The way things are going, every town in Connecticut with more than a dozen restaurants of note will soon be having its own Restaurant Week. The towns I am aware of that have Restaurant Weeks include Hartford, New Haven, Stamford, Norwalk and Guilford. Not to mention lightly publicized Connecticut Restaurant Week. Can Greenwich, Fairfield, New… Continue Reading
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WINTER 2010 TASTE OF HARTFORD—OUR EDITORIAL AWARDS
The best move the organizers of the Taste of Hartford ever made was in 2006, when it changed the event from a single-day tasting usually held in Constitution Plaza to a week-long and/or two-week-long event held at the restaurants themselves, adopting the template New York City implemented eighteen years ago. This time around, to illustrate… Continue Reading
The Sun Winefest—What You Might Have Missed!
Connecticut’s largest food and wine show is the annual Sun Winefest. The 2010 edition was held January 30th and 31st in Mohegan Sun’s convention center. To get there, my wife and I parked and ambled through the Casino of the Sky. On our way, we passed the geyser-like Dale Chihuly glass sculpture and the tumbling… Continue Reading