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Max Downtown’s Loyal Pastry Chef Brings a Sweetness to Hartford

Meet Warren Hardman, Max Downtown’s head pastry chef; who believes his job is about more than just cooking up some of the best desserts you can find in the Hartford area – but rather to make people happy through good food, company and decadent design. From the second we met Warren, he beamed with personality, […]

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A Sweet Surprise in the New Max Downtown

If you’re familiar with the Greater Hartford area, chances are you’re also familiar with the Max Restaurant Group. While everyone seemingly has their “favorite,” ours happens to be Max Downtown, which conveniently is right down the street from us on Asylum Street. After a summer of renovations, Max Downtown finally reopened on September 19th. With […]

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Best Local College Hangout Spots

You can’t find the best espressos, craft beers, and waterfalls, by studying in the library. We did a little (field) research for you to find the best college hangout spots in the Hartford area. So grab your friends, and preferably an appetite, and make your way over to these local Hartford area hang out spots. […]

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Get Wired at Downtown Hartford’s Spectra Wired Café

Looking for the perfect place to host a special gathering, impress a date, or sit down for a warm nutella latte? Then meet Spectra Wired – a newly opened, creatively designed café in downtown Hartford. Spectra Wired has to be the most spacious café in the Hartford area. Walking in, you’re immediately drawn to the […]

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Story and Soil Coffee Opens in Hartford

Meet Hartford’s newest coffee gem: Story and Soil Coffee Immediately upon entering Story and Soil, you feel like you’re in a Pinterest board of your dreams. Walls filled with succulents and exposed brick, coffees served in mason jars with steel straws, vintage hanging light bulbs and a location right across from the beautiful Capitol Lofts; […]

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‘Summer in the City 2017’ Last Events of the Season

There are just a couple of events left for ‘Summer in the City 2017’ and we wanted to showcase these last few community-based happenings (before it turns into full blown pumpkin spice season).

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Bring Back Pratt Street

It’s that one street in Hartford that everyone is just naturally drawn too – filled with a mixture of old and new architecture, covered in red cobblestone end to end, and the sun somehow always shining through.

If you know Hartford, you know Pratt Street.