Papa T’s

Okay breakfast overall. I feel like they really cut down on the breakfast menu options which is a bummer. They had a few specials but nothing that really caught my eye. CB hash is canned. Friendly wait staff. Prices are very affordable compared to breakfast at other places.

Cheese pizza is excellent — yes, plain cheese pizza; you know, the kind you eat when you either a: drink a bit too much and need to eat, or b: are just plain hungry and want to eat pizza and «pay» for it later. Good stuff & worth the wait! (if there is a wait = not likely).

Being a Tolland native, I have a lot of memories with this place. My dad has been close with the owner Pat since before I was born and I went to high school with her son. We would come here for breakfast since I can remember and I still love it. It’s my favorite place for breakfast. The home fries are great and everything is super reasonably priced still. Servers and staff are so friendly and down to earth and it’s overall great. I love their pizza and pasta dishes. Such a homey place. I’ll always dine here at least once when I visit home.

Good classic pizza. Get take out all the time. haven’t really tried too much else.

Came for breakfast at 10 am. Six tables yet we waited 20 minutes for a very slow grumpy cook to get food to the one server. Food good but not worth wait.

This is one of the first places we tried after moving into the area in June. I didn’t expect to like it, at all. Boy, was I wrong. The service is great, it’s clean, the food we’ve had was solid and the prices are great. We tried the philly steak grinder — couldn’t believe how huge it was, and delicious. Pizza was also great — with excellent crust. On another visit I tried the French Onion soup and was very pleasantly surprised by it as well as the grilled ham and cheese which was actually my favorite ever next to my own at home. I ended up tipping more than I normally would simply because the prices were so great. Great place for my picky kids! Not a date night type of place, but great for lunch with the kids or to grab a pie.

Food was really good. I had the Cuban panini and it was very tasty. Service, excellent everyone was very nice and friendly.

I find the pizza to be okay, nothing special. The prices are high, for instance $ 20 for a bbq chicken pizza. Had breakfast here which was good but was really hoping for better pizza.

We wrote our review after ordering but before eating (since it was to go). This is a GREAT little place to get a meal and if we lived closer we’d frequent it a bunch. For now we will await another trip along route 84.
Our family of five was fed for less than $ 40. The grinders were large enough for 3 so I’m glad we planned to split it.

Pizza is good… If you wanna wait 20 mins for a slice. Bathrooms are clean. There’s an old cool oven that makes the pizza

This used to be a great place to have breakfast or an informal Italian meal. I am not sure when it changed ownership (it has been a while since I ate here) but it is not the same Papa T’s that I frequently dined at couple of years back!
I had Sausage Parmesan and my wife had Lasagna. The salads came with lettuce that was brown on the edges. I asked that my shells be served on a separate dish explaining that I was allergic to gluten and planned to take the pasta home for my wife. I first asked for new salads and was told that that was all they had. We did not eat the salads. When our dinners came my sausage was on the same plate as the shells. When I asked for the sausage parmesan to be replaced she said (again) that was all they had and she would take the shells off the plate. I let her do it, but when it came back there were still several shells mixed in with the sausage! I could not eat it. My wife’s lasagna was cold in middle and tasted like it had been in the freezer for quite a while. The waitress then came to the table and asked if we wanted to take the food home. I told her (again) why we did not want the food and all she said was «sorry» and then brought the check. I paid it, left zero tip, and told her why as we left. I also asked if the owner was there. She said that she was busy paying bills and did not want to be disturbed! She then told us sarcastically to have a great day.
Needless to say we will not return. I am sure we are not the only ones that miss the «real» Papa T.

Friendly service. Food is okay. If you’re coming here for pizza, expect the same pizza you get from every other «pizza place down the street». If you end up getting pizza by the slice they just reheat some cheese pizza and put some toppings on it… Nothing stellar and with Camille’s and Willington in the area there are much better options.

Disappointed, live in town and keep giving them a chance to get better, like they used to be. Pizza used to be better, some visits are better than other visits. Same with service, some times you get good service sometimes you don’t. I will give it another chance… We’ll gave it another chance, and yes disappointed again… We called in an order and it was really messed up… Grinders, hmmmm seems pretty simple… Now I am done. Don’t go there unless you check your food first before you leave… They lost my trust in my food.

Homemade food right off the Route 84. Shrimp jambalaya almost as good as my husband’s. Perfectly acceptable NYC style pizza and Caesar salad. Friendly waitress.

You have to love diners. They are old fashioned with real ingredients and seem to really care about the customer
I was starving on my way to The Hudson Valley and was lured by the decent Unilocal reviews. I ordered the marinated chicken sandwich and my companion had the BLT
The food was decent, but a tad pricey… The service, however, was excellent. The waitress could not have been more kind and accommodating. not just to us, but to everyone on the phone and the takeout.
Both of us later remarked, that she amazingly actually made our day… unbelievable as it sounds…

CINNABON PANCAKES. Oh yes. They were magical. The service, the atmosphere, and the prices are unbeatable

A decent stop on the way through CT. Much better than a fast food spot, and the service is friendly. Don’t make a special trip, though.

My dad and I had a great breakfast here. My dad tried the grilled salmon oscar special with asparagus, eggs, home fries, and toast. It was delicious. I had to of course try the cinnabun pancakes. They were a childhood dream. Although a little pricey at $ 7, completely worth it. I mean really, where else are you going to find pancakes like these? The pancakes are a regular pancake swirled with sugar cinnamon goodness and topped with a cream cheese icing AND it comes with three of them!
Although I can’t speak to the other food here, the breakfast we enjoyed was solid. Definitely not fancy and the inside could use some touching up but you’ll be getting some quality breakfast if you venture here.

Northeastern Connecticut… not exactly a bastion of quality pizza makers. But make no mistake, Papa T, located right off of 84, makes a mean slice, on par with anything you’d get in New York metro.
It’s definitely a New York style slice — relatively thin but not paper thin, plenty of cheese and sauce, no burnt parts (not that there’s anything wrong with burnt parts, file that under New Haven Style). It’s a good pie, reminds me of the pies of my childhood in the North Bronx.
The restaurant itself is old and run down, so I wouldn’t take a wedding reception here. But I usually go here for takeout anyway. And you should too, because as far as I’m concerned, the closer you get to Boston, the greater the pizza dangers are.

Whoops, thought I had updated this already!
Still great roast beef sandwiches, and the «negative» I mentioned in my previous review hasn’t been a problem again, so here’s the extra star as promised.
I still haven’t tried the pizza, but with the amount of meat that comes on the roast beef sandwich, I can’t justify it. It’s been a long time since I could find a place that piled it on like that. Why go to Subway next door when, for a buck or two more, you can get a real sandwich right here?