<p>Son is going to Newport early this week in preparation for sail back to Annapolis. Will spend a couple of days at NAPS.</p>
<p>Any recommendations for restaurants, things to do while in Newport?
Thanks.</p>
<p>The Red Parrot resturant near Thames Street. Expensive sea food but WELL worth the price.</p>
<p>Go to Bishop's 4th Street Diner for breakfast, right outside the base. So good! Benjamin's, downtown, is also good, and the Brick Alley Pub as well. There's lots of shopping and other good restaurants if you just walk downtown. </p>
<p>(For someone who hasn't been to Newport before, and wants to be touristy, the mansions are really cool (at least I think so, lol), like the Breakers, and the Astors has actors from the time period during which it was built.)</p>
<p>Boston USMC is absolutely right....that diner makes great food....esepcially Sunday morning breakfast...</p>
<p>Christie's is a famous but over-fated restaurant (I'd avoid it.) I like the Oceancliff Hotel and restaurant, good food, good music, great view, easy parking and away from all the tourist traffic. Bowen's Wharf is the shopping, boutique area. Traffic can be frustrating sometimes. The mansions - you should do at least one - very victorian and opulent. The Cliff Walk is also something you should do if you like light exercise. I love Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge - beautiful, natural setting - easy hiking (Middletown, RI ten - fifteen minutes from Newport.) Greenvale Vineyards is a place I like to go as well for wine tasting and purchasing.</p>
<p>Red Parrot's clam chowder</p>
<p>FUDGE SHOP!
<em>cries</em> :(</p>
<p>The Newport Mansions are very nice to tour.</p>
<p>Assuming it's still there, the Boathouse wasn't bad. It's about 3-4 blocks past downtown along Thames.</p>
<p>For Italian, it's hard to beat Momma Leone's outside the main gate to the War College.</p>
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<p>One particularly boring evening, I RAN the Cliff Walk. At night. With a full moon out and not a cloud in the sky.</p>
<p>THAT was a RUN, boy!</p>
<p>They don't allow you to do that anymore, though. :(</p>
<p>Son and I were in Newport in February and loved Red Parrot -- not inexpensive, but great, generous portions of seafood. We also had fun at Sala's on Thames, an upstairs place that's apparently been there for ages. Informal, inexpensive, giant portions (a recurring theme when my son's w/ me) Italian-ish seafood, and the Mom-aged wait staff were all over my kid when they found out he was headed for NAPS in Aug. They made him promise he'd come back w/ friends, which he hopes to do.</p>
<p>We heard about a great lobster roll stand downtown, which I think was called Flo's, but it wasn't open until Memorial Day weekend. It came highly recommended.</p>
<p>It's actually called Salis', and i second that it's soooooo good. You can order a huge thing of spaghetti, an order of meatballs, and some garlic bread and you've got the whole family covered. Salad there is great too. We go there a lot because I have a big family and it's pretty cheap.</p>