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Food & Drink Intro

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Food & Drink Intro

Connecticut Food & Drink Table of Contents Restaurants, Breweries, Wineries, Cheese! Ice Cream! & More! This page now serves as a fairly robust jumping off point for all sorts of food and drink sections of CTMQ. The state has maintained some culinary “trails” over the years and I’ve done them all. I’ve also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink Tagged With: Breweries, Brewpubs, Cideries, classic taverns, CT Cheese Trail, CT Chocolate Trail, CT Spirits Trail, Distilleries, Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, Historic Restaurants, Homemade Ice Cream, meaderies, Recipes, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Soda

Connecticut Food Tour of the World

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Connecticut Food Tour of the World

The Most Difficult and Delicious Section of CTMQ CTMQ Ethnic Food/Restaurant Tour Here’s something you may not know: writing about food is very, very difficult for me. I can’t do it very well at all, but at least I’m friends with a few quality food writers. As I embark on these little food adventures “around the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Restaurants Tagged With: Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World

Breweries & Brewpubs & Cideries

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Breweries & Brewpubs & Cideries

Beer. And Lots Of It I began this particular page in 2008 when there were four breweries in Connecticut: Cottrell, Hooker, New England, and Olde Burnside (RIP... for now). Only one had a tasting room (Hooker) and each was pumping out only a handful of beers. There were a few brewpubs operating as well. And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, CT Beer Tagged With: Breweries, Cideries, kombucha

Connecticut Cheese Trail

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Connecticut Cheese Trail

Cheese, Fairly Glorious Cheese CTMQ's Connecticut Cheese Trail There has never been such thing as the Connecticut Cheese Trail. So I made it up a while back in 2009 or so. In my very amateur opinion, our cheeses are pretty good. But it's cheese, so it has to be good, right? I will never not be surprised that our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Food Lists & Trails Tagged With: CT Cheese Trail

Homemade Ice Cream

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Homemade Ice Cream

How in the world do I get Hoang (and Damian - and update! now Calvin) to hop in the car with me for our Sunday adventures to who-knows-where? It's easy - if I rename them "Sundae Adventures" and hit up a top-notch ice cream joint along the way. Connecticut has a wealth of old school, real milk, real sugar, real fruit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Food Lists & Trails Tagged With: Homemade Ice Cream

Unique and/or Historic Dining Establishments

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Unique and/or Historic Dining Establishments

Bon Vivarent This is another one of my infamous mish-mosh pages where I stick everything restaurant/food related that doesn't really fit anywhere else. Stuff not on my CT Food Tour of the World, or classic diners, or other food and drink lists... though there will be some unavoidable crossover. If you have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Food Lists & Trails, Restaurants Tagged With: Historic Restaurants

Wineries & Meaderies

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Wineries & Meaderies

Whining Connecticut Wineries and Meaderies Skip down to The Wineries Skip down to The Meaderies Skip down to The Wine-Like Cideries The Connecticut Wine Trail adopted a new slogan in 2012: “Taste the Adventure!” This didn’t particularly strike me as the best possible choice, so I asked a few people for their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Wineries Tagged With: meaderies

Chateau Le’ Gari’

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Chateau Le’ Gari’

Laissez Le Mauvais Temps Rouler Chateau Le' Gari', Marlborough July, 2019 Let’s start with the name of this winery and event space in Marlborough. “Chateau Le’ Gari’.” I’m missing something. Chateau implies a bit of a more stately structure than what I found in Marlborough, and Le’ doesn’t really mean anything … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, New Post, Wineries Tagged With: Hartford County, Marlborough

Hops on the Hill

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Hops on the Hill

A Visit to HOTH Hops on the Hill Brewery, Glastonbury November 2019 Most prominently featured in “The Empire Strikes Back,” Hoth is the sixth planet in the remote system of the same name. As you recall, it was the site of the Rebel Alliance's Echo Base. It is a world of snow and ice, surrounded by numerous moons, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Glastonbury, Hartford County

Center Street Brewing Co.

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Center Street Brewing Co.

Wallace Avenue Brewing Company Center Street Brewing Company, Wallingford April 2019 The slogan of Center Street Brewing Company is “Welcome to the Center of the Brewniverse.” Tortured as that may be, it is apt. I’ve written before about how Connecticut has so many breweries now that there’s this massive bell … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: center street brewing company, New Haven County, Wallingford

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