I’m looking to find 2 places for eating out tomorrow in New Haven, once for breakfast and once for lunch. They need to be wheelchair accessible, allowing for a wheelchair to get in/out of the restaurants, maneuver around the restaurant, and enter and exit a bathroom. We’re not looking for anything fancy - casual is better, but neither are we looking to have fast food. We want someplace with good food at reasonable (ish, because nothing is cheap any longer) prices in a friendly, not formal, place. We’re not interested (unless it is a last resort) in a pizza place. Ideally, for lunch, there restaurant would have the ability to serve alcoholic beverages and possibly a burger or something similar. We’ve been to a couple of diners in New Haven already, but each has its own problems (lack of friendliness and lack of beverage license in one, adequate, but not really good food in the other).
I realize this is last minute, but I had picked out places for both meals, only to find out when I called that neither was accessible. The first place thought I was joking at first, and upon realizing I was serious, both didn’t seem to know what being accessible meant, and then when I tried to inquire further so that I could make a determination, kept excusing itself in an unfriendly manner: “we’ve a very small place.” The 2nd place provides only high top tables to eat at and when I asked where wheelchair users sat was basically told “they didn’t,” indicating that people in wheelchairs simply don’t go there. I guess at least they were honest, right?
Sorry, bit of a rant, and I don’t know what the specific law is in New Haven, or what has been grandfathered in there, but I’m just somewhat disgusted. Isn’t this 2026?
Any help would be appreciated. TIA.
Thanks,
