Heirloom Restaurant, The Study at Yale
As usual, gourmet escapades are frequent and blog posts are shamefully few. Here’s one meek attempt to catch up.
Last week’s brilliant dinner at Miya’s led me to recall another memorable New Haven meal outing. Earlier this season, I visited Heirloom Restaurant, which is located in The Study at Yale on Chapel Street. The restaurant boasts a seasonally changing menu of creative modern cuisine and utilizes ingredients from local heritage growers.
Several menu items piqued my interest at first glance. And, with Nick at the table, I felt pretty confident that the meal would begin with cheese, as all good meals should.
Ploughman's Plate, Photo by Nick Caito
It’s true, a good cheese plate can make me feel invincible. My dining companions and I started with The Ploughman’s Plate- not your expected spread of modest wedges, smear of jam, slice or two of meat. Not for ploughmen like us. Instead, we were presented with a towering platter of cured meats, gorgeous artisan cheeses, house pickles, marmalade and toast. More specifically, La quercia american proscuitto, heirloom pastrami, salumi toscano, hot sopresatta, clothbound cheddar, beautiful maytag bleu, and truffle tremor goat cheese.
Local ricotta dumplings, Photo by Nick Caito
Heirloom burger, Photo by Nick Caito
My entree selection made me weak in the knees. Local ricotta dumplings- richly flavored with braised mushrooms, chestnuts, arugula, parmigiano, and luscious truffled pear brown butter…(There aren’t enough adjectives for a dish like this). Two of our dining companions chose the heirloom burgers (grass fed burger with local cheddar, house pickles, horseradish jam) and Nick opted for the veal cheek entree.
Espresso/chocolate pot de creme, Photo by Nick Caito
Since we only had room left for a spoonful of sweetness, the four of us ended dinner with a milk chocolate & espresso pot de creme topped with peanut crunch and caramel crema. Another dish I wouldn’t mind revisiting in its full helping.
All in all, a truly excellent meal.
Breakfast, lunch, brunch & dinner menus are available here.
Heirloom Restaurant, 1157 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06511-4806
Agreed, all good meals should begin, continue and end with cheese. I want that burger, NOW. A bit of a segue, but you have so many great burger places in Manchester, I think I need to invite myself up for a mini burger tour one day.
yes yes a million times yes! come eat burgers any time. shady glen, catsup & mustard, plan b, the counter, max burger…and the list goes on.
SIGN ME UP! It all looks delicious. So nice to hear that there is a hotel with a good restaurant around. Usually they are deplorable. Will have to add it to the “must try” list for our next NH adventure.
yum, those ricotta dumplings look divine. I think the burger tour is a fabulous idea……..count me in!
ate there for a story in Sept. and it was freaking fabulous – still thinking about the warm whipped ricotta with thyme, the blackberry cava float and the butterscotch pudding. YES MA’AM