Business has me back in New England, 2 days in Connecticut, 2 days in Boston and then back to Connecticut.  Now this means a show, which means nights sleeping with a DMA in my room, days of answering similar questions over and over, and being nice to people I really don't like. However, there is the food.

Sunday I got in and stopped at one of the many little dinners that dot the landscape. The big secret is they are all run by Greeks and the food ranges from good to great. This one in Hamden, the Athenian Diner, had very good gyros and decent fried clams. 

The next day I had breakfast at a Friendly's, lunch at the amazing Amici's in Shelton - gnocchi with bologonase sauce, and then took Mother to dinner at Braigo's on Main Street in Stratford. Now Amici's is really good, but this place was amazing. The presentations were beautiful and the food has to be some of the better Italian I had. Mother had a pan fried trout while I had a three pasta special with this delicate lemon-marsala sauce. Dessert was a bomba, a large lump of mango and raspberries sorbets covered in white chocolate and a lovely creme brulee with a Movolta grappa. 

Today I drove up to the ASSA Conference in Boston and found the Olympia Diner in Berlin for gyros and coconut cream pie for lunch. Dinner will be at Legal Seafood with a trip into the Coop...

UPDATE: It's a night for poor service but the wood grilled plate is as good as ever. Wuss beer thro. You can see thru them.