Restaurants & Bars
Sonic Drive-In Restaurant Coming To New Milford
The classic car-hop restaurant can currently be found in just three other Connecticut locations.
NEW MILFORD, CT — Fast food fans with the hankering for a cherry limeade or blue coconut slush with their bacon double cheeseburgers are in luck. Road signs at the Route 7 Travel Plaza are trumpeting that a Sonic drive-in is coming to town.
The classic car-hop restaurant currently can be found in just three Connecticut locations, in Manchester, Milford, and Wallingford. All of those are open seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to midnight.
The throw-back to 1950s American car culture is famous for its roller-skating wait staff and its "totchos" — tater tot nachos. Corporate parent Inspire Brands, which also owns Buffalo Wild Wings and Arby's, is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK,
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Indications are the new drive-in will occupy the now-vacant corner of Route 7 and Still River Road.
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