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Leyla Dam Jenkins grew up in Spain, went back to Sevilla to learn to make churros at a small shop there, and opened this on Bedford Street. The churros come out hot with a cup of thick chocolate to dip them in, and the coffee is single-origin from roasters like Sey and Onyx, pulled as a cortado more often than anything else. It began as a sixteen-seat counter and took the space next door in 2020, so it now runs to around forty seats and you can usually sit down.

Mon to Fri, 7am to 6pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 6pm

The stretch of restored riverbank that runs along the west edge of downtown, with paths on both banks of the Mill River and a carousel in a glass pavilion at the middle of it. A grove of cherry trees survives from the old park and flowers in April. In winter the lawn beside the carousel becomes an outdoor skating rink run by the same nonprofit that maintains the park.

Daily, 7am to 10pm. Carousel and rink keep their own shorter hours

A brick-oven pizzeria that opened on lower Bedford Street in 2006 and has been the default downtown slice-and-a-pint ever since. The oven does thin, blistered pies and the rest of the menu is Italian-American at prices that have not chased the neighborhood's new towers. There is a counter for a slice and tables at the back if you want to sit with the pie.

Sun to Thu, 11am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 11am to 11pm

A 1947 Mountain View diner car parked on West Park Place since 1941, run since the 1960s by two Greek sisters, Maria Aposporos and Eleni Begetis. When the city's redevelopment commission moved to condemn the building around 1999, they fought it to the Connecticut Supreme Court and won in 2002, and the diner is still on its original corner because of that. The menu runs all day from eggs and a burger to souvlaki, and the counter is the same counter.

Sun to Thu, 6am to 2am. Fri and Sat, 6am to 4am