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High Steaks

High Steaks

While scanning the menu at Branford’s Saltbrick Prime Steakhouse, the phrase “gilding the lily” crossed my mind several times. This upscale restaurant definitely thrives on touting its bells and whistles....

High Steaks

While scanning the menu at Branford’s Saltbrick Prime Steakhouse, the phrase “gilding the lily” crossed my mind several times. This upscale restaurant definitely thrives on touting its bells and whistles....

This Week in New Haven (September 16 - 22)

This Week in New Haven (September 16 - 22)

Literary treatments, international engagements and local historymaking give us plenty of options. Monday, September 16 The next “Mondays at Beinecke” virtual talk features researcher Hope McGrath discussing John William Creed,...

This Week in New Haven (September 16 - 22)

Literary treatments, international engagements and local historymaking give us plenty of options. Monday, September 16 The next “Mondays at Beinecke” virtual talk features researcher Hope McGrath discussing John William Creed,...

Home Improvements

Home Improvements

Technically, in real estate, any positive attribute that rates above a necessity can be considered an amenity. Here are five listed homes whose amenities, ranging from the special to the...

Home Improvements

Technically, in real estate, any positive attribute that rates above a necessity can be considered an amenity. Here are five listed homes whose amenities, ranging from the special to the...

Slices of Home

Slices of Home

Few outside New Haven know that our small city helped innovate and popularize foods Americans eat all the time: burgers, bagels, lollipops. But it’s increasingly difficult not to know about...

Slices of Home

Few outside New Haven know that our small city helped innovate and popularize foods Americans eat all the time: burgers, bagels, lollipops. But it’s increasingly difficult not to know about...

Shirt Tales

Shirt Tales

Closed in 2021, a cozy clothing shop on the corner of Elm and York Streets was the last local vestige of a once-mighty local company. You wouldn’t necessarily have known...

Shirt Tales

Closed in 2021, a cozy clothing shop on the corner of Elm and York Streets was the last local vestige of a once-mighty local company. You wouldn’t necessarily have known...

To Excess

To Excess

We’ve covered a few novelty cocktails over the years—the Tinder Date at Via, where a weight-lifting Casanova emerged as we sipped; the Smoking Humidor at Heirloom, where a slab of...

To Excess

We’ve covered a few novelty cocktails over the years—the Tinder Date at Via, where a weight-lifting Casanova emerged as we sipped; the Smoking Humidor at Heirloom, where a slab of...