Zack's is a popular eat-in frozen yogurt shop that boasts at least six flavors a day. Sure to satisfy every sweet tooth, candy entices you at the counter and on your way out the door in a vending machine. The shop is open late even in the winter to cater to your after-dinner cravings.
Bushy Hill Orchard grows an assortment of fruits including apples, peaches and blueberries that customers can pick on their own, when in season. It also has an apple barn where customers can shop for fruits, baked goods and cider.
Riverview Farms hosts a fall festival every year at Robb's Ice Cream, offering farm-made ice cream and fun seasonal activities for people of all ages in the Glastonbury area. Activities include hay rides for pumpkin picking, a 30-foot pumpkin bounce, a 2-acre corn maze, a petting zoo, face painting, tours and food, such as homemade apple fritters, fresh-pressed apple cider and fresh-picked local apples. There also is the farm-made ice cream at Robb's Ice Cream, including specialty flavors like Goat Tracks, Dirty Barn Shoes, Grand Slam and the seasonal pumpkin flavor. For the last week of the festival, the corn maze is turned into a "haunting" experience by local high school students.
Bridgewater Chocolate was first established by owner and founder, Erik Landergren, in 1995. Its delicious chocolates have a hand made European quality with an American twist. It has a variety of superior chocolates like turtles, toffees, caramels, peanut, patties, crunch, praline, almond, cherry, fruit, raisin, cashews, truffles and more. Customers are able to place orders by phone, onsite, online, by fax, by mail or visit one of its many distributor locations. The Brookfield storefront and center has a warm and inviting atmosphere filled with the enticing scents of gourmet chocolates.
Munson's Chocolate is Connecticut's largest retail manufacturer of chocolates. Itbegan in 1946 in Manchester, Connecticut and are now run by their third generation in the family business, with more than 10 shops. Munson's Chocolate offers boxed chocolate, sugar-free and seasonal treats, to name a few. It donates to cancer funds and our own Husky's with chocolate UConn bars! They are located in the upper Westfarms Mall, near Center Court.
