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Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods
CT Homemade Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails
Wineries & Meaderies
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Westford Hill Distillers

December 3, 2016 by Steve Leave a Comment

Eau-de-Wheeeeeeee! Westford Hill Distillers, Ashford June 2013 Westford Hill is internationally renowned and yet it's fairly likely you've never heard of them. Westford Hill is on Chatey Road in Ashford and is owned and operated by Louis and Margaret Chatey and I'm pretty sure you don't live on a road named … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Distilleries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Ashford, Calvin, CT Spirits Trail, Damian, Hoang

Tidal River Brewing (Closed)

October 28, 2016 by Steve 2 Comments

Tidal River Brewing Canton January 2016-October 2016 Ok, look. I don’t need to write up this page and if you’re reading this, you are among select company. In today’s tsunami of new breweries, new beers, newly distributed brands to our state, the news of one of Connecticut’s smallest breweries closing barely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink Tagged With: Canton, Closed/Gone/Former, Tidal River Brewing Company (RIP)

The Roadfood List Afterword

September 6, 2016 by Steve 1 Comment

Hit the Road(food), Jack When I finish a list for CTMQ, I must admit, it is often with a mixture of joy, relief, and sadness. I think the reasons for all three are pretty easily sorted in this case. When I first took on the challenge of tracking down and eating all 68 items/meals that the author Sterns decided … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: restaurants, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die

Argentina: Aby’s Bakery

July 1, 2016 by Steve 2 Comments

Dulce de Leche Can Get Messi 765 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford Several visits between 1999 & 2016 When I renewed my promise to myself to write as much original content for CTMQ as I can in mid-2016, I also promised to try to do more food stuff. Mostly these hole-in-the-wall specialty ethnic places. As … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: argentina, Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, restaurants, West Hartford

Monkey Farm Cafe

June 29, 2016 by Steve 1 Comment

Just Monkeying Around Here Monkey Farm Cafe, Old Saybrook There are something like 1800 pages on CTMQ. I've done, visited, experienced, eaten, drank, etc. every single thing on every single one of those pages. Which makes this page quite unique. For I have not actually been inside the Monkey Farm Cafe in Old … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Historic Restaurants and Bars, Old Saybrook, restaurants

Kent Falls Brewing Company

June 5, 2016 by Steve 2 Comments

Kent Ascends Kent Falls Brewing Company, Kent Many visits over many years Kent Falls is the rare Connecticut brewery that has warranted three major updates from me on this website. For whatever reason, I wrote about them back when they first became operational. No one could visit the brewery then (2015-16) but I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Kent, Kent Falls BREWING

Onyx Spirits (Closed)

April 11, 2016 by Steve 3 Comments

BACDAFUCUP Onyx Spirits Company, East Hartford January 2016 Onyx closed this location in May 2018 with stated plans of reopening “somewhere.” That was likely never a realistic plan at all and Onyx has disappeared entirely. This is one of those pages that I’ve been waffling on how to write it. I’m very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Distilleries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, CT Spirits Trail, East Hartford, Onyx Spirits

Waypoint Spirits

February 17, 2016 by Steve Leave a Comment

Point the Way to the Booze Waypoint Spirits, Bloomfield August 2015 & October 2021 Waypoint opened in 2015 and then ceased operations in October 2019. The brand and distillery were purchased by a new group in late 2019, posted "opening soon" on their Facebook page in early 2020, kept the thing alive during the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Distilleries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Bloomfield, CT Spirits Trail

Cheese Boro Whey (Closed)

January 19, 2016 by Steve 1 Comment

I Guess It's The Cheese Boro Way Cheese Boro Whey, Stonington May 16, 2015 Reports say Cheese Boro Whey closed in 2018. Man, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done a new CT Cheese Trail post. (If curious, the CT Cheese Trail is not a real thing. I made it up, but I maintain a pretty good list of CT cheese … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, CT Cheese Trail, Stonington

Jewish: Crown Market

November 2, 2015 by Steve Leave a Comment

Where is "Jewish?" Bishop's Corner, West Hartford October 2015 This is my first "food/restaurant" post in the "CT Restaurant Tour of the World" section in which I flew solo. I still don't really know what to do with this section and I darn well know that I'm not qualified to write about food. At … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Classic Diners & True Taverns, Food & Drink, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, Jewish, West Hartford

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