If there was no more to the Connecticut food scene than just the country’s best pizza that alone would be enough, though #ctfoodies know that the feast does not stop there!
Home to one of the state’s best breakfast sandwiches Billy D’s Full Belly Deli in Shelton, Connecticut is the deli your cardiologist warned you about. Their Hangover breakfast sandwich is made with double bacon, egg, cheese and a hash brown and contains enough heft to ensure you stay full until dinner.
Though I had lunch plans and had yet to survive breakfast!
Prepared in the rendered fat of the morning's bacon fry on a flattop grill designed to capture the fat to allow near deep frying, Billy’s Hangover is the reason statins exist.
After cooking, the eggs and hash browns are removed from the fat and placed dripping on your roll of choice, mine a Portuguese roll which was notably fresh.
With a double helping of crispy bacon, white American and more than a splash of Connecticut’s official hot sauce Billy’s Hangover BEC was worth the 45-minute drive. Though I do take points off for not cutting the sandwich, which didn’t affect the flavor but did ruin the Insta!
A Connecticut original, the warm buttered lobster roll is ubiquitous in summer along the Nutmeg shores.
Available at restaurants, beachside shacks and food trucks from Greenwich to Mystic the warm buttered lobster roll is the official sandwich of Connecticut making it the only choice for lunch on a #ctsandwichcrawl.
Serving lobsters harvested daily from local waters, the Lobster Landing in Clinton, Connecticut has been serving the state's signature-style lobster rolls for more than 100-years. Locally-owned, the Landing takes crustaceans from sea to plate in just hours allowing a level of freshness you can taste in every bite.
Served on a toasted New England style split-top bun which gets drenched with butter before filling, the sandwich receives three butter baths before reaching your mouth, as excess which lingered in my beard until the next shower!
The slit gets stuffed with freshly steamed lobster meat soaked in the days second butter bath before the entire sandwich receives one final drenching just to justify the name.
Which could easily be the warm lobstered butter roll!
For dinner it was back to Stamford and the final stop of my #sandwichcrawl, Fasaro’s Italian Deli and Market, home of the city’s best sandwiches.
When hunger returned I unwrapped a creation worthy of the region’s reputation with meatballs, mozzarella, broccoli rabe and red sauce made fresh that day.
Like a dinner at Nonna Pia’s that you can hold in your fists!
Served on a hero from Madonia’s Bakery in the Bronx, a bespoke vessel designed to indulge the genre's overindulgence, the sandwich weighed in at nearly two pounds: enough food for three meals!
Though I ate it in two!
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