The town of Ellington is located in Tolland County, Connecticut, in the Hartford metro area. During your visit to Ellington, spend the day enjoying outdoor recreational activities like swimming in Sandy Beach or playing baseball, softball, soccer or football in Brookside Park. Viewing exhibits in the Nellie McKnight Museum, which was built in 1812, is another activity you can enjoy. After a long day, dine in one of many restaurants located in Ellington.
Trattoria Da Lepri is a small Italian restaurant that creates all of their Italian dishes such as seafood risotto and rigatoni bolognese from scratch. Open since 1986, not only does Pastori's Restaurant & Bar serve house specialties such as chicken marsala and eggplant parmigian, but provides entertainment on some nights as well. Holiday Restaurant & Pizza opened in 1990 and along with Italian food like veal parmigiana and shrimp scampi, has expanded its menu to include Greek specialties.
Pizzerias specialize in pizza, however, most also have traditional Italian dishes on the menu such as calzones and pasta. Pizzerias in Ellington are Hometown Pizza, Ellington Pizza and Pizzeria DaVinci. Each of these places allow you to create your own pizza by choosing toppings but all serve specialty pizzas as well. Some of these specialty pizzas are Hometown Pizza's "Hometown Special," with pepperoni, hamburger, sausage, mushrooms, peppers and onions, Ellington Pizza's white clam pizza and Pizzeria DaVinci's spinach and feta.
South Asian, East Asian and Southeast Asia restaurants are found in Ellington. If you feel like eating Chinese food such as beef broccoli or chow mein, you can dine in China Eagle. When you want to eat Asian food but you can't decide what kind, you can eat in Tea House Restaurant, where you'll find a variety of Asian food such as Japanese, Vietnamese and Thai. Zara's Cafe is a Pakistani restaurant serving food such as crepes and kebabs.
Restaurants in Ellington that serve American food such as burgers and steaks are Pier 83, Casey's Cafe and the family-owned Chuck Wagon Restaurant. New England clam chowder and crab cakes are some of the items on the menu in Pier 83. Casey's Cafe serves all kinds of sandwiches from burgers to hot dogs and some of the specialties are the grilled Reuben and turkey melt. Chuck Wagon Restaurant is known for its huge portions and for serving breakfast all day.
