The Ariston Cafe — Restaurant in Litchfield

I’ve been driving across the country to the east coast. For the past few days, my food has consisted of fast food and gas station food. After a long drive I arrived here and decided to get an actual real meal. To make a long story short, I should have went to a gas station. For sake of my review, I’ll explain. First things first, I order chips and salsa as an appetizer. I ask for spicy salsa as I love spicy foods. This is where problem number one comes. My chips and salsa are brought to me and I start to dig in. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m not from around here, but where I come from we tend to make things have flavor. What I had just dipped my chip in, however, tasted like someone puréed a tomato, diced up a bell pepper, threw it in a dish and decided that was called salsa. I’m disappointed at this point but I’m trying to be hopeful. Maybe they just really aren’t good at making salsa but make up for it on other ways. My entree comes and I am quickly proven wrong. I am not sure why someone would put chili on a tamale/enchilada but hey, if that’s what goes on over here, do you I guess. I first try my refried beans, as these are my favorite. They say that it is homemade, though I am not sure what canning facility they call home. It’s fine though. Edible I guess. Next I go to the rice. It’s alright. It has some spice to it which is more than I can say about any other portion of this meal. I then began my search for the elusive tamale. I was unable to uncover more than what looked to be a side of what I hope at one point belonged to a tamale. As I don’t have any tamale detective experience, however, I am unsure of what tamale this could have belonged to nor where it had come from. During this process, I did give the chili a run and it was a god send. Not because of its enlightening flavor, but for the sheer fact that it was actually relatively spicy and unknowingly saved my tongue for what came next. I began to uncover what I believe was supposed to be my enchilada. Hopeful and praying, I cut a piece off and give it a taste. As it turns out, I had been bamboozled. As this was not an enchilada at all, but was in fact a cheese quesadilla. Now I don’t have a problem with cheese quesadillas, though I do have a problem with people using what looked and tasted like Craft Cheese. It was at this point I could no longer stomach what was presented to me and b lined for the counter to pay. I then proceeded to drive off only to puke out the door of my car a mere 100 yards away. While the food was an absolutely disgusting mess, the wait staff was kind and pleasant. I will not soon forget this meal, as I’m sure it will haunt me for the...

VERY DISAPPOINTED. Charged full price for an item not as described. Don't believe the hype!

We were so looking forward to eat at this historic resident and was very disappointed. We are a family that came together for the first time in several years. 7 of us met here because it's halfway between where we live. We were excited to try out this historic diner. We decided to eat there today. The ambience was nice, the deserts at the display upon entry looked great. They sat us down to eat in the back room. We were a little surprised off the bat at the higher than expected prices but didn't complain . It looked like there was something to make everyone happy even though a little expensive.

We waited longer than expected for our food, by this time around 2 pm now the restaurant wasn't very crowded. The food finally arrived but was not consistent. The first issue was someone going into the supply closet located literally less than 24-36 inches from a row of our family members. They go into the closet bumping my wife, never saying thank you or anything of the sort. My wife had to eventually scoot closer to the table. One member of our party got food not as described, catfish, with bone and void of flavor. Brought this up right away, didn't eat any of it complained again right away, no alternatives or refund offered, tried to speak to the manager would not come out. His wife is a verified chef who has ran restaurants and stated that bone in fish should be mentioned prior to order as a liability issue. There were other issues with the food but this was a main one.

A very disappointing experience and due to lack of attention to our issue with our food and their unwillingness to discuss the issue a reason we can't recommend...

Not impressed. Food was ok but seemed pricey for what you get. Hubby got manicotti with a salad bar (not impressed at all with the salad bar...very few selections for a salad). I ordered a GRILLED chicken Greek salad with no croutons. Why no croutons? I am eating keto & dont eat flour. Told waitress this. When order came to table (we had 7 at our table, one other also ordered the same salad). She sat my salad down first & started to hand out others food. Low & behold...on top of my salad was a bunch of BREADED and fried chicken strips. I looked at it & before I could say anything she said "oh, we are out of grilled chicken, so they gave you that". Ummmmm hello?!?! It would have been nice if you had came & told us that before you brought everyone their food so we could have ordered something else instead. I didn't feel like waiting another 15 min for grilled fish, since there was a bad storm coming & I didn't want to be caught in it. I said, "no it's not ok. I can't eat this." We finally determined I would like a salad with something grilled on it, preferably some shrimp. She took salad back, they just took off the chicken & apparently they do not make grilled shrimp, as what I got back was a bunch of(what looked and tasted like) processed turkey slices cut up. (hello sodium!) I was too tired to argue it at this point, so I just ate this nasty salad so I had something to eat and didn't ruin everyone else's dinner. At least they only charged me for a plain Greek salad. The only reason I would return here is to try one of their yummy looking desserts once I finish losing my weight. Hubby said his...