Daily Nutmeg
Key Ingredient
First impressions aren’t everything. When I walked up to the host stand at Habesha, a new Ethiopian restaurant at 46 Whitney Avenue, the staff seemed lost. They waited for me...
Key Ingredient
First impressions aren’t everything. When I walked up to the host stand at Habesha, a new Ethiopian restaurant at 46 Whitney Avenue, the staff seemed lost. They waited for me...
Down the Hatch
The barroom at Union League Cafe is an intimate little escape with its own little escape hatch—a side door you can enter when feeling too bashful for the pomp famously...
Down the Hatch
The barroom at Union League Cafe is an intimate little escape with its own little escape hatch—a side door you can enter when feeling too bashful for the pomp famously...
Pasta Prologue
Even if you aren’t an upstart Italian restaurant, it’s easy to feel lost in the shuffle of Wooster Street. That’s how I spent part of a recent Saturday afternoon, caught...
Pasta Prologue
Even if you aren’t an upstart Italian restaurant, it’s easy to feel lost in the shuffle of Wooster Street. That’s how I spent part of a recent Saturday afternoon, caught...
Breaking the Ice
When two people order 10 flavors and 30 scoops of Libby’s Italian ice, passersby take notice. They gasp, laugh, ask what you’re up to, ask which flavor you like best,...
Breaking the Ice
When two people order 10 flavors and 30 scoops of Libby’s Italian ice, passersby take notice. They gasp, laugh, ask what you’re up to, ask which flavor you like best,...
Summer Time
Sitting in a courtyard at an umbrella-covered picnic table, savoring a cool beverage, watching a small-town baseball game on the ballfield next door, listening to the artist currently known as...
Summer Time
Sitting in a courtyard at an umbrella-covered picnic table, savoring a cool beverage, watching a small-town baseball game on the ballfield next door, listening to the artist currently known as...
New Haven
The first thing I noticed about Hamden’s new Haven Beer Company is that it’s ginormous—over 5,000 square feet inside with a corn maze of a parking lot. The second is...
New Haven
The first thing I noticed about Hamden’s new Haven Beer Company is that it’s ginormous—over 5,000 square feet inside with a corn maze of a parking lot. The second is...