Nick’s Handmade Bagels
491 Bantam Rd.
Nick’s Handmade Bagels, serving fresh bagels and breakfast sandwiches, opened in the former site of Dutch Epicure in February, 2025, to very positive reviews. Hours are Tuesday- Sunday, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Coffee & Sweets
Jessica’s Homestead Kitchen
Jessica’s Homestead Kitchen is a Cottage Food Operation with store front. Instead, it has a booth at the Litchfield Hills Farm-Fresh Market, held indoors during the winter and spring at Litchfield Community Center, and outdoors in the summer and fall in a parking lot adjacent to Litchfield Center School. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. Typical weekly items are sourdough breads, bagels and English muffins, scones, cookies and cinnamon rolls along with Jessica’s newest item – sourdough croissants.
Dutch Epicure Shop
(Harris Plains)
491 Bantam Rd. | 860-567-5586
A German and Dutch gourmet food shop, European bakery, cheese shop, and deli serving customers with sophisticated palates since 1967, The Dutch Epicure Shop is Litchfield’s oldest bakery and known for European-style pastries, breads, cookies and cakes, as well as prepared foods, sweet treats, and seasonal pies. It’s also a specialty shop offering European cheeses, fine teas, jams, chocolates, and more—including homemade ice cream.
Troy Brook Bakery
860-309-5986 | Email
Troy Brook Bakery isn’t a physical place but more of a personal-baker-style operation that interacts with customers primarily through its Facebook account, where weekly pop-up menus are posted offering delectables like apple crostata, cinnamon sugar donuts, chocolate chip cookies, whoopie pies, breads, etc. You order by 4 on Thursday and arrange pickup for Friday or Saturday.
The Ripe Tomato
392 Torrington Rd. | 860-567-8002
A deli with homemade soups, salads, and sandwiches, The Ripe Tomato at the top of the hill between Litchfield Center and the Torrington line is also a morning stop for coffee, muffins, and more—like the range of popular breakfast sandwiches.
Love Hearts Bakery
583 Bantam Rd. | 860-361-6526
The homemade English muffins returned in September at Love Hearts Bakery, located in The Cove between Litchfield Center and Bantam. It’s a favorite spot for everything you love to pair with coffee, tea, or chai lattes, like donuts, muffins, coffee cake, cakes, bagels, croissants … With soups sandwiches and more, it’s also a popular lunch stop.
Dunkin’ Donuts
(Litchfield Center)
7 Village Green | 860-567-1047
That’s right, Litchfield even has a Dunkin’ Donuts (though not a Starbucks). Assuming everyone knows the name, we’ll skip the description. Ours is located in the Village Green shopping plaza.
Meraki
(Litchfield Center)
239 West St. | 860-361-9777
Meraki, next to The Litchfield Candy Company down the hill from the Green, is a breakfast and lunch hotspot with coffee, teas, baked goods and everything else required in a good pitstop.
Morning starts with muffins, scones, coffee cakes, breads, local egg sandwiches, breakfast burritos, a hash bowl, and more, and lunch signature sandwiches, salads and lots more. There’s outdoor seating tucked away in the back, and there’s also a Meraki food truck that brings the bounty to area events.
Toast & Co.
(Litchfield Center)
18 Commons Drive | 860-567-0301
Toast & Co. is a very popular breakfast and lunch café with coffee, espresso drinks, teas, pastries, smoothies, milkshakes … and so much more, including dairy free, gluten free, vegan and keto options.
In addition to breakfast sandwiches, Toast & Co. offers signature toasts (from avocado to PB & banana), salads, and lunch sandwiches. The pandemic brought an outdoor dining area with picnic tables between toast and the road, which remains popular.
Bantam Bread
(Bantam)
853 Bantam Rd. | 860-567-2737
Bantam Bread Company doesn’t serve coffee and tea, but its artisan breads are fabulous, as are the desserts and other homemade treats—like tea cakes, cookies, elephant ears and fruit tarts—and the dirt bombs are legendary.
The bakery also offers local and gourmet products, including Harney & Sons Teas, Winding Drive Jellies and Jams, locally-roasted coffee from Coffee-Tea-Etc., Bridgewater Chocolates, Sugar Ridge Apiary Honey, Brookview Sugar House Maple Syrup, Goat Boy Soaps, and more.