UPDATE 9/22/20: Since this story was published, there have been some changes. Due to family obligations, Chef Mazie moved out of Connecticut. Instead of Stella's and Mazie's, the restaurant is now Stella’s African Eatery. For now the hours remain the same, although Chef Stella is looking int…

“For us, every meal has to be very vibrant,” says Mitchel Calisman. “My mom always says that your meal should look like a rainbow.”

When it comes to making tacos, husband and wife John and Morgan Nealon are definitely not bound by traditional methods.

Michael Gerrity and Ryan Fagan wanted to do more than just start a brewery. They wanted to be a liquid cog in a revitalized downtown Manchester. Gerrity and Fagan did their part in getting the wheels moving when they opened Urban Lodge Brewing Co. — the friends married sisters, last name Lod…

It was a productive summer for Adam Young, renowned pastry chef and owner, along with his wife Ebbie, of Sift Bake Shop in downtown Mystic. In June he transformed the rooftop area above his mammoth first-floor kitchen into Mix at Sift, “a cocktail bar that just happens to have a great food m…

Our wine expert takes a close look at three great wines available for sale here in Connecticut.

Dogtown, an unpretentious hot dog stand on New Haven Avenue in Milford, hits it out of the park with grilled dogs, buttered buns and tantalizing toppings.

It was not the grand opening anyone envisioned. 

Along with Anthony Kostelis, the longtime chef at The Whelk, Taibe has created a menu that combines the comfort-food flavor of the best Mexican cuisine with the local sourcing and high-concept food for which Taibe’s other restaurants are known.

It took three years for Carlos Mouta to transform Bishop Ladder Co., a 20,000-square-foot warehouse he owns on Park Street in Hartford, into Parkville Market, the first food hall in Connecticut. The plan never included opening in the midst of a pandemic, but his vision, aided by a bit of luc…

Our visit confirms: The award-winning wings more than live up to the hype.

Alex DeFrancesco was one of the first in Connecticut to grow hops here; now he's brewing beer with ingredients that don't come from much farther away than the family farm.

When husband and wife Everett and Linda Reid were deciding what to call their new restaurant, they wanted something that would speak to the cuisine.

Our wine expert takes a close look at three great wines available for sale here in Connecticut.

UPDATE 9/22/20: Since this story was published, there have been some changes. Due to family obligations, Chef Mazie moved out of Connecticut. Instead of Stella's and Mazie's, the restaurant is now Stella’s African Eatery. For now the hours remain the same, although Chef Stella is looking int…

For many restaurants, it began out of necessity. There were supply-chain issues at grocery stores, but restaurants saw a rapid drop in business and were often overstocked. Some restaurants began operating as boutique markets and grocery stores. They offered then-hard-to-get essentials like t…

Our wine expert takes a close look at three great wines available for sale here in Connecticut.

Restaurant owners are putting up a brave front. Scroll through Instagram and Facebook and you’ll see makeshift patios, picnic tables in parking lots, masked smiles and announcements of altered menus and hours. Behind the poker faces are fears and uncertainty, for their businesses, their empl…

The outdoor dining experience at Millwright's Restaurant and Tavern was born of necessity, but one of the restaurant’s owners and its lead chef, Tyler Anderson, doesn’t want it to feel that way. “We want to create this oasis at Millwright’s that’s sort of this place you can get away from it …

While pursuing his doctorate in evolutionary biology at Yale in the early 2000s, Geffrey Stopper worked as assistant brewer at the beloved New Haven brewpub, BAR. “I seriously considered starting my own brewery,” he recalls, but his Ph.D. got in the way. “My science career just really took off.”

Craving a high-end cheese experience? The Cheesemonger Box might be for you.

Our wine expert takes a close look at three great wines available for sale here in Connecticut.

Small-business origin stories are almost always interesting, but not many trace back to multiple U.S. senators. Azuluna Foods was an initiative started by Sens. Joe Lieberman and Ted Kennedy back in the early 2000s to secure grant money for New England farms. With such a small amount of farm…

Alex Foulkes’ restaurant got its first order from DoorDash more than a year ago. Foulkes, co-owner of Penny Lane Pub in Old Saybrook, had never agreed to work with DoorDash but a representative from the company was now phoning in an order. He’d later learn that DoorDash had posted Penny Lane…

Restaurant owners have launched crowdfunding campaigns and are working to deliver meals en masse to hospitals, health care facilities, and others in need throughout the region. 

Like vinyl records and high-waisted jeans, the milkman has made a comeback.

Our wine expert takes a close look at three great wines available for sale here in Connecticut.

Until recently, Ted Dumbauld never considered producing hand sanitizer at SoNo 1420, the Norwalk distillery he co-owns. In fact, there would have been few bigger insults you could have hurled at him or any other distiller than to compare their booze to an alcohol-based cleaning product. But …

As grocery stores struggle to keep their shelves stocked during the coronavirus pandemic, local farm stands are an increasingly appealing option to many.

Worldwide, goat is a celebrated cuisine. Frederic Kieffer, executive chef at Artisan and L’Escale in Greenwich, wants to bring it into the mainstream here.

Constantine “Dino” Kolitsas wants to expand Greek food beyond the diners and grab-and-go pizzerias where it is most commonly found in Connecticut.

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Brandon Collins stood at his station on the canning line at Black Hog Brewing in Oxford, looking out across the brewhouse. An unpaid intern with a master’s degree in chemistry, his 13 years as a protein crystallographer in the pharmaceutical industry shaping his vision, Collins started to se…

“The concept honestly was something I knew the area didn’t have,” Tony Camilleri says of this fun and inviting Mexican-Spanish spot.

Sometimes the most obvious things are right under your nose. For Connecticut culinary colossus Tyler Anderson, that idiom takes on a literal meaning when it comes to pizza. “Recently I came to the conclusion,” Anderson says, “it’s my favorite food in the world, why the hell don’t I have a re…

Two Roads Brewing Co., Connecticut’s largest brewery, has entered the hard seltzer arena.

Whether its the first course or a first encounter, these wine suggestions will help you get you things off to a great start.

The Tasty Yolk in Bridgeport hits the spot for breakfast or lunch on the go.

Popeye's? Chik-fil-A? Chains be damned, I have to find the best fried chicken sandwich in Connecticut. My quest so far …

Amis Trattoria, which opened in Westport in 2017, got a shot of culinary adrenaline over the summer when Jes Bengtson took over the kitchen as executive chef. Bengtson is also the executive chef at Terrain Cafe in Westport, which is owned by the same company. I’d previously been impressed wi…

Brian Ayers heads up the company's first foray into brewing, which is also its first outside New Haven County.

This hidden gem puts innovative and winning twists on traditional Mexican cuisine.

These dinner-date delights are the perfect touch for a romantic evening.