Editing New Haven, Connecticut (section)

=== Cuisine ===

[[Livability.com]] named New Haven as the Best Foodie City in the country in 2014. There are dozens of [[Zagat Survey|Zagat-rated]] restaurants in New Haven, the most in Connecticut and the third most in [[New England]] (after [[Boston]] and [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zagat.com/Verticals/BrowseSubLocation.aspx?GS=GeoParentID%7c832&GN=Connecticut |title=Zagat Survey page for CT |publisher=Zagat.com |access-date=July 23, 2014 |archive-date=June 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629133835/http://www.zagat.com/Verticals/BrowseSubLocation.aspx?GS=GeoParentID%7C832&GN=Connecticut |url-status=dead }}</ref> More than 120 restaurants are located within two blocks of the [[New Haven Green]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E5DD103FF930A35757C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |work=The New York Times |first=Eleanor |last=Charles |date=April 3, 2005 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |title=LIVING IN/Downtown New Haven; An Infusion of Energy in Yale's Backyard |archive-date=March 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303163020/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E5DD103FF930A35757C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> The city is home to an eclectic mix of ethnic restaurants and small markets specializing in various foreign foods.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/07/nyregion/dining-out-in-new-haven-flavors-from-south-asia.html?scp=11&sq=new%20haven%20ethnic%20food%20resraurants&st=cse |work=The New York Times |title=DINING OUT; In New Haven, Flavors from South Asia |first=Patricia |last=Brooks |date=March 7, 1999 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |archive-date=May 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512165905/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/07/nyregion/dining-out-in-new-haven-flavors-from-south-asia.html?scp=11&sq=new%20haven%20ethnic%20food%20resraurants&st=cse |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.petergreenberg.com/2010/03/02/spotlight-on-new-haven-ct-a-college-town-vacation/ Travel News You Can Use – Spotlight on New Haven, CT: A College Town Vacation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317141800/http://www.petergreenberg.com/2010/03/02/spotlight-on-new-haven-ct-a-college-town-vacation/ |date=March 17, 2010 }}. Petergreenberg.com (March 2, 2010). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> Represented cuisines include Malaysian, Ethiopian, Spanish, Belgian, French, Greek, Latin American, Mexican, Italian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Cuban, Peruvian, Syrian/Lebanese, and Turkish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zagat.com/verticals/Browse.aspx?Ntk=GeoChildID&Ntt=1521&N=120&Ne=2392&VID=8&Key=Cuisines |title=New Haven restaurants by cuisine @ Zagat Survey |publisher=Zagat.com |access-date=July 23, 2014 |archive-date=June 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630002959/http://www.zagat.com/verticals/Browse.aspx?Ntk=GeoChildID&Ntt=1521&N=120&Ne=2392&VID=8&Key=Cuisines |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Frank pepe clam pie.jpg|thumb|White clam pizza from [[Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana|Pepe's]], in the classic [[New Haven-style pizza|New Haven-style]]]]
New Haven's greatest culinary claim to fame may be its pizza, which has been claimed to be among the best in the country,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090523225742/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30872147/ 25 best pizzas around the country – today > food – TODAY.com] . Today.msnbc.msn.com (May 22, 2009). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://thepauperedchef.com/2007/09/new-haven-pizza.html Some Say New Haven Has America's Best Pizza] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315135921/http://thepauperedchef.com/2007/09/new-haven-pizza.html |date=March 15, 2010 }}. The Paupered Chef (September 13, 2007). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.realamericanstories.com/new-haven-pizza-wars-%E2%80%93-new/?curpage=0 New Haven Pizza Wars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326004116/http://www.realamericanstories.com/new-haven-pizza-wars-%E2%80%93-new/?curpage=0 |date=March 26, 2010 }}. Real American Stories. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/058/58727.php 15 Best Pizzas in America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930132553/http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/058/58727.php |date=September 30, 2011 }}. Gridskipper (October 27, 2006). Retrieved on August 2, 2013.</ref> or even in the world.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/13/best-foods-in-the-world |work=The Guardian |location=London |title=The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them |first=Killian |last=Fox |date=September 13, 2009 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |archive-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824024902/http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/13/best-foods-in-the-world |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://journeypod.wordpress.com/best-pizzas-from-around-the-world/ Best Pizzas From Around The World |Luxury Travel Nightlife & Restaurant Reviews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310201246/http://journeypod.wordpress.com/best-pizzas-from-around-the-world/ |date=March 10, 2010 }}. Journeypod.wordpress.com (April 18, 2009). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> [[New Haven-style pizza]], called "apizza", made its debut at the iconic [[Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana]] (known as Pepe's) in 1925.<ref>"American Eats: Pizza", The History Channel, June 29, 2006</ref> Apizza is baked in coal- or wood-fired brick ovens, and is notable for its thin crust. Apizza may be red (with a tomato-based sauce) or white (with a sauce of garlic and [[olive oil]]), and pies ordered "plain" are made without the otherwise customary [[mozzarella]] (originally smoked mozzarella, known as "scamorza" in Italian). A white [[clam]] pie is a well-known specialty of the restaurants on [[Wooster Square|Wooster Street]] in the Little Italy section of New Haven, including Pepe's and [[Sally's Apizza]] (which opened in 1938). [[Modern Apizza]] on State Street, which opened in 1934, is also well-known.<ref>[http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/features/2008/11/06/taste-tests-prove-that-brand-does-matter/ Taste tests prove that brand does matter] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130209195224/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/features/2008/11/06/taste-tests-prove-that-brand-does-matter/ |date=February 9, 2013 }}. Yale Daily News (November 6, 2008). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref>
[[File:Louis-lunch.png|thumb|right|[[Louis' Lunch]], where the [[hamburger]] was reputedly invented in 1900]]

A second New Haven [[gastronomical]] claim to fame is [[Louis' Lunch]], which is located in a small brick building on Crown Street and has been serving fast food since 1895.<ref>Price & Lee's New Haven (New Haven County, Conn.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ddgCAAAAYAAJ City Directory, 1899, page 375] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102052410/https://books.google.com/books?id=ddgCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA375,M1 |date=January 2, 2016 }}</ref> Though fiercely debated, the restaurant's founder Louis Lassen is credited by the [[Library of Congress]] with inventing the [[hamburger]] and [[steak sandwich]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ct/es_ct_burger_1.html |title=Louis' Lunch |website=Americaslibrary.gov |access-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-date=January 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110171638/http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ct/es_ct_burger_1.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/CT/200002814.html |title=Connecticut: Louis' Lunch (Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots – Library of Congress) |website=Lcweb2.loc.gov |access-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-date=June 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630052938/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/CT/200002814.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Louis' Lunch [[broiling|broils]] hamburgers, steak sandwiches and [[hot dogs]] vertically in original antique 1898 [[cast iron]] stoves using [[gridiron (cooking)|gridirons]], patented by local resident Luigi Pieragostini in 1939, that hold the meat in place while it cooks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/patents?id=LRhJAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=pieragostini+broiler&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1#PPA1,M1 |title=U.S. Patent #2,148,879 |access-date=July 23, 2014 |archive-date=May 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523110811/http://www.google.com/patents?id=LRhJAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=pieragostini+broiler&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1#PPA1,M1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A third New Haven [[gastronomical]] claim to fame is [[Miya's]], the first [[sustainable sushi]] restaurant in the world. Miya's, founded by Chef Yoshiko Lai in 1982, featured the first [[sustainable seafood]]-based sushi menu, the first plant-based sushi menu, and the first [[invasive species]] menu in the world. Second generation [[Miya's]] chef, [[Bun Lai]], is the 2016 [[White House]] Champions of Change for Sustainable Seafood and a [[James Beard Foundation]] Award nominee. Chef [[Bun Lai]] is credited as the first chef in the world for implementing a sustainability paradigm to the cuisine of sushi.<ref name="granata1">{{cite web |last=Granata |first=Elise |url=http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/sustainable_sushi_gets_a_toehold1/ |title="Sustainable Sushi" Gets A Toehold |publisher=New Haven Independent |date=January 18, 2010 |access-date=February 24, 2010 |archive-date=June 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615173423/http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/sustainable_sushi_gets_a_toehold1/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fish2fork.com/apps/index.php/reviews/view/315 |title=Miya's Sushi |publisher=Fish2fork.com |access-date=June 7, 2010}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/sustainable_sushi_gets_a_toehold1/ |title="Sustainable Sushi" Gets A Toehold |publisher=New Haven Independent |access-date=January 18, 2010 |archive-date=June 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615173423/http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/sustainable_sushi_gets_a_toehold1/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/12-champions-of-change-for-sustainable-seafood-chosen-by-white-house |title=12 "Champions of Change for Sustainable Seafood" chosen by White House |website=Seafoodsource.com |access-date=July 14, 2017 |archive-date=August 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815015713/https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/12-champions-of-change-for-sustainable-seafood-chosen-by-white-house |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewhelkwestport.com/news/2013-james-beard-awards-semifinalists-chefs-bill-taibe-bun-lai/ |title=2013 James Beard Awards Semifinalists: Chefs Bill Taibe & Bun Lai – The Whelk |website=Thewhelkwestport.com |access-date=July 14, 2017 |archive-date=August 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814222029/http://www.thewhelkwestport.com/news/2013-james-beard-awards-semifinalists-chefs-bill-taibe-bun-lai/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

During weekday lunchtime, over 150 lunch carts and food trucks cater to diners around the city.<ref>[http://www.yaledailynews.com/magazine/column/2004/11/17/burritos-bubble-tea-and-burgers/ Burritos, Bubble Tea and Burgers |YDN Magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130210041519/http://www.yaledailynews.com/magazine/column/2004/11/17/burritos-bubble-tea-and-burgers/ |date=February 10, 2013 }}. Yaledailynews.com (November 17, 2004). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> The carts and food trucks cluster at four main points: on Long Wharf Drive, along the city's shoreline with quick access off Interstate 95,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nhregister.com/lifestyle/article/New-Haven-officials-tout-development-of-Food-11319264.php |title=New Haven officials tout development of 'Food Truck Paradise' on Long Wharf |date=November 14, 2016 |newspaper=[[New Haven Register]] |access-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106163720/https://www.nhregister.com/lifestyle/article/New-Haven-officials-tout-development-of-Food-11319264.php |url-status=live }}</ref> by [[Yale – New Haven Hospital]] in the center of the Hospital Green (Cedar and York streets), by Yale's [[Trumbull College]] (Elm and York streets), and on the intersection of Prospect and Sachem streets by the [[Yale School of Management]].<ref>Spiegel, Jan Ellen (April 21, 2010). [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/nyregion/25dinect.html?scp=3&sq=&st=nyt "From Common Food Carts, Exotic Tastes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313131513/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/nyregion/25dinect.html?scp=3&sq=&st=nyt |date=March 13, 2017 }} ''[[The New York Times]].'' Retrieved July 18, 2010.</ref>

Popular farmers' markets, managed by the local non-profit CitySeed,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cityseed.org/ |title=Home |website=Cityseed.org |access-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405214440/https://cityseed.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> set up shop weekly in several neighborhoods, including Westville/Edgewood Park, Fair Haven, Upper State Street, Wooster Square, and Downtown/New Haven Green.

A large grocery store, the Elm City Market, opened on 360 State Street in New Haven in early fall 2011 and served local produce and groceries to the community. Originally, the market was a member-owned [[co-op]],<ref>[http://www.elmcitymarket.coop/ Elm City Market] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929174347/https://www.elmcitymarket.coop/ |date=September 29, 2011 }}. Elmcitymarket.coop. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> but debt defaults in August 2014 forced a sale of the business. It is now an employee-owned business; the co-op's previous owners received no equity in the new business.<ref>[http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/10/03/elm-city-market-auctioned-off/ Elm City Market Sold] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107092538/http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/10/03/elm-city-market-auctioned-off/ |date=November 7, 2016 }}. Yale Daily News. Retrieved on November 6, 2016</ref>

In the past several years, two separate Downtown food tour companies have started offering popular restaurant tours on weekends.
Taste of New Haven Tours offers several different weekly restaurant/bar tours and a popular pizza, bike, and pints tour. Culinary Walking Tours offers monthly restaurant tours and sponsors an annual Elm City Iron Chef competition.