Restaurant Openings Breakfast Lunch Sandwich To-Go Comfort Food Chef’s Table Returns To Westport in Old Christie's Location, (Via Dan Woog) CTbites Team February 05, 2019 When Christie’s Country Store closed in December, a shiver went through the Cross Highway neighborhood.The breakfast/sandwich/grill/grocery place had been around since 1926. It served nearby residents, Staples and Bedford students, and plenty of landscapers and workers nearby or passing through. But it was a non-conforming use, in a residential area. Now it was shut. These things don’t usually end well. Fortunately, this one does.Chef’s Table is moving in. Rich Herzfeld will pick up right where John Hooper left off. It’s a homecoming of sorts. Herzfeld — the Culinary Institute of America-trained baker/chef, who honed his trade under Jean Yves Le Bris at La Gourmandise in Norwalk — set off on his own in 1995. He opened his first Chef’s Table at 44 Church Lane.Read the full article on Dan Woog’s 06880.
