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Middle East Rock

Middle East Rock

Nestled in the shadow of East Rock, perpetually shaded by trees, lies a small gateway to the Middle East: Ayah-H Market, a quiet, unassuming gem among the grander Victorian houses...

Middle East Rock

Nestled in the shadow of East Rock, perpetually shaded by trees, lies a small gateway to the Middle East: Ayah-H Market, a quiet, unassuming gem among the grander Victorian houses...

Hole Food

Hole Food

Ask a New Havener where to get a good bagel in town, and you might well be told, “Nowhere!” Unlike pizza—perhaps the only food New Haven diners are pickier about—bagels...

Hole Food

Ask a New Havener where to get a good bagel in town, and you might well be told, “Nowhere!” Unlike pizza—perhaps the only food New Haven diners are pickier about—bagels...

Kindred Soul Food

Kindred Soul Food

I was lucky enough to set foot in Mama Mary Soul Food on a Wednesday, because Wednesday is meatloaf day. Having taken great comfort in meatloaf while almost never seeing...

Kindred Soul Food

I was lucky enough to set foot in Mama Mary Soul Food on a Wednesday, because Wednesday is meatloaf day. Having taken great comfort in meatloaf while almost never seeing...

Star Power

Star Power

Do you know what redshift is? Or what a starshade looks like? If you’d been to Astronomy on Tap in November, you would. The occasional gathering at BAR on Crown...

Star Power

Do you know what redshift is? Or what a starshade looks like? If you’d been to Astronomy on Tap in November, you would. The occasional gathering at BAR on Crown...

Requiem for a Pizza Joint

Requiem for a Pizza Joint

Dark wooden tables carved with decades of initials, doodles and sports allegiances. Cinnamon toast. Pizza slices. A seemingly perpetual stream of ’80s power ballads on a tinny radio. A voice...

Requiem for a Pizza Joint

Dark wooden tables carved with decades of initials, doodles and sports allegiances. Cinnamon toast. Pizza slices. A seemingly perpetual stream of ’80s power ballads on a tinny radio. A voice...

A Fine Pairing

A Fine Pairing

For Joan Fitzsimmons, it began with a shirt box—the shallow, rectangular kind you might get from a department store. Only this one was full of food. Her mother “had scraps...

A Fine Pairing

For Joan Fitzsimmons, it began with a shirt box—the shallow, rectangular kind you might get from a department store. Only this one was full of food. Her mother “had scraps...