Chichester Country Store

Amazing sandwiches and breakfast food. They have really great specials for lunch including some sandwiches on homemade Cabot cheddar bread! So yummy! The apple cider donuts are the best I have ever had anywhere!

Apple Cider Donuts are delicious!!! Hope you ship outside of NH, would love to order for my family and friends.

Quaint store. Visited for the donuts which were excellent. Worth a visit if in the area.

This is a hidden new england gem and well worth the trip! Support local business, farmers and crafstmen. Amazing apple cider donuts. Yummy breakfast and lots of charm!

Stopped in after a weekend trip. Amazing donuts, local honey, supreme donuts. Super nice to an out of towner asking questions which I appreciated. Did I mention the heavenly donuts?

Oh… do they have other food besides doughnuts? Truly, these are wonderful.

The sandwiches and pastries are great here, and I want to give these guys the benefit of the doubt (because I’m a local), but… the service is terrible. It’s gotten to the point where I check the parking lot as I’m driving by. Fewer cars = better service, which is unfortunate.
If there is more than one person in the store at a time, the entire staff becomes stressed, and no one really takes the lead. The entire staff will regularly go in the kitchen to fix orders, leaving the register unmanned for several minutes. You can tell these guys are working hard, but it’s painful to watch. I wish the owner would schedule employees to meet high-​volume points of the day, and/​or train everyone how to deal with multiple orders and higher foot-​traffic.
Again, the food is great, but it is not enough to add stars to this mismanaged establishment.

Excellent locally made cheese, honey, fudge, blueberry milk, cider donuts. This store is like Gods refrigerator.
They have a milk delivery service, that my friend is old school. Hard to argue that with it, these people know what they are doing.

My husband and I stop in every couple months and also purchase their goods at local Farmer’s Markets. The grilled food is pretty tasty — simple but nothing special. Now, the special part comes to the donuts. I haven’t had a bad one yet and they are AWESOME!
For those with nut allergies, I have checked and asked many questions — the grill is a nut free zone and there’s no nut oils in the fryer either.

They deliver exactly what they promise. Hot Cider Donuts (and Boston Crème on Sundays). It is a perfect match to a trip to John’s Barn, which is just down the road.

Store ownership changes hands every few years (third or fourth owner in maybe 10 or so years, was closed for a few years in the beginning of my recollection of the store), so beware that any later review MIGHT be for different management, consider if the store is still operated by operators that other people have posted about. I think they are now affiliated with Catamount Farm (Catamount Farm delivery trucks are parked there every day) Catamount is a hard working firm that will deliver food and milk to your house, so I would assume that work ethic spills over into this store.
The store location isn’t super bad but then again, the store is NOT set directly on rt 28, so, IF you can see it as you are driving 50MPH, you will have to quickly deal with a funky ‘highway exit’ (traveling south) and/​or triangular island (traveling north) to get into their parking lot, and that highway exit situation makes getting into their parking lot quite a surprise if you don’t anticipate it properly. NOT AT ALL the fault of the store, but nevertheless, the difficult access will affect your efforts. I feel bad for any owners of the location — it is quite hard to see the store from the northbound side of the road until it is too late to slowly come to stop. If the town could let them put an electronic sign in that ‘traffic island’, that would probably solve the problem of drivers finding it. Hello, town fathers? A little assistance there would go a long way!
That aside, the last time I stopped in (late spring 2011?), they had JUST been reopened by the current owner with the Catamount Farm trucks, the store selection was vastly different compared to the previous visit which I made, and the previous situation was more what I stopped to visit. On my current visit, I really saw little I was interested in purchasing, and the selection was, well, I’d say a bit … thin, since they had just reopened. Today is early December, they are still operating, so things should have improved since my visit.

Service and people: 5 stars. Donuts: 5 stars (apple cider with maple glaze are amazing). Food: 4.5 stars. Not the cleanest most organized place, but everything else makes up for it. This place is pretty awesome and definitely worth stopping.

Amazing, great, funky and cool.
So, first let me say, I am not a local and there is something to be said about a sense of community, but I did not see anything that would leave me to believe they were anti-​community.
Second, the two lovely ladies that my wife, 4 year old daughter and I interacted with were wonderful. They were very helpful, friendly and went way above and beyond any other ‘store’ I was in while in the area.
Now to the real review. CIDER MAPLE GLAZED DONUTS!!! All I am going to say is that these could have been trolls working there and for those donuts, it would have been worth fighting through. I have been in a running argument with a buddy of mine about donuts from Rhode Island to Texas. All I can say is these may be the single greatest donut around. They are a cake donut, so if that turns you off, I would understand, I am not a huge fan, but these are different. You must make the effort for these things, you will not be disappointed.
Next, they have a specialty milk (Chocolate, White, Strawberry & Blueberry) from Sherman Farms up in East Conway, NH. I know it is not right there in Chester, but I think that is fairly ‘support the local farmer’. It was amazing.
All in all, if you are not supporting these folks or if you have never been by to say hi, they are worth the stop (and a second chance).

AMAZING cider donuts!
The Chichester Country Store (formerly Stevie D’s) has reopened under new ownership, located at the skewed intersection of Route 28 and Main Street in Chichester. This is the epitome of a classic New England general store, which is housed in a century and a half old trading post built in 1847.
This country store offers convenience store items, cold drinks, as well as Van Otis Chocolates, Stonewall Kitchen products, and a full service café & deli, which is the basis of the review. There’s also a big cheese wheel near the deli counter. Boar’s Head meats are used and sold here.
The café/​deli counter is order at the counter (pay at the front register) with stool seating near the counter and self serve dine-​in table seating in the next room (in the historic old house attached to the store). They make fresh homemade cider donuts (deep fried behind the counter) in several varieties, fresh baked goods, eggs, 2 egg omelets, pancakes, French toast, burgers, hot dogs, hot & cold subs, sandwiches, and soups. The breakfast sandwiches are grab and go for convenience, but if you have time, they can make you a fresh sandwich. Green Mountain Coffee (self serve carafes or K-​cups) is offered here. The prices here are very reasonable and they offered a special of 2 donuts and a small coffee for $ 1.99.
My coworker who lives in the area has been raving about how awesome the donuts are at the Chichester Country Store. He stops in each week to pick up a dozen donuts and to grab breakfast with his family. After hearing about it for a while at work, it was making me hungry. I had to make the trek over to Chichester.
I stopped in here for breakfast takeout before heading to work. I ordered a Spinach & Feta Omelet ($ 4.25) with homefries & wheat toast (add $ 0.50), which was cooked to order on the grill behind the counter. I also got 2 cider donuts (sugar glazed and cinnamon sugar) with a small Green Mountain Coffee ($ 1.99). A full breakfast including coffee and donuts came out to $ 7.35 with tax.
The omelet was very good, which was folded eggs over a grilled spinach & feta mixture. The homefries were browned and seasoned with parsley and had a slight sweet taste.
The cider donuts were AMAZING with a slight crisp on the outside and soft inside. The glazed cider donut was one of the best I’ve had, melt in your mouth awesomeness. The coffee was brewed on the strong side, just the way I enjoy it.
I will definitely be back here again! This is also a good place to stop to/​from the Lakes Region. My coworker talks about stocking up on the donuts and bringing some to an upcoming company party. Can’t wait.
HOURS (in ⁰¹⁄₂₀₁₀): Mon-​Fri: 6AM-​6PM; Sat: 7AM-​4PM; Sun: 8AM-​3PM
NOTE: The grill closes at 2PM