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...]
Paddle Creek Beer Company
Curieux Paddle Creek Beer Company, East Hartford October 2020 There was this weird month in late 2018 when it became clear that East Hartford's venerable Olde Burnside Brewing wasn't going to make it to 2019 and that some other guys were going to start up a new brewery in the same town called Paddle Creek. … [Read more...]
Broad Brook Brewing
You Can Take the Broad out of the Brook... Broad Brook Brewing, East Windsor/Suffield October 2013 & September 2020 As I try to do with long-standing (by Connecticut standards) breweries that have changed drastically since their beginning, I will split this page into Original East Windsor Broad Brook and Fancy new … [Read more...]
Carriage House Brewing (Closed)
What is Wrong With Me? Carriage House Brewing, Canton This is the dumbest page on this whole website. Or one of them at least. I'm not even going to tell anyone I've written it. So if you've found yourself here of your own volition, congratulations. For you are reading about a (legal, commercial) brewery that, … [Read more...]
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