Best Fireside Dining in CT: 16 ‘Hotspots’ via Connecticut Magazine Connecticut Magazine January 14, 2015 Whether or not April is the cruelest month as poet T.S. Eliot so famously wrote, February is definitely one of the coldest and most forbidding months in New England. Folks tend to hibernate amid winter’s wrath— but we say, “Be brave and go out to enjoy wonderful dinners at Connecticut’s fabulous restaurants.” Are we crazy? Nope. We just know how many hotspots are literally hot— make that comfortably cozy — because they offer true, luxurious fireside dining.Here are 16 "Hotspots" that feature fireplaces for your CT dining pleasure.