Banana Brazil Luncheonette -- Danbury, CT

Banana Brazil Luncheonette
91 Main Street

Danbury, CT

All my trips to Connecticut include a trip to the Danbury Library for my genealogical research. After several hours of spooling through microfilm and printing about 100 birth/marriage/death announcements, I get pretty darn hungry. Luckily, this little gem is across the street from the library. It’s a straightforward, no-frills set-up: Grab a plate, and move down a buffet of meat, rice, vegetable, and fruit dishes, and take your delicious haul to the checkout counter. You can also get some barbeque off the grill behind the counter, or a glass of fresh squeezed juice from the fountains. (Their mango juice is a dream.) The buffet offerings vary, but I’ve never been disappointed, and I’d be mad about any Latin American restaurant that lets me pile on as many sweet plantains as my heart desires.