by | Sep 29, 2021 1:13 pm | Comments (5)
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Empanadas from Ibiza and Grab & Go: Try both!
Whether you’re looking for a snack to grab on the go or a slow-cooked meal to sit down and savor, two neighboring Hamden eateries have a common solution: empanadas.
by | Sep 28, 2021 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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Kwame Asari (right) discussing his Oh Shito savory Ghanaian hot sauce with a wholesaler at Monday’s pitch event.
fatto a mano founder Pierluigi Mazzella, with his beloved panettone.
Pierluigi Mazzella never sleeps. This is because he’s obsessed. And in love.
At Monday’s CT Food Launchpad Pitch Night in East Rock, the founder and owner of fatto a mano stood beside the object that has kept him awake at all hours: the panettone, a towering round of sweet bread naturally leavened with sourdough and studded with organic raisins and semi-sweet Valrhona chocolate.
It took him 72 hours to make.
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by | Sep 26, 2021 4:50 pm | Comments (16)
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Aerial view of the proposed expanded oyster farm on the Quinnipiac.
How it all works.
Plans to revive the Quinnipiac River’s bivalve-harvesting heritage took a big step forward, with three unanimous city approvals for an expanded oyster farm on the Fair Haven Heights waterfront.
by | Sep 23, 2021 12:56 pm | Comments (1)
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190 River St., where Armada plans a brewhouse and taproom.
Armada Brewing
Plans to build a new small brewery and taproom in a renovated former Bigelow Boiler Factory building on River Street won two key city approvals, as the transformation of Fair Haven’s former industrial riverfront continues to take shape.
by | Aug 31, 2021 3:41 pm | Comments (5)
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Chef Jeyson Santoni; his jam-packed 259 Orange burger (top).
You might call the 259 Orange a cheeseburger, a bacon burger, or an egg burger. Or maybe a short rib burger or an avocado burger.
The only thing certain is that the 259 Orange Burger nearly didn’t happen. Nor, for that matter, did Dangle’s Bar and Grill, which serves the 259 Burger, and which opened three weeks ago on 259 Orange just up the street from the New Haven County Courthouse.
Continue reading ‘Jey’s Burger Brings 259 Orange Back To Life’
by | Aug 30, 2021 10:26 am | Comments (2)
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New fence at Saturday’s celebration.
Invasive species were taking over a chain link fence at the Ferry Street Farm and creating a barrier with the neighborhood, so a group of teen “growing entrepreneurs” got to work on a new mesh wire wooden replacement.
A crowd celebrated the completion of the job Saturday at the communal farm which is run by the nonprofit Gather New Haven.
by | Aug 27, 2021 11:25 am | Comments (9)
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Speaking from lived experience: Kim Hart testifies on hunger data at aldermanic hearing.
Kimberly Hart’s refrigerator stayed humming and cold only because of a long extension cord that slinked out the back door, down the stairs, and around to an outlet in her downstairs neighbor’s apartment.
by | Aug 17, 2021 12:08 pm | Comments (7)
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Willie Bell, one of Negaro’s original employees from Atticus Bookstore, measures out fresh poolish.
At 6 a.m., Willie Bell was already at work at Chabaso Bakery, measuring and mixing flour, water, and yeast to make a preferment known as a poolish.
by | Aug 10, 2021 7:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Rocky Lawrence channels Robert Johnson at Monday night’s Hi-Fi Pie.
He bowed his head, closed his eyes, and clutched the neck of his guitar. His faded leather shoes pounded the ground. His voice broke. His guitar moaned.
Continue reading ‘Bluesman, Pie Champ Reveal Secret Ingredients’
by | Jul 27, 2021 8:25 am | Comments (6)
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Rawan Oudeh, Ayman Saloumi, and Mazen Saloumi at Westville Emesa Pizza.
Nearly a decade after losing his family’s former pizza restaurant to a bombing in Syria, refugee and culinary entrepreneur Mazen Saloumi has opened a new Middle Eastern pizza restaurant in Westville.
by | Jul 20, 2021 9:45 am | Comments (1)
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Some came for the tunes, some came for the pies, and others just came for the vibes.
Continue reading ‘As R&B Fills The Air, Mexican Sweet Corn Pie Takes The Prize’
by | Jul 19, 2021 2:53 pm | Comments (4)
Owner Josue Santana at his new restaurant across from Stop & Shop.
Inside a new fast-food Puerto Rican restaurant on Whalley, Chef Raul Santiago combines richly seasoned pork fried rice, pinto beans, and oven-marinated pork onto a plate. He then tops the entire dish off with a large serving of sweet plantains.
“That’s it!” said Santiago, holding out a plate of Arroz con Gandules.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Mambo Arroz con Gandules’
by | Jul 15, 2021 12:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Customers check out produce at the Sunset Farm booth.
Six new vendors reopened CitySeed’s Downtown Farmers Market after a pandemic pause — and used the occasion to test out Chinese at-home meal kits, vegan granola mixes, and “No Trace” soaps they hope to develop into thriving commercial lines.
by | Jul 13, 2021 1:24 pm | Comments (0)
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Westvilleans line up for pie Monday.
Any way you slice it, the competition was fierce Monday at Westville’s annual “Hi-Fi” pie-baking contest outside Mitchell Library.
The youngest competitor, 12-year-old Vivian Balazs faced up against a returning champion’s mixed-berry pie, her brother’s ombre berry delight, and six other delectable creations.
In the end, Balazs’ “Blackberry Pie with a Lattice top” took the winning prize — a $50 gift card to the Devil’s Diet dessert bar.
by | Jul 9, 2021 10:38 am | Comments (2)
Tyrese Dennie, a CSK employee who started out as a volunteer, at the new weekly farmers market.
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Khadijah Middlebrooks and son Lex wait for bus with free groceries.
“We having a barbecue, throw some meat on the grill!” Khadijah Middlebrooks proclaimed to her son Lex, while picking up packs of frozen turkey, beef, and pork at one of two new weekly events aimed at tackling increasing food insecurity in Hamden.
by | Jun 25, 2021 10:25 am | Comments (2)
Ramen noodles bathed in a clear chicken and dashi broth, topped with a gooey, soft-boiled ajitama egg, shiitake mushrooms, and torched char siu combined into a riot of flavor at Menya Gumi, a self-described “hole-in-the-wall” ramen restaurant on Orange Street.
by | Jun 22, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (1)
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The Huneebee Project — a regional beekeeping project maintains beehives in a community garden on Arthur Street in the Hill — was part of the experience tours connected to the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, which runs through June 27
For those who participated in the visit to the Huneebee Project Saturday and Sunday, it was a fascinating dive into bee biology, plant sex, and the big wonders that can come from small green spaces in a city.
by | Jun 18, 2021 1:13 pm | Comments (12)
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Co-owners Danny and Luann Scarpellino in action.
The Tony Soprano.
In August 1981, Danny Scarpellino sold his 1974 Cutlass Supreme for $800 to buy a new stove for the first Scarpellino’s Sub Shop on 140 Park St.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Danny’s The Tony Soprano’
by | Jun 14, 2021 8:57 am | Comments (16)
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The planned new NEBCO brewery, coming soon to River Street.
Plans for a new 80,000 square-foot brewery, tap room, and event space for a vacant former-industrial lot on River Street are moving ahead, as the city prepares to welcome “The Beatles of Craft Brewing” to Fair Haven.
Continue reading ‘Brewing Co. Details Planned Fair Haven Move’
by | May 21, 2021 2:42 pm | Comments (7)
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Destinee Leiti, left, with Mer Rosario and Patty Giordano: It’ll take time, not a taco.
Flyer for Long Wharf clinic.
Seeking to convince holdouts to get vaccinated for Covid-19, New Haven is turning to cash — and fried tortillas.
Continue reading ‘Vaccine Lure: Taco (Or $10) With Your Shot’
by | May 19, 2021 11:34 am | Comments (0)
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Xiaona Lu picks up lunch from Healthy Way’s Melissa Chang.
It was a few minutes past 11 on a recent Wednesday on Cedar Street, and Christopher Chialastri was digging into an aluminum container of spicy fried shrimp.
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by | May 13, 2021 12:11 pm | Comments (1)
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The Pervises’ new location at 554 Whalley Avenue.
Darryl Pervis.
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Chicken wings, candied yams, and mac and cheese.
Darryl Pervis is back home on Whalley Avenue — and, starting Thursday, once again filling customers’ cravings for juicy BBQ chicken wings, sweet and sticky yams, and Mac and cheese.
by | May 7, 2021 4:02 pm | Comments (1)
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The closed downtown Subway, on the hook for $62K+.
A shuttered Subway sandwich shop’s owner has agreed to pay its downtown landlord over $62,000 in back rent and attorney’s fees and to move out by the end of July if it can’t find a replacement commercial tenant.
Continue reading ‘Covid-Closed Subway Agrees To Pay $62K To Landlord’
by | Apr 30, 2021 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Jonathon Savage: Back in green Newhallville.
Jonathon Savage returned home to Newhallville with his green thumb ready.
by | Apr 9, 2021 2:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Formula Pantry visionary Brenda Adkins.
Pastor Brenda Adkins refuses to stand aside while families struggle to afford feed babies: She has decided to collect formula throughout the summer to start a Formula Pantry.