A Taste of Our Own Farm-to-Table Projects

For a little taste of our own farm-to-table projects, here are three that we are proud to have been a part of: Restaurant: Roia Restaurant Location: New Haven, CT Website: www.roiarestaurant.com Design Firm/Architecture: Grayling Design and Patriquin Architects Portfolio: Roia Restaurant Year: 2013 Inspiration: This French and Italian bistro-style restaurant which recently got an ‘excellent’ review in…

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Take a Tour of Farm to Table Restaurants in CT

Our blog post this week was inspired by a special feature in the July issue of Architectural Record on farm-to-table designs.  To bring this broad topic to a local level, we decided to explore farm-to-table restaurants in Connecticut. Restaurant: Oyster Club Restaurant Location: Mystic, CT Website: www.oysterclubct.com Architect/Designer: Michael McKinley Architecture/Design Firm: Michael McKinley and Associates,…

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FROM OUR PORTFOLIO: ZINC RE-DESIGN

A RE-DESIGN GIVES ZINC RESTAURANT SOME EXTRA ZEST When the owners of Zinc Restaurant in New Haven, CT, wanted to update their 10-year-old restaurant on Chapel Street, they asked Clover Design and Karin Patriquin Architect to design and coordinate the effort. We had worked together previously on Kitchen Zinc, their sister restaurant on Temple Street…

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DOWN THE ALLEY

There are some interesting things going on in Zinc’s backyard in New Haven.   As well as new sunshades at sister restaurant Kitchen Zinc’s outdoor patio, Swiss urban artist Felice Varini has created a super-size paint-on-building materials installation in the alley between Chapel Street at Zinc’s corner to Temple Plaza, leading your eye and your feet…

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