Category Archives: Editor’s Journal

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

Bistro Mediterranean & Tapas Bar in Westbrook Combines With Shore Discount Liquors of Deep River To Host A Grupo Bodegas Olarra Spanish Wine Dinner

Bistro Mediterranean & Tapas Bar opened in Westbrook in September of 2014, the younger sibling of the bistro of the same name in East Haven, succeeded in January 2015 by a still younger sibling of the same name in Norwalk. Owned by brothers Leonardo (pictured below) and Gabriel Carreño, all three serve Spanish-themed food andContinue Reading

With Bruno DiFabio, Amore Cucina & Bar Brings World-Class Pizza & Creative Italian Fare To Stamford

It turns out you don’t have to go to Naples, or at least New Haven, for world-class pizza any more. With Amore Cucina & Bar in Stamford, six-time world pizza champion Bruno DiFabio has got you covered! Actually, Amore Cucina represents a return by 11-time restaurateur and Food Network star to his roots. It wasContinue Reading

…To College Street Music Hall in New Haven

After a nice dinner at Crown Street Kitchen Bar in New Haven, we headed up the street and around the corner to College Street Music Hall, or CSMH, for the evening’s entertainment. Playing CSMH on the night of our visit was comedian Tig Notaro, whose performance went beyond mere humor to experimenting with the veryContinue Reading