As a kid back in the day when parents let their kids walk anyway as long as it was daylight and with other kids, used to go to Saturday morning Derby HS football games with the neighborhood gang and drop a dollar or two on a slice at Roseland after. Good memories. Went back a few years ago and was surprised how pricey they did get. I mean, I can understand the price on the seafood pie; but, even the basic stuff is high. Any idea why? Not like Derby has gentrified as there is money floating around town unlike parts of downtown new haven.
I haven't been there in years myself and I don't have any insight on the prices other than for the seafood pie.
I may have already told this story in the early pages of this thread, but I went there with my sister and brother-in-law around 15 years ago after visiting my father, who had been admitted to nearby Griffin Hospital. I had been telling my brother-in-law about their epic seafood pie and he insisted that he and I split one, and he insisted on paying. The menu only said "market price," and he joked with the waitress, "We'll take that, as long as it's not more than $40." She laughed as she walked away, "I'm sure you know that it's more than that!" The look on his face was priceless. He truly thought he had thrown out a price that was way more than it could possibly be.
When the pie came and it was "just" a small, he started to grumble some more--until we started eating it. There was at least 2" of nothing but fresh, buttery lobster, scallops and shrimp covering the entire pie, and we couldn't finish it. We had two pieces left over and he insisted that I take them home.
The next night we had two other couples over for dinner. I took those two small pieces and cut them into tiny squares and we served them as hors d'oeuvres. Our dinner guests raved.
