Dim Sum Glory is Near
By Elissa Altman
Hartford Courant, January 3, 2008
I have a particular yen for alleyway dining. When I lived in Boston, one of my favorite restaurants was a popular Mexican establishment, down a darkened corridor between Newbury Street and Commonwealth Avenue, and, assuming you could find it, you'd be certain to enjoy some of the finest mole to be found this side of Oaxaca. How did I discover this refried bean Brigadoon? I got lost. And getting lost, I've learned over the years, is often the key to spectacularly good dining experiences.
Such is the case with Chow, down an alleyway, around the corner from its sister restaurant, Zinc, the critically acclaimed culinary brainchild of chef wunderkind and Glastonbury native, Denise Appel. With a lineage like that and a location that just screams cool/hip/mysterious, how could it go wrong?