city of chefs
Casle Inn
Brick Alley Pub
Casle Inn
pot-still dark rum on his menu. During the Colonial era, Newport was the
rum capital of the world with more
than 22 rum distilleries citywide.
In 2006, the team behind Newport
Storm beers started the Newport Distilling Company to make Thomas Tew
Rum, named after an infamous privateer-turned-pirate, making it nearly
identically to the way it was here more
than 200 years ago.
Further down on Thames Street,
diners looking for an exceptional,
multi-course experience seek out
Tallulah on Thames, where Chef Jake
Rojas, a Food & Wine magazine People’s Best New Chef nominee, creates
dishes that are modern, fresh and local. His ever changing menu includes
In a state surrounded by more
than 400 miles of coastline, local
chefs who work with area fisherman
are guaranteed the freshest catch.
Castle Hill dining room
where he sources ingredients including Sweet Berry Farm in neighboring
Middletown, Windmist Farms and
Plum Point Oysters just across Narragansett Bay in Jamestown, and dozens
more. In 2013, Rojas wowed diners
at New York’s lauded James Beard
House with his menu, Reflections
of Newport Spring, which included
Newport Bay lobster, Aquidneck
Farms beef, Schartner Farms spring
beets, Braised Hopkins Farm lamb
neck, Pat’s Pastured pork and local
littleneck clams.
Chef Karsten Hart of Castle Hill Inn
artfully crafts fresh dishes for the
upscale dining room as well as The
Lawn, the inn’s casually elegant alfresco alternative. Overlooking where
the Atlantic Ocean meets Narragansett Bay, Hart grows many vegetables
and herbs on the 40-acre peninsula.
Artisan chocolatier Michele De
Luca-Verley founded la maison de
COCO on Newport’s historic Bellevue Avenue to share her passion
for French-inspired fine pastries and
chocolates. De Luca-Verley is known
for chocolate truffles, cardamom
Madeleines, cranberry coriander
scones, Indian-spiced biscotti, white
chocolate Bergamot Ganache tarts,
Jasmine peach blossom truffles and
so much more. For more information on the culinary delights listed
above, Newport Restaurant Week
and the destination, visit Discover
Newport.org –Andrea E. McHugh
WINTER 2013 | FOOD TRAVELER 81