Hi John, I'm a recent(ish) transplant to New Haven from Boston, and my office is next to Lenny & Joe's (nice bar to walk 5 yards to after work). I went to university at Cambridge (not MA), and agree totally with your assessment of Yale architecture and Pepe's. Could you recommend a few choice areas to see around the campus beyond our wanderings?
Thanks, Tim Mojito C&C 35-3 Branford, CT On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Maturo, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Fred, > > I am a native Midwesterner, a Lake Michigan and Huron sailor and racer in > my youth out of Chicago and Detroit (C&C 29, Peterson 34, Tartan 10, > Erickson 37 with several Chicago-Mackinaws under my keel). Since 1999 I > have lived in Connecticut, so I think I can safely recommend some points of > interest. > > On your way to Mystic, stop in New Haven for two things, Pepe's pizza on > Wooster St. (said to be the place this delicacy started in America, and > still baked in its original coal fired oven) and the newly renovated and > expanded Yale University Art Gallery on Chapel St. It is free and one of > the best in the world. It will bowl you over. > > One of the best CT shoreline seafood restaurants, very casual, is Lenny > and Joes. The New Haven restaurant is on the water with a great view and > outstanding New England seafood very reasonably priced and a good bar too. > However, if you do go the Yale Art Gallery there is a great, French owned, > French classic Bistro just one block south of the museum on Chapel St. > called the Union League. This is a real treat, and will certainly impress > your wife and daughters, but it is at least a business casual place and at > lunch expect each meal with a glass of wine and a tip to run around $30. > > New Haven is a gem, with the gothic splendor (modeled after Oxford) of > Yale in its center. I recently had a visit from some friends from England > who are conversant with Oxford and Cambridge and they were duly impressed. > By the way Chapel St. and Yale Campus was the set for a good part of the > last Indiana Jones movie. > > I also highly recommend the town of Stonington, a few miles East of Mystic > for a very well preserved Colonial and Victorian New England seaport > village and likewise a very good seafood restaurant on a wharf, Skippers > Dock. > > I am a fellow at Yale so if you care to stop I would be happy to give you > and your family a quick, Cliff's Note, tour of inside the University. > > John Maturo > > [email protected] > >
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