The Top 92 Restaurants Near The Essex Brasserie
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- Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
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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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- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 29. Allium Eatery
Modern New American
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Rank 31. The American Hotel
French New American
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Rank 37. Centro 336
Italian
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Rank 49. La Bastide by Andrea Calstier
Modern French
A converted farmhouse in North Salem with sweeping views of actual countryside, which somehow makes the tasting menu feel earned rather than theatrical. This is a Michelin-starred modern French fine dining room with very few tables, run by a husband-and-wife team whose roots are in the south of France. The cooking is precise and quietly confident, and dessert gets its own moment to shine. Esquire named the Vesper martini among the finest in America, which is a strange fact about a farmhouse, and a good one.
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Rank 52. Amalfi Coastal Kitchen & Cocktails
Coastal Italian
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Rank 56. Calissa
Mediterranean
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Rank 57. Bistro Ete
Coastal French
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Rank 60. El Verano
Upscale Mexican
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Chef · Renee Touponce
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northeast · Renee Touponce
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Rank 64. Dopo Il Ponte
Italian
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Rank 65. Cenadou
Modern French
The name is Provençal for "dining room," which sets the tone pretty neatly for this modern French bistro tucked into the North Salem countryside. White walls, dark wood, royal blue chairs, and big windows full of trees give it the feel of somewhere you'd actually want to linger. The kitchen takes Provence-leaning classics and nudges them gently forward, finishing the baba au rhum tableside with a rum pour and Earl Grey whipped cream.
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- New England Waterfront Restaurant of the Year · Yankee Food Awards
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
- Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants
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Rank 69. The Inn at Pound Ridge
Contemporary New American
White clapboard, manicured gardens, and a valet line that reads the room before you even step inside. This is a fine dining destination in a Victorian inn north of the city, where Jean-Georges Vongerichten's kitchen sends out contemporary New American cooking with a country-weekend ease. The menu pulls from his greatest hits, reworked for the setting, which suits the crowd who drove out from Manhattan pretending they live like this.
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Rank 76. Sant Ambroeus
Milanese Italian
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Rank 77. LDV at the Maidstone Restaurant
Coastal Italian
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