by | Aug 3, 2022 3:11 pm | Comments (18)
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Pizza recommendations abound at "Beer With The Mayor."
As punk rock played on the stereo, Justin Elicker sipped his Counter Weight Headway with a small group of New Haveners who had come with curiosity — but no complaints.
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by | Jul 27, 2022 12:45 pm | Comments (1)
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Alisa Bowens Mercado teaching salsa Tuesday night on the Central Avenue "patio."
While eating a slice of berry treasure pie, Rachel Broderick enjoyed the added sweetness of salsa in her bite.
Salsa music, that is.
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by | Jul 8, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (6)
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After a countdown from three, Kevin Mackenzie took a bottle of champagne — and smashed it against the side of The Cannon, the new combination sports pub-plant-based eatery on Dwight Street.
“We thought,” Mackenzie said, “this was a little more our style.”
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by | Jul 7, 2022 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Donated produce arrives at Sherman Avenue pop-up.
David Burgess at work with food-giveaway crew.
David Burgess, retired from stripping metal parts at the old Sargent’s factory, found himself on another assembly line Wednesday: breaking down emptied cantaloupe and watermelon boxes in a joint quest to nourish families.
by | Jul 4, 2022 9:23 am | Comments (5)
Tisha Hudson mixing her cream cheese frosting.
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Behold the Edible Couture strawberry shortcake cheesecake cupcake.
The strawberry crumble festive with summer. The frolicking dollop of cream cheese frosting. The luscious strawberry slice on top. It’s positively gleeful.
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by | Jun 29, 2022 11:03 am | Comments (3)
Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and SBA District Director Catherine Marx.
Chabaso Bakery offered Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Connecticut Director Catherine Marx a taste of their manufacturing processes, their pandemic recovery effort, and, of course, some fresh bread, during a tour of the business’s James Street headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.
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by | Jun 29, 2022 9:29 am | Comments (1)
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Fresh mozzarella naan with Italian seasoning.
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Mahesh Pirthiani, the new owner of Zaroka.
After 21 years of running his own 7/11 franchise, Mahesh Pirthiani was in need of a new project. Luckily, his favorite restaurant was looking for a new owner.
by | Jun 23, 2022 11:01 am | Comments (4)
Kismet Douglass debuts her signature mac and cheese at Wednesday's Q House farmers market
Dixwell got its first taste of farmer market produce Wednesday — and Kismet Douglass’s bacon and roasted chicken-topped mac and cheese.
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by | Jun 20, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (9)
Mayor Justin Elicker samples a chocolate espresso cocktail cupcake Monday at the Q House incubator kitchen (above), where baker Maxine Harris (below) displays a stand mixer she received from City Seed.
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It wasn’t too early in the morning to sample an artisanal beer-infused cupcake — or announce an infusion of federal dollars into a recipe for strengthening both public health and entrepreneurship in the Dixwell neighborhood.
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by | Jun 17, 2022 8:30 am | Comments (4)
LEAP sent in the following write-up:
As summer kicks into full swing, the Dixwell Q House announces a new Farmers Market in collaboration with CitySeed. The Farmers Market will occur at the Dixwell Q House plaza (197 Dixwell Avenue) every Wednesday from 3 pm to 6 p.m. starting on June 22nd until October 26th. The Q‑House Farmers Market is a partnership also involving LEAP, the Stetson Branch of the New Haven Public Library, the City of New Haven’s Dixwell-Newhallville Senior Center, and Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center. Opening day for the Farmers Market will bring together Connecticut farmers, artists, musicians, community members, and, most importantly, plentiful fresh food in the heart of the neighborhood.
by | Jun 13, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (6)
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Sunita Kalluri chats with friends Anushka Halder, Anurag Khandelwal, and Kallol Gupta.
The party was near the clouds Friday evening, as residents of 360 State Street apartments mingled about the building’s rooftop lawn for the first installment of Elm City Market’s summer celebration series.
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by | May 30, 2022 2:28 pm | Comments (9)
Book Trader Blue Hawaiian (coconut/vanilla) & Lilikoi (passion fruit) shave ice.
A chilled sweet taste of Hawaii has hit Chapel Street just in time for the summer heat — and to help a local business survive the pandemic with a new passion (fruit) lure.
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by | May 10, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (9)
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Bar manager Emanuela Stakaj (right) at the newly opened Il Gabbiano restaurant.
The owner of Adriana’s Restaurant has opened a new “Italian steakhouse” on Long Wharf in the former home of Lenny & Joe’s Fish Tale — on the future site of hundreds of planned new waterfront apartments.
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by | May 2, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (2)
Eat Up's Isaiah Pinion, Bryan Burkett-Thompson, and Kristen Threatt.
It was a battle of Afrotina’s Latin-flavored southern cuisine versus Eat Up’s Italian-inspired soul food cuisine: Chef Ohioma Odihirin’s Sazon chicken took on Chef Bryan Burkett-Thompson’s mumbo chicken, and Chef O’s homemade Voodoo sauce vied with Chef BB’s pineapple salsa.
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by | Apr 28, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (1)
Co-owner and head chef Skyler Melton at work inside the newly opened vegan-vegetarian Cannon pub on Dwight Street.
Cannon's vegan rice noodles in garlic chili sauce.
This is the story of a vegan-vegetarian, Arsenal-loving, English-style pub featuring rice noodles in garlic chili sauce.
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by | Apr 20, 2022 3:56 pm | Comments (8)
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Armada Brewing's John Kraszewski with the 4/20 special, "The Herbalist."
Lloyd Street entrance to Armada's River Street building.
The city’s newest brewery has opened its doors — and its taps — in a former Bigelow Boiler Factory building on River Street, with hopes that “danky” beers, dreamlike art, and spacious gathering spots will help spur an economic revival for Fair Haven’s derelict industrial waterfront.
by | Apr 18, 2022 10:27 am | Comments (7)
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Sen. Blumenthal with Negaro and Immer at Atticus's Orange Street market.
Luke and Lisa Harrison eating lunch in the sun.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal stopped by Atticus Market to pick up a loaf of bread — and to celebrate the longtime local family-owned business’s recent award from the federal government.
by | Apr 7, 2022 3:10 pm | Comments (3)
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Students, Women of the Village, Yale police, and NHPD partner.
A trio of New Haven high schoolers joined the fight to address local food insecurity by supporting a food pantry run by the nonprofit Women of the Village.
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by | Mar 30, 2022 1:06 pm | Comments (0)
As the sun set, the playlist of mid-2000s slow emotional pop inside B Natural Kitchen made the experience of eating a “Warm Market Bowl” by the College Street window feel like a moment straight out of a rom-com — while the bowl itself offered respite from the chilly wind outside.
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by | Mar 28, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (2)
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Nick Di Maria Quartet.
New Haven has always been hungry for jazz, and as the city continues to open back up to more opportunities to hear it live, musician Nick Di Maria has added yet another night to his already busy roster for music lovers to enjoy jazz while having dinner and drinks. Friday Night at Jack’s debuted this past weekend on the corner of College and Crown at Jack’s Bar and Steakhouse from 7 to 9 p.m. Di Maria was there with his quartet to play the first show, though this is far from his first time playing there.
by | Mar 26, 2022 9:25 pm | Comments (3)
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Ricky D. Evans, owner of Ricky D's Rib Shack, at a press conference for "New Haven Restaurant Week(s): Remixed" on Friday afternoon.
Restaurant week will return to New Haven Sunday for an extended two-week run, featuring an expanded variety of deals at over 50 eateries.
by | Mar 11, 2022 1:35 pm | Comments (8)
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Closed, but not for long: The spot at Park & Elm.
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Snapshots of Place 2 Be's other locations.
A Hartford-based brunch bar is planning to move to the former home of Box 63 on Elm Street, now that New Haven’s zoning board has OK’d the renewed sale of alcohol there.
by | Mar 9, 2022 12:19 pm | Comments (8)
Tentative sketch of Elena's On Orange.
An ice cream shop — with alcoholic offerings on tap — is one step closer to materializing on Orange Street, after the Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday night unanimously approved a parking and alcohol variance.
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by | Feb 28, 2022 4:59 pm | Comments (2)
Joshua Watkins, executive director of the Community Soup Kitchen.
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by | Feb 28, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (10)
Gov. Ned Lamont bit into a lab-grown mini-chicken shawarma in Israel — and tasted future jobs back home in Connecticut.