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 wind… Continue Reading
New Haven Restaurant Week, April 2010, 4B—John Davenport’s
My fourth Restaurant Week dinner found me at John Davenport’s on the nineteenth floor of the Omni New Haven Hotel. We parked in the hotel’s parking garage, where restaurant guests can have their tickets validated for up to three hours. At times in my life, to fight the weight gain that comes with my love… Continue Reading
New Haven Restaurant Week, April 2010, 4A—Leon’s Restaurant
Our fourth New Haven Restaurant Week lunch brought us to Leon’s Restaurant, which was located for several decades on Washington Avenue in New Haven and more recently on Whitney Avenue in the Spring Glen section of Hamden before vanishing from the local landscape. Its recent reemergence in the Rusty Scupper space (which its ownership reportedly… Continue Reading