Honestly, that's basically all of Bridgeport. There's a few places downtown that are half-decent and not in strip mall parking lots, but if you're gonna do that then you might as well just go to New Haven or Milford. There's actually some pretty nice restaurants around the Milford Green area (the older part of the town) because there's a few yacht/boat clubs in Milford as its harbor is the closest to New Haven that isn't New Haven, because New Haven's port is fucking nasty because of all the big shipping boats that come in and out constantly.
The funny thing is that Milford Green and by the harbor is actually somewhat nice to walk around and actually closer to his suspected hotel (Residence Inn in Milford is speculated as it in some other thread) than the Post Mall they went to, but he took her to a dead mall with an even more dead food court.
It's kinda fucking sad to look at the trip as someone who knows the area because there's a lot of nice areas he could've taken her, but, no, he took her to a mediocre pizza joint (New Haven is actually renowned by foodies for its pizza -- people who love pizza from Brooklyn routinely compliment NH on its pizza -- and there's a truckload of competition there; the only food I've never had in New Haven is like French or Slavic), an Italian place at a strip mall on Boston Ave, and two shitty malls.
If he wanted to go the extra mile for his new wife, he could've taken her to Norwalk (20-30mins down the highway towards NYC from Bridgeport) and let her go shopping at the boutiques in an area called SoNo (South Norwalk), where people actually have money and there's a lot of really nice restaurants, even Italian ones if he's got that much of a hard on for it for whatever fucking reason. Or if they wanted to stay closer in the area, they could've walked around Yale Green, walked around Yale campus which has a lot of nice buildings, gone to a show at Toad's Place (nice little joint that actually gets big name acts and tickets sell out within like 10-15mins after announcement because fire code only allows a few hundred people -- local radio stations constantly giving away tickets b/c the demand is so high), or walked around some of the parks in the nicer neighborhoods that are lined with old oak trees with really nice Victorian/colonial-style homes.
Nah, he takes her to three places literally within 5 minutes of his parents place and a few dead malls. Most unimaginative, unromantic dude ever.
Nice catch, Khet.
Edit: Almost forgot Louis' Lunch in New Haven --
https://louislunch.com/
Place has been around for over 100 years and sells basically only burgers. Shit is fucking delicious and is supposedly the birthplace of the hamburger. They still use all the old equipment to make them and it's worth getting one, even if their hours are fucking weird and they're closed Sun/Mon. It's not a 5 Star dining experience, but it's a good fucking burger and right in downtown New Haven. Could've gone to one of the few art galleries on the same block and gone for a walk around the old Yale Campus like I described above.
Better than going to a mall and getting a meme burger.