Half Moon Coffee & Grille Cafe

Love going here with a nice bottle of homemade wine. Delicious pasta dishes with asparagus and chicken and veal dishes so delicious. Their pizza and sandwiches are also great. You can't go wrong here. One of our favorites!

Just grabbed coffee (very reasonably priced, a nice relief from inflation) and a bite for breakfast. Excellent food and exceptional service. Staff was super helpful. Attentive and smiling. Woman at the register was fantastic.

I think this was my first time here. I went with a friend. He got the antipasto salad and I got a roast beef panini with pasta salad. The portions were great. His salad looked fantastic with everything you can imagine on it. My panini was perfect. The bread was delicious and thin foccacia bread, the flavors were on point. The service was perfect. The prices were very reasonable.

I will definitely be back.

Delicious special pasta dish with scallops and shrimp. Chef/Owner is creative, hands-on with a great menu, and the service was excellent. Looking forward to returning!

After more than a year of social distancing my wife and I stepped out and went to lunch. WOW it felt great getting back to normal activities. Went lunch at the Half Moon grille in Wallingford, CT. My wife ordered a pecan chicken salad wrap, I opted for the prosciutto, roasted peppers and mozzarella panini. Service was quick and friendly, the food was just a I remembered, excellent. As people came into the resturant there were loud greetings of welcome back like going to a friends house, very comforting feeling. We each had a choice of chips or pasta salad, we went for the pasta salad, just the right amount and mixed just right. The chicken salad wrap was packed full of tender chicken mixed with pecans, grapes and lettuce, my wife said it was delicious. The prosciutto panini was just perfect thinly sliced prosciutto covered with red roasted peppers (which I claim make a sandwich) and mozzarella cheese, and a little basil. I would recommend stopping in here when you are looking for a great place to enjoy great food and great service.

Ordered pasta and it was fresh and wonderful. 👍 To chef. The customer service could use a little more training. Will definitely return.

Awesome place!!!! It was super lively when we went and the atmosphere was great. The menu has a bunch of options; everything our group ordered was delicious! Would definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for a good meal in Wallingford.

Mixed feelings! Ate here earlier today and sat at a table outside. We ordered three entrees, and our server read all three back to us to confirm that he had them right (which he did). After he went inside, we did not see him again. Two of the entrees came out pretty quickly, and they were absolutely delicious! However, the third entree never came out. We waited about twenty minutes after the other food had come out, and then we mentioned it to a woman bussing tables after she asked us if we needed our check. She acknowledged it and then went back inside. We thought that meant she would let someone know, and we continued waiting. Fifteen minutes later, however, another employee brought us out a check. We informed him that we had never received one of our orders, and he said, “Oh, the server probably just forgot to put it in. Sorry about that.” He did not seem very concerned. We decided to just pay the bill and leave since we had already been sitting there for so long, so we gave him a credit card. We received an app notification that the credit card had been run almost immediately, but it was another eleven minutes before he brought it back. Had really hoped he might take something off the bill or maybe surprise us with the gnocchi to go or something, but nope! Again, the food was really great, but can’t say the same for the service.

The food here is very, very good. Not expensive, and very casual. You order and pay for your food and then find a table. You wait, and then finally a rather inexperienced young server delivers your food to you. I had the Veal Chop Parmigiana and it was fantastic! At $22.95 it was the most expensive item on the whole menu, but it was well worth this price. One of the best things about this restaurant is that it is a BYOB dining establishment. They will even provide your wine glasses. I would definitely recommend this restaurant.

Get the chicken pesto pizza. It’s incredible.