In town for the sales and looking for someplace new and different to eat, shop or visit? Let the TDN help! Following up on our popular Best Bets on the Jersey Shore series during Breeders' Cup week, TDN subscribers now regularly recommend dining and shopping options to our out-of-town readers.

Mama Mia's (Saratoga, NY - Dining)

185 Ballston Ave., Saratoga Springs, NY
Phone: 518-583-7783
Web: mamamiassaratoga.com
Type: Brick oven pizza & Italian specialties

Three places come to mind, but we will end up eating at a bunch of restaurants before the end of the meet. I hear very good things about the new Siro's Trattoria (at the Lodge); they say it's going to be a good one. Winslow’s on Rt. 9 is a great place for a fresh turkey dinner. Mama Mia's is a super place for pizza. After dinner, we get a cigar at the cigar shop on Caroline Street and a cup of frozen yogurt at Plum Dandy on Broadway. Finally we stop in at the back bar at Sperry’s to say hi to Frank the bartender.

-- Terry Finley (West Point Thoroughbreds Founder & President)

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