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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.


Swyft Revisited: Tavern Fare, Fine Dining, and What's Up with Ore Hill

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Andrew Dominick

So much has changed since we last covered Swyft’s modern tavern concept located on Kent’s main drag.

Like most restaurants, Swyft had to deal with pandemic restrictions. But unlike most restaurants, they had to get up off the mat three more times. Lauded chef and partner Joel Viehland parted ways with Swyft around the time COVID shutdowns hit Connecticut.

Mere weeks after Viehland’s exit, Swyft’s owner, philanthropist Anne Bass, sadly passed away on April 1, 2020, after a battle with ovarian cancer.

And if that wasn’t enough, dynamo pastry chef Anthony D’Amelio went off to pursue other goals sometime last year.

We know, that’s a lot to take in.

According to Allison Mitchell—who’s essentially Swyft’s Swiss Army Knife as she handles social media, does photography, coordinates events, waits tables, bartends, and somehow fits in marketing duties—Swyft went through a “huge overhaul.”