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CTMQ > Ethnic Restaurants

Belgium: Atelier Florian

October 15, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Atelier Friends Atelier Florian, New Haven September 2021 I have a a love affair with Belgium. It began with being a life-long professional cycling fan and Belgium's 100+ year devotion to the sport. The Tour of Flanders is my favorite race every year and I very much look forward to being able to spend a week there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: belgium, Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, New Haven, New Haven County, restaurants

England: Tea Roses Tea Room (Closed)

November 12, 2017 by Steve 1 Comment

"Pardon Me, Do You Have Any Earl Grey Poupon?" Tea Roses Tea Room, Cromwell November 2017 Here's how much I know about local tea room culture: When I published the "completing Cromwell" introductory page, a Ms. Peggi Camosci commented, "How about the only English-style Tea Room in the greater Central Connecticut … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, cromwell, Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, Middlesex County, restaurants

Pakistan: Rasham

September 15, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

Pak it up, Pak it in, Let Me Begin Rasham, South Windsor June 2017 For the record, I waffled between the House of Pain lyric in my subtitle versus "Rasham-a-lamma ding-dong." (By Otis Day And The Knights, a fictional band created for Animal House.) But really, Irish Bostonians or fake black doo-woppers have … [Read more...]

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

Vernon: Complete!

August 21, 2017 by Steve 2 Comments

Vernon: Complete! Rein’s Deli Here is the CTMQ Guide to Vernon with my list and stories about everything I've done there! After a decade of writing CTMQ, I decided to try to “complete” towns. In that decade of traveling and writing, I had already done a lot of stuff in many of our towns already. However, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Town Completion Celebrations Tagged With: Damian, Ethnic Restaurants, restaurants, Tolland County, Vernon

French-Canadian: Chez Ben Diner

December 14, 2016 by Steve Leave a Comment

C'est Si Ben Chez Ben Diner, Manchester Multiple Visits from November 2014-December 2016 (Is a title pun better or worse when it's in another language?) Straight up: I love Chez Ben. I've been several times and it became sort of my "go-to" place for pre-hike food while I descended upon Manchester and Vernon to … [Read more...]

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

Argentina: Aby’s Bakery

July 1, 2016 by Steve 1 Comment

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, Hartford County, restaurants, West Hartford

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, Hartford County, Jewish, West Hartford

Food & Drink

May 19, 2015 by Steve 7 Comments

Restaurants, Foods, Diners, Taverns, Ice Cream, Cheese, Chocolate, Breweries, Brewpubs, Cideries, Kombucheries, Wineries, Meaderies, Distilleries, & Soda Makers 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink Tagged With: Breweries, Brewpubs, Cideries, CT Cheese Trail, CT Chocolate Trail, CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, CT Spirits Trail, Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, Historic Restaurants, meaderies, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Soda, taverns

Portugal: O’Camelo

May 13, 2013 by Steve Leave a Comment

Oh Oh Camelo! Park Street, Hartford April 27, 2013 This was the first event of the CTMQ CT Restaurant Tour of the World. I did it! I got over myself and my introversion and pushed through to organize and pull-off the very first Connecticut Restaurant Tour of the World dinner! I don’t want to get all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, Hartford, Hartford County, portugal, restaurants

Connecticut Food Tour of the World

February 6, 2013 by Steve 20 Comments

The Most Difficult and Delicious Section of CTMQ CTMQ Ethnic Food/Restaurant Tour Skip the intro and go straight to the list! 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 … [Read more...]

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

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