OT: Best bacon egg and cheese in CT

[August_West]

TL: DR

Anyone have any suggestions around Niantic/Waterford?

Guiliano's.
Their BEC is fantastic.
Their Pastrami Egg and Cheese is even better! Plus a great Italian old school bakery.

 

[PNolanFan]

I believe bacon egg and cheese is on a tier system, and there is a certain level you can get to that is perfect and you cannot rank once you hit that level. But if you have a good roll, a properly cooked egg and enough bacon cooked to your correct level of doneness you hit a point that cannot be improved upon. That said my go to is billy d's full belly deli in shelton. However there are several places around which are also perfect

 

[dvegas]

Dave & Charlies Hometown Deli opened on Strawberry Hill Avenue in Norwalk about 3 years ago and has become my go-to (non Italian) deli. Does a super BEC, occasionally I get it with pepperoni as an addition. Terra Nova rolls/bread from the Bronx every day (most of the places in Ffld County use Cassone's, Neris or one of the Portuguese bakeries in Bridgeport). Top of the line, every cop and tradesman in Norwalk flock to it.

 

[whalerfan]

Jim's in Plainville. The Yogi is freaking awesome and a cardiologists dream as well. Sausage/egg/cheese/hashbrown/hot sauce on a cheddar bagel.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

The best bacon, egg, and cheese has no egg. Substitute sausage, and it'll pass as edible.

Bacon, sausage and cheese on a bagel? Hmm.

"Spam, egg, sausage and spam!"

 

[87Xfer]

I get gas from there all the time. But no, I would never get a sandwich there or any gas station.

In this area it's the land of green chiles, and there are breakfast buritos and chilaquiles everywhere. But the only place you could get a decent BAC was at a deli in a local gas station. The guy who ran the deli was from NYC. You could also get "pork roll", egg and cheese if you knew to ask for it. Sadly the guy drowned a few years ago and it's not the same - they changed to off-brand english muffins and the egss are usually cooked to death.

 

[Waquoit]

Maybe I'm crazy but I swear Chinese food in Connecticut was way better 10-15 years ago. I've always had my go-to spot but would try others and they weren't too bad. Now a lot of places are absolutely horrible.

That's why I asked. It's all "product".

 

[Waquoit]

I get gas from there all the time. But no, I would never get a sandwich there or any gas station.

That's where I get my fried chicken.

 

[storrsroars]

That's where I get my fried chicken.

We have a terrific fried chicken place that's a little kitchen attached to a gas station. It's legendary in these parts.

 

[Stinger92860]

It used to be Marie’s in Trumbull, but it’s all gone now

 

[CTBasketball]

Tasty Yolk (bunch of locations) makes some great ones. A little stepped up from your basic bodega-style but well worth it.

But agreed with Fishy, really hard to separate yourself otherwise. People wax poetic about Country Cow deli in Fairfield, and it’s…. Good. Tastes the same as 75% of NYC bodegas and tons of other delis in CT.

2nd Tasty Yolk. Get the chorizo sandwich too.

 

[Kolumbo]

BEC on a hard roll is perfect. Regarding prices. They have to go up if the cost of labor is being jacked up.

 

[JMick]

That's why I asked. It's all "product".

Yeah it's really bad. I will say I do think sushi is getting better around here. There's this little spot in Brookfield called Amai sushi and it's incredible. I'll take good sushi over good Chinese any day

 

[J187Money]

No it doesn't, you actually have to have the proper oven for great pizza which people don't have at home and there's a skill to making the proper dough.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a pizza thread. But as someone that eats a lot of BEC sandwiches the variability is such that it is also a worthwhile discussion.

 

[CTFaninCali]

I’m a big fan of Hartford Baking Eggwich: Local egg, breakfast potatoes, tomato jam, and cheddar on a brioche. In particular, the potatoe and tomato jam just make the sandwich. I could eat 3 if it wouldn’t break the bank.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

We have a terrific fried chicken place that's a little kitchen attached to a gas station. It's legendary in these parts.

Royal Farms?

 

[Slick]

I’m convinced people only think that highly of country cow for nostalgic reasons or because they’ve never had another BEC. Lived in NYC for years and it’s indistinguishable from pretty much any corner bodega. It’s good. Any competent BEC is good. But there’s literally nothing unique about it.

Disagree. Rolls are as fresh and delicious as they could possible be. Double yoke egg and excellent bacon. Bodega can’t compete. Sorry dove

 

[storrsroars]

Royal Farms?

Never heard of that. It's Quik-It Chicken at the Valero station in West Allegheny.

 

[uconngb]

I recommend China.

Where it’s just called food?

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Never heard of that. It's Quik-It Chicken at the Valero station in West Allegheny.

Nice…I thought Royal Farms was PA wide but looks like they’re mostly in the eastern part of the state. Good fried chicken…for a gas station.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Disagree. Rolls are as fresh and delicious as they could possible be. Double yoke egg and excellent bacon. Bodega can’t compete. Sorry dove

So to be clear, the differentiation is a fresh hard roll, eggs, and crispy bacon?

 

[JMick]

So to be clear, the differentiation is a fresh hard roll, eggs, and crispy bacon?

Fried runny eggs are much better than bodega crepe styled eggs imo

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Fried runny eggs are much better than bodega crepe styled eggs imo

I’ve had plenty of fried runny eggs at a bodega. That’s the whole point with a BEC. Cooking a good fried egg is not some gastronomic feat. I could teach someone to do it in 5 minutes. There’s just only so much you can do with a basic BEC on a hard roll.

 

[Hoophound]

I’m a big fan of Hartford Baking Eggwich: Local egg, breakfast potatoes, tomato jam, and cheddar on a brioche. In particular, the potatoe and tomato jam just make the sandwich. I could eat 3 if it wouldn’t break the bank.

Sounds good. Looks like they have a lot of good sandwiches.

 

[Richmondhsky]

We moved to Richmond in 1997, was in and out of West Hartford for many a year prior, there was a great breakfast place on NMain…Sally and Bobs. They sold out to family members, website says sold again to no family. Buttered and grilled hard roll was a mainstay. Loved their BEC.