Everything You Should Eat (and Do) While Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

Mystic, Connecticut—about an hour by train from Boston and roughly three hours from New York City—has quietly become a dining stop, not just a stop for the Mystic Seaport Museum and Mystic Aquarium. The guide starts at Nana’s Mystic on Williams Avenue, where visitors can get a birria burrito made with locally sourced braised beef or sourdough pizzas, including a New England-style take on New Haven clam pizza with bacon, clams, potatoes, peppers and lemon. Nearby Seaswirl serves fried whole belly clams, Stonington scallops and ice cream. It then pivots to kayaking or an Argia sail around the Mystic River Bascule Bridge, plus stops like Spencer & Lynn and Mystic Fish Camp.