Noshing in New Haven

I think it's safe to say we found one of the hippest spots to have a bite to eat in New Haven, Connecticut on our trip to the East Coast.  We took Metro North to the New Haven station, toured the Yale campus and found ourselves to be quite hungry and by this time it was close to 3 o'clock.  We stumbled upon The Study at Yale  and inside the hotel was the restaurant, Heirloom.  We missed the lunch menu by seconds, but were happy with the bar menu.  On a trip like this, we walked for miles so we did not feel the least bit guilty in the amount of calories we were about to consume...at least not at that moment. 

I have to admit I kind of love that she still orders a Shirley Temple.

 

 

Heirloom  is a beautiful restaurant that serves "coastal farm cooking" according to the website.  The hotel has amazing summer rates, so if you find yourself passing through New Haven on I-95 I would highly recommend checking it out.

We took Metro North from Grand Central.  The trip is a bit longer than we expected, but the New Haven train station is small and lovely.  It was a pretty easy walk to campus.  It looked like rain so on the way back we grabbed a cab from the hotel to catch our train to NYC.

The Yale campus on a summer day.