Fearless Critic
Brutally honest reviews. Undercover chefs and food nerds. No restaurant sponsors.
Fearless Critic restaurant review
Food
7.6
Feel
8.5
Price
$25
Christopher Martin’s
A big screen, a local vibe, great bar food, and a strange upscale Italian restaurant next door
American, Burgers
Casual restaurant

Hours
Daily 11:30am–midnight

Bar Beer, wine, liquor
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx
Reservations Accepted

Website

East Rock
860 State St.
New Haven, CT
(203) 776-8835

This is a strange wedding of the classic big-screen TV sports bar serving good, unambitious pub grub with an adjacent upmarket Italian restaurant that has an ambitious menu whose mains go as high as $25.

The restaurant side of things attracts fewer customers, it seems, than does the bar. Not…

Want to read the rest of this review and the many others in the Fearless Critic New Haven Restaurant Guide, which covers 300 restaurants (and counting) in and around New Haven?

Get the 384-page book—it’s an indispensable reference and a great gift—available online or at a New Haven-area store.

Or, subscribe to fearlesscritic.com for just $10 per year—the price of a martini—or try it out for $2 per month. You’ll get access to the complete Fearless Critic content online, including more than 1,000 reviews from all Fearless Critic cities, new reviews as they’re written throughout the year, and advanced search features.

If you’re already a subscriber, please login to your account.
Be the first to leave a comment…