Meritíssimo · Great Wolf Lodge
About 15 minutes from Great Wolf Lodge New England: fresh bread and coffee before the park opens, a hot Brazilian lunch, and salgados to take back to the room.
If you are staying at Great Wolf Lodge New England and you have had enough of the resort food court, you are about 15 minutes from a Brazilian bakery and restaurant — bread baked that morning, a hot buffet at lunch, and pizza at night.
We know the route matters more than the menu when you have tired kids in the car, so here it is plainly: leave the resort, head into Fitchburg on John Fitch Highway, and we are at number 377, in the Market Basket plaza. Parking at the door. No highway, no downtown, no meters.
We open at 7:00 am, which is earlier than almost everything else around the resort. What comes out of the oven first is the bread — pão de sal, still warm — plus pão de queijo, the Brazilian cheese bread that has converted a lot of American kids, and real coffee.
Families usually do one of two things: eat here before the wristbands go on, or take a bag of salgados back to the room for later. Both work. The salgados travel well and do not need to be reheated.
Lunch is the hot buffet, 12:00 to 3:30 pm, priced by the pound — rice, beans, grilled meats, salads. If you want the full Brazilian plate, ask for the prato feito: rice, beans, salad and your meat, all on one plate. At night the oven switches to Brazilian-style pizza, thin crust, with toppings you will not find at the resort — calabresa sausage, chicken with catupiry cream cheese.
We are next door to a Market Basket. Plenty of guests stop here for the food and grab drinks and snacks for the room in the same trip.
Several of our reviews are from Brazilian families who were staying at the lodge, went looking for Brazilian food, and were surprised to find it this close. One family came back the same weekend. If you are one of those families: welcome — you found the right place, and you can order in Portuguese.
Order before you drive over. Order pickup online or call ahead, and we will have it ready. For delivery, order on DoorDash.
Order online See the menu (781) 973-0268Meritíssimo is at 377 John Fitch Hwy in Fitchburg, about 15 minutes by car from Great Wolf Lodge New England. Stop in for Brazilian bakery items, a hot lunch buffet or Brazilian pizza, or order ahead for pickup. See our menu for current choices.
O Meritíssimo fica na 377 John Fitch Hwy, em Fitchburg, a cerca de 15 minutos de carro do Great Wolf Lodge New England. Temos itens de padaria brasileira, buffet no almoço e pizza brasileira; você também pode pedir para retirar. Veja o cardápio para conferir as opções atuais.
About 15 minutes by car — 377 John Fitch Hwy in Fitchburg, straight out of the resort. There is free parking at the door.
Yes. We are a Brazilian family business and you are welcome to order in Portuguese — falamos português.
We open at 7:00 am. Fresh bread comes out of the oven in the morning, along with pão de queijo, coffee and the salgados — the easiest breakfast to eat here or take back to the room.
Yes. Call (781) 973-0268, tell us what you want, and it will be bagged and waiting at the counter. You can also order online.
Açaí bowls, pão de queijo, four cheese pizza and brigadeiro cake. The pão de queijo is the one that usually wins them over.
Since October 11, 1994
Argemiro left the truck behind to be near his children. Salomé cooked the first plate — two reais and fifty cents. Since 1994, the same family serves the same food, now in Fitchburg too.
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