<p>We have a Sunday lunch and dinner
as well as a Mon dinner in New Haven to consider...</p>
<p>Suggestions for a great meal...?
We'll probably eat at the hotel for breakfast and eat on campus (suggestions?) for lunch once as well.</p>
<p>Would love sugestions also! Fogfog, when will you be visiting? We will be up there the end of March. Any idea what sort of weather to expect?</p>
<p>Here are the three restaurants for which New Haven has been famous for decades:</p>
<p>Pepe’s Pizza: [Frank</a> Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pepe_Pizzeria_Napoletana]Frank”>Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Sally’s Pizza: [Sally’s</a> Apizza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally’s_Apizza]Sally’s”>Sally's Apizza - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Louis’ Lunch: [Louis</a>’ Lunch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lunch]Louis”>Louis' Lunch - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Lots of tasty ethnic food around the campus, but the three above are legendary.</p>
<p>Pepe’s and Sally’s are a hike from the campus, and require a lot of time standing in line and waiting for your order, but really pizza at one of them should not be missed.</p>
<p>Closer to campus, Claire’s Cornercopia is a good, cheap vegetarian restaurant on College just across Chapel St. from the Old Campus. And half a block down Chapel along the Green is Zinc, where I had a really good (expensive) dinner a few years ago.</p>
<p>Louis Lunch is more legend than quality, unless someone has changed it utterly in recent years.</p>
<p>I love Kumo or Miso for Sushi, Bangkok Garden for Thai, and Lallibella (sp) for Ethiopian. I am a vegetarian (who occasionally eats fish) and I am not that fond of Claire’s.</p>
<p>You can walk to Central Steak…great steakhouse… we do all our special dinners there… there is another steak place across the street from the Omni… also a great burger joint there too… Bar has great pizza right downtown… I think Pepe’s is the best, but it is a drive away from campus… not that far, but not really walkable…</p>
<p>Ivy Noodle is a nice little hole in the wall for chinese… great dumplings… </p>
<p>Miya’s has a great appetizer and or side, called Tokyo Fries… really thin spiral cut french fries with a sweet chili paste sauce? Excellent… </p>
<p>Educated Burger and A1 pizza are nice options on Broadway…</p>
<p>and AuBonPan is always an option for breakfast take out…</p>
<p>We love Soul de Cuba and Bar Pizza, both on Crown Street. Also, I have heard great things about the grilled cheese sandwiches of all things at Caseus on Whitney. Unfortunately Caseus is closed on Sundays which is when we always seem to be there!</p>
<p>We recently enjoyed a couple of meals at the Heirloom restaurant at the Study hotel on Chapel Street.</p>
<p>If you like Spanish food, Ibiza on High St. is very good (but, like Zinc, expensive). You should peek in to Louis’ Lunch to see the place, but the burgers are forgettable and they don’t allow ketchup in the establishment. If the weather is nice, the walk to Pepe’s/Sally’s isn’t that bad. It helps to burn the calories you’ll consume!</p>
<p>Thanks for the help </p>
<p>We are staying at the Omni and had a chance to eat a decent dinner a few times. and 2 lunches–I think at least one lunch will be on campus between the regular and SEAS tours…</p>
<p>suggestions on campus? </p>
<p>Would you suggest eating dinner on campus if possible with stude’ts our student is meeting–or is that not possible</p>
<p>What kind of visit is this? If your kid is in high school and is visiting, I think he or she should go eat in the dining hall with the students, and you should probably go somewhere else. If you want to get some of the ambiance, you could go eat at Commons–but let the kid go to the residential college dining hall with the students.</p>
<p>^^ Concur. I second at least having a snack in the Commons. It’s a good place to get a feel for the campus culture. My son overheard a casual conversation about Gaussian Curves (whatever they may be – mom is missing the math gene) that was sort of the essence of Yale and sold him on the place.</p>
<p>I dunno. Commons is a little cavernous and intimidating, and really isn’t that central to anyone’s Yale experience after freshman year. If you can get someone to host you in a residential college dining hall, that is likely to be more pleasant AND more typical. Not to mention it’s easier to overhear conversations there.</p>
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<p>I take it you’ve never visited there sober.</p>
<p>^ HAHAHAHAHAH, my life was just made :)</p>
<p>fun fact, apparently Louis’ was the #1 tastiest place to chow down on Travel Channel’s 101 Tastiest Places to Chow Down show :)</p>
<p>For what dining hall to eat in, it depends on the meal. If you are going for lunch, i would say commons. It is more central to where classes are so it is the busiest lunch dining hall. For dinner, head to a residential college since most people go back to their rooms before dinner so they stay around their for dinner. </p>
<p>in terms of restaurants around campus, i am partial to Thai Taste (there are about 4 Thai restaurants within a block of eachother). Claires is also good. I wouldn’t reccomend Ivy Noodle-- that is really just a place where people go since it is convenient and cheap but it is really not very good</p>
<p>If you want to experience New Haven pizza and don’t want to wait in line for so long, I would highly recommend Bar Pizza; it’s across from Louis’ Lunch and one of the chefs was actually from Sally’s, so the food is pretty awesome. They also brew their own beer :]</p>
<p>If you’d like really good food at really expensive prices that is really close to campus - cross the street to the Union League Cafe.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention ---- Bar pizza has mashed potato pizza. It’s amazing.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the great ideas. We really appreciate it very much.</p>