Category Archives: Editor’s Journal

What our Executive Editor, Frank Cohen, has been up to this week.

Tawa Opens A Second Indian Restaurant In Stamford

Tawa, an Indian restaurant located in a strip mall on High Ridge Road in Stamford, either moved to the old Ocean 211 space on Summer Street or opened a second Tawa there, depending upon how one interprets the facts. Shortly after Tawa was ensconced in the new downtown Stamford location, the original Tawa became ChiliContinue Reading

Wined And Dined At Bernard’s In Ridgefield

One evening in early October, I headed to Ridgefield for a Spanish wine dinner held at Bernard’s in conjunction with local wine merchant Cellar XV and Riojan winemaker Grupo Bodegas Olarra. As I approached Bernard’s, I found its walkway lined with pumpkins and fallen leaves. A hardy plant still blossomed before a window. I wasContinue Reading

Polytechnic ON20 In Hartford Offers Dining Of The Highest Order

Although primarily open for weekday lunch, Connecticut’s top restaurant may well be Polytechnic ON20 in Hartford. Few, if any, restaurants in the Nutmeg State serve food that can match ON20’s in imagination, sophistication, ingredient quality and diversity, precision of technique, intensity of flavor, and attractiveness of presentation. Noel Jones is rapidly gaining a reputation as one ofContinue Reading