Where To Eat in Hudson, New York

Three for the weekend, May 16

Plenty of pig at Cafe Mutton

In the seventh season of Seinfeld, George asks Jerry, “What exactly is mutton?” Jerry answers, without hesitation, “I don’t know!” Now, 30 years later, you might find out at Café Mutton, located at 757 Columbia Street in the southeastern corner of Hudson, NY. Hudson, of course, is the economic miracle city of Columbia County, on the east bank of the Hudson River southeast of Albany. From a rather hardscrabble presence on the Hudson in the last century — though long ago a center of the whaling industry — it has become a jumping-off point for visitors heading further upstate, and a hopping destination in itself, with a host of transplanted NYC institutions like Mel the Bakery and its own branch of The Meat Hook.