The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near The Essex Brasserie
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- Connecticut Magazine 2026 · Top New Restaurants
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- New England 2025 · Best New Italian · Yankee Food Awards
- Connecticut Magazine 2025 · Top New Restaurants
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- BagelUp #2 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- The New York Times The 16 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now
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- BagelUp #2 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- The New York Times The 16 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northeast · Brian Lewis
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · Brian Lewis
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Rank 33. Allium Eatery
Modern New American
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- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outsdanding Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · Macarena Ludena
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Rank 35. Duryea's Orient Point
Waterfront Seafood
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Rank 41. Centro 336
Italian
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Rank 44. The American Hotel
French New American
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Rank 50. The Restaurant at Baron’s Cove
Long Island
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Rank 56. Seven Beach Lane
European-Inspired
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Rank 57. Amalfi Coastal Kitchen & Cocktails
Coastal Italian
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Rank 61. Calissa
Mediterranean
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Rank 62. Bistro Ete
Coastal French
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Rank 65. El Verano
Upscale Mexican
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Rank 68. Dopo Il Ponte
Italian
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Rank 69. La Bastide by Andrea Calstier
Modern French
A modern farmhouse in Westchester opens onto pastoral vistas where Chef Andrea Calstier and his wife Elena Oliver orchestrate an intimate tasting rooted in Provençal memory. Grilled gem lettuce meets poached celtuce and olive oil sabayon; squab arrives perfumed with rosemary and fig leaf. Dessert—chocolate and goat cheese—lands as a small, deliberate shock.
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Rank 73. Carissa's Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 74. Cenadou
Modern French
A bright, plant-framed room lined with royal blue chairs and dark wood, where French bistro foundations meet Provençal sensibility. Poached vegetables arrive with warm aioli, lamb rack sits atop smoked eggplant purée, and the baba au rhum gets its theatrical finish tableside—traditions refined rather than abandoned.
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- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
- New England 2024 · Waterfront Restaurant of the Year · Yankee Food Awards
- Connecticut Magazine 2025 · Top New Restaurants
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Rank 77. The Inn at Pound Ridge
Contemporary New American
A Victorian inn set among manicured grounds draws the quietly affluent to Pound Ridge for contemporary cooking that leans on Jean-Georges signatures—tuna tartare sharpened with ginger and chili oil, salmon in corn-lime broth. The rustic setting belies a polished kitchen intent on refinement.
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Chef · Renee Touponce
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northeast · Renee Touponce
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Rank 81. The Shipwright's Daughter
New England Seafood
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Chef · David Standridge
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · Best Chef: Northeast · David Standridge
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Rank 82. Sant Ambroeus
Milanese Italian
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Rank 83. LDV at the Maidstone Restaurant
Coastal Italian
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Rank 89. Il Buco al Mare
Italian-Inspired Seafood
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A white farmhouse on working farmland serves seafood anchored by ingredients grown, smoked, and cured steps away—seared scallops arrive with house-cured bacon and a fried egg, while pea martinis taste of the surrounding fields. The care extends to carrot bread and strawberry ice cream cake, each a small argument that prettiness and conviction need not be strangers.
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