The Parlor: Why We Love This "Neo New Haven" Style Pizza in Stratford Features Ingredients Interview Restaurant pizza pizzeria Stratford Interview Ingredients Homepage Andrew Dominick October 15, 2026 On the day I stopped by The Parlor to interview Mackenzie Carey, I remember him pausing during our initial chit chat. “You know, today (August 20) is our sixth anniversary,” he says. “My staff just told me.” Six years is better than good, considering Carey, who’s Stratford born and raised, had a completely different career and had never spent a single day working in a restaurant prior to getting into the pizza business. Read More
Heffer's Retro Fast Food + Beefy Burgers Hits Stratford with More Locations Coming Soon? Interview Ingredients Restaurant Fast Casual Burgers Fried Chicken Sandwich Fried Chicken Stratford Interview Milkshakes Andrew Dominick September 26, 2026 The term “well-traveled” as it pertains to the restaurant industry is fitting for Steve Barone. Before opening the fast casual Heffer in Stratford in 2025, he’d been around the block and back again. Name a restaurant and he’ll probably come back with, “Yeah, I worked there for a bit.” Prior to launching his concept of burgers, fried chicken, hot dogs, and homemade sides, sauces, and desserts at Heffer, you might’ve spotted Barone as the operating partner of Fairfield’s Il Pellicano, general manager at Saltaire Oyster Bar in Port Chester, and everywhere in north or south of both of those, as he’s designed beverage programs in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. Safe to say that he’s made you a drink somewhere or you’ve had a cocktail that he created. Read More
Two Roads Brewing Company Launches Dinner Pairing Series- A New Brewery Experience Events Features Brewery Ingredients Interview Tasting Menu Brewery Two Roads Brewing Company Craft Beer Spirits Distillery Interview Homepage Stratford Beer Andrew Dominick March 20, 2025 If you’ve followed the evolution of Two Roads Brewing Company, it’s quite something. Since the main brewery opened in 2012, one thing they kept doing is continuing to evolve. Not including a laundry list of beer releases, Two Roads went onto open a second facility next to their Hop Yard six years ago that you now know as Area Two Experimental Brewing. Following Area Two and all their fun, funky small batch drops, and in no particular order, Two Roads got into making canned cocktails, non-alcoholic beer, distilling (we’ll have a few teasers on that), and they even purchased the former PizzaCo across the street and turned it into Two Roads Food Hall & Bar and next door, Two Roads Tee Box, a golf simulator, making it a full-blown “campus.” Read More
Two Roads To Build Second Brewing Facility & Tasting Room Ingredients Restaurant Beer CT Beer Stratford James Gribbon November 01, 2016 Two Roads Brewing of Stratford has announced their plans to add a 25,000 square foot expansion to their brewery specifically to create sour and barrel-aged beers. Situated on 2.5 acres of newly acquired land adjoining the existing brewery's hop yard and music venue, the brewhouse will have a 120-person capacity tasting room overlooking both the brewing operations, and a wetlands preserve. Sour beers such as Framboise Noir Black Raspberry Lambic, Urban Funk Wild Ale made with yeast from Superstorm Sandy, and Worker’s Stomp White Wine Barrel-Aged Saison will see increased production, along with Hexotic Tropical Lambic, which won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado this October. Hexotic spends 28 months in oak, and was fermented with "Brett C" (brettanomyces clausenii). Six different types of fruit were added during fermentation, including orange, passion fruit, mangosteen, soursop (aka gaunabana), guava, and mango. Read More
