Hungry?
BREAKFAST/BRUNCH
Muddy Waters
American, breakfast, coffee, take-out • $ • 42 Bank St. New London, CT • (860) 442-1684
A cozy stalwart. Coated wall to wall with vintage miscellany, amber tones, and other Conn students. Try their tomato soup and giant pastries.
Bean & Leaf
Coffee, soups, salads • $ •13 Washington St New London, CT • (860) 701-0000
Popular yet down to earth, like the kid we all wanted to be in 9th grade. Fair trade coffee meets comfortable Wi-Fi against an eclectic program of book club confabs, new age film screenings and entry-level poetry slams.
LUNCH AND DINNER
Paul’s Pasta
Italian • $ • 23 Thames St. Groton, Connecticut
Serving huge, delicious portions of pasta to cash-conscious Conn Coll students since 1988. Stunning harbor sunsets to boot.
2 Wives Brick Oven Pizza
American, pizza, take-out • $ • 45 Huntington St. New London, CT
• (860) 447-9337
Nice enough for professors, cheap enough for students and diverse enough for any pizza preference.
Dev’s on Bank Street
Mediterranean Tapas • $$ • 345 Bank St. New London, CT • (860) 442-3387
Ask for the baked goat cheese and Bunny’s maternal affection.
Northern Indian Restaurant
Indian • $$ • 150 State St. • New London, CT • (860) 437-3978
New London’s best and only Indian restaurant. Home of the bottomless water glass and habit-forming chicken tikka masala.
Illiano’s Trattoria
Italian, casual • $$ • 929 Bank St. New London, CT • (860) 447-9390
Rice Spice Noodles
Thai • $$ • 4 Roosevelt Ave. Mystic, CT • (860) 572-8488
When you absolutely must have Thai food in the middle of southeast Connecticut.
Bulkeley House
American, bar • $$$ • 111 Bank St, New London, CT • (860) 444-7753
Azu
American, French • $$$ • 32 W Main St. Mystic, CT • (860) 536-6336
S & P Oyster Company
American, Seafood • $$$ • 1 Holmes St. Mystic, CT • (860) 536-2674
DESSERT
Daniel’s Dairy Downtown
Ice cream, dessert • $ • 60 Bank St New London, CT • (860) 729-5823
Hot chocolate got us downtown salivating on their countertops on Friday nights.
The Cake Lady
Coffee, dessert, take-out • $$ • 256 S Frontage Rd New London, CT • (860) 437-8666
The best cupcakes around. Maybe the best cupcakes, period.
LATE NIGHT
Norm’s
All-day, all-night breakfast • $ • 171 Bridge St Groton, CT • (860) 445-5026
An essential choice if you’re craving eggs at 3 am. Good people watching, too. Open 24 hours.
Looking for things to do?
Conn’s men’s water polo team takes on MIT on Friday at 8 PM. Cross Route 32 and head to Lott Natatorium at the athletic center to show them some love.
Find out what the faculty are working on: Friday at 10 AM, report to the 1962 room in Cro for “Face Time with Faculty.” You know that anthropology professor that your kid keeps telling you looks like Indiana Jones? Here’s your opportunity to ask him about the 14 months he spent living in southern Sudan with the Atuot tribe.
Listen to philosophy professor Andrew Pessin discuss “Philosophy for All and All for Philosophy” on Saturday afternoon from 4:15 to 5 PM in Ernst Common Room on the ground floor of Blaustein. He’ll be drawing from (and signing) his two most recent books, The 60-Second Philosopher and The God Question: What famous thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the divine. Ask him about being a regular “genius” on David Letterman – he got the gig after joining Mensa to try and meet girls. His faculty quote: “What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it’s all about?”
Sculpture professor Greg Bailey's faculty installation. Photo by Cecelia Brown
After Professor Pessin’s talk, professor of art and resident dreamboat Greg Bailey will give a 5 PM gallery talk on the Faculty Art Show on view in Cummings Art Center.
Meet at Synergy, the big, blue, swooshy sculpture in front of Olin Science Center at 2 PM on Sunday for a tour of the Arboretum Native Plant Collection. The Arbo contains acres more than what meets the eye. 750, to be exact.
If you’re itching to get off campus, take a drive to Ocean Beach or Harkness State Park in Waterford, home to a beautiful beach along the Long Island Sound. While you’re there, check out Mary Harkness’ summer home, Eolia Mansion. She was an important donor to the College — two campus buildings bear her name. The New York Times once called her “genial and delightful”, but we know her primarily for the legend that she banned varsity sports that weren’t allowed to be played by women – hence, we’re the only NESCAC without a football team. (Note: this legend is not true.)
One of the Book Barn's many barns of books.
