The Study at Yale

Safe to say every university town could use something like this — Study at Yale is a boutique hotel that stands not just adjacent to but within Yale’s campus, surrounded by the buildings that comprise its schools of art, architecture, and drama. The look is stylish, modernist-influenced, with a color scheme that’s subtly collegiate and a lobby that’s dominated by armchairs and bookshelves, just as it ought to be. There’s a café just off the lobby, as well as a restaurant that’s frankly better than it strictly needs to be: Heirloom, serving seasonal New American fare drawn from the farms and fisheries of New England.