The Top 73 Restaurants Near Bella's Cafe
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- New England 2025 · Best New Italian · Yankee Food Awards
- Connecticut Magazine 2025 · Top New Restaurants
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- Connecticut Magazine 2026 · Top New Restaurants
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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 22. 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 · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 38. 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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Rank 39. 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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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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Rank 47. Centro 336
Italian
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Rank 48. The American Hotel
French New American
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Rank 50. Duryea's Orient Point
Waterfront Seafood
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Rank 52. Seven Beach Lane
European-Inspired
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Rank 54. Badageoni
Central Asian
Mount Kisco locals crowd this Georgian kitchen for its rustic hospitality and the kind of food that feels both unfamiliar and instantly right. Khachapuri arrives as a cheese-laden boat with a raw yolk waiting to be stirred in; lamb kebabs follow wrapped in lavash, and the whole room glows warm under Edison bulbs and dark wood.
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Rank 56. Amalfi Coastal Kitchen & Cocktails
Coastal Italian
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Rank 57. The Lantern Inn
Italian
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Rank 58. Moli Restaurant
Chinese-Inspired
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Rank 59. The Restaurant at Baron’s Cove
Long Island
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Rank 66. El Verano
Upscale Mexican
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Rank 67. Bistro Ete
Coastal French
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Rank 68. Calissa
Mediterranean
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Rank 70. OKO
Asian
The chef interprets Japanese cuisine through his own lens in a light-filled room where locals gather at a welcoming bar beneath soaring ceilings. An open kitchen sends out creative takes on nigiri, tempura, and hot dishes—miso black cod and crab-pork dumplings anchor a menu that rewards improvisation.
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Rank 71. Southern Table
Southern
An open kitchen's controlled chaos echoes off polished concrete and whitewashed brick in this modern farmhouse space. Fried green tomatoes give way to crispy buttermilk chicken and shrimp jambalaya—Southern comfort rendered with care—while bourbon-glazed donuts finish the meal. A place built for groups and appetites alike.
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Rank 72. Osteria Padre Pio
Campanian Italian
Chef Andrea Ingenito's Campanian kitchen produces nearly everything from scratch—wooden boards arrive laden with house-made focaccia and caponatina, while the kitchen turns out silky pappardelle and baked corvina in generous portions. The dining room feels genuinely warm, the kind of place where locals return not for novelty but for the steady, unpretentious generosity of real regional cooking.
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Rank 73. Dopo Il Ponte
Italian