Restaurants, Breweries, Wineries, Cheese, Chocolate, Ice Cream, and More! This page now serves as a fairly robust jumping off point for the many food and drink sections of CTMQ. The state has maintained some culinary “trails” over the years and I've added a few more based on some "Best of" books as well as my own … [Read more...]
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...]
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. 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 we only had five … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
La Rouge Chocolates by Aarti
Pure Aarti La Rouge Chocolates, Westport February, 2020 Check this out: The owner and chocolatier at La Rouge Chocolates is named Aarti Khosla. She specializes in making high-end chocolates and cakes with hand-painted artistic flourishes. Her little shop is in Westport. And Westport? Arguably Connecticut's … [Read more...]
Half Full Brewery
You Can Take the Boy Out of Wall Street... Half Full Brewery, Stamford February 2020 My "relationship" with Half Full is a funny one. Until I visited, it was by far, the longest-tenured operational brewery in Connecticut that I had never visited. It took me about eight years to finally check the place out in … [Read more...]
Tox Brewing Company
C2H6O Tox Brewing Company, New London February 2020 I'll never forget the first time I heard about New London's Tox Brewing. They were a group of guys at a brewfest that invited homebrewers with branded jockey boxes and dreams of professionalism. They played up the Tox thing - as in "toxic" - and I … [Read more...]
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