The shoreline community of Guilford, Connecticut, is built around a lovely town green, which is where you will find the elegant bakery called Hen & Heifer. The proprietor, a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, is noted for his banoffee pie (a combination of toffee and banana) and chocolate shortbread cookies made in the shape of a cow. More inland, along Route One, are the tiny Bufalina, where handsome artisan pizzas are the specialty, and Bishop’s Orchards, which is a pick-your-own fruit destination as well as take-out bakery. Also on Route One is a venerable al fresco joint called The Place — a virtual picnic where chairs are tree stumps and the littleneck clams, lobsters, and corn-on-the-cob are roasted on a grate over an open fire pit. Any accoutrements — including bread and salad, wine and beer (and glasses for wine and beer, if desired) — customers bring their own.
ONE COLD DAY in the mid-1940s, Harold "Whitey" Miller, a Connecticut clam digger who sold littlenecks off the back of a truck, laid some clams on a metal grate...
For a mouthwatering summer road trip to sleeves-up joints surrounded by magnificent scenery, you can’t beat a seafood-eating expedition along New England's coast. At waterside picnic tables and roadside drive-ins, in...
