Eliza Restaurant Review

If there’s a winning formula for Hudson Valley restaurant success, I suspect newly opened Eliza, in Kingston’s astonishingly buzzy midtown, might be in possession of the secret. When I visited it on a frigid Saturday at 5.30 p.m. it was already as buzzy as a trapped bee. You can and should try the extraordinary charcuterie made (and sold) next door at Fletcher & Lu, especially the capicola.

“Along with the capicola, I order an exemplary plate of thickly sliced garlic sausage studded with green-winking pistachios. And then there’s a slab of glorious Gubbeen, a cheese that’s Irish and surprisingly funky — the Van Morrison of the dairy universe…” Click here to read the rest of my review.