Discover Bethel Restaurant Week
Amy Kundrat
Bethel is where in Connecticut? Fairfield County? Yes and yes.
The Bethel Chamber of Commerce is hosting their first-ever Discover Bethel Restaurant week from February 27 through March 4 with participating restaurants offering prix-fixe specials for breakfast, lunch, dinner and take-out. Menus and participating eateries can be found on the Bethel Chamber of Commerce website.
This tiny town sandwiched between Redding, Newtown and Danbury boasts a few great places we've written about such as The Sycamore and Pizzeria Lauretano, as well as a few others firmly on our to-do list.
So if you find your passport and make your way up to Bethel (for the record, I'm allowed to make this joke because this is my 'hood) my recommendations are: pizzas at Pizzeria Lauretano; La Zingara for one of the best Northern Italian meals in Fairfield County; soups at Wah Lah Soups, especially the Chicken pot pie; and my go-to train snack is always a scone and a cup of Redding Roasters coffee at Daily Fare.
And although it's not officially on the list of participating restaurants, you'd be remiss if you didn't stop by The Sycamore on your way home for their thin French-style burgers and a root beer float. You'll need to sustenance to return home after your long journey, after all.
Reader Comments (2)
Disagree about the Sycamore if you are a vegetarian. I was so excited to stop there as it looked uber fun & retro. When realizing they didn't offer a veggie burger and my options for vegetarian dining harkened back to the 50's with maybe a nasty iceberg lettuce salad and some fries, I stormed right out of there.
This was awhile ago so maybe they have adapted to the times and put a vegetarian burger on their menu. Let's hope.
La Zingara however is a different story - love it, love it, love it! Great inventive dishes and wonderful wines by the glass. In warmer weather, they have a lovely patio in the back.
No visit to Bethel is complete without browsing the local bookstore and grabbing a latte at the funky California vibe coffee shop next door to it.
@Master of Light Chick: Molten Java, the coffee shop you mention, has moved down the street in the same building as Subway (meh) but that great bookstore is still there. Another update since you've been to Bethel is La ZIngara has expanded and the small outdoor patio is now finished interior space. I believe they are opening a rooftop area when the temperatures allow it.