New Haven Restaurants
New Haven is legendary for culinary firsts: the first hamburger sandwich was served at Louis' Lunch; the first American pizza at Pepe's. Even the first lollipop was invented by George C. Smith of Bradley-Smith Candy Company of New Haven. Today, the Elm City pays homage to its reputation with a variety of restaurants unmatched for a city its size.
According to legend, American pizza was born in 1925, when Italian immigrant Frank Pepe founded his Pizza Napolitana in Wooster Sq. Today, Pepe's is as famous for the lines of fans waiting hours to be seated in rain or shine as it is for its trademark dish. Sally's Apizza, founded by Pepe's nephew Sal Consiglio in 1938, maintains a friendly rivalry with Pepe's from its spot two blocks away. For Italian restaurants with shorter waits, if lesser fame, check out Apizza Place, Abaté Pizza and Seafood, and Tony and Lucille's.
No tour of culinary landmarks would be complete without a stop at Louis' Lunch (263 Crown St), founded in 1895, where the first American hamburger was served. A century later, Louis' has made no compromise on purism, serving burgers the original way with two slices of square white toast, tomato, onion, and optional cheese. Requests for mustard, ketchup, or mayonnaise are seen as an insult to the proprietors, as condiments mask the flavor.
For more adventurous taste buds, New Haven has become a dining mecca for ethnic cuisine. Downtown, more than 120 restaurants cook eclectic cuisine from Thai, Malaysian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean to Ethiopian, Eritrean, French, Greek, Indian, Jamaican, Cuban, Peruvian, Mexican, Syrian, and Turkish. These restaurants are clustered closer to Yale's campus, along Chapel, Crown, and George Streets, and no wonder - only a multitude of cuisines this vast could satisfy the palate of a cosmopolitan university.
According to legend, American pizza was born in 1925, when Italian immigrant Frank Pepe founded his Pizza Napolitana in Wooster Sq. Today, Pepe's is as famous for the lines of fans waiting hours to be seated in rain or shine as it is for its trademark dish. Sally's Apizza, founded by Pepe's nephew Sal Consiglio in 1938, maintains a friendly rivalry with Pepe's from its spot two blocks away. For Italian restaurants with shorter waits, if lesser fame, check out Apizza Place, Abaté Pizza and Seafood, and Tony and Lucille's.
No tour of culinary landmarks would be complete without a stop at Louis' Lunch (263 Crown St), founded in 1895, where the first American hamburger was served. A century later, Louis' has made no compromise on purism, serving burgers the original way with two slices of square white toast, tomato, onion, and optional cheese. Requests for mustard, ketchup, or mayonnaise are seen as an insult to the proprietors, as condiments mask the flavor.
For more adventurous taste buds, New Haven has become a dining mecca for ethnic cuisine. Downtown, more than 120 restaurants cook eclectic cuisine from Thai, Malaysian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean to Ethiopian, Eritrean, French, Greek, Indian, Jamaican, Cuban, Peruvian, Mexican, Syrian, and Turkish. These restaurants are clustered closer to Yale's campus, along Chapel, Crown, and George Streets, and no wonder - only a multitude of cuisines this vast could satisfy the palate of a cosmopolitan university.
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