This place has amazing food and ice cream and Breakfast specials! This place is the place to go…read morewhen you wanna relax and eat...it's suitable for Kids all ages. They have volleyball, basketball, tetherball and other fun games that you can play.

Great ice cream, super friendly staff, great play area for the kids and plenty of seating for…read moreadults. We love coming here and letting our kids play. I also love the little shed with the items for sale in it. I had a hot fudge sundae this evening and it was delish!

Great place to get ice cream! So many unique flavors! Got the 'dirty water' it is coffee ice cream…read morewith brownie chunks and chocolate chips they also have a full food menu. The ice cream is Giffords from MA. So nice tucked back in the woods. Tables with umbrellas to sit at, and if you walk down the path, there are chairs by the river!! So peaceful to sit and eat. The server taking our order could have been friendlier, especially when not understanding something, but would definitely go back!!

What a great place to stop for cold treats and hot foods too!…read more Balthazar's Ice Shack is a small food shack located in the woods near the banks of the Sugar River (South Branch) along NH 31. It sort of feels like a cozy campsite in the woods. They offer 24 flavors of Blake's Ice Cream (cones, sundaes, frappes, floats), shaved ice, protein drinks, soft drinks, water. For hot foods, they offer sliders, hot dogs, quesadillas, chicken strips, chicken drums, fries, chili cheese fries, nachos, clam cakes, banana fritters, poutine, and a daily special item. The prices here seem pretty reasonable. There is ample seating and places to enjoy your cold treat and hot foods here including umbrella round table seating (near the shack) and wood chair seating down the small hill along the river bank and also chair seating in the river (river seats), great place to cool off! I stopped here recently while driving through Goshen. I ordered a Pina Colada Shaved Ice ($3), which was a very nice cold treat with a good amount of pina colada juice and surprises at the bottom of the treat, plenty of chewy colorful gummy bears! After looking at the hot foods menu, I decided to order some food to go! I ordered the Saturday Special which was a Lasagna and a piece of soft Italian bread ($6) and an order of Clam Cakes (6 for $4.50). The piece homemade lasagna was very good, similar to what I make at my home, which had layers of noodles, cheeses, ground beef, and tomato sauce. The clam cake balls were deep fried golden, which had a soft chewy texture with minced pieces of clam in the dough with tartar sauce on the side. The last time I had enjoyed clam cakes was two years ago at a fair in CT. Overall, this place not only serves great cold treats and hot foods, but also offers a unique experience of enjoying your treats very close to or in the Sugar River.

Very nice server, beautiful view, decently broad menu. 4…read moreof us had clam chowder, seafood chowder, nachos, steak & cheese, and a burger. Everything was good, onion rings were awesome. Did didn't love the nachos but otherwise everything was worth ordering again.

What a funky and cool place!! Note: My perspective is that if a Bostonian. I'm a little bit of a…read morefoodie snob. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this place. We stopped in for lunch and you absolutely cannot beat the view of Lake Sunapee, the food was very good, and the service was excellent! We will definitely be back the next time we are in the area. The thing crust pizza that we saw at the other tables looked amazin !!!

Jean knows cooking! She and her staff always serve freshly made food promptly. They are always…read morefriendly and do a job to be proud of. We are always eager to stop by!

While driving into Newport, I made a stop for a quick bite at Dad's Scoops & Dogs, which is an…read moreoutdoor roadside eatery serving ice cream and drive-in style foods. This location was formerly the Fabulous 50s Car-Hop Drive-In. The place has outside takeout windows (covered area) and a covered picnic table seating in front and more seating out back with a wooden Noah's Ark replica ship play area. The menu offerings consist of typical drive-in fare and ice cream treats including burgers, hot dogs (Nathan's All Beef Hot Dogs), chicken nuggets, fries, and grilled cheese sandwiches. Gifford's Ice Cream (17 flavors of hard scoop), 34 flavors of soft serve, shakes, floats, sundaes, banana splits and Pepsi products. The prices are reasonable here. There is also free religious literature on the counter. I ordered a Chili Cheese Dog ($3.95 plus tax), which topped with plenty of thick dense meat & bean chili and shredded cheese. The hot dog had that snap biting in and the chili on topped was hearty and filling, with a slightly spicy flavor. The chili was warm and not too hot. The bun was soft and slightly chewy. Overall, the chili cheese dog was a good tasty snack before having dinner two hours later. CASH ONLY

We've been several times and enjoyed it. I particularly liked their escargots but it wasn't on the…read moremenu last visit. We shared an Asian flavored calamari dish that was delicious but my main course of steak tips was a huge disappointment. They were dry, tough and overcooked. The food is plentiful .. perhaps too much. My wife could only manage a quarter of her shrimp pasta. Desert was excellent.

My entree was interesting (chicken marinated in pickle juice, fried, over a waffle, and truffle…read morefries.) My partner had what the waitress referred to as a "restaurant staple" which was short rib stroganoff. He got food poisoning and was vomiting for 16 hours starting the next morning and had a 102° fever. Not going back.

Pizza was lacking on all aspects, just not very good. I was wondering if this was a premade frozen…read morepizza bought by the case.. After approaching the front counter person to ask why there is a discrepancy on the bill (charged more than the menu price) I was met with "yea, some of our prices are wrong" response ". Seems with the ease to change the pricing on their system this could be handled quite easily. Between the god awful pizza and the overcharging there has to be something better. We're done here.

Several months ago, New London, Pizza Chef restaurant underwent a change in management, and the…read moreresults have been outstanding. Wile things were good under the old reign, the new management has turned this restaurant into a gem. Of particular notice is it timeliness and quality of the pizzas they make. Crusty bases. Fresh vegetables, high-quality cheese. It used to be that upon ordering, you would wait 40 to 45 minutes before you could pick up your pizza. Under the new management, the wait time has been sliced roughly in half. And always, service with a smile. This store recently applied for permits for a total remodeling, including extension of the kitchen, reducing indoor spaces, and expanding the outdoor space as well as joining it with the ice cream shop next-door. When all is done and complete, this outstanding venue will be an even better place to enjoy food.

Love the old fashioned vibe they are going for with the penny candy and diner counter, it's really…read morea special little place. Amazing ice cream and food. The only complaint I have is that the gas pumps don't work about 50% of the time and the store seems a little "empty" and is missing some basic country store/gas station items.

Great little general store. Love the penny candy counter, the old fashion register and the ice…read morecream bar. Employees are very friendly and you can find unique gifts there.

A very nice dining establishment. Great brunch and Italian buffet. Dinner is early, and it can be…read moreprefixed. Check out their website http://www.backsideinn.net/dining/D-home.htm for the time that they are open/ closed. Its also a BYOB restaurant. While you are in the area, enjoy beautiful lake Sunapee nearby. Only minutes from the Mt Sunapee resort chairlift. Thanks to my friend Alan Cooper, CPA for pointing out this fine BYOB establisment. See my list off more BYOB restaurants in the New England area.

A real treat of a restaurant - Will change it to 5 starts when the new owner has been there for a…read morewhile. Sunday Brunch is awsum and the location is both quiet and beautiful.

An older couple with an elderly gentleman with them asked the staff who were serving ice cream why…read morethey weren't wearing masks and they responded that masks are not required. It seems clear that staff in retail establishments in close contact to customers (less than 2 feet through the ice cream window) are required to wear masks per NH law. And even if they weren't can't they care enough about their customers to do so? They dismissed these folks rather rudely. Not impressed.

Great go to for a yummy lunch, a quick pick me up and some of the best gas prices around. Deli…read morestaff are awesome.

Found this place while in town. So glad we stopped by, everything was tasty. And everyone was…read morereally nice

Went to this restaurant because of some folks we knew had gone there and had a good experience…read more However, I would say our experience for the cost of the meal was certainly less than ideal. We had to return our drinks because they weren't made even remotely correct and the food came out tinged or overcooked whichever way you wanna look at it. Certainly not a place we will be visiting again.