For most Americans, New Year’s Eve is a time to be enjoyed with family or close friends. I spent this past New Year’s Eve with two dear friends and my younger daughter at Tony & Lucille’s in New Haven, one of the warmest and happiest places I know.
To usher out 2013 and welcome 2014, Tony & Lucille’s had a special New Year’s Eve menu.
Anthony greeted me with a Sunrise, which contained Stoli Orange, pineapple juice and Grenadine.
My daughter
enjoyed her favorite drink: cranberry juice.
After our friends arrived, one ordered a glass of Chardonnay
while the other and I shared glasses of Chianti
from a soon depleted carafe.
A basket of wonderful housemade breads
included the ever-popular pizza bread,
great olive oil
and the restaurant’s irresistible slaw.
For starters, we enjoyed Tony & Lucille’s famous calzones
with extra cheese,
house salads with Gorgonzola and balsamic dressing,
a lovely Caprese salad
and incredibly light and tender fried calamari.
For our entrées, we stuffed ourselves on stuffed sole,
seafood delight,
and pork ossobuco braised with mushrooms and Marsala wine.
Good lord, they were all great!
We saw desserts being wheeled to another table,
and could hardly wait for our own. But first, we got coffee,
espresso
and hot chocolate.
For dessert, we savored this heavenly cake.
Like everyone around us, we couldn’t imagine a nicer place to spend New Year’s Eve.
Tony & Lucille’s is a great place to dine on any occasion. But if you want to come for New Year’s Eve 2013, that ship has sailed.
Tony & Lucille’s Little Italy Restaurant, 150 Wooster Street, New Haven, 203-787-1621