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Cocktail Naming Contest: WIN $100 at Match Sono Celebrating 25 Years!

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Stephanie Webster

Game on! We're bringing back our cocktail naming contest. 

WIN $100 for dinner at Match Restaurant in South Norwalk. Here’s How!

  1. Review the ingredients list below.

  2. Enter YOUR original Cocktail Name (or multiple names) in the comments section under this post (including your Instagram account or email so we can reach out if you are selected).

  3.  If your Cocktail name is selected, it will be featured on the Match cocktail menu & you will receive $100 to enjoy Match + a chance to sample YOUR signature cocktail.


Taco Guy Cocktail Naming Contest: WIN FREE DINNER FOR 2 @ Taco Guy!

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Stephanie Webster

Game on! We're bringing back our cocktail naming contest. 

WIN FREE DINNER FOR TWO AT the uber-fun TACO GUY in Norwalk. Here's How...

  1. Review the ingredients list below.

  2. Enter YOUR original Cocktail Name (or multiple names) in the comments section under this post (including your Instagram account or email so we can reach out if you are selected).

  3.  If your Cocktail name is selected, it will be featured on the Taco Guy Spring cocktail menu & you will receive a FREE DINNER FOR 2 at Taco Guy + a chance to sample YOUR signature cocktail.


Chef April Bloomfield is Cooking at the Mayflower Inn

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Andrew Dominick

A posh five-star inn located in “the country” of Connecticut may be the last place you’d expect to stumble upon a former two-time Michelin star chef doing her thing in the kitchen.

Expect it. And expect to run into April Bloomfield.

Yeah, THAT April Bloomfield. The April Bloomfield who won a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: New York City in 2014. The April Bloomfield who owns the British gastropub The Breslin. And the same April Bloomfield of the now shuttered, but acclaimed West Village haunt, The Spotted Pig.

And since mid-September she’s been spending her time away from the concrete jungle as the chef-in-residence at the Mayflower Inn & Spa where she’s firing up the refined pub fare that she is so lauded for and marrying that style with the bounty from local farms.

If you visit—and you absolutely should—there are a few dining experiences to be aware of.

There’s a seasonal, constantly changing four-course dinner tasting in the brightly lit, plant enshrined Garden Room. The $150 tasting’s polar opposite has been the occasionally offered bonfire experience where Bloomfield comes out to chat over cocktails, savory snacks, and gooey s’mores.

Then there’s the meal I elected to have, a lunch in The Tap Room. If the weather obeys, it’s a great idea to dine out on the back deck that overlooks the Shakespeare Garden, equal parts beautiful and haunting on an overcast autumn day.