Priya Indian Cuisine serves traditional Northern and Southern Indian fare and offers Chinese-influenced dishes that incorporate rice and noodles. Lunch and dinner buffets feature 27 varied specialties, and the menu lists a variety of dosas--stuffed rice and lentil crepes and uthappams--rice and lentil pancakes topped with vegetables, cheese, chutney or potato curry. Priya Indian Cuisine infuses saffron, garlic, ginger, chives and mustard seeds into recipes, adding to the authentic flavors and spices of the food. Specialties include samosas, mulligatawny soup and naan, with chicken, lamb and vegetable dishes available. Priya Indian Cuisine offers a casual yet crowded atmosphere and entrée prices between $10 and $15, as of September 2010. The restaurant is open for sit-down and take-out services from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on weekdays and from 12 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on weekends, and serves dinner from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Priya Indian Cuisine
1860 Silas Deane Highway
Rocky Hill, CT 06067
860-529-5252
hartfordpriya.com
Pazzo Italian Café offers take-out, catering and casual sit-down service in a family-friendly setting with televisions for sports viewing and entertainment. Pazzo serves lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, beginning service at 11 a.m. The menu offers an array of salads, paninis, pasta entrees and traditional Italian fare such as chicken Marsala and shrimp puttanesca in the price range of $15 to $25, as of September 2010. Specialties include wood-fired pizzas topped with various sauces such as marinara, olive oil and garlic or pesto and tomato pies prepared without mozzarella cheese. Pizzas are priced between $7.50 and $16.00. Pazzo Italian Café offers two locations, with one in Rocky Hill and the other located in nearby Glastonbury.
Pazzo Italian Café
377 Cromwell Ave.
Rocky Hill, CT 06067
860-721-8888
rockyhill.pazzoitaliancafe.net
Elizabeth's Bar and Restaurant provides fine dining in a relaxed setting, offering Italian artwork on the walls, dim overhead lighting and white linen on the tables for an intimate experience. Elizabeth's Bar and Restaurant supplies an eclectic menu of Northern Italian cuisine such as chicken, veal and pasta dishes and Brazilian-influenced entrees including seafood paella. Elizabeth's also serves a steakhouse-style selection of meat including Delmonico, filet mignon and NY strip steaks and offers gluten-free dishes. As of September, 2010, entree prices fluctuate in the $14 to $27 price range. Elizabeth's Bar and Restaurant offers take-out, delivery, catering, sit-down and bar dining options and on-site function space. The restaurant is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dinner service is available on Saturdays from 4:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Elizabeth's Bar and Restaurant
825 Cromwell Ave., # Ij
Rocky Hill, CT 06067
860-721-6932
lizrestaurant.com