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Connecticuts best outdoor dining on rooftops, according to Connecticut Magazine. 

For many restaurateurs across Connecticut, daily deliveries of food have become inconsistent, later than usual and sometimes canceled at the last minute. Part of the problem is a shortage of staff at food purveyors and trucking companies.

Mystic restaurateur Dan Meiser sees a bright future for eastern CT dining scene.

“We do not have enough staff,” co-owner Ken Robitaille said. As a result, they’ve had to close on Mondays because they simply don’t have the staff to run the business seven days a week. “Imagine a world where you’re very successful or too successful and you have to close because you cant find enough people to fill those positions,” said Robitaille. The owners say would-be employees are making more money from unemployment than they would joining the team, despite what they say is a...

It was inevitable that state government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic would wreak havoc on the leisure and hospitality industry, a “supersector” of the Connecticut economy. Hundreds of restaurants have closed, some for good, due to capacity restrictions, while theaters and other entertainment venues have been dark. Just how many? “How many restaurants have failed during the pandemic?” asked a reader who responded to The Day’s CuriousCT feature. “What other entertainment venu...

By Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror The young host promptly greeted the lunchtime patron to the Sitting Duck Tavern in Oxford. But the customer, a tall man in a black T-shirt with a helicopter logo, didn’t want a table, not without looking first. He scanned the restaurant, then left.  Flat-screen televisions played above a polished copper-topped bar, where no one sat. The main dining room was sparsely furnished, just a half-dozen tables spaced at least six feet apart, a requirement to...

6 new Connecticut restaurants to try Hearsts food writer takes a look at some new eateries from around the state. FacebookTwitterEmail This article originally appeared in Connecticut Magazine. Citizen Chicken & Donuts Winter Caplanson Hell’s Kitchen chef Van Hurd is the face of this new project from Hartford Baking Co.’s founders, with a menu of doughnuts, egg sandwiches and coffee in the morning that gives way to fried chicken, chicken sandwiches and hearty sides for lunch and...

Official: Expect $3B+ in CT business aid under newest federal program Alexander Soule FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Gov. Ned Lamont in late November 2020 in Danbury, Conn. (Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/TNS)Brad Horrigan / TNSShow MoreShow Less 2of3 State Sen. Joan Hartley, D-Waterbury, left, and State Rep. Caroline Simmons, D-Stamford, in August 2019 in Stamford, Conn.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 3of3 As Connecticut restaurants and other businesses cash in checks fo...

One Hartford store owner shared an emotional story about how the pandemic has devastated her business and said she was so grateful when she found out she got the grant. A Hartford store owner shared her emotional story of the toll the pandemic has taken on her business as well as downtown Hartford and sheds light on just what help from a grant means. Note: This is sound only. Jody Morneault has a clothing shop in downtown Hartford and said she and her husband have been living on savings ...