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Check out www.terrapinrestaurant.com I'd call the cuisine "eclectic"- many different influences without getting muddled in "fusion" or confusion is it? It's a pretty drive up there-seemingly in the middle of nowhere, but then there are all these enthusiastic diners enjoying themselves. A great destination restaurant.

Concur with Cafe Tamayo. Other favorites: New World Home Cooking-between Saugerties & Woodstock-imaginative & spicy; Rhinebeck: 40 West, Cripple Creek, GiGi Trattoria (Gianni Sciappin-consultant to "Big Night", formerly of Cuoco Pazzo; Depuy Canal House-High Falls; a favorite-Terrapin-near W. Hurley; don't forget CIA-especially the new Caterina DeMedici room.