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Tricks and Treats

Tricks and Treats

Ordinary, one of the city’s marquee cocktail bars, is never that far from being decorated for Halloween. Sooty iron chandeliers always conjure the medieval. Wooden vines crowning the backbar always...

Tricks and Treats

Ordinary, one of the city’s marquee cocktail bars, is never that far from being decorated for Halloween. Sooty iron chandeliers always conjure the medieval. Wooden vines crowning the backbar always...

Middle Western

Middle Western

I suspect Dama Rose, a Middle Eastern restaurant opened about a year ago in West Haven, is a tribute to Damascus, Syria, one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities....

Middle Western

I suspect Dama Rose, a Middle Eastern restaurant opened about a year ago in West Haven, is a tribute to Damascus, Syria, one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities....

Good to Be Back

Good to Be Back

I love summer, but I hate Tibetan Kitchen’s annual summer break. This year, a sign in late June announced the restaurant would be closed “through the second week of August,”...

Good to Be Back

I love summer, but I hate Tibetan Kitchen’s annual summer break. This year, a sign in late June announced the restaurant would be closed “through the second week of August,”...

Win at Liu‘s

Win at Liu‘s

Liu’s Lunch is an open book, with colorful lists of Chinese dishes wrapping three sides of the food truck’s quilted metal frame. Liu’s Lunch is also an enigma. A few...

Win at Liu‘s

Liu’s Lunch is an open book, with colorful lists of Chinese dishes wrapping three sides of the food truck’s quilted metal frame. Liu’s Lunch is also an enigma. A few...

Liquid Dinner

Liquid Dinner

Normally, at golden hour on a beautiful summer evening, a restaurant’s patio would tempt me. But not at ROLi, a new “modern European” spot at Chapel and Olive, where the...

Liquid Dinner

Normally, at golden hour on a beautiful summer evening, a restaurant’s patio would tempt me. But not at ROLi, a new “modern European” spot at Chapel and Olive, where the...

Bleating Heart

Bleating Heart

Once upon a time, goats roamed the neighborhood at the base of East Rock, having wandered off from their 19th-century Irish immigrant owners. And so the neighborhood was called, with...

Bleating Heart

Once upon a time, goats roamed the neighborhood at the base of East Rock, having wandered off from their 19th-century Irish immigrant owners. And so the neighborhood was called, with...