Claire's Corner Copia

Claire's Corner Copia, the vegetarian restaurant on Chapel Street, offers soups daily, all of them plant based, with regular gluten-free and vegan options. Features have included Turkish red lentil, Cuban black bean, split pea, gluten-free minestrone and vegetable rice, served with Claire's homemade bread. Order the soup of the day with the homemade bread.

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A Chapel Street landmark that Claire Criscuolo and her late husband Frank opened in 1975, expanding its vegan cooking over the decades while keeping the nationally-shipped Lithuanian coffee cake. New Haven Independent covered its fiftieth-anniversary celebration in 2025, with citations from city, state, and federal officials, and CTbites' 2026 guide calls it a fifty-year family-owned institution serving vegetarian and vegan comfort food. Order the Lithuanian coffee cake alongside whatever vegan special is on.

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