OT: Unique Restaurants in CT

[veryolddog]

The best restaurant that I visited in Connecticut is or was a place called Carbones on Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford, CT. This was in October of 90 just before I retired from the Marine Corps. By far, one of the best restaurants that I have visited around the world. Just for your information, there was another great place on the water in Ft Lauderdale called the Plum Room that was excellent. I think that one is gone now.

 

[twiceahusky]

The Place is good, byob and fun ... But the BBQ littlenecks are excellent.

The “roast clam special” is indeed delicious. I worked there long ago through hs & college, and if a stray clam went uneaten by a customer ... there might have been a few times that I threw that clam back on the fire and ate it myself. Yum!

 

[huskymedic]

So... where did you end up for the birthday din-din.

 

[Dove]

So... where did you end up for the birthday din-din.

Nice to see I'm not the only who unsbabashedly uses "din din" in posts.

 

[huskymedic]

Nice to see I'm not the only who unsbabashedly usese "din din" in posts.

I used supper once and was shamed...

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Two pies diverged in a Nutmeg wood,
And sorry I could not eat both
And be one eater, long I stood
And looked at one as long as I could
To where it bent under my tooth;

Then ate the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better clam,
Because it was fresh and wanted cheer;
Though as for that the shucking there
Had made them really about the same,

And both that evening equally lay
With crusts dark brown bordering on black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two pies diverged in a wood, and I—
I ate the one less eaten by,
And that has made all the difference.

Talent.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Might be a bit pricey but carol pecks restaurant in Woodbridge probably prepares a few dishes that few can replicate in terms of taste and flavor. If you desire totally new dishes I would hope Hartford's Spanish sections would help but I would suggest being the early bird for dinner

 

[uconnphil2016]

So... where did you end up for the birthday din-din.

Actually haven’t made it out yet. Got in from ATL and was beat. Well go next weekend

 

[8893]

If you are looking for something really special, my two favorite dining experiences in New Haven are Union League Cafe (French and always excellent; get the duck confit and whatever the special fish dish is and you can’t go wrong); or the patio at L’Orcio (Italian, but not red sauce Italian; get the pappardelle with ragu and the farro salad).

 

[Goat]

If you're up to drive to Amherst, Oriental Flavor is the best Chinese food in New England, imo.

Try: all the dumplings especially the crystal shrimp. Eat shu mai, the chicken feet, the sublime tripe appetizer in ginger sauce, stuffed shrimp, the bean curd sheet Then, have a streamed whole fish and the dry braised beef, a very spicy Szechuan dish. This is what Chinese eat.