Author Archives: Frank Cohen

Darien Social Certainly Is!

My first visit to Darien Social was preceded by considerable buzz. My wife and I couldn’t wait to try out this brand spanking new restaurant housed where once a furniture store stood. We spotted Darien Social’s front entrance on a corner that anyone who knows this bedroom community at all will recognize as being justContinue Reading

Salute In Hartford Wins Many Friends & Admirers

Located at the head of Trumbull Street just a stone’s throw from Bushnell Park, Salute has been the hottest addition to the Hartford dining scene during the past year. Credit owners Jimmy Cosgrove, Andy Rizzo and Dave Caudill for having their fingers on the pulse of the Capital City. Once associated with Hot Tomato’s, CosgroveContinue Reading

Review of Macbeth 1969 At Long Wharf Theatre

Adapted and directed by Eric Ting, Macbeth 1969, running from January 18 to February 12 at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, is bound to polarize audiences. Purists will undoubtedly be put off by the grafting of The Tragedy of Macbeth, penned in the early 1600s and set in 11th-century Scotland, onto a Middle AmericanContinue Reading