Tag Archives: bar

Bar Kept

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I think of Delaney’s as Westville’s Cheers. It’s a friendly neighborhood bar with a notable history, low-key vibe, steady stream of regulars and…

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Mixing and Mingling

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Starting Sunday, 35 New Haven restaurants will celebrate New Haven Cocktail Week…

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Cage Match

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Every recreational drinker I know in New Haven seems to have a history with Firehouse 12. One friend spent their faster, younger days behind the bar, another too many evenings in front of it. It’s been a place to …

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Maiden Voyage

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Experiencing Sea Chantey Night at the Griswold Inn had been on my list for so long that I’d allowed it take on mythic proportions. Like seeing a game at Fenway or finding the perfect lobster roll, the goal was simple …

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TV Networking

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There’s a difference between a sports bar and a TV bar. In the process of trying to please as many fanbases as possible, the former tends to silo its TVs and therefore its patrons into city-states entirely disinterested in one …

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NOA Wonder

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New downtown Thai place NOA is both solid and dreamy, with neat wire chairs, a ceiling of floating umbrellas, pulsing loungey house music and nightlife-style lighting animating a cavernous space. Beams and sweeps of the light dance and disperse like …

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Loose Cannon

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Along Chapel Street east of Dwight Street, the sidewalk repeatedly swells over the roots of the trees someone planted there. …

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Miracle on Chapel Street

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All things, even ancient and enduring ones, eventually perish. Old Heidelberg, the city’s oldest restaurant and bar when it closed in 1991 after an astonishing 234 years, was one more piece of evidence to the point.

Now, somehow, it is …

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Hot Spots

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Last Saturday afternoon, the thermometer hovered in the high 80s, and despite a cooling breeze off the Long Island Sound, the sidewalks of downtown New Haven radiated heat. …

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This Week in New Haven (March 2 – 8)

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Women’s History Month gets a proper kickoff, and a local bridge gets a proper sendoff. …

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