Juicer Gives "Fatigue" The Squeeze
by | Oct 4, 2022 1:21 pm | Comments (3)
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Alexis Evans at work at Raw Juicescape.
Alexis Evans was ready for the start of flu season with a natural weapon. Four natural weapons.
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Today's Special: Ma's Favorite
by | Aug 16, 2022 1:55 pm | Comments (6)
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Ma's House owner Cherisa Lloyd at new restaurant at former Lena's spot.
Ma's Favorite.
When Cherisa Lloyd enjoys the “Margie Special” at her new Westville soul food restaurant, she’s reminded of the love, strength, strong family values, and passion for cooking of her late mother, and best friend.
Today's Special: Tisha Hudson's Strawberry Shortcake Cheesecake Cupcake
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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Today's Special: Duda's Hawaiian Shave Ice
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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Today’s Special: Skyler’s Rice Noodles In Garlic Chili Sauce
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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$11.65 Burrito & Smoothie Bring Summer Closer
by | Mar 29, 2022 1:03 pm | Comments (1)
Arturo Morales adds the meat fresh off the stove to make the Buffalo chicken burrito, a special on Tomatillo's menu.
I bit into a Buffalo chicken burrito, cooled it off with a sip of mango-coolada smoothie — and my taste buds were reminded, amid a cold late-March afternoon, about what to expect from the summer flavors up ahead.
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Today's Special: Indar Patel's Tikka Masala
by | Jan 18, 2022 4:10 pm | Comments (3)
The flavors and aromas of Punjab filled the kitchen as Indar Patel got to working cooking up one of his trademark dishes.
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Today’s Special: Jazzy’s Jerk Chicken
by | Dec 3, 2021 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Executive chef Stephen Ross putting the finishing touches on his Jamaican jerk chicken at Jazzy’s Cabaret, a new Ninth Square nightspot which has its official kickoff this weekend.
To attain jerk status, the chicken sizzling on the grill at Jazzy’s Cabaret had spent the last 48 hours marinating in a blend of scallions, onions, and scotch bonnet peppers, with a rub of cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice working their way into the meat.
“That’s for maximum flavor,” said executive chef Stephen Ross, as he turned the chicken over with a pair of tongs, a smoky aroma wafting through the brightly lit kitchen.
“And that flavor is why we make 40 of these on a given night.”
Today’s Special: Billy Contois’ Cheeseburger
by | Oct 27, 2021 1:36 pm | Comments (14)
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The Contois Tavern cheeseburger.
Fresh ground beef. Grilled onions. Tomato. American cheese. Poppy seed bun.
No spices or seasoning or special sauce. No breadcrumbs. No meat thermometer needlessly complicating the process.
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Today’s Special: Angel’s Shoyu Chintan
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.
Today’s Special: Danny’s The Tony Soprano
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.
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Today’s Special: Melissa’s Eggplant With Tofu
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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After Pandemic Pause, BBQ Soul Returns
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.
Today’s Special: Jesse’s Chicken Cutlet Scarpariello
by | Apr 22, 2021 11:03 am | Comments (1)
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Brazi’s head chef Jesse Melgar in the kitchen.
Over the last 28 years, Brazi’s Italian Restaurant, just down the walkway from Long Wharf Theatre, has played the role of host to such luminaries as Arthur Miller, Robert Redford, and Al Pacino, as well as Brian Dennehy and Amy Irving.
So it’s perhaps no wonder that, on a recent morning, head chef Jesse Melgar was at the industrial stove, adding a touch of Chardonnay to a skillet popping with chicken cutlets, red bliss potatoes, and cherry peppers, before theatrically tossing its contents as a flame gushed upward.
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Today’s Special: Mama Mary’s Collards
by | Mar 31, 2021 3:13 pm | Comments (2)
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Robert Harris: I can’t make just a little collard greens.
It was 30 years ago when Robert Harris finally got his mother’s collard greens recipe exactly right.
Now he doesn’t even have to taste the cooked greens to know that they are ready for the customers of his Whalley Avenue restaurant, Mama Mary’s Soul Food.
Today’s Special: Kenia’s Steak & Cheese Sub
by | Mar 24, 2021 3:06 pm | Comments (3)
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Chef and manager Kenia Calderon at the grill.
Kenia Calderon slathered Italian bread with mayonnaise and layered on lettuce and tomatoes. She slung sliced ribeye steak, onions, and cheese onto a grill. She gently transferred the sizzling ingredients onto the sub.
Calderon then wrapped up one of New Haven’s best-kept secrets: B&M Deli’s grilled steak and cheese sub
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Today’s Special: Alex’s Chicken Pad Thai
by | Mar 10, 2021 12:54 pm | Comments (1)
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Zinc’s Alex Blifford prepares chicken pad thai meals to go.
Today’s idea for helping a restaurant weather the pandemic, through to-go orders.
Today’s Special: Alba’s Beet Salad With Goat Cheese Panna Cotta
by | Feb 16, 2021 12:57 pm | Comments (2)
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Devil’s Diet beet salad with goat cheese panna cotta.
Leave it to Alba Estenoz, widely known in these parts as the celebrated pastry chef at Zinc, to feature a beet salad with goat cheese panna cotta as a way of introducing The Devil’s Diet, the new dessert bar on the Howe Street side of The Novella apartment complex at the corner of Chapel.
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Today’s Special: Sandra’s Bourbon-Glazed Salmon
by | Feb 15, 2021 1:46 pm | Comments (2)
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Sandra Pittman with her blackened salmon platter.
The oil sizzled as soon the salmon fillet hit the pan.
That noise was the hint that the fish would turn out crispy but not overcooked, explained Sandra Pittman, chef and co-owner of Sandra’s Next Generation.
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Today’s Special: Gabi’s Charred Chicken Bowl
by | Feb 12, 2021 1:40 pm | Comments (0)
Charred Chicken bowl.
You can watch Gabi Merayo make one of B‑Natural Kitchen’s signature healthful dishes in the above video. You can actually pick up the dish — and stay healthy — through a contact-free system the restaurant is pioneering in town.
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Today’s Special: Brisket Kansa-Lina Fries
by | Feb 10, 2021 2:21 pm | Comments (5)
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Ricky Evans with Brisket Kansa-Lina Fries creation.
For Ricky Evans, owner of Ricky D’s Rib Shack, cooking up comfort food behind a grill totally beats wearing a suit and working in Corporate America.
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Today’s Special: Nicole’s Oxtail
by | Feb 8, 2021 1:21 pm | Comments (0)
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Nicole Ellis, owner of Around The Clock Restaurant and Bar on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden, said new customers looking for Jamaican food often have two questions.
First: “Do you sell oxtail?”
And second: “Is it soft?”
Today’s Special: Dave’s Navratan Curry
by | Feb 3, 2021 11:28 am | Comments (3)
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When Dave Singh first tried navratan korma in New Jersey, he knew he wanted the creamy, vegetable-filled curry on his own restaurant’s menu.
Twenty-five years later, Singh’s Tandoor The Clay Oven has sold over 100,000 servings of the “nine-gem” korma.
Today’s Special: Jamshed’s Lemon Chicken
by | Jan 29, 2021 4:16 pm | Comments (4)
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Khalid: Never gave up on his vision.
To make the lemon chicken at Ali Baba’s Kitchen, Jamshed Khalid started by cutting boneless chicken breasts into strips. He then marinated it, for at least 12 hours, in a blend of special spices.
I wondered what was in the blend.
“Should I tell you?” Khalid responded with a laugh. “No.”
Today’s Special: Sunny’s Mackerel Sashimi
by | Jan 28, 2021 2:39 pm | Comments (0)
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Saba (mackerel) sashimi.
Chef Sunny Cheng slipped a tiny sculpture under the plexiglass around his sushi bar. A transparent pane of kombu (seaweed) topped a delicate slice of mackerel and ball of rice.
He pushed the plate with the saba sashimi towards me, as though he were letting me in on a secret.
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