Connecticut Eats for iPhone and iPad · Apizza & lobster roll guide
Connecticut restaurants, from Wooster Street to the shoreline
Look up any of 9,357 restaurants, cafés, bars, and bakeries across 166 Connecticut towns, or start with the lists we checked by hand: coal- and brick-oven apizza in New Haven, warm buttered lobster rolls from Greenwich to Stonington, steamed cheeseburgers in Meriden and Wallingford, and a dairy bar for the drive home.
- 27apizza places
- 58lobster roll & clam shack stops
- 45diners & dairy bars
- 9,357restaurants statewide
Apizza isn't pizza, and the lobster roll comes warm
Ask for pizza on Wooster Street and you'll get apizza, charred and cut on a sheet pan. Order a lobster roll on the shoreline and it usually comes hot with butter, though plenty of shacks make the cold one too. Connecticut Eats is organized around those habits rather than star ratings: 27 pizzerias that bake New Haven-style pies, 58 lobster roll and clam shack stops, the steamed cheeseburger counters, and diners and dairy bars that have held their corners for decades. Every place on those lists was checked in business in October 2026, and the seasonal ones are marked. For today's hours and photos, each place opens Apple Maps' own card.
Three steps to lunch
Start with a list.
New Haven Apizza, Lobster Rolls & Clam Shacks, Burger & Hot Dog Icons, Diners, Dairy Bars, Little Poland, Connecticut Icons, or Oldest Places. Or type a name, a town, a village like Mystic or Noank, or a street like Wooster St.
Narrow it down.
Sort by how far each place is from you, pick one of 166 towns or a kind of food, or pan around the state map. Shacks that close for the winter are marked seasonal.
Head out.
Tap through to Apple Maps for today's hours and photos, call before you drive, get directions, or save the place for a shoreline weekend.
What it looks like
Guides for apizza, the shore, and the road.
Apizza nearest you first.
Lobster rolls and clam shacks, with their seasons.
Each place, with Apple Maps' live card.
The map, by apizza, shack, or dairy bar.
Connecticut food guides
The same hand-checked lists as the app, as pages you can read and share.
New Haven apizza guide
27 pizzerias by region and town, the Wooster Street originals and their branches included.
Lobster rolls & clam shacks
58 stops from Greenwich to Stonington and inland, with the season wherever a shack posts one.
Hot dog & burger icons
21 stands and counters, including the steamed cheeseburgers of Meriden and Wallingford.
Diners & dairy bars
11 diners and 34 dairy bars and farm creameries.
Connecticut's oldest restaurants
55 places that have stayed at one address, the earliest since 1754.
Little Poland
4 Polish restaurants and bakeries, from New Britain out. In the web search.
The whole directory
9,357 places in 166 towns, built from open map data, the state's liquor permits, and Hartford's food licenses.
Apizza and lobster rolls by town
20 town pages, from New Haven and Hartford to Groton and Simsbury: what's on our lists in each town, the nearest classics, and how many places the app lists there.
Health grades, where Connecticut has them
Connecticut publishes no statewide restaurant inspection results or grades, and we don't make our own. One district does grade: the Farmington Valley Health District rates restaurants in its 10 towns A, B, C, or U and requires each to post its grade. For the 200 places we matched to its published list, the app and the web search show that official grade and the date it was given. Try Farmington and Simsbury in the web search.
No price, no ads, no sign-in
Connecticut Eats costs nothing and shows no ads. There's nothing to buy inside it and no account to make. The directory ships inside the app, so the lists still open on a Noank dock or a Litchfield Hills back road with no signal.
What the app knows about you: nothing
The app sends us nothing. If you allow location, your phone uses it to sort places by distance, and saved places stay on the phone too. This website sets no cookies and loads no trackers. Read the privacy policy.
Questions
What is apizza, and how do you say it?
It's New Haven's pizza, said "ah-BEETS": a thin, chewy crust charred in a very hot brick oven and served on a sheet pan. A plain tomato pie comes with grated cheese and no mozzarella unless you ask for "mootz". Our apizza list has 27 pizzerias, 8 of them in New Haven itself.
Is a Connecticut lobster roll hot or cold?
Hot. The Connecticut roll is lobster meat warmed in melted butter on a toasted roll; the cold one dressed with mayonnaise is the Maine style. Plenty of the 58 stops on our lobster roll and clam shack list serve both, and 19 of them are seasonal.
Who checked the apizza and lobster roll lists?
We did, by hand, in October 2026. Every place on the apizza, lobster roll and clam shack, hot dog and burger, diner, dairy bar, and Little Poland lists needed a 2025 or 2026 source, such as its own site or menu, local news, or a tourism listing. The rest of the 9,357 places in the directory come from Overture Maps' open place data, the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection's liquor-permit list, and the City of Hartford's food licenses.
Does Connecticut publish restaurant inspection grades?
Not statewide. Connecticut posts no statewide restaurant inspection results or grades, and we don't invent any. The exception is the Farmington Valley Health District, which grades restaurants in its 10 towns (Avon, Barkhamsted, Canton, Colebrook, East Granby, Farmington, Granby, Hartland, New Hartford, and Simsbury) A, B, C, or U and requires each to post its grade. For the 200 places we matched to its list, the app and the web search show that official grade with its date.
Are the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun restaurants in it?
Yes. 54 restaurants inside the two casinos are listed, each marked as inside Foxwoods, on Mashantucket Pequot tribal land, or inside Mohegan Sun, on Mohegan tribal land.
Does Connecticut Eats cost anything, or rank places by ratings?
No to both. It's free, with no ads, nothing to buy, and no account, and it keeps no ratings or reviews, so no list is sorted by them. A place's "Ratings, hours & photos" button opens Apple Maps' live card; the ratings, hours, and photos there are Apple's.
Why would it ask for my location?
To sort places by how far they are from you, and only if you say yes. Your location stays on your iPhone or iPad, or in your browser on the web search, and never reaches us. Say no and everything else still works.
A shack closed or a pizzeria is missing. Where do I tell you?
Write to nick@eatsranked.com with the place and the town it's in. We fix it in the next update of the app and this site.
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