Note: yes they do accept credit cards even tho this page say's no.


my review....
Norwalk is a noticeably flat city. It isn't quite what you think of when you imagine Alpine expanses.


Perhaps over the decades it has snowed in Norwalk at least once, and maybe, at one local health club or another, there is a climbing wall available. But most of the time the highest elevation anyone will experience is the second floor of a local building.


This explains why the Rosewood Family Restaurant on Pioneer Boulevard stands out.


Its long A-frame shape, with a roof that slopes almost to the ground, is Swiss chalet-style, with low, dark windows and a stone fireplace at one end to add to the atmosphere.


Inside the dining room, with dark upholstered banquettes against the small windows and lighting suspended from the ceiling, the look is Alpine. But the restaurant is determinedly American, with a menu that features specialties such as meatloaf, breakfast all day and a surf and turf dinner that is actually called "Surf and Turf.
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It's even more American than that, offering a section of Mexican dishes including Rosewood's Special Recipe Homemade Pozole, $5.50 for a medium, $6.75 for a large. Pozole is a stew of hominy, pork and chilies, and folks come to Rosewood regularly just to have their pozole fix.


And Rosewood features that final all-American concept: It is always open: 24/7.


The full menu is available at all hours. You can have veal marsala, $8.50, at 4 a.m., or the Quickie Breakfast, $5.65, at 10 p.m. The veal includes soup or salad and garlic toast, and the Quickie has three pancakes, two eggs and a choice of two sausage links or two pieces of bacon. There is a counter at one end of the restaurant, too, so if you are in a hurry, you don't have to wait for a table.


The menu has a little of everything.


Chili, $3.95 and $4.95, is accompanied by Chili and Fries, $4.65; a Chili Size and Fries, $5.95; and a Chili Dog and Fries, $4.95. Appetizers include Beef Nachos, $5.95, Chorizo and Cheese Nachos, $6.15, and Buffalo Chicken Wings, $7.25. There are lots of breakfasts, pasta dinners, even a stir-fry selection.


But if you are really hungry, go for one of the specialties. Liver and onions is $6.95, center-cut pork chops, $9.50, and homemade meatloaf, $7.50. All come with soup or salad; dinner roll or garlic toast; and mashed potatoes, cheese potatoes, baked potatoes (from 4 to 10 p.m.), or French fries. (Try the cheese potatoes: mashed potatoes mixed with lots of chewy melted cheese.
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The soups are delicious. One great option, available occasionally, is the Italian Chicken Vegetable, a rich broth filled with chunks of chicken and vegetables.


The meatloaf comes with gravy or with Spanish Sauce. Spanish Sauce is an old name for Mexican sauce: a tomato sauce flavored with onions and bell peppers. You can have the gravy and the sauce on the side to try both.


Two well-cooked pork chops come in the pork chop dinner, and the pot roast is tender and delicious. The garlic toast comes hot and crisp from the broiler.


The breakfasts are large and filling, too. Try the Homemade Corned Beef Hash and Eggs, $6.75, or the Country Style Ham and Eggs, $6.75. The home fries - ask for them crisp - are slices of potato that actually look like you made them at home.


Breakfasts come with toast, English muffin, blueberry muffin, tortillas, or biscuit and gravy. It will take you a while to choose.


Rosewood has a full bar at one end, the end with the fireplace. It is a place for raucous karaoke on many nights, but a great place for the family to dine or for a late-night snack.