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Premium Content Restaurant review: Nunu's tastes like home

 May 24, 2012

It doesn't take a ton to charm the likes of me when I go out for a meal.

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Premium Content Savor the simple pleasures of the shore at Fin's Cafe

 May 17, 2012

There are some friends whose company is so enjoyable that just getting together ensures a good time. It doesn't need to be fancy.

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Premium Content Christopher’s Cafe: A welcoming place with satisfying pub food

 May 10, 2012

CENTRAL QUESTION: Our region is very lacking in spots to get authentic versions of certain types of cuisine - Cajun, barbecue and Tex-Mex, to name a few. On the other hand, there are probably 100 "local bars" that serve...

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Premium Content Restaurant review: On the sunny side of the street with Café Sol

 May 3, 2012

Bicycle-riding in Niantic can be a harrowing experience. When the quaint village is busy, bikes are forced in between parked cars lining the street and moving cars, which don't seem to slow down nearly enough. Add to that a...

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Premium Content A few tots among friends at Café on Main

 April 26, 2012

Roll up to Café on Main in Colchester, and it's possible you'll see a fleet of motorcycles parked out front. Lest you presume it's just another watering hole for weary bikers, allow me to reveal its true draw.

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Kensington's at The Spa at Norwich Inn in Norwich

 April 19, 2012

Fate took us to Kensington's on a spring afternoon, and we made several delicious discoveries, the first and finest of which was this: When you lunch at a spa, there's no such thing as underdressed.

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Premium Content Mini reviews: Black Eye Pea, Plan B, The Commoner

 April 12, 2012

Reviewer of Dining Establishments (PRODE), you must every two years pass a rigorous and continually updated examination. I didn't pass until my third attempt because, frankly, it's tough.

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Oak St. B&B in Westerly

 April 5, 2012

Ever play that game where you fantasize about opening your own restaurant and decide what your niche would be? Like "only orange-colored food will be served!" Or "everything can only be eaten with a spoon!" Or "every dish must include...

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Dagwood's Kansas City BBQ in New London

 March 29, 2012

It's like this: if you want to know if someone's barbecue is worth a damn, ask a Southerner.

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Premium Content Restaurant review: The Hideaway Restaurant and Bar in Old Lyme

 March 22, 2012

For comfort food and vast selection, nothing beats a diner. But the number of diners around here has slowly declined, and in any case they don't fit quite everyone's notion of "dining."

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Premium Content Mini reviews: Corned beef

 March 15, 2012

A lot of times, because of the highly fast-paced and pressurized nature of my work - in addition to my various journalistic duties at The Day, I am also a well-compensated hit man - it's necessary to grab a quick bite on the run. While...

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Phantasia in Groton

 March 8, 2012

In these same pages a while back, after visiting the restaurant Miss Saigon, I explored the phenomenon of pho, a dish that is irresistible both for its flavors and a little word play. Pho fever, pho-natics ? it's as if the Vietnamese...

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Sweetie's Bakery and Cafe in New London

 March 1, 2012

As downtown New London's food scene expands, we full- and part-time denizens benefit all the more. We have an embarrassment of eats-riches here in the Whaling City, and now with places like Sweetie's opening up, some of us (me) run the...

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Premium Content Restaurant review: The Commoner Restaurant and Lounge in New London

 February 23, 2012

In the 1970s, one of many decades in which New London was trying for a renaissance - at that particular time, by cobbling (and hobbling) State Street - the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was having better luck.

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Mo's Burgers & Brew in Gales Ferry

 February 16, 2012

Central question: Mo's Burgers & Brew in Gales Ferry certainly has its charms but, truth told, unless you live there, you've sort of got to want to go to Gales Ferry. So, despite the impressive,...

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Shady Glen Dairy Stores in Manchester

 February 9, 2012

We're all used to seeing campaigns waged against hot-button issues on billboards across the country. Smoking. Drugs. Guns. But perhaps the most disturbing campaign recently surfaced in Albany, N.Y.: a campaign against cheese.

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Elizabeth's Café in Madison

 February 2, 2012

If dinner out in a chic beach-house environment sounds appealing, wait until you try the food at Elizabeth's Café in Madison.

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Ballo Restaurant and Social Club at Mohegan Sun

 January 26, 2012

At Ballo Restaurant and Social Club, the newest of the four restaurants the Mohegan Sun classifies as "gourmet," there is so much people-watching as the betting public walks past, so many rainbow lights just beyond, and such a low, dull...

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Premium Content Restaurant review: Mahzu Japanese Restaurant in Norwich

 January 12, 2012

The idea of all-you-can-eat food is unsettling as it is. It brings to mind buffets of food sitting under heating lamps for hours. And the goal becomes folks shoveling food like wings, pancakes or lo mein into their mouths in...

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Premium Content Mini reviews: Cupcake bakeries

 January 5, 2012

A preliminary Internet search for "cupcakes in Connecticut" assures me that CT is way in on the Great Cupcake Renaissance that's taken the food world by storm. Indeed, I might lead a rally to oust "nutmeg" as our chief modifier and...

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