When it comes to preferred restaurant style, David Oricchio and his wife represent a case of opposites attracting. (more…)
Tag Archives: food
Flying Starter
At this point, I imagine most pandemic-era home bread bakers have soured on their sourdough experiments, relegating their oozing starters with cutesy names to the compost bucket of recent history. Charlie Negaro Jr. isn’t one of them. (more…)
NOA Wonder
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 sun shimmering off grotto water or cascading through gaps in a cave wall. A bright […]
Jam-Packed
Damian Clarke and Taneisha Young, the married owners of takeout spot Jammin Jamaican Cuisine, credit hard work, friends, family, neighbors, community and God with their success. But it all started with their cooking (more…)
Gaining Flavor
TOKA Asian Kitchen’s menu overwhelmed me at first glance. There were 22 starters alone, and none in particular stood out. The State Street restaurant offered many familiar-sounding dishes: satay, spring rolls, teriyaki, fried rice, beef and broccoli. But make no mistake: TOKA’s broad menu and generalized “Asian Kitchen” descriptor belie a delectable complexity of Indonesian […]
Top of the List
Considering “a number of factors, including the total volume and ratings of reviews” on its site, the business directory and crowd-sourced review aggregator Yelp just named its top 25 places to eat in Connecticut—and the owner of the top spot may surprise you. It’s a pizza place in New Haven, which isn’t surprising at all. […]
Loose Cannon
Along Chapel Street east of Dwight Street, the sidewalk repeatedly swells over the roots of the trees someone planted there. (more…)
Up the Road
Walking into Crossroads, an eco-conscious coffeehouse and bakery in North Haven, the smell of coffee welcomed me as sunlight poured across a wall of framed mirrors. A painted map in back had Crossroads at its center, and real and faux plants, lights on strings and quirky knickknacks added softer touches throughout. I asked 24-year-old owner […]
Full Pockets
Opening a takeout box from Madeline’s Empanaderia was like unwrapping a birthday present. (more…)
Early to Bread
On the discarded grounds of JoJo’s Coffee, half a block from the departed Four Flours bakery, a new location of G Café has stepped in to make sure Chapel West is both caffeinated and carbed. (more…)
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