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It’s a cupcake, infused with beer and citrus, soon to be available at Moon Rocks Gourmet Cookies. How it came to be is the story of a collaboration between two women-run businesses — more specifically, two mother-daughter teams, who have broken barriers and found success in New Haven’s vibrant food scene by being creative, working hard, and supporting one another.
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Sandra Pittman in the restaurant.
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Hill soul food mecca seeks permission to rehab former garage for new 300-seat home.
by | Sep 14, 2019 8:20 pm | Comments (1)
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The fifth annual New Haven Grand Prix and Apizza Feast once again filled downtown New Haven with cyclists and spectators, bringing thousands of people out to enjoy the sport of cycling, good food, and lots of company.
by | Sep 9, 2019 2:36 pm | Comments (3)
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The downtown public library relaunched its “Ives Squared” cafe with a second management crew — one that’s giving people like Tyrone Jones an entree into the labor market.
by | Sep 4, 2019 2:58 pm | Comments (1)
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Town Green’s Win Davis, Higgins, Carty, Mayor Harp cut the ribbon.
The Trinity Bar & Grill, which suffered a devastating fire two years ago, formally reopened for business Wednesday with a ceremonial mayoral ribbon cutting.
by | Aug 11, 2019 7:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Junte Loiceño.
Thousands gathered on the New Haven Green Saturday afternoon and evening for the fourth annual Puerto Rican Festival of New Haven. Organized by Puerto Ricans United, the festival featured a string of blazing musical acts, food trucks, and vendors, plus an almost impossibly perfect summer day, that brought crowds early and kept them long into the day for a celebration of Puerto Rican pride and community.
by | Aug 9, 2019 7:30 am | Comments (0)
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Ric Cunningham and Rohn Lawrence at NOLO.
In the years that I have been frequenting the city on a regular basis I get asked for recommendations about two things consistently: where to hear live music and where to get a good meal. In New Haven, Sunday brunch combines the two.
Three brunches fairly close to each other — at Elm City Market, South Bay New Haven, and Atelier Florian — advertise events that include music. I had attended only one of them before. I decided that, in the name of all of those people who are looking for more options, I would peruse what was available all in one day.
by | Aug 1, 2019 1:00 pm | Comments (14)
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Pizza restaurant brothers Gazmir, Aleko, and Jeshar Zeneli. Below: a Zeneli-made Queen Margherita pie.
Gazmir Zeneli spent nine years perfecting the Neapolitan “Queen Margherita”-style pizza as the head pizza chef for New York City’s Eataly Italian market and food hall.
Now, the Naples native and two of his brothers have brought their cheese and pizza-making prowess to their own new restaurant at the center of the city’s Pizza Row in Wooster Square.
by | Jul 22, 2019 7:35 am | Comments (4)
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Ana De Los Angeles and her family celebrated the 10 year anniversary of their Westville cafe Manjares with the official grand opening of the coffee spot/restaurant’s bar, Manjares Tapas, and a block party as a thank-you gift to the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Manjares Celebrates 10 Years With New Bar’
by | Jul 10, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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After spending more than a year out of work to relocate their Jamaican style food restaurant, owner, Norma Parks and family celebrated the grand reopening of Whalley Avenue’s Caribbean Connection on Tuesday.
by | Jun 20, 2019 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Marty Wright had company when he made his thrice-weekly stop Thursday at Island Spice Caribbean on Winthrop Avenue off Whaley: the mayor and an entourage showed up to officially celebrate the restaurant’s city-aided expansion
by | Jun 19, 2019 5:23 pm | Comments (6)
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Inside Shiru Cafe on College Street.
An experimental downtown cafe has decided to serve all customers, not just college students, in a reversal of its previously exclusionary business model.
Continue reading ‘Downtown Cafe Decides To Serve All Customers’
by | Jun 19, 2019 12:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Burcu, Barbarossa, 3, and Volkan Gokkiyas, Mayor Toni Harp, and Alders Hacibey Catalbasoglu and Richard Furlow.
Like his father before him, Volkan Gokkiyas named his newest restaurant, Barbarossa Pizza & Kebabs, after his son.
by | Jun 14, 2019 2:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ in New Haven has partnered with the four brewing masterminds of Black Hog Brewing Co. to open a new riverfront brew-pub in town along with five new in-house brews.
by | May 15, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (2)
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Vanilla pear bourbon maple pie.
Something round is coming to the old Galasso’s Clock and Watch Shop space at 1660 Whitney Ave., and it doesn’t tell the time — it tells you there’s no limit to what a creative mind can do with pie.
by | May 13, 2019 1:54 pm | Comments (2)
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Oak Haven Chef Kevin Wolcott inside the new mobile kitchen.
The farm-to-table dining experience Oak Haven Table & Bar brought to Upper State Street six years ago will be pulling up to farms, festivals, and fairs this summer.
by | Apr 2, 2019 2:30 pm | Comments (11)
New Haven’s newest ice-cream joint offers mammoth made-to-order originals, drawing on liquid nitrogen and featuring palate-glomming Frosted Flakes cereal milk.
by | Mar 29, 2019 1:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Jeffrey Spitz Cohan at WNHH FM; organization logo.
Jeffrey Spitz Cohan has an idea for how to enjoy the upcoming Passover seder in true Jewish tradition — avoiding not just leavened bread, but meat, eggs and dairy as well. And lovin’ it.
by | Mar 26, 2019 7:50 am | Comments (1)
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City officials join Freskos owner Peter Vouras to cut the ribbon …
… while former Hamden Freskos manager Sai Saifee and wife Farron enjoy some lunch.
Peter Vouras celebrated Greek Independence Day Monday by flying the Greek flag right outside the newest location of his restaurant Freskos and cutting a ribbon to commemorate its opening.
by | Mar 1, 2019 6:08 pm | Comments (9)
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Veteran barista Nate Blair in his new joint.
Nate Blair knew that every neighborhood needs a hub, and Westville was no exception. With the opening of Cafe X, a new coffee shop on the corner of Whalley and Blake, he aims to create that hub.
by | Feb 21, 2019 8:38 am | Comments (3)
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Neapolitan brothers and new pizza restaurant owners Aleko and Jeshar Zeneli on Tuesday night.
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The third brother, Eataly NYC Flatiron Executive Pizza Chef Gazmir Zeneli, winning the Caputo Cup in 2017.
Three Neapolitan brothers plan to open their own pizza restaurant later this spring in the heart of the city’s Little Italy.
How will they compete with Pepe’s and Sally’s, not to mention the many farther flung famed local pizza joints?
With personal pies. Wood-fired stoves. And decades of experience.
Continue reading ‘Neapolitan Brothers Take On Wooster Square Pizza’
by | Feb 5, 2019 8:33 am | Comments (16)
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Cafe Romeo: Closed. But a new cafe coming soon.
Cafe Romeo has closed after ten years of selling coffee, pastries, and pizza from the corner of Pearl Street and Orange Street in East Rock.
The owner has sold the cafe to another local coffee shop, though he would not confirm which coffee shop that is.
Continue reading ‘Cafe Romeo Closes After 10 Years In East Rock’
by | Feb 1, 2019 9:01 am | Comments (3)
Gastronomical delights and libations awaited the brave soul willing to withstand breath-stealing, teeth-chattering cold. With two hot openings drawing overflow crowds, you just had to know where to look.
by | Jan 22, 2019 5:50 pm | Comments (6)
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Officials join Pokémoto owners to cut the ribbon …
… and City Deputy Economic Development Director Steve Fontana grabs lunch.
Things were getting a little crowded at the Pokémoto location on Audubon, so the rapidly expanding chain has opened a second location at Chapel Street near York.
by | Jan 18, 2019 8:47 am | Comments (3)
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NOLO’s cheese pie.
Erector Brewing Collective beer on display in NOLO’s on-site microbrewery.
NOLO ribbon cutting with restaurant owner Derek Bacon and Erector Brewing Collective’s Justin Maturo (center) and NOLO executive chef Joshua Ulmer (right).
Pizza and beer have long made for a winning combination.
A new State Street restaurant and microbrewery ups the culinary ante by not only delivering on thin-crust pies and hoppy beers, but also by baking and brewing those goods in house.