Though, inside the year-round Sofia’s Mystical Christmas shop, it is Christmas every day. By then, the village will be decked out with the its biggest lighting display ever.įor the holidays, it’s a delightful Christmas village.
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There’s a movie theater decked out with plush heated recliners and top-tier movies perfect for colder days. It has no big name chains at all and wares vary from Boston Marathon hero John Kelly’s running gear store to the whimsical Alice in the Village, a Mad Hatter-themed tea shop with a dazzling array of macaroons.Īs with any village worth its salt, there’s a pond complete with ducks and a newly installed wood mill wheel. But it most certainly isn’t.įamily owned since opening in 1973, Olde Mistick Village is a wonderland of unique stores and eateries, each with a local or eclectic flavor. One might think, if one didn’t know better, that Olde Mistick Village might be a fancy name for a mini mall. It’s purely a commercial venture that’s blighted downtown. Unfortunately, after fire destroyed a building on West Main near the bridge, a big ugly out-of-character one went up. Mystic’s wonderful art and artisan, and eccentric and eclectic stores are open for business (the 2020 pivot rule notwithstanding). It’s still there, right next to the Oyster Club, but was closed due to the pandemic check ahead for reopening. In 2004, that evolved into the Mystic Arts Center and the Mystic Museum of Art. He created the Mystic Art Association in 1913, which founded the Water Street Art Gallery in 1931. Less well known, Mystic was a vibrant artists colony, formed by landscape painter Charles Harold Davis, who settled here in 1891. Take a waterfront cruise aboard the Liberty for a waterside view.Īs with absolutely every public space, Mystic Seaport and the aquarium are open, with limits. Tour the workshops, some original and moved here, where those involved in manufacturing related to ship building and seafaring worked. It is a national center for research and education, with sailing programs, including lessons and summer camps. There’s still that famous pizza parlor inhabited by a young Julia Roberts in the 1980s drama that stole its name: Mystic Pizza.Īnd there’s still that nod to Mystic’s shipbuilding heritage: Mystic Seaport.įounded in 1929, Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation’s leading maritime museum for preserving artifacts of America’s seafaring past. That’s not to say the old 20th-century Mystic has disappeared in a fluffy foodie cloud. The early fall menu added a creamy local squash bisque topped with crème fraîche and pistachios and superb Stonington scallops two ways: as a bright ceviche, or pan roasted with Davis Farm polenta and charred Provider Farm scallion salsa verde. Set in a brick and beam former marine engine manufacturing building on Holmes Street, this more casual beer-centric place has a finely curated selection, including Connecticut’s Fat Orange Cat’s Baby Kittens IPA and OEC Brewing’s Bitter and Twisted, a Scottish ale collaboration with Scotland’s Harviestoun. It’s an about-turn easily traced to Dan Meiser (a Daniel Boulud and Ocean House, Rhode Island, alum), who, with executive chef James Wayman (a Johnson & Wales grad Connecticut’s Water Street Cafe and River Tavern alum) head 85th Day Food Community, a farm-to-table, locally and sustainably sourcing outfit, which began in 2011 with Oyster Club.ĭuring the still hot autumn sunshine, however, the patio at 85th’s Engine Room was the place to be. Mystic has another hit on a dining scene that’s repointed the town’s direction from tourist town to buzzy coastal Connecticut entertainment center. Partnering with this excellent food is a floor staff that makes the place swing. His salad of perfectly roasted heirloom carrots on a whipped creamy cashew butter has a citrusy cumin dressing a sweet potato roulade topped with pickled huckleberries is served with a calming, tender dice of turnip and beet smoky soft eggplant a la plancha with delicate cascabel chilis is finished with bright coriander and stuffed honeynut squash with maitake mushrooms and lacinato kale is roasted to a caramel finish. Local fish such as fluke and sweet scallops from neighboring Stonington have equal focus to the much used lobster. His fall menu includes New England staples with a twist: cod chowder with in-house made oyster crackers clam dip with Old Bay-flavored chips. Standridge is nothing if not a modern traditionalist embracing a 21st-century aesthetic such as sustainability, zero waste, whole fish cookery, local and seasonal produce - an aesthetic that was simply habit centuries ago.
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