by | Oct 9, 2020 3:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Katalina Riegelmann is looking to whip the flavors of New Haven into a tasty cupcake to bring light and airy fun to locals amidst the continuing difficulties of Covid.
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by | Oct 9, 2020 12:27 pm | Comments (7)
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The team at Claire’s Corner Copia: Putting safety first.
New Haven restaurants won permission to fill their indoor spaces to 75 percent capacity, but for now most are holding back.
by | Oct 2, 2020 4:58 pm | Comments (2)
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Claire Criscuolo and Richard Blumenthal Friday outside of Claire’s.
Two downtown businesses that have grown accustomed to serving meals to go spent a few minutes Friday serving stories to go that hopefully will reach Mitch McConnell and help businesses like them stay afloat.
Continue reading ‘Restaurants Serve Stimulus Stories For Senate’
by | Sep 28, 2020 3:52 pm | Comments (3)
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Harry and Romy Singh.
Flashback to early 2020: Harry Singh, Gasser Badawi and Qulen Wright all had plans to expand each of their businesses in the food service industry.
The pandemic changed that — but they’ve found ways to keep going and growing.
by | Sep 24, 2020 4:41 pm | Comments (4)
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Aili Maimaiti at work outside Brick Oven Pizza.
Dot by dot — by tens of thousands of dots — a public portrait of the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali is coming into focus at the corner of Howe and Elm, at the hand of a warehouse worker looking to take the art world by storm.
Continue reading ‘On Dwight Corner, Aili Brings Ali Into Focus’
by | Sep 24, 2020 9:29 am | Comments (9)
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No guacamole left behind at Westville’s new “Camacho Garage.”
The chipotle ketchup on my notebook didn’t quite fit the script.
by | Sep 24, 2020 8:56 am | Comments (9)
Pizza, A Love Story — the movie that director Gorman Bechard calls “the quintessential New Haven film” — returns to the city for another party in the Sally’s parking lot, this one to celebrate its release on DVD and streaming services on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
by | Sep 23, 2020 5:50 pm | Comments (2)
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One of Wednesday’s ribbon-cuttings.
In the midst of a pandemic-spawned recession, New Haven officials Wednesday cut the ribbon on three new storefront businesses.
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by | Sep 23, 2020 10:57 am | Comments (1)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Grape Leaves, Biryani Arrive On Temple Street’
by | Sep 18, 2020 10:36 am | Comments (11)
Investigators seeking to get to the root of a whodunit have photographed four baggies filled with contraband — batches of chemically altered nightshades.
But they didn’t actually seize the evidence — for fear of stinking up police headquarters.
by | Sep 14, 2020 5:08 pm | Comments (23)
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The Storefront Formerly Known as Starbucks at 195 Church.
Starbucks has jumped ship from its groundfloor commercial space at Church Street and Elm Street, leaving in its wake another empty storefront in a retail landscape transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Sep 4, 2020 12:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Charles Eugene Holiness and Shelly Holiness prepare for food delivery.
An SUV backed into Honda Smith’s Harper Avenue driveway in West Hills this past drizzly Wednesday afternoon.
Smith, the alder of Ward 30, emerged from her garage, clicking off her phone. Another batch of fresh food for those in need during the pandemic had arrived — and a team of volunteers was ready to get those boxes distributed.
by | Sep 4, 2020 8:20 am | Comments (10)
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Chef Lucky and the Lucky’s Star Bus Cafe crew.
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.
Continue reading ‘Bus Cafe Serves Up Salmon In Newhallville’
by | Sep 2, 2020 1:29 pm | Comments (2)
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DESK volunteers and staff prepare food pantry bags for walk-up guests and delivery.
The Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) won a $5,000 grant as part of the Liberty Bank Foundation’s awarding of $25,000 in support to state nonprofit agencies for providing food to those in need during the pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Lands $5K Grant’
by | Sep 1, 2020 7:30 am | Comments (1)
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Shaquan Whitfield with Joshua and Justin.
Diamond Tree (center) leads a hula hoop activity.
Shaquan Whitfield brought her children, Joshua and Justin Currie, to a neighborhood-spanning, back-to-school fair on the Farmington Canal Trail because she wanted to “show my kids there’s more positive than negative” in Newhallville.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Unites For Back-To-School Bash’
by | Aug 31, 2020 2:22 pm | Comments (8)
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S’ence (left) and Quanetta Thomas.
When S’ence and Quanetta Thomas saw lights flashing and heard police speakers booming, they rushed out of their home at the Brookside Apartments.
Behind the line of police cars and motorcycles, a bright red and white striped Jolly Roger Ice Cream Truck rolled up to the scene.
by | Aug 25, 2020 11:36 am | Comments (8)
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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.
Continue reading ‘How New Haven Keeps Eating During Covid-19’
by | Aug 21, 2020 5:42 pm | Comments (6)
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Vegan treats back on display, behind plexiglass.
Claire Criscuolo at her reopened restaurant.
Downtown New Haven feels just a little bit more like Downtown New Haven again, now that Claire’s Corner Copia — remodeled, expanded, and replete with vegan baked goods and a supportive community 45 years in the making—has reopened.
“It’s gonna take more than a pandemic to get rid of us,” said Claire Criscuolo, a faint smile visible behind her face mask.
Continue reading ‘Remodeled And Resilient, Claire’s Reopens’
by | Aug 2, 2020 4:53 pm | Comments (1)
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Halloway with Elicker at Martinez School food distribution event.
It was Yvonne Halloway’s first free-food pick-up. With hard times growing harder and with supplemental unemployment benefits expiring, she and others around her didn’t expect this visit to be their last.
Continue reading ‘As Vise Tightens, Food Giveways Provide Lifeline’
by | Jul 31, 2020 8:15 pm | Comments (0)
Alisa Bowens-Mercado with husband John Mercado (right) and Two Roads’ Phil Markowski (left) ).
This stout tastes like oats, chocolate — and social justice.
by | Jul 29, 2020 9:52 am | Comments (1)
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Natalie Marshall and Kathryn Piscitello.
Close friends Natalie Marshall and Kathryn Piscitello met up at a Dixwell food drive Tuesday to pick up groceries. Before leaving the pair arranged a dinner night with each other.
by | Jul 16, 2020 6:09 pm | Comments (4)
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal at Stop & Shop.
On Wednesday, Charmaine Acampora got her first direct deposit paycheck from Stop & Shop since March without 10 percent tacked on as hazard pay. On Thursday afternoon, she stood in front of the Hamden Stop & Shop with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal to call on the company to reinstate the hazard pay.
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by | Jul 16, 2020 1:30 pm | Comments (8)
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Streeter at work at Streets Boathouse Smokehouse on Front Street.
Smoke billowed out of the barbecue pit as Steve Streeter lifted one of the lids on his massive outdoor smoker.
by | Jul 13, 2020 12:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Testing the new chatbot at Cast Iron Chef.
Developer Morehead at debut.
Diners interested in ordering a Prime New York Strip or other meaty morsels at Cast Iron Chef Chop House no longer need a physical menu when placing their orders.
Thanks to local entrepreneur Greg Morehead, there’s now a solution for that.
by | Jul 13, 2020 9:51 am | Comments (1)
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Volunteers from a service organization called Faith Inspired Servants Helping Everyone Reach Services (FISHERS) teamed up with State Rep. Robyn Porter to hold a community grab-and-go cookout Saturday in Newhallville.