Thomas Hooker Brewery at Colt
â Bars Thomas Hooker Brewery at Colt A new tasting room and small batch pilot brewery now open in Hartford. Located in the South Armory at the former Colt firearms complex, their new facility features a beautiful reclaimed wood bar, plenty of seating indoors and an outdoor patio. Photos lovingly borrowed from Thomas Hooker Brewery […]
Hog River Brewing Co.
â Bars / Shops & Services Hog River Brewing Co. Already dubbed “Hartford’s living room” for the Cheers-esque ambience, Hog River Brewing Co. is a new addition to Parkville with an old soul. Their taproom is dominated by high ceilings and massive vintage pressing machines, which are longtime locals formerly of Hartford Rubber Works and Pope Manufacturing. […]
Hartford Flavor Company
â Bars / Shops & Services Hartford Flavor Company With a mission to provide uniquely flavored natural liqueurs, the Hartford Flavor Company is the city’s only distillery and is doing their best to extend the new âcocktail culture.â Want to experience some of their distinct Wild Moon Liqueurs? Youâre in luck. Enter Dianaâs Lair â […]
Black-Eyed Sally’s Southern Kitchen & Bar
â Attractions / Bars / Restaurants Black-Eyed Sally’s Southern Kitchen & Bar Black-eyed Sally’s has been making mouths, tummies, and ears happy since they opened their doors in 1995. They’re famous in these parts for their award winning BBQ and Cajun cooking, and a stage that hosts some of the best recording artists on the […]
Salute
â Bars / Restaurants Salute Salute has, hands down, the best garlic bread in the entire world. THE ENTIRE WORLD. Please read that in not just all-caps, but quintuple all-caps. Other house faves are the sweet potato ravioli in a sage cream sauce, their house-made ricotta gnocchi with chicken, and a salad with a big […]
Spigot Café
â Bars Spigot CafĂ© The Spigot CafĂ© is a real favorite. And not just a Hartford.com favorite. A perennial, there might be something wrong with you if you donât appreciate its simplicity, 50 year favorite. It is just a bar. Pure and simple. Nothing fancy or gimmicky. Just a solid bar with the best beer […]
Tisane Euro-Asian Café
â Bars / Restaurants Tisane Euro-Asian CafĂ© Tisane is a tea house, coffee house, martini bar, regular bar, dance club, and restaurant in the West End. Some people consider it their own version of Cheers, but cocktail-centric, with a much cooler and more handsome Norm. Closer to the weekend you get Karoke, great DJs and […]
Agave Grill
AGAVE GRILL Agave has awesome guacamole, prepared tableside and served in a lava rock bowl, a full brunch with happy hour-priced drink specials on Saturdays AND Sundays, plus churros you can dip in dulce de leche. To cap it all off, Agave’s bar is stocked with 87 different kinds of tequila. It could take you […]
Trumbull Kitchen
â Bars / Restaurants Trumbull Kitchen Trumbull Kitchen describes itself as “contemporary, cool and inventive.” It’s true. If you have a hard time deciding what to order go with the Grilled Filet Mignon appetizer, served with truffled tater-tots, because TRUFFLED TATER TOTS. Photo lovingly borrowed from Trumbull Kitchen. VISIT THEM 150 Trumbull StreetHartford, CT 06103 […]
Vaughan’s Public House
â Bars / Restaurants Vaughan’s Public House Vaughan’s is a for real pub. Sometimes pubs concentrate so much on their pubbiness, that they neglect the fact that they are a restaurant. That definitely doesn’t happen here. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Vaughan’s has been voted best Guinness in Connecticut by actual Guinness drinkers, which is a great […]