Food & Drink

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...]

Connecticut Food Tour of the World

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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...]

Breweries & Brewpubs & Cideries

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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...]

Connecticut Cheese Trail

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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...]

Homemade Ice Cream

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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...]

Unique and/or Historic Dining Establishments

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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...]

Wineries & Meaderies

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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...]