Muddy Waters Cafe on Financial institution Road is a coffeehouse and a lot extra. A preferred downtown breakfast-and-lunch spot, Muddy Waters additionally has outdoor-deck seating with views of New London Harbor to go together with delicious soups, salads and sandwiches and scrumptious pastries. (Professional tip: For those who’re not conversant in the Love Salad, add it to your to-eat listing).

– Connecticut Journal

A bit of farther away from Metropolis Pier, the Washington Road Espresso Home options regionally roasted beans, a forest of potted crops, eclectic playlists, bizarre artwork on the partitions and any sort of egg sandwich your coronary heart needs (plus a full menu of breakfast and lunch choices). 

A slice of New London with a aspect of hash browns, sizzling espresso and a quintessential diner ambiance.

An off-the-cuff diner that serves an intriguing mixture of Peruvian and American dishes.

The partitions of downtown New London are coated in murals, from a massive underwater Bigfood to smaller portraits of Willie Nelson, Bob Marley and Prince. Hygienic Artwork, a neighborhood arts nonprofit, wrote a information to town’s murals: test it out right here. Bonus factors for those who discover the portray of Eugene O’Neill on the aspect of the car parking zone kiosk on the intersection of Golden Road and Eugene O’Neill Drive. One other bonus level for those who peek within the State Road door of the Crocker Home condominium buildings to see the indoor mural designed by world-renowned artist Sol Lewitt.

Hygienic Artwork, a group group that helps a wide range of arts-themed happenings within the space, can also be residence to an edgy, anything-goes artwork gallery that includes native artists. Additionally try the newly constructed amphitheater subsequent door. 

Add to your vinyl assortment or simply browse an enormous number of music at this regionally owned report retailer.

This one-block road options two rows of colourful historic homes constructed for staff within the nineteenth century whaling trade in New London. The homes had been saved from demolition and offered to non-public house owners within the Nineteen Seventies, and later designated a part of a historic district. 

A interval of anti-Black violence throughout the USA often known as “The Pink Summer time” got here to New London one night in Could 1919, in response to town’s Black Heritage Path web site. 1000’s surrounded the Resort Bristol at 92 Financial institution Road, trapping dozens of Black individuals inside. The Related Negro Press discovered the assault got here after the Black sailors that frequented the lodge complained of a sample of assaults by white sailors. A month later, a second race riot erupted on the Fort Trumbull peninsula. A plaque exterior the Bristol Resort constructing, which now homes a tattoo parlor, gives extra data. 

Spruce up your cabin with a floral association, refill on effective wines and liquors, purchase a newspaper, or simply shell out for a giant chunk of cheese. The Thames River Greenery has all of it, and so they do it with model. 

Nathan Hale (he of the “one life to lose for my nation”) taught on this one-room schoolhouse from 1774 to 1775, earlier than enlisting to combat within the Revolutionary Conflict. The schoolhouse constructing itself has been moved a handful of instances from its unique location on State Road since then, discovering its most up-to-date residence nestled subsequent to the Water Road parking storage.

Catch a glimpse of the 115-year-old residence of New London’s unbiased newspaper and find out about its distinctive trust-based possession construction. The Day not too long ago introduced its plans to promote the constructing, however its writer says it would keep in downtown New London. Try the mini park subsequent door, named for a former writer. 

The practically 150-year-old Thames Membership is the oldest social membership current in Connecticut, in response to its web site. Actor James O’Neill, the playwright Eugene O’Neill’s father, was a popular member identified for ingesting bourbon and milk and sometimes being keen to purchase drinks for different membership members. 

The Garde Arts Middle was based in 1985 to revive and function this 1926 theater, and it stays the stage for native, regional and nationwide theatrical and musical performances. The theater shall be open for excursions April 18, in response to metropolis dockmaster Barbara Neff. 

The placing constructing that also homes the Public Library of New London opened in 1891 because of an preliminary $65,000 present from a New London service provider, in response to the library’s web site. The Romanesque constructing was designed by well-known architect Henry Hobson Richardson and constructed of pink granite from Worcester. 

A remnant of a controversial U.S. Supreme Courtroom determination that allowed the destruction of a New London neighborhood via eminent area, Susette Kelo’s ‘little pink home’ now sits quietly on Franklin Road. The case, through which Kelo was one in all 14 holdouts who refused to promote their houses residence for a significant growth by Pfizer prescribed drugs, made nationwide headlines and was made right into a film starring Catherine Keener.

This landmark contains the house of Joshua Hempsted  whose diary supplied uncommon perception into life in colonial New London, in response to Connecticut Landmarks. It was additionally the place Hempsted enslaved Adam Jackson, who lived and farmed on the home till no less than 1758. The Hempsted Homes works to coach guests in regards to the historical past of Northern slavery and its current-day implications. 

On the water close to the mouth of the Thames River, Captain Scott’s Lobster Dock and Fish Market is a staple in New London’s Shaw’s Cove, serving a few of Connecticut’s finest lobster rolls, plus fried seafood, po’boys, tacos, chowder and clam fritters to friends from throughout the area. The restaurant presents out of doors seating with picnic tables positioned alongside the waterfront and beneath a coated pavilion, excellent for watching the comings and goings of native boaters.

— Leeanne Griffin

You do not have to be a member at this basic meals co-op and grocery retailer to fill your basket with granola, kombucha and native veggies, or fill your abdomen with pre-made meals cooked in-house. Additionally they serve up espresso and pastries, in addition to a sweet retailer’s price of bulk sweets and snacks. 

Pay subsequent to nothing for a hamburger, tuna soften or bowl of chili at this tiny cash-only neighborhood pub that after loved the corporate of New London’s personal Eugene O’Neill. Have a pickled egg whilst you’re at it, and are available again later within the night time for a beer. Lunch is served 11:30 a.m. to three:30 p.m.

A “sugar-sand” seashore, a half-mile boardwalk, a nature stroll with an remark deck, a playground and a 50-meter Olympic swimming pool. It might be too chilly to swim within the Sound or go down the water slide, however there’s loads of sand and sea breeze to go round. The Southeast Regional Transit bus route #13 will take you there straight from New London’s Union Station, and bus fares are free via the top of June. 

This state park in Waterford covers 304 acres and contains Eolia, a 42-room seaside property with formal gardens and greenhouses. The park hosts annual plant gross sales, lectures from horticulturalists, dinners and displays on the lives of historic figures who as soon as referred to as Eolia residence.

— Sarajane Sullivan

The Connecticut Faculty Arboretum has greater than 750 acres of plant collections, in response to its web site. The arboretum presents interactive digital maps, together with a path map, a map of the Caroline Black Backyard, a map of woody crops within the native plant assortment and a Mamacoke Island Geology Tour Story Map by a Connecticut Faculty professor. 

— Sarajane Sullivan

A New London establishment since 1932, the Lyman Allyn Artwork Museum has lengthy educated and delighted the general public with its dense assortment of greater than 15,000 objects, a few of which date again to historical instances.

Benedict Arnold, the traitorous American Revolutionary Conflict basic, led troops on a brutal raid on New London and Groton and took Fort Griswold. Go to a memorial to the greater than 80 Individuals killed within the assault in addition to the Ebenezer Avery Home, which sheltered the wounded after the battle. 

The one submarine museum operated by the USA Navy, the museum maintains a set of submarine artifacts. Its centerpiece is the united statesNautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine and some of the celebrated subs ever to “sail” the seas.

The boyhood residence of Pulitzer and Nobel prize winner Eugene O’Neill is a Nationwide Historic Landmark and overlooks the Thames River. The occasions that impressed O’Neill’s Lengthy Day’s Journey Into Evening occurred right here.

Mohegan Drugs Lady Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon was born in 1899 on the Mohegan Reservation in Uncasville. She and her household helped create the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum in Uncasville in 1931, which is the oldest Indigenous-run and owned museum within the U.S., in response to the Mohegan Tribe web site.

— Sarajane Sullivan

You will not discover dinner nearer to Metropolis Pier than this. The excellent news is that this low-key waterside spot throughout the road from Union Station has one thing for everybody: lobster rolls, French Onion soup, surf, turf and pasta. 

Watch some fútbol on the TV and dig in to some acquainted Mexican dishes and a variety of margaritas.

Situated on Financial institution Road a couple of mile west of downtown, this Indian eatery was voted one in all Connecticut’s finest new eating places by readers and consultants in Connecticut Journal. 

Take a stroll to the sting of downtown New London for a wide array of sushi, Thai dishes and curries.

Pleasant service and a menu that includes Northern Indian dishes and Tibetan specialties

Out of doors seating and particular drinks just like the lychee martini are on the menu at this widespread Thai place a brief stroll from Metropolis Pier. Absorb Financial institution Road in your approach there and stroll on the pier alongside the river in your approach again.

Discover dishes from Sri Lanka and throughout southeast Asia — a number of noodles, stew and curry  —  a couple of doorways previous the fireplace division on Financial institution Road.

It solely opens an hour earlier than the 8 p.m. final name for cruise passengers to return to the ship, however it’s shut sufficient to Metropolis Pier you could simply make it again after one beer off of the Oasis’ intensive menu. Simply do not take too lengthy to decide on. 

Catch a big number of craft beer, hip decor, burgers and cocktails, and occasional stay music at this downtown New London mainstay, a brief stroll down Financial institution Road.