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Inside the new Olive & Oil.
Thanks to a new business venture by the founders and co-owners of Elm City Social, a new spot for “electric Italian” dining has come to the corner of Crown and Temple Streets.
Continue reading ‘“Electric Italian” Comes To Temple Street’
by | Dec 5, 2016 5:07 pm | Comments (2)
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With the sounds of New Orleans-style brass bands heralding her arrival, Queen Zuri began her reign on College Street.
by | Dec 5, 2016 8:46 am | Comments (0)
If you give a mouse a cookie, he’ll ask for some milk. If you give someone a cookie during On9’s Downtown Cookie Crawl, he might ask for 17 more.
by | Nov 28, 2016 4:02 pm | Comments (1)
Chef Lucas Sin at work. Next stop: NYC.
Running late, in pain, Tyler Foggatt had to rush to the hospital for an appendectomy. But she first she had a stop to make on Broadway — for one last chun bing.
Continue reading ‘Bing! Junzi Kitchen Looks Beyond Broadway’
by | Nov 21, 2016 1:06 pm | Comments (3)
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A 2015 protest outside Thai Taste.
The state Department of Labor agreed with New Haven immigrant-rights demonstrators that a downtown restaurateur was ripping off his workers.
Continue reading ‘Thai Taste Owner Ordered To Pay $36K In Back Wages’
by | Nov 17, 2016 4:01 pm | Comments (18)
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Gremse behind the bar at Stone Hearth.
Peter Gremse’s first Westville restaurant burned down. His second burned through money.
Now he’s heading to California.
by | Nov 16, 2016 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Pies at One 6 Three Pizza.
The latest programs on WNHH radio try out a new pizza joint in New Haven, keep unpacking the results of the Nov. 8 election on the state and national levels, probe the link between classical music and craft brewing, and inform listeners about their Obamacare options during open enrollment.
by | Nov 14, 2016 3:15 pm | Comments (4)
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Hernandez with Jesus Mazariego inside El Cubano; below, the generator.
Osmany Hernandez had his Predator 8,750 generator cranking on his Sandwiches El Cubano food truck Monday — but thanks to a newly announced $400,000 upgrade of the Long Wharf vending district, he’ll soon be able to save on the gas and the pollution.
by | Nov 11, 2016 11:52 am | Comments (1)
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Downtown healthful-cafe pioneers Merayo and Shewaye
The owners of a successful pair of organic-themed downtown coffee shops are venturing into a new frontier — home-delivered healthful snacks like “Organic Applie Pie.”
by | Nov 2, 2016 2:05 pm | Comments (3)
Causa, a Peruvian appetizer served at C’viche 181.
The tastes of Peru have come to the corner of Orange and Court Streets.
by | Oct 31, 2016 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
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DeLauro presents Miya’s founder Yoshiko Lai, whose son was named a White House Champion of Change for Sustainable Seafood, with a Congressional cookbook.
Two of Rosa DeLauro’s grandchildren and one of their friends had the day off from school, but they got schooled nonetheless — in sustainable food sourcing and how to make sushi — while meeting a woman who is making business history.
by | Oct 28, 2016 8:14 am | Comments (0)
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Boo! The most recent shows on WNHH radio get into the history of trick-or-treating, do some serious spiritual healing, and debate the week’s news.
by | Oct 27, 2016 8:16 am | Comments (0)
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Rajachak and Son.
The first thing that Ketkeo Rajachak noticed when she arrived in Connecticut was the cold. Rajachak had spent several months in Thailand in her teens as a refugee from communist Laos, before she was arranged to be resettled in the United States.
She remembers being handed a heavy jacket by immigration workers. “If not, you’re gonna be freezing,” one informed her.
by | Oct 21, 2016 8:05 am | Comments (0)
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Ferraiolo.
The most recent programs on WNHH radio dive headfirst into trans youth activism and the New Haven Pride Center, question the notion of collective memory and historical narrators, expose listeners to some old films made new, and revel in both local news and the impending fall harvest.
by | Oct 13, 2016 3:02 pm | Comments (1)
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Nurse at the front counter.
A bottle has washed ashore in Westville Village with not a note, but chocolates inside.
by | Oct 10, 2016 8:08 am | Comments (0)
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Cilantro tops the noodles at K2 Asia’s noodle booth, serving Singapore rice noodles, black bean noodles and stewed beef noodles.
Out of the dozens of available noodle picks, Raven Hodge opted for spicy miso ramen.
by | Sep 27, 2016 1:33 pm | Comments (2)
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New Haveners can feed themselves dinner for $34 at Restaurant Week this year —then feed a hungry person two more meals for another $1.
by | Sep 22, 2016 12:16 pm | Comments (1)
Blend Foxon Park White Birch soda and maple syrup together with smoked shallots, smoked jalapeños, and tart cherry juice. Add a little brown sugar and some salt and pepper. Simmer it down and you have the makings of the house, signature New Haven-style barbecue sauce at Bull & Swine.
by | Sep 19, 2016 3:44 pm | Comments (1)
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DeCarrone with apricoty baked brie.
Louise “Lulu” deCarrone used to serve coffee and conversation to East Rockers out of her popular Cottage Street coffeehouse. Now, she’s serving gnocchi, gorgeous salads and crackly vegetable tarts out of her kitchen — and teaching those who come through the door how to make those dishes themselves.
by | Sep 18, 2016 12:02 am | Comments (6)
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Thousands turned out to watch hundreds of cyclists race in the second annual New Haven Grand Prix, on a course that began at the intersection of Chapel and College, took a right onto High Street and shot up to Elm, then headed back toward the Green to Temple Street, to return to Chapel Street.
Three races — for juniors, semi-pros, and pros — anchored the evening from 5:45 Friday until after dark, as cyclists whipped around the multiple-lap criterion course.
by | Sep 13, 2016 4:22 pm | Comments (15)
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Malloy with DOT chief James Redeker at Tuesday’s event.
Black Hog brews: Train-bound?
The bar car is returning to the New Haven Line — and the governor plans to stock it with local craft beers.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made that declaration at a press event Tuesday afternoon at New Haven’s railyard.
by | Sep 13, 2016 12:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Duck confit crostini and vegan mushroom sliders were on display at Elm City Market on Saturday evening — along with a recipe for launching new careers.
Continue reading ‘Culinary Students Feed Elm City — And Beyond’
by | Sep 9, 2016 2:22 pm | Comments (4)
Team Halal Guys huddles up before the opening.
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The basic platter: chicken, beef gyro, rice, lettuce and tomato, pita, and the secret white sauce.
Erica Harris pronounced the famously mysterious white sauce “sweet with a tang,” the gyro beef “seasoned very well, not crispy, perfect,” and she noticed the chicken was shredded, a mark of freshness, so that it falls apart and is easy to eat.
by | Sep 8, 2016 12:21 pm | Comments (2)
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Sklar and head bartender Amy Tenenbaum.
Long before they’d identified a homey space, gutted and redone the woodwork, and dreamed up a name for New Haven’s newest gastropub and brew-centric venue, Craig Sklar and Taurean Davis were just two twenty-something dudes at a bottle share in New York City meeting each other while dipping into a limited-run, craft label of a sour beer.
by | Sep 1, 2016 2:23 pm | Comments (0)
A veggie sausage banh mi from Chief Brody’s.
Martell.
Saturday mornings at nine on the dot, chef Greg Martell has a routine in Wooster Square.
Warming up the equipment in his food truck, he surveys the produce at the CitySeed Farmers’ Market. He takes a quick inventory to ensure ingredients are in place for four hours of cooking.