Not every meal on the road needs to be drive-thru. We wanted good chow and comfort and found it at Habana, a Cuban restaurant in SoNo, Norwalk s hip south end. We also liked Andy s Steak and Seafood in Westport. Exhausted at the end of our trail blazing, we decided to spend the night in this luxurious strip of Connecticut. From Greenwich to Wilton to Westport there s shopping at its finest, unsurpassed gourmet dining and spectacular accommodations.
New Haven is alive with coffee bars, vegetarian bistros and off-center shops.
At 1111 Chapel Street, on the campus of Yale University, the Art Gallery lets you trace the preamble to the Impressionist movement through paintings by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas and Sisley. Founded in 1832 when artist-patriot John Trumbull gave 100 paintings to Yale, the Art Gallery s encyclopedic collections have grown to well over 80,000 objects from every period, from ancient Egyptian times to the present. Here is one of the world s finest holdings of American paintings and decorative arts. The work of American Impressionists Childe Hassam and John Twachtman complement works by their contemporaries, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Bellows and Edward Hopper. I-84 East and exit 35 for the New Britain Museum of American Art.