This Connecticut Restaurant 'Defines Dining,' New Top 100 Ranking Says

MYSTIC, CT — One Connecticut restaurant has been named to a ranking of 100 nationwide that “delight their communities and make them better.”

Resy, an online restaurant reservation service, said “The Resy 100” is a “curation of restaurants that thrill us, that serve exceptional food that alternately might be comforting or daring, traditional or completely new.”

“These are places that make us want to return again and again, and define the best of our dining culture today,” the company, which represents some 10,000 eateries nationwide, said with the release of the rankings.

“... They don’t have to be new,” the company said of the 100 restaurants on the list. “They don’t have to have a famous chef at the helm. They could be absolutely anywhere — as we’ve learned, a great meal can find you where you least expect it, whether you’ve traversed the country or just headed down the block. They are, simply, excellent and cherished. They delight their communities, and make them better.”

The restaurant from Connecticut included in the ranking is the Port of Call in Mystic, which ranked No. 60.

Resy said about the oft-praised establishment that chef Renee Touponce "seems to be on a one-woman mission to rewrite the boundaries of New England coastal cooking, not only with her more overtly seafood-y Oyster Club, located on a small Mystic street, but also with this homage next door to other ports of call around the world."

The site noted dishes like "scallop mofongo (San Juan, P.R.) using local scallops and a tuna-chorizo XO sauce, boquerones using local smelts (San Sebastián, Spain), a banh mi with smoked tongue and pâté made with mushrooms from nearby purveyor Seacoast (Ho Chi Minh City), and a whole grilled fish with lemon-caperberry beurre blanc (Marseille)."

Check out the full top 100 by clicking here.

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