耶魯的“一口井”
The Well（中文意思是一口井，很幽默）位於耶魯大會堂（Yale Commons）地下一層，是屬於高年級學生可以去的酒吧，因為飲料價格比外面便宜，學生們也不用給小費，所以是很多耶魯大學生hapoy hour首選。
今晚是The Well本學期最後營業日，下次要在The Well喝酒，就要等到夏季新學期了。美國酒吧都查ID，耶魯這家也不例外，除了要Yale ID，還要帶照片和出生日期的其他ID，比如駕駛證、護照之類。
看我這個模樣，難道還沒有達到美國飲酒法定年齡嗎？
The Most Memorable Corner in New Haven
Claire's Corner Copia is a vegetarian restaurant serving New Haven since 1975 and it has become a shared memory for many Yalies over the past decades.
The family-run restaurant business — only in New Haven — started when Claire LaPia and Frank Criscuolo got married on February 22, 1975*. Claire was a registered nurse and Frank was a musician who played bass and lead guitar. Deeply in love, they wanted to be together as much as possible and working together was the way to accomplish that goal.
Claire loved to cook and while they were both raised in traditional Italian-American families, each in a family of really good cooks and bakers, Claire's mother, Anna Bigio LaPia was “obsessed” with eating delicious, fresh foods, homemade food, with lots of fruits and vegetables, grains and beans. “Eat this, it's good for you” and “We don't eat foods with ingredients I can't pronounce” were her mantras.
Claire and Frank Criscuolo opened Claire's Corner Copia on September 17, 1975. The rest is all history, as people say and Yalies remember.
*Source: According to the restaurant’s website
Claire's Corner Copia
1000 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06510
The Must-Eat Pizza in New Haven
Your trip to Yale and New Haven won’t be a complete one without having pizza at the most famous Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Opened in 1925, it is one of the oldest and best known pizzerias in the United States.
Frank Pepe's pizzas are best known for two types: You pick the red one (tomato pie), or the white one (clam pie). I prefer the clam pizza, which also comes with a lot of cheese and you can only find in Frank Pepe’s. Yes, nowhere will do in America.
The restaurant is also good at desserts including Italy’s iconic Tiramisu, which tastes more like soft chocolate ice-cream here rather than a piece of serious cake. Frank Pepe’s is the go-to pizza place for Yale students and its fans also include many celebrities and politicians, for example, the 40th US President Ronald Reagan.
The legend of Frank Pepe’s is also a true “American Dream” story, thanks to its founder, Frank Pepe, an Italian immigrant, who immigrated to New Haven in 1909 when he was just a teenager. He later began to sell his signature “tomato pies” — only made of specially selected fresh Italian tomatoes — in Wooster Square, the local community known as “Little Italy” in New Haven, and eventually raised enough money to open the first formal Frank Pepe’s pizza restaurant on June 16, 1925.
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana
157 Wooster St, New Haven, CT 06511
Belgian Time in New Haven
Shortly after I returned to New Haven, I revisited one of my favorite cafes in the college town for breakfast: Maison Mathis at Yale, which is owned by two Belgians, so the menu reflects the best their local food culture has to offer.
This is the place for good food from the heart of Europe, including its signature Belgian waffles (note: be mindful of American size of Belgian waffles!) and anything to do with avocado and eggs.
The restaurant has a famous slogan for all guests: Come here and slow down because you are on Belgian time here. I don’t know what it really means about Belgian time but yes, life is not always about “move fast”. Sometimes you slow down a bit before you get on a more splendid journey than you could have ever thought about. It’s always your time and your life so you should control it. Nobody else should do.
Bon appétit!
Maison Mathis
304 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511
Let's Eat Donuts
Family-owned Donut Crazy is a chain cafe best known for its donuts that you can only find in Connecticut (so far). The Food Network already named Donut Crazy’s signature Cannoli Donut “the best donut in the great state of Connecticut.”
Donut Crazy, est. 2015, has a branch on York Street quite close to the Yale Law School. Yale students are said to love to go there for both tasty donuts and cool background music and songs often played in the shop. It also has cozy sofas and standard desks, so the place is good for both friends to meet up or if you want to work on something quickly, using your laptop.
There is also a cool ice cream shop just next door. You can certainly keep eating alongside the whole street in downtown New Haven.
Donut Crazy
290 York St, New Haven, CT 06511