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Irish Hello

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As far as I’m concerned, any place with meat loaf on the menu is worth a look. Institutional investment in a meal as simple and satisfying as a good, hand-formed block of baked beef bespeaks the kind of joint that might just invest in me. Tommy Sullivan’s in Branford (map) serves a slice about the […]

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Eel Repute

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There’s something refreshing about a bar that doesn’t care if it’s discoverable on Google Maps. (more…)

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Bar Bet

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Despite its Modernist credentials, colorful horse-and-jockey murals and promise of a unique experience, Sports Haven is a place New Haveners tend to avoid. Punctuating the stark commercial zone rounding the top of New Haven Harbor, our local off-track betting facility looks like a repurposed oil tank—a question mark for motorists on I-95 and a sharp […]

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