January 2012

Readers' Choice: Best Restaurants 2012

Where do our readers like to dine out? Here's the latest list of their favorites, with winners in 27 categories.

Success Stories

Though it may not seem like it at times, there are plenty of great things going on here in Connecticut.

Connecticut Home: Home Office Primer

Heed the essentials as you create your own working space.

by Maria La Piana

Success Stories: Banking On It

For consumers, community banks feel a little more like home.

by Jennifer Huget

Success Stories: Post Pattern

Waterbury’s Post University is finding its niche and working it hard.

by Cathy P. Ross

Success Stories: Best Foot Forward

The Connecticut Forum has brightened Hartford for 20 years.

by Pat Grandjean

Success Stories: Barcelona Finds the Formula

Sasa Mahr-Batuz and Andy Pforzheimer introduced us to tapas in the ’90s. Now they have a mini-empire.

by Valerie Schroth

Success Stories: It's In the Tin

Follow your muse to success? Heck, sometimes you just need to follow your taste buds.

by Dale B. Salm

Success Stories: Goal Oriented

Coach Keith Allain takes the Yale hockey team to previously uncharted heights.

by Dave Holahan

Success Stories: Nothing But Blue Skies

Blue Sky Studios helps lead a movie and TV boom in Fairfield County.

by Ray Bendici

Success Stories: Totally Prepped

How the two Murray boys from Greenwich grew Vineyard Vines from a tie into a tidal wave.

by Tom Connor

Success Stories: Brew Crew

Willoughby's Coffee & Tea knows all about beans.

by Lauren Brancato