich order (which I suspect means they lose money on fries once people have tried the chips included in the sandwich price) and the shakes are so thick they should look into getting straws with a higher tensile strength so they don't collapse under the strain The breakfast sandwiches (an obsession of mine because it is hard to find a good one) are very good and my son (also a picky foodie and spoiled by a talented cook father) tells me that a few of the different sandwiches are also 'legit'. Certainly haven't tried everything on the menu but looking forward to hearing from others.
Full disclosure: I am a proud Washington "townie" who has also taught at the nearby prep school for almost two decades and the school (my employer), that has owned the building for more than 50 years now has some role in this new remake of the Café. Check it out for yourself and you can decide if I am being objective!