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THE 2012 SUNDAY DINERS SUNNY AWARDS!

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It’s Our First  Anniversary! 

Last week was the one-year anniversary of the first Sunday Diners blog post.  Since then, we have done 47 posts and have visited some of the best places for breakfast in Fairfield County, and beyond, like Block Island RI, Westchester NY, and Lancaster, PA.

We even wrote about our trip to Italy (where the food is awesome) and went to a Mets game and checked out the Hot Dogs at Citi Field!

Most of all, Sunday Diners has been a lot of fun to do with my dad, and we have met some really great people from all over the US and even some from as far away as Japan and Australia who read the blog.  We also met some other great bloggers like OMNOMCT and Dan Woog here in CT.  

It’s going to be a very fun year ahead, so if you have any ideas on where we should go next, please let us know!

Thank you everyone for reading, commenting and sending e-mails!

Love and Happy Father’s Day,

Alex and his Dad

So, without any more delays… let’s get on with the show!

First of all, I want to congratulate ALL of the great places, even the ones who did not finish first, because all of you helped to make the blog to become a big success.

We received tons of votes from all of you and here’s who you chose for:

The Sunday Diners 2012 SUNNY AWARDS! 

The Best Eggs:  The Egg Sandwich at Christie’s Country Store, Westport!

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs Hooper and everyone at Christie’s Country Store. People REALLY love your egg sandwiches… And so do we!

Renee Hooper the Owner

The Best Pancakes: Chip’s Family Restaurant, Orange and Fairfield CT

Just like their commercial says… Chip’s has “The Best Pancakes Around” they were also named the best pancake in CT by Connecticut Magazine too!  Congratulations Chip’s on your Sunny Award!!!!

The Best French Toast: Olde Bluebird Inn, Easton CT 

Sunday Diners’ readers got really excited about the French Toast at the Olde Bluebird Inn in Easton – Congratulations Ms. Ewa – We’ll be back soon!

The Best Diner Donut: Coffee ‘An Donut, Westport 

Westport’s Coffee ‘An Donuts are good enough for the President of The United States and are really popular with our readers too!  Congratulations on winning the Sunny Award for Best Diner Donut!

The Best Hot Chocolate: Silvermine Market, New Canaan, CT

Congratulations to Chef Scott and Mr. Lou for winning the Sunny Award for best Hot Chocolate! By the way, your eggs are pretty awesome too!

Best International Breakfast: Valencia Luncheria, Norwalk CT

The winner of The Best International Breakfast was Valencia Luncheria. I love their Arepas,  Pancakes and Batidos – Deeeeelicious!  Congratulations on your Sunny Award! See you soon at your new location!

Best Deli/Takeout: Gold’s Delicatessen, Westport 

Congratulations to Gold’s Delicatessen on your Sunny Award!! We loved your Lox and so do our readers! And plus, as a bonus, you get pickles with your breakfast!

Best Classic Diner: Post Road Diner, Norwalk, CT

This was a VERY tough category — but in the end, the winner was The Post Road Diner.  Congratulations to them and all of the runners up!

The Awesome 4 Kids Award: Chip’s Family Restaurant, Orange and Fairfield

Chip’s is AWESOME for Kids! (and adults too!)  Congratulations on winning NOT ONE — BUT TWO — Sunny Awards!

AND FINALLY… 

The Best Bathroom! : Nicholas Roberts Gourmet Bistro, Norwalk CT

As many of you know I almost always check out the bathroom for Sunday Diners. Sometimes, they’re clean and decorated nicely…. and other times… they’re not so nice.

Now, Nicholas Robert’s Gourmet Bistro’s bathroom is almost as awesome as the food is! Congratulations to Chef Robert and his Dad, Mr. Nicholas — another great Father and Son team :)

Everyone deserves a HUGE round of applause! 

We’ll be back next week with another post, thanks for reading and remember to

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Christie’s Country Store… Doing Good For the Community… And Good Breakfasts!

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Christie’s Country Store, 161 Cross Highway, Westport, CT

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Christie’s Country Store is located right next to one of my favorite ice-cream places in the world, The Frosty Bear.  So I thought it would probably be good for breakfast too!  And it is.  Like the name says, it’s a real country store that sells fresh made food like baked goods, salads, sandwiches and other food items.

The store has been there since 1926 and the owners, Renee and John Hooper are very kind and generous and like to help the community — today, they were making a BIG pasta lunch for the Senior Center. They also love to support the farmer’s market that they host in front of the country store on Sunday’s during the summer and use a lot of the produce in their cooking.

Today I had the Egg, Bacon & Cheese Sandwich on a toasted poppy-seed bagel — one thing I noticed was that the Egg Sandwiches were very popular, it seemed like every person coming in the store was ordering one — one guy actually came in and bought not one…not two… not three… four or five… BUT six of them!  I wonder if he ate them all himself!  I also had some home fries which were tasty and hot.

Before I had breakfast, I got to taste their homemade jams — not surprisingly they were great!  I loved the Strawberry Lemonade jam so much, that I asked my dad to buy some.  Tonight, I’m going to have it on some vanilla ice cream.

Renee Hooper the OwnerI spoke with Renee Hooper, who owns Christie’s with her husband John and who told me:

“All of our jams and grilling sauces are 100% natural, the first ingredient that you see on the jam label is the fruit.  We only use fruit from the farmer’s market or from local farms.  We are very committed to the Westport community”  “We also do fresh baking everyday and make muffins, cookies and other treats”

Mrs. Hooper also told me a little bit about the history of Christie’s. She told me that Christie’s had been a farm a long time ago and had been a market as well.  The Hooper’s have lived in Westport all of their lives, and her husband’s family had been in the area since the 1600′s!

I also asked her the most important question,

“When will the Frosty Bear open for the season?”

She said, ” The Frosty Bear will open up in May!”

I will definitely be coming back this May for that!

The Sunday Diner Rating (out of 5)

FOOD  * * * * * (5)

SERVICE  * * * * * * (6)

LOOKS  * * * * *  (5)

BATHROOM: Did Not Go!

We’ll be back!