Good eats ‘on the Avenue’
Two new restaurants on Greenwich Avenue, very different in style, keep the bar high for Greenwich dining.
Madrid, Meliá, marvelous
Inside Madrid’s Gran Meliá Palacio de los Duques.
Lifting all boats at Stamford’s Harbor Point
In a recent conversation on Zoom, WAG catches up with Ted Ferrarone, co-president of vertically integrated developer Building and Land Technology, on BLT’s latest residential and commercial projects at Harbor Point in Stamford’s South End:
Stamford’s other Hilton lives up to the name
Stamford’s sole boutique hotel lives up to its Hilton pedigree.
Feeding Stamford – and the world
In the six years since WAG first wrote about Mike Geller, the Stamford-based organic food retailer has been steadily growing his business.
First among equals in a UN of Stamford restaurants
There is no shortage of new restaurants or international cuisines to choose from on downtown Stamford’s “Restaurant Row,” but a well-established Italian restaurant is still one of the best.
Supporting health through nutrition
Nutrition – and mud – are the key to good health at Mount Kisco’s Khader Center.
Making a ‘clean sweep’ of health
A cleaner who is always looking after the needs of others takes time to look after herself, dropping 41 pounds in the bargain.
Salad days arriving in Eastchester
The newest franchise of Sweetgreen, the nationwide salad-restaurant group, has opened in Eastchester.
Hair apparent
A top women’s hair salon now has its male counterpart, one that combines the concept of a men’s spa with the sanctuary of the man cave and the social aspect of the barbershop.
A ‘Crush’ on table tennis
A new table tennis club in Greenwich offers plush play in a lounge-like atmosphere.
Letting your hair down in Delray Beach
It may not be Palm – Beach, that is – but Delray Beach and its Seagate Hotel will beguile those people who want to chillax with their families this winter in Florida, says Westfair’s senior travel and food writer, Jeremy Wayne.
The financial tables turned
From cleaning tables to handcrafting them from antique lumber, Mauricio Guevara’s story is the embodiment of the American dream.
The drinking person’s liquor store
Jay and son Michael Goldstein have breathed even more life into the historically colorful, carefully curated Salem Wine & Liquor in South Salem.
Where a good cigar is really a smoke
An education in cigar-manufacturing awaits at the Connecticut Cigar Co.’s Stamford store, as well the option to buy and smoke.
The real Greek
The arrival of Greca, an authentically Greek restaurant, raises the dining bar in White Plains.
A home design challenge they couldn’t refuse
An English-style house renovation in Waccabuc has brought together a wealth of local talent for its high-profile but low-key, personable owners, Duncan Dayton and wife Renea Hudson-Dayton.
Minority (leader) rules
Attending funerals, coping with elevators that don’t work, coaching girls’ softball and, perhaps most important, taking care of constituents: It’s all in a day’s work for Yonkers City Council Minority Leader Mike Breen.
The grocer as showman
“When the smoke alarm goes off, that’s how I know it’s done,” Stew Leonard Jr. says, kidding about his own char-grilled creations. WAG’s Jeremy Wayne walks the aisles of his eponymous Yonkers store with him as he jokes and kibbitzes with customers.
Keeping the faith — and spreading it
Through a recession and Covid-19, Yonkers-born restaurateur and chef Peter X. Kelly has kept faith with his patrons, his hometown and those less fortunate.