According to Love Food, one of the best fast-casual restaurants in the entire country is sitting right in Hartford — and honestly, this one almost gets me in the car. I’m a huge Mediterranean food fan, but I don’t get to have it nearly as often as I’d like. So, when I hear about a spot in Connecticut serving the kind of stuff I daydream about, it grabs my attention fast.
Love Food ranked the top fast-casual places in every state, and for Connecticut, they landed on Tangiers International Market in Hartford. If you’ve never been, they say this place isn’t just a restaurant — its part grocery, part prepared-food counter, part “don’t eat before you go because you’re going to regret it” situation. You can sit down and grab a meal, then walk a few feet and buy the very ingredients they cooked with. Not a bad system.
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Tangiers serves food from the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and a little bit of everywhere in between. They have falafel, kebabs, salads, small plates, and sandwiches that basically smell like a plane ticket to Greece. Love Food says the gyros are the standout. This place alone might be enough to get me to drive to Hartford — which is saying a lot, because nothing else ever makes me want to do that.
If you love fresh, fast, flavor-heavy food, this might be the one Connecticut spot that’s worth the trip. I checked out their menu and I’m ready to order! I’ll take the Chicken Curry with Chickpeas and some Baked Kibbee, please and thank you!
Greater-Danbury’s Tasty Taco Trail Takes a Backseat to No Other Path
We don’t need the folks from Visit CT to make a trip out here to tell you that these are some of the best tacos around. This taco trail may leave you dizzy from it’s organization but you’ll be even more overwhelmed by the flavors you’ll experience along the way. This is the Greater-Danbury CT Taco Trail
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Some of Danbury + Brookfield’s Best Churro Spots
A churro is a fried dough dessert found in Spanish and Portuguese cuisine. When covered in cinnamon and dipped in Dulce De Leche, it’s one of my favorites. The question with anything worth having is, how far do I have to go to get it? If you live in Danbury or Brookfield, you are not going far at all. And, I’d put our churros in Danbury + Brookfield’s up against any churro you can get anywhere. These are some of Danbury + Brookfield’s Best Churro Spots.
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100 Diverse Danbury Eateries to Keep Your Taste Buds Busy
It’s a lot to take in, Danbury has well over one hundred places to eat, these just happen to be the 100 Hat City spots that I can remember from the top of my head.
NOTE: There is a link in the description box to each businesses’ menu or website.
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