Old Town Cafe

New Restaurant. Opened this winter. I went for Breakfast. Not very busy. Didn’t know what to expect. But I was surprised how good breakfast was. My egg white omelette was really good. MY friend had pancakes and he said it was good.
Service was good and price was reasonable. But what was really good was the offer for FREE COFFEE. I don’t know if this is just a temporary promotion to get new business but I will go back even if I had to pay for my coffee.
Located in OLD WETHERSFIELD, a very friendly neighborhood. You can sit outside.
I thought about giving this restaurant FIVE stars but my four stars is others Five stars. If my next experience at this restaurant is as good as my first, I will upgrade it to Five stars.
TRAVEL KAL

Awesome! Great food, tasty Bloody Mary, friendly and quick service, reasonably priced. Will come back next time I’m in town!

if you want to get down with the locals, do some irish car bombs, play a game of pool and listen to the jukebox this is your place. it’s our go to for a night cap when we’re feeling casual or maybe a little rowdy. bartenders are always super friendly. you can bring in a pizza or some chinese and i see that the restaurant next door is back in business. open later in the evening as well, though i have yet to check it out.
see yah there, fool!

They are now open for breakfast! We went for the first time today. Breakfast is served in the little restaurant section next to the bar. They serve breakfast from 6 AM until 11:30 AM. From 11:30AM and on, there is a lunch and dinner menu.
My husband and I tried out breakfast there this morning with one of our kids. There are probably 10 4-​top tables with chairs and plenty of highchairs! I tried the pancakes. The pancakes were pretty standard and were served with a side of home fries. The pancakes taste like pancakes and not like bacon grease which is a definite plus! The home fries were tiny chunks of potatoes that tasted pretty close to french fries. They had little bits of peppers and onions cut up in them as well. My husband had two eggs, right toast, and home fries. We both had coffee. The bill came to $ 12!
About half of the tables were full this morning. Most of the crowd appeared to be the 60 and over crowd. However, everyone was very friendly and excited about this new venture!
As a plus, they accept credit cards. I’m sure will be back with the rest of our kids!

How am I, a transplant from NY /​PA, the first person to pen a review of the Old Town Café? From what I hear from the colorful local crowd, this place is possibly as old the Old Wethersfield itself (it isn’t) and you would figure someone would have written up this place by now.
The actual obvious answer to this question is that Old Town doesn’t really cater to the crowd one would associate with Unilocal (or the internets in general). What you have here is a good, old fashioned dive townie bar. Some strategically placed TVs, a pool table, no food that I’m aware of with the exception of some happy hour food that was made next door I believe (There is a… restaurant (?)…next door that is not open to the public, but makes food for special occasions (happy hours, football) at the bar)…and a nicely stocked Jukebox.
I’ll shoot you straight and tell you that the place isn’t much to look at unless you like the dive bar vibe. Also, the crowd is on the older side, the blue collar side (Fire station right next door), and the local side. That being said, I’ve had some of the more colorful discussions that I’ve had and the you will always strike up an interesting conversation if you are looking to talk (probably even if you aren’t looking for a conversation actually). I’ve actually taken out friends and neighbors to other, more well known places, and ended up here having a much better time.
Obviously you have to be looking for a very specific experience to end up here, but if dive drinking is your game… Old Town may be your place…