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CTMQ > Articles by: Steve

Lakeside Diner

April 27, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Lake With a Side of Home Fries Lakeside Diner, Stamford April 2022 Lakeside Diner appears on the Roadfood Eat Before You Die List for its donuts. Recency bias is a very real thing that we all suffer from. Try as I might to fight it, it's impossible to completely disengage from its clutches. If you're not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Classic Diners & True Taverns, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Classic Diners, doughnuts, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Stamford

Water Works Brook

April 26, 2022 by Steve 3 Comments

Cue the Waterworks Water Works Brook, Windsor Locks April 2022 I'm going to provide all of you - yes, you people that feel the urge to go for a walk at Water Works Brook - a huge service. When you go to look up where this place is, every map and resource will point you to the wrong place. Different wrong places … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Windsor Locks

Clocktown Brewery Museum

April 25, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

9 O'Clocks Thomaston (Google Maps location) April 2022 A strange thing has happened in two newer (ca. 2021) Connecticut breweries on the northern Route 8 corridor: They've included museums. Now, I'd like to think both Bad Dog Brewing in Torrington and Clocktown Brewery in Thomaston has done this for one reason: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Horology, Not Really a Museum Museum, Thomaston, Tiny Museums

Fat Orange Cat Brewing (Closed)

April 22, 2022 by Steve 3 Comments

FOC! (It's Closed) Fat Orange Cat Brewing Company, East Hampton Multiple Visits The brewery closed its taproom in December 2021, moving the entire operation to a contract at Twelve Percent Brewing Project in North Haven. FOC was located in a quiet residential section of East Hampton. FOC always closed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, East Hampton

Hamilton Park

April 21, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hub of Waterbury Hamilton Park, Waterbury There is a lot of history at Hamilton Park in Waterbury. History I'm not going to get too deep into at all. It's just an old town park. It doesn't really rise to the level necessary to get the full CTMQ treatment. And you won't believe this, but it also doesn't even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Superlatives, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Waterbury

Cajun: Roux (Closed)

April 20, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Let's Geaux! Roux Cajun Eatery, Simsbury March 2022 Roux closed in November 2023. At that time, the owners were planning on opening elsewhere in a different town. A rare day off from work with the boys in school? Be still my heart. A Cajun eatery has come to Connecticut? Clog my heart's arteries. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Food Tour of the World, Hoang, Simsbury

Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens

April 19, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Bart Lett's Go! Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford April 2022 One of my good friends grew up in North Stamford and over the many years of writing CTMQ, she has asked once or twice if I'd been to Bartlett Aboretum yet. She hasn't lived in the US for over a decade but this place was very close to her childhood home and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Arboreta, Gardens, Stamford

Five Points Art Gallery & Annex

April 18, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Five Alive Torrington (Google Maps location) February 2022 "Downtown Torrington" isn't huge and it isn't a shopping or dining mecca these days. It's trying though, and it's doing a great job of it. New higher-end restaurants are popping up, new coffee shops and a hip used book store... a funky homemade fudge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Torrington

The Nutmeg Fudge Company

April 13, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Oh @%##$! The Nutmeg Fudge Company, Torrington February 2022 We always hear that Connecticut's post-industrial cities are "on the cusp" of revival. Norwich, Hartford, Bristol, New Britain, Torrington... One "mixed use" project here, one factory converted to open concept lofts there... the cycle has been going on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails, New Post Tagged With: CT Chocolate Trail, Torrington

Ivoryton Playhouse

April 12, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Please Tell Me They've Done "The Elephant Man" Here Essex (Google Maps location) June 2016 Connecticut is home to a slew of historic theaters. Many of them offer tours that present the buildings almost as museums - as they should. The idiom "if these walls could talk" applies to every one of these places as much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Damian, Essex, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Not Really a Museum Museum, theaters

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