Terms of use

What the app is

Connecticut Eats is a free guide to restaurants in Connecticut. It is provided as is, for personal use, without charge and without warranties of any kind.

Check before you go

Restaurants open, close, and change their hours and menus, and shacks and dairy bars close for the season. Dishes, seasons, and years at an address are what each place or a named source said when we checked in October 2026. We work to keep the lists right, but we can't promise that any listing is current or complete. Call the restaurant before you make the trip.

Health ratings

Connecticut has no statewide restaurant inspection results or grades, and Connecticut Eats doesn't grade restaurants. For the 10 towns of the Farmington Valley Health District (Avon, Barkhamsted, Canton, Colebrook, East Granby, Farmington, Granby, Hartland, New Hartford, and Simsbury), the app and the web search show the district's own official rating (A Excellent, B Good, C Fair, or U Unsatisfactory) with its date, as the district published it. A rating describes one inspection on that day. For the official record, see the Farmington Valley Health District.

Casino restaurants

Restaurants inside Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun are on Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribal land, and the app labels them that way.

Other people's content

Hours, photos and other details in each place card come from Apple Maps and are Apple's and its providers', under Apple's terms. Restaurant names and trademarks belong to their owners. James Beard Foundation and James Beard Award are trademarks of the James Beard Foundation; honors are reported as facts. Connecticut Eats is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the State of Connecticut, its Department of Consumer Protection or Department of Public Health, the City of Hartford, the Farmington Valley Health District, the Mashantucket Pequot or Mohegan tribes or their casinos, the University of Connecticut, the James Beard Foundation, Apple, or any restaurant or chain.

Data sources and licenses

• Overture Maps Foundation places data (overturemaps.org), release 2026-09-23.1, filtered and reformatted for Connecticut Eats. Data from Meta, Microsoft, DAC, and BrightQuery under the Community Data License Agreement, Permissive 2.0 (CDLA Permissive 2.0 text); data from Foursquare under the Apache License 2.0 (Apache 2.0 text; NOTICE, also below); data from AllThePlaces under CC0 1.0. The same licenses cover the web search's data files.
• Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, State Licenses and Credentials (data.ct.gov), public domain: on-premise liquor permits, used for the business's trade name, address, and permit type only. The State of Connecticut makes no warranty as to the data and does not endorse this app.
• City of Hartford open data (data.hartford.gov): current food establishment licenses, modified for use here. The City of Hartford makes no warranty as to the data and does not endorse this app.
• Farmington Valley Health District food service ratings by town (fvhd.org), shown as published with their dates; fetched Oct 5, 2026.
• U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (public domain): the outlines of Connecticut's 169 towns, used to place each restaurant in its town and to draw the web map.
• James Beard Foundation: award, nominee, semifinalist, and America's Classics history, checked against the foundation's own announcements.
• Apizza, lobster rolls, clam shacks, hot dog and burger icons, diners, dairy bars, and years at an address: our own research, with a source recorded for every place.
• Maps, place cards, and directions in the app: Apple Maps.

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Foursquare OS Places Notice

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The Foursquare OS Places dataset (the “Data”) is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”). You may not use, modify, or distribute the Data except in compliance with the License.

As set forth more fully in the License, if you use, modify, or distribute the Data, you must:

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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

We also encourage you to join our Placemaker community where you can contribute and provide suggestions to improve the accuracy of the Data for future releases for yourself and others.

Notice of changes: Connecticut Eats filtered the Data to eating and drinking places in Connecticut, removed duplicates and closed, adult, or unverifiable listings, and reformatted it for this app and website (2026).

Corrections

If a listing is wrong, or you own a restaurant and want something fixed, email nick@eatsranked.com. We fix mistakes in the next update.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from use of the app or site, including a wasted drive to a closed shack. Connecticut law governs these terms.

Changes

We may update these terms; the current version and its date are always on this page. See also the privacy policy.