by | Jun 21, 2019 12:17 pm | Comments (3)
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Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker used to work as a waiter during his college years in Middlebury, Vermont.
There he learned that when you a carry a tray one-handed at the shoulder level or higher, don’t keep your hand flat. Instead, spread the fingers out, giving you five points of contact and support for your heavy-laden tray.
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 2:46 pm | Comments (20)
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School board and staff at Adriana’s Restaurant.
Members of the Board of Education broke arancini rice balls — but no laws — at an informal dinner party.
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 4:32 pm | Comments (1)
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Westville Kosher Market co-founders Yuval and Rachel Hamenachem.
Three days before Passover, a longtime customer of Westville Kosher Market called Rachel Hamenachem in a panic. Her husband, a celebrated Yale professor, had just died. Now she needed enough food to feed 100 people who would be coming to her house to sit shiva.
So Hamenachem and her husband Yuval stayed up all night cooking. The co-owners of the decades-old Upper Westville market made sure their customer, and friend, got what she needed in time for the week-long ritual mourning.
by | May 15, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (2)
The Town Tart
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 | May 10, 2019 4:40 pm | Comments (1)
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The late Ida Ruth Wells in 2011. Her family, including daughters Jacqueline Frazer (second from left) and Stephanie Wells-Gary (second from right) outside of the newly renamed corner on Friday (below.)
Dozens of friends, family, neighbors, and admirers came out to the corner of County Street and Henry Street in Dixwell Friday afternoon to celebrate the life of the late Ida Ruth Wells.The intersection, right outside of the Prescott Bush senior apartment complex where Wells lived, gardened, and advocated for public housing tenants rights for over a decade, will forever be known as Ida Ruth Wells Corner.
by | May 6, 2019 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
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Kelly Ciccone of Kelly’s Cone Connection, which recently won national recognition.
As Kelly Ciccone scooped rounds of her acclaimed chocolate ice cream into cones, she served more than just milk, cream, chocolate, sugar — if she got the batch right, her cones held memories that connected a bite from 2019 with a bite from 33 years ago.
by | May 4, 2019 11:55 pm | Comments (41)
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Inside Shiru.
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Havenly co-founders Benjamin Weiss and Caterina Passoni: “Disgusted” by Shiru’s business model.
Outcry over the opening of a student-only downtown cafe has led to one of its suppliers to pull baklava from the operation.
Continue reading ‘Supplier Pulls Baklava, Plans Boycott Of New Coffee Shop’
by | May 3, 2019 7:21 am | Comments (70)
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Inside the new Shiru Cafe on College Street.
New Haven’s newest cafe refused to serve me tea or refugee-made baklava. It refuses to serve the high school kids across the street, or tens of thousands of other people who live in New Haven. But it did try to sell me on its new business model for running a college-town coffee shop fueled by customers’ data.
by | Apr 25, 2019 5:25 pm | Comments (4)
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Rosa DeLauro at Thursday’s event.
As paintings of famine-stricken mid-19th century Irishmen stared from the walls, politicians, hunger advocates, and community members gathered Thursday morning to deliver a message: hunger is not a distant problem but rather a harsh reality for many Hamden residents.
by | Apr 24, 2019 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Mubarakah Ibrahim and new city Food Policy Director Latha Swamy at City Hall Monday.
A bean pie baker and other local micro-food businesses have some new rules that could help them grow their businesses.
by | Apr 22, 2019 2:54 pm | Comments (20)
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Stop & Shop worker Leyda McKay (with husband Mike): “Ecstatic.”
Empty shelves in the newly reopened Stop & Shop.
A just-ended strike cost Stop & Shop up to $50 million as well as possible customers — which may cost its union as well.
So warns a retail analyst who monitored the dramatic 11-day walkout.
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 1:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Faten Natafji, Nieda Mohammed Ali Abbas, Hala Ghali at work.
Katalina’s Bakery on Whitney Avenue has closed for the night. Three women, who do not bake for Katalina’s, are hard at work in the kitchen, oiling pans, grinding nuts, laying out translucent sheets of raw phyllo dough.
Tomorrow, servers around downtown New Haven will sell the sweet results, in the form of baklava.
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 22, 2019 5:09 pm | Comments (2)
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By the time U.S. House Rep. Rosa DeLauro left the Davenport-Dunbar food pantry, all that was left on the table were a few peach probiotic drinks.
Every one of the 80 bags that volunteers had prepared were gone, feeding Hamden’s growing demand for food assistance with dwindling federal dollars.
Continue reading ‘Seniors’ Food Pantry Enlists DeLauro’s Help’
by | Mar 22, 2019 12:35 pm | Comments (6)
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Nalebuff juggling his latest entrepreneurial pursuits.
Outside the bathroom in a downtown basement, Barry Nalebuff slipped me a palm-sized clear plastic packet filled with product.
Try it, he urged. It’ll blow your mind.
by | Mar 18, 2019 3:23 pm | Comments (6)
Contested beachfront: Cirino’s property at left; Palmieri’s, right.
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Palmieri in a past interview about the family food biz.
The city has moved to foreclose on a Mill River spaghetti sauce manufacturing plant due to unpaid taxes.
Meanwhile, the plant’s third-generation owner owes over $430,000 to a Morris Cove neighbor whom he took to court six times over 15 years over who owns the beach abutting their properties.
by | Mar 14, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (16)
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Mason Jar Exchange’s Marissa Vaspasiano at CitySeed Kitchen.
The Mason Jar Exchange
Marissa Vaspasiano wants to make it easier for you and your family to enjoy healthful fresh meals. Her secret weapon? A mason jar.
by | Feb 27, 2019 8:55 am | Comments (1)
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Eduardo De Lara shows his empanadas at Tuesday night’s pitch event.
Business Accelerator crews serve up the goods at The State House.
Loosen your belt and get ready to eat.
A cornucopia of fried, spicy, savory, and eminently portable international street food is about to hit New Haven, courtesy of a host of new food startups run by local immigrants with fare ranging from Dominican Republic-style spinach-and-feta empanadas, chutney from Mauritius, and social justice-flavored Salvadoran pupusas.
Continue reading ‘Int’l “Street” Food Start-Ups Ready To Roll’
by | Feb 22, 2019 2:00 pm | Comments (7)
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The former East Rock Pharmacy at 763-767 Orange St.
Common Grounds Co-Owner Dena Jara and local attorney James Perito at Tuesday’s meeting.
The cafe owners and managers taking over the shuttered East Rock Pharmacy are promising not only more coffee and baked goods for the neighborhood, but also fewer parking headaches for the cafe’s immediate neighbors.