Max Downtown

Connecticut


With its swinging tunes, 'pre-Prohibition' cocktails and retro-luxe look (a piano lounge with a long, curved wooden bar, massive wrought-iron chandeliers and leather-upholstered chairs in the white-tablecloth dining room) this is downtown's hot spot for the professional and political classes. The menu includes classic chophouse fare, like coffee-rubbed 'cowboy cut' beef-rib chop and peach-glazed sockeye salmon. Bookings are advisable.


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0.19 MILES

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2. Old State House

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3. Bushnell Park

0.2 MILES

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4. Wadsworth Atheneum

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5. Bushnell Park Carousel

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6. State Capitol

0.37 MILES

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7. Connecticut Science Center

0.38 MILES

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