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Dec 11, 2020 12:28 pm
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Owners Sukra Shrestha and Arjun Khadka, chef Krishna Paudel.
Arjun Khadka, the head chef and one of the owners of Cumin India on Skiff Street in Hamden, laid out a spread of Cumin’s more popular dishes. Among them were well-known fare like chicken tikka masala and garlic naan.
But the restaurant is also a place to sample Indo-Chinese dishes, a lesser-known facet of Indian cuisine that combines the influences of India and its neighbor, China. Among the many Indo-Chinese offerings on the menu is vegetarian Manchurian — vegetable dumplings topped with a sauce that pulls its ingredients from across Asia and elsewhere, and reminds us that India, as vast as it is, is also connected inextricably with the wider world.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 7, 2020 1:49 pm
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Pataka co-founders and brothers Romy and Harry Singh.
If you ask for a Chana Kulcha, Harry Singh will give you two pockets of homemade pita, overflowing with a fruity mix of sweet chutney and warm spiced chickpeas. The pomegranate seeds on top will burst with tart flavor like the fireworks after which Singh’s restaurant, Pataka, is named.
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Dec 4, 2020 3:57 pm
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Lara.
Aaron Lara added a final touch — a sprinkling of freshly cut scallions — to a Peruvian rice bowl, one of the most popular dishes at Bomb Wings and Rice. With its combination of marinated chicken, aji verde (a flavorful green sauce) and rice and vegetables fried fast in Bomb’s special sauce, the dish balanced tastiness and healthiness, or, as owner Jason Teal put it, “naughty and nice,” a mindset that has guided Bomb since its opening in March 2019 and through the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 1, 2020 5:37 pm
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Fred & Patty Walker, & freshly made sandwich.
Thirty-four years.
That’s how long Fred and Patty Walker have been married. That’s how long they’ve run Chestnut Fine Foods & Confections. And that’s how long they’ve graced New Haven with a creamy, crunchy, not-too-sweet, and all-too-satisfying Brie on baguette sandwich — which packs a particular punch in a pandemic.
Instead of creating PowerPoints in New York about potential corporate mergers, Hacibey Catalbasoglu has spent the pandemic months splitting logs, throwing dough, and memorizing the Napoletana recipe at Brick Oven Pizza on New Haven’s Elm Street.
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Rabhya Mehrotra |
Nov 13, 2020 11:31 am
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Lulu Villa’s planned home.
The team behind Pacifico is expanding their presence in New Haven just a mere two doors down: Owner Moe Gad and Chef Rafael Palomino plan this winter to open a new Italian restaurant called Villa Lulu on 230 College St.
The menu will focus on Italian old-school classics in a contemporary yet homey setting.
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Paul Bass & Thomas Breen |
Nov 12, 2020 3:55 pm
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Ephrat and Benny Lieblich inside soon-to-open Ladle and Loaf near Edge of the Woods.
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Co-owners Choni and Esther Grunblatt with Operations Manager Zee Kessler outside their soon-to-open Westville Village restaurant.
An Argentinian entrepreneur is about to start selling kosher sushi up the block from a new Peruvian restaurant, a new Mexican eatery, and a new Syrian coffee shop.
Did somebody say something about a pandemic recession?
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Rabhya Mehrotra |
Nov 11, 2020 1:41 pm
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Sample bowls: Pitaya on the left, Greens on the right.
Patti Ochsendorf filled two cups with a green and pink smoothie base each, then topped it with crunchy honey granola and blueberries, strawberries, mango, and pineapple. The green color came from kale and spinach blend. The pink color came from pitaya, also known as dragonfruit, which has a rough exterior with a pink or white inside.
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Allison Hadley |
Nov 4, 2020 11:51 am
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I kept dropping the apple while frantically trying to peel it. But I was doing my best to follow the lead of my instructors at Sanctuary Kitchen. Clumsy fingers and perilous peeler aside, my kitchen slowly filled with the scent of fresh apples — as did, I assume, the kitchen in every other tiny square on the Zoom call.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 27, 2020 10:37 am
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Singing. Dancing. Trivia. Beer floats. All this and more was part of the Shubert Theater’s second Covid-era installment of “Next Stop: New Haven,” a fundraiser and night of entertainment on Monday evening that featured Broadway stars, the Shubert staff, and a host of downtown restaurants who contributed snacks and libations to make an evening at home feel like an evening out.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 19, 2020 1:00 pm
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Sous chef Nick Hurwitz-Goodman cooking at a pre-Covid event.
Nick Hurwitz-Goodman, a sous chef at the University of New Haven, was feeling fine. But Covid-19 was spreading fast on campus, so he decided to get tested.
Hurwitz-Goodman tested positive. Now he is stuck at home, uncertain if he’ll develop symptoms, worried about his coworkers who might also have been exposed to the virus.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 5, 2020 9:21 am
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Harvest after dark.
The sound of jazz filtering up to Chapel Street from Harvest Wine Bar is not new to a Thursday night in New Haven, but on this particular Thursday, Oct. 1, it felt like the first time and happened to be the first of many things for a few in a long while.
Friday was a night of firsts for the New Haven music scene. It was the live debut of Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew, the EP release party for the band’s first record “Black Diamond’, and it all happened at the inaugural show of The Stack Sessions, a District Arts and Entertainment presentation being held in the amphitheater on the back lawn of The Stack and Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ, in the District Complex on James Street.
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Emily Hays |
Sep 23, 2020 10:57 am
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Havenly Treats Head Chef Nieda Abbas packs up boxes of grape leaves.
The staff wrapped the grape leaves carefully, filled them with just the right amount of tomato sauce and rice. The finished product — an Iraqi appetizer — was then available for purchase for $4.99.
It also served as a way for refugees to train for gainful employment.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 14, 2020 9:23 am
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The William Fluker All Star Band at the Orchid Cafe
Jazz and brunch go together like chicken and waffles, like mussels and fries, like eggs and bacon. So when this reporter heard that an old favorite brunch was starting up again and a new one had arrived, I set my sights on checking out both.
Each one had a distinct flavor and sound. Each one reminded me how much I had missed the jazz brunch scene in New Haven — decimated by the Covid-19-related shutdown, but now coming back to life.
Chef Larry Lucky stood in the kitchen installed in the back of Lucky’s Star Bus Cafe, deftly cooking up a piece of blackened salmon, which he explained was a customer favorite.
The year-old, family-run business recently relocated from Fair Haven to Newhallville — bringing to the neighborhood Lucky’s decades of restaurant experience and his seasoned culinary chops.
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Allison Hadley |
Aug 25, 2020 11:36 am
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The Wooster Square farmer’s market, now held at Conte West Hills Magnet School on Chapel Street, buzzed with masked figures, leaning in (but not too close) and pointing at gleaming piles of produce: peppers, tomatoes, leafy greens springing up with an airy confidence.
A farmer paused between transactions to spray hands and surface with disinfectant.
Lines stretched even longer for Jitter Bus’s iced coffee, with six feet the norm between each person in the queue.
Everything was familiar and different, like a filter on Instagram, yet everything had also changed.
