“Dave’s Double” served Tuesday at new Whalley Wendy’s.
Happy customers: Naila Smalls and Wenona Hollby.
Above: tax solution for NYC investor.
A new restaurant has opened on Whalley Avenue. No officials cut a ribbon. No jubilant developer hired a p.r. firm to celebrate a multimillion-dollar private investment, the creation of dozens of jobs, and the boost to the tax rolls.
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Feb 1, 2019 9:01 am
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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.
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Jan 18, 2019 8:47 am
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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.
Jimmy and Sara Wang have been operating the Wooster Square Coffee Shop ever since they took over the Chapel and Chestnut corner caffeinating institution in 2017 from the former popular Fuel Coffee Shop.
Business is good, Zhiming “Jimmy” Wang said, but to make it better the couple came before the Historic District Commission to seek approval for larger. more welcoming windows, removal of the canvas canopy, installing new lights, and other modest aesthetic improvements.
The commissioners listened, and asked politely if they would also consider tilting back the entire upper facade of their building to recreate the “beautiful ensemble” of three structures that was there before.
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Jan 9, 2019 3:07 pm
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Hammer presents plan, with McCraven & Clemons.
A vacant Yale-owned building at the edge of Dixwell and downtown may soon house a convenience store that gives culinary students a chance to show their stuff — and peddles local food but not alcohol or tobacco.
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Jan 8, 2019 8:32 am
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Land Trust Growing Entrepreneur Rasha Abuhatab and Garden Education Coordinator Esther Rose-Wilen.
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Land Trust ED Justin Elicker, Xavier Hernandez, Carlos Veliz, Jahlil Moses, Rose-Wilen, Brianna Chance, Sadilka Lopez-Roldan, Abuhatab, and Garden Education Manager Bradley Fleming.
A new business that builds and installs garden beds. Another that converts garden plots into greenhouses. Yet another that turns locally grown herbs into incense. All from a program that grows New Haven high school students into local entrepreneurs.
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Jan 4, 2019 1:41 pm
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Chef Sunny Cheng: Trust me.
Omakase is a Japanese phrase that means, “I leave it up to you.” Chef Sunny Cheng and his wife, Kathy, are betting New Haveners will do just that when they stop by their new sushi bar, Otaru — and embark on a sushi adventure.
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Dec 13, 2018 1:29 pm
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Micro-biz owner Mubarakah Ibrahim baking bean pies at her home.
Connect local restaurants with nearby farms. Remove regulatory hurdles for food-related micro-businesses. And build an incubator kitchen and community center that caters to New Haven’s culinary entrepreneurs.
Officials proposed those and other food-related economic development initiatives at a food sector-focused meeting of the Development Commission.
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Nov 22, 2018 10:55 am
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Stack-starters Sobocinski and McDonald.
Tech hub’s smokestack, which inspired new restaurant’s name.
Pair a Navy vet-restaurateur with Kansas City barbecue roots with a brewery owner who also runs restaurants with a sense of whimsy and a flair for fun — and you get a match made in brew-hog heaven.
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Nov 16, 2018 8:28 am
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Mayor Harp and Alder Greenberg join owners Coffin and Bodak, and GM Corina cutting the ribbon.
In a town where getting a good slice is a given, Robin Bodak and Doug Coffin thought adding one more place to the apizza landscape couldn’t hurt, especially when in a place where people have good memories.
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Oct 9, 2018 2:33 pm
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September in Bangkok owner and head chef Winyu “Win” Seetamyae.
September in Bangkok is the best time to get rice, one of the mainstays of Thai cuisine. Winyu “Win” Seetamyae hopes New Haveners will consider any time of the year “September in Bangkok” when they have a hankering for Thai food.
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Oct 3, 2018 7:26 am
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Ibrahim in the kitchen.
Mubarakah Ibrahim needs to rent a commercial kitchen for no more then 10 hours each week to prepare and bake the dozens of navy bean pies that her small business distributes to local cafes and grocery stores.
But current city law treats her, and charges her, as if she owns an independent restaurant.
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Sep 26, 2018 2:17 pm
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Daniel Parillo and Derek Bacon at their new eatery.
Daniel Parillo spent summers as a kid traveling between his local home and his grandparents’ goat, chestnut, and fig farms in Caserta, Italy.
There, in his grandmother’s kitchen in the Campanian countryside, he first learned to love the smell and taste of wood-fired pizza, meat, and vegetables.
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Sep 14, 2018 7:49 am
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Olmo chefs and co-owners Craig Hutchinson and Alex Lishchynsky with Olmo general manager Tessa Cooney.
Tamales made with fermented pork sausage and farina. Coal-roasted vegetables served with housemade ricotta. A 32-ounce dry-aged ribeye steak.
Oh yeah, and one-dollar bagels, baked in house every morning and available seven days a week.
Those are a few selections from the eclectic menu of Olmo, the new restaurant, catering service, and take-out spot that will replace the recently closed Caseus Fromagerie & Bistro at the corner of Trumbull Street and Whitney avenue downtown.
