Monthly Archives: May 2010

New Haven Restaurant Week, April 2010, 5B—Bentara

My fifth New Haven Restaurant Week dinner brought me to Bentara in the Ninth Square neighborhood. Bentara’s 15th Anniversary, which was looming on April 29th (and which we’ll have further coverage of), was being promoted in the restaurant’s window. Also posted was an advertisement for the new Bentara Malaysian Cookbook. Of Connecticut’s upscale restaurants, BentaraContinue Reading

New Haven Restaurant Week, April 2010, 5A—Downtown At The Taft

For the fifth New Haven Restaurant Week lunch, my wife and I visited Downtown at the Taft, which is located in one of Connecticut’s most dramatic—and opulent—dining spaces. If it’s baroque, don’t fix it. On that sunny Thursday, we decided to park in the Temple Street Garage, which was so full we had to windContinue Reading