There are lots of great restaurants in the area.  Some of our favorites:

Lenny & Joe’s Fish Tale

Sal’s Pizza & Pasta (map)

Pepe’s Pizzeria

Dolly Madison Inn & Restaurant

Village Pizza (map)

Cuckoo’s Nest

The Wharf

Aqua Restaurant

 

Things to do

The City

Yale University

Peabody Museum of Natural History

Yale Center for British Art

The Village

The Deacon John Grave House

The Thimble Islands

Stonington Borough

Florence Griswold Museum

RJ Julia Booksellers

Mystic Seaport

 
The Beach

Hammonasset Beach State Park (Madison)

Rocky Neck State Park (East Lyme)

Watch Hill Beach (Watch Hill, Rhode Island)

The River

Connecticut River Museum

Essex Steam Train and Riverboat Ride

The Woods and Parks

Chatfield Hollow State Park   

Sleeping Giant State Park

Gillette Castle State Park

The Casinos

Foxwoods Resort Casino

Mohegan Sun Resort Casino

The Ice Cream

Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream

Michael’s Dairy

Ashley’s Ice Cream

Dairy Queen

Friendly’s

Our Hometowns

Madison

Waterford