La Scogliera Restaurant
La Scogliera is an authentic Italian restaurant in Shelton that's been open for a generation. Serving lunch and dinner, the restaurant is small but the menu is enormous. Hot and cold appetizers, pastas, pizzas, salads, vegetable dishes, Italian specialties and fish dishes--there's something for every taste. Save room for dessert, too, as the spumoni or tartufo are likely to delight. With superb quality and reasonable price setting it apart, La Scogliera is a great place for singles, couples and families.
La Scogliera Restaurant
474 River Rd.
Shelton, CT
(203) 922 1179
lascoglierarestaurant.com
Wellingtons Restaurant
Specializing in continental cuisine, Wellingtons Restaurant is a relaxed, friendly restaurant popular in Shelton for many years. The food at Wellingtons not only looks beautiful, it tastes terrific. Try the French onion soup, stuffed clams or stuffed mushrooms for an appetizer, and the half duckling or scampi as an entree. Wellingtons also has many weekly specials and a lunch menu serving the same delightful food at inexpensive lunch-style prices.
Wellingtons Restaurant
51 Huntington Plaza
Shelton, CT
(203) 929 0336
wellingtonsrestaurantandcatering.com
Il Palio
Shelton has many Italian restaurants, but Il Palio is one of the most best. Once seated in Il Palio, which feels more extravagant Italian villa than Shelton restaurant, you'll think you're in Tuscany. Once you taste the authentic Tuscan cuisine, you'll be sure you are. Using top quality ingredients, the chef cooks an enormous menu offering all the typical favorites--cavatelli pasta, pollo arrosto, margherita pizza, calamari and, of course, dessert. If a drink at the bar is more to your liking, check out the bar menu too. It has mini versions of some of Il Palio's favorite menu items.
Il Palio
Five Corporate Drive
Shelton, CT
(203) 944 0770
ilpalioct.com
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