Food guides for Connecticut

Best Bakery in Milford, CT: Rate the Pastry

Best bakery in Milford is a question for bread, pastry and cake. Learn how Best in town works for bakeries and how to rate a cannoli or a loaf.

Best Brunch in Westport, CT: Rate the Weekend Table

Best brunch in Westport is a question for a lazy weekend. Learn how Best in town works for brunch and how to rate the eggs, the pastry and the coffee.

Best Coffee in New London, CT: Rate Your Cup

Best coffee in New London depends on the cup: a quick espresso before the ferry or a long table near the college. Learn how Best in town works for coffee.

Best Ice Cream in Storrs, CT: Rate Your Scoop

Best ice cream in Storrs is a question for a sunny afternoon and a few cones. Learn how Best in town works for ice cream and how to rate a scoop.

Best in Town in Connecticut: Rate Your Own Town

Best in town in Connecticut: quick questions about coffee, pizza and bakeries for towns where few have rated, and why one honest answer starts a record.

Best Pizza in Danbury, CT: Rate Your Pie

Best pizza in Danbury is a Connecticut argument with many answers. Learn how the Best in town pizza question works and how to rate a pie by the crust and sauce.

Best restaurants near me in Connecticut: a regional guide (2026)

There is no single best restaurant in Connecticut, but there is a best region for every kind of meal, from the shoreline to the hills.

Bridgeport, Connecticut food guide: Black Rock, Little Italy, waterfront

A guide to eating in Bridgeport, Connecticut: Fairfield Avenue in Black Rock, the Italian roots of the East Side and Madison Avenue, the immigrant history behind the food and how to plan around the harbor.

Middletown CT Food List: Hand It to the Next Class

A Middletown CT food list that outlasts a semester: build it with friends, add a Why it belongs note and hand it on to the next class or to parents.

Candlewood Lake Lakeside Food Near Danbury

Candlewood Lake lakeside food near Danbury: picnics, lunches and summer dinners around a Connecticut favorite, and how to rate a view with a meal.

Cheap Eats Near Eastern Connecticut State University

Cheap eats near Eastern Connecticut State University: how students eat on a budget along Main Street in Willimantic and how to rate a value meal.

Connecticut farm stands and orchards: a fall food guide

How to eat Connecticut's fall harvest: apple orchards, cider doughnuts, pumpkin patches, farm stands, pick-your-own and what to check before you drive.

Connecticut lobster rolls: warm butter versus cold mayo, and how to order

Connecticut serves its lobster roll warm with melted butter, while Maine serves it cold with mayonnaise. Here is the difference, the Milford origin claim and how to order.

Connecticut River Valley food guide: Essex, Chester and Old Saybrook

A guide to eating along the lower Connecticut River: Essex, Chester, Ivoryton and Old Saybrook, with seafood, inns, waterfront dining and tips for planning a day.

Connecticut Road Trip Food With Friends

Connecticut road trip food, planned with friends: a shared list, tagging who you ate with, the Friends picks layer and a weekly view of what everyone rated.

Connecticut steamed cheeseburgers: what they are and how to order one

A guide to the Connecticut steamed cheeseburger from Middletown and Meriden: how it is made, where the story comes from, how to order it and what to expect.

Danbury Brazilian Food and Portuguese Cooking

Danbury Brazilian food and Portuguese cooking explained: what a plate of rice, beans and grilled meat looks like, how to order and how to rate a regional dish.

Danbury CT Restaurants: Main Street and the Hat City

Danbury CT restaurants span a revived Main Street and the roads around it, in a city of many communities. See how the Hat City eats and how to rate a meal.

Date Night Restaurants in Westport, CT

Date night restaurants in Westport: how to pick a table for two on the river, around a show or after a beach day, and how the Date Night tag works in the app.

Food in Connecticut: A Guide to Every Town

Food in Connecticut, one page: every Connecticut food guide we have written, from the shoreline to the Quiet Corner, plus what the Mosey app does with ratings.

Gluten-Free Eating in New Haven: What to Ask

Gluten-free eating in New Haven means asking good questions. Learn what the label means, where wheat hides in pizza, pasta and breading, and how to keep notes.

Group Dining in Connecticut: Using Tags

Group dining in Connecticut, found with tags: how the Group Dining tag works, what to ask a kitchen about a large table and how to rate a party dinner.

Hartford and West Hartford food guide: Franklin Avenue to the Center

Hartford's food runs from Franklin Avenue's Italian old guard to Park Street's Puerto Rican restaurants and West Hartford Center's dining hub. A guide to each, with timing, tips and weekday habits.

How to Find Good Food in Hartford

Find good food in Hartford by walking neighborhoods with history, learning a few dishes and keeping a record. Then pass your lists to friends you trust.

How to Find Good Food in New Haven: A Method

How to find good food in New Haven: start with the markets, the Italian-American streets and the Long Island Sound seafood, then keep notes and share lists.

Late Night Food in Middletown, CT

Late night food in Middletown beats most small cities. Learn to plan around closing times, where students look and how to tag the places that stay open.

Late-night food in New Haven: Broadway, Chapel Street and Yale

Where to find late-night food in New Haven: the streets around the Yale campus, what stays open after midnight, how term time changes the options and what to do when the kitchens close.

Litchfield Hills food guide: farm stands, markets and country dining

A guide to eating in the Litchfield Hills of northwest Connecticut: farm stands, Saturday markets, cider doughnuts, small-town bakeries and country restaurants, by season.

Lunch Near the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury

Lunch near the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury: how to eat before or after a visit on the Green, what suits a family or a slow afternoon and how to rate it.

Middletown Harbor Park Food and Riverfront Walk

Middletown Harbor Park food: how to carry lunch from Main Street to the Connecticut River, where to sit, what to pack and how to rate each stop on the walk.

Middletown CT Restaurants: Main Street and the River

Middletown CT restaurants fill a wide Main Street above the Connecticut River. See how the city eats, when it is busy and how to rate a meal.

Milford Beach Day Food and Picnics

Milford beach day food: what to pack for Silver Sands and the town beaches, where to find boardwalk snacks and how to rate a seaside meal for the next family.

Milford Oyster Food Guide and Festival Notes

Milford oyster food and its history: why the shoreline city is tied to oysters, what to know before a festival day and how to order and rate a plate.

Milford CT Restaurants: Downtown, the Green and the Harbor

Milford CT restaurants gather around the Green, downtown and the harbor on Long Island Sound. See how the shoreline city eats and how to rate a meal.

Mystic and the Connecticut shoreline: lobster rolls and clam shacks

Connecticut's shoreline serves lobster hot and buttery, in places with picnic tables and no frills. A guide to Mystic, Noank and Stonington, with seasons, waits and what to bring.

New Britain's Little Poland: a Broad Street food guide

How to eat on Broad Street in New Britain, Connecticut: pierogi, kielbasa, bakeries and delis in Little Poland, what the Polish food words mean and how the annual festival fits in.

New Haven apizza guide: coal-fired pizza and how to order it

New Haven pizza, called apizza, is thin, charred and cooked in coal-fired ovens. A guide to the three famous pizzerias, the white clam pie, how to order and why the lines are long.

New Haven food beyond pizza: burgers, pastry, Ethiopian and Ninth Square

What to eat in New Haven besides pizza: the burger on toast, Wooster Square pastry, Ninth Square, international kitchens and cafes.

New Haven Oysters: History and How to Order

New Haven oysters fed the city for centuries and still grow in Long Island Sound. Read the history, learn the menu words and how to rate a plate by the dish.

New London Ferry Day Food: Block Island and Orient Point

New London ferry day food: what to eat before the boat to Block Island or Orient Point, how long to leave, what to pack and how to rate a quick terminal meal.

New London CT Restaurants: State Street and Waterfront

New London CT restaurants run along State Street and the Thames waterfront, near Connecticut College and the Coast Guard Academy. See how the port city eats.

New London Summer Waterfront Food Guide

New London summer waterfront food: how to eat at Ocean Beach Park, Fort Trumbull and the harbor, what to pack for a beach day and how to rate a seaside snack.

Norwalk Oyster Festival and South Norwalk food guide

How to eat at the Norwalk Oyster Festival in September and in South Norwalk the rest of the year: dates, tickets, what to eat, and how to plan a day on Long Island Sound.

Park Street Hartford: A Food Neighborhood Guide

Park Street Hartford, in Frog Hollow, is known as New England's Spanish Main Street. Its history, a walking plan and how to keep notes on a meal.

Parkville Market in Hartford: Connecticut's first food hall

Parkville Market at 1400 Park Street is described as Connecticut's first food hall. What it is, who is inside, and how to plan a visit to Hartford's Parkville neighborhood.

Pasteles in Hartford: What They Are and How to Order

Pasteles are Puerto Rican parcels of green banana masa and stewed filling in banana leaf. Learn what they are, their holiday role and how to order in Hartford.

Pork-Free Eating in Hartford: Pasteles, Stews and Questions

A plain guide to pork-free eating in Hartford: where pork appears in Puerto Rican pasteles and stews, what to ask the cook and how to keep reliable notes.

Quiet Corner food guide: Putnam, Pomfret and Woodstock

A guide to eating in the Quiet Corner of northeast Connecticut: Putnam antiques and cafes, Route 169 orchards, the Coventry farmers market and country dining.

Stamford food guide: downtown, the South End and Harbor Point

Where to eat in Stamford, Connecticut: Atlantic Street and downtown for lunch and train-time dinners, the South End and Harbor Point on the water, and the farmers markets that bracket the week.

Stamford and Fairfield County food guide: the Gold Coast by train

Fairfield County's towns, from Greenwich to Westport and South Norwalk, are an easy train ride from New York. How to eat well on the Connecticut coast, what waterfront dining means and what to book.

Storrs CT Restaurants: Dining Near UConn

Storrs CT restaurants cluster around Storrs Center beside the University of Connecticut. See how a campus town eats, when it fills up and how to rate a meal.

UConn Game Day Food in Storrs: Plan Around the Crowd

UConn game day food in Storrs: how to eat before and after a Huskies game when the whole town is heading the same way, and how to rate a pregame meal.

Vegan Food Near UConn in Storrs: Using Tags

Vegan food near UConn, found with tags: how a Storrs diner uses the Vegan and Vegetarian tags, what a tag does not promise and how to rate a plant-based meal.

Waterbury Bar Pizza Guide: A Valley Tradition

Waterbury bar pizza explained: the thin, crisp tavern pie of the Naugatuck Valley, how it differs from New Haven apizza, how to order one and how to rate it.

Waterbury Dinner Before a Show at the Palace Theater

Waterbury dinner before a show: how to time a meal around a night at the Palace Theater, where to park, what suits a quick plate and how to rate the evening.

Waterbury CT Restaurants: Downtown and the Green

Waterbury CT restaurants gather around the Green, the old brick downtown and the neighborhoods of the Brass City. See how the city eats and how to rate a meal.

Westport Compo Beach Picnic and Takeout Lunch

Westport Compo Beach picnic: how to buy takeout in town, carry it to the shore, what to know about parking and the rules, and how to rate each stop on the way.

Westport CT Restaurants: Saugatuck and Main Street

Westport CT restaurants spread from Main Street to the Saugatuck River on the Fairfield County shore. See how the town eats, when to go and how to rate a meal.

Willimantic Farmers Market Guide: What to Buy and Eat

Willimantic farmers market guide: what to look for at the market, how to shop by season, what to eat on the spot and how to rate what you buy.

Willimantic CT Restaurants: Main Street and the Mills

Willimantic CT restaurants line a mill-town Main Street beside the river, home of the Frog Bridge. See how the Thread City eats and how to rate a meal.

Willimantic Day Trip Food in the Quiet Corner

Willimantic day trip food: how to plan a day from the Thread City into the Quiet Corner, with farm stands, country stores, a lunch stop and a rating for each.

Wooster Square New Haven: A Food Neighborhood Guide

Wooster Square New Haven is an Italian-American neighborhood with a park, an April to November Saturday market and a spring festival. Walk it with a plan.