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Square Peg Pizza Gourmet Italian & Arcade Opening 7 Locations in CT (via The Patch)

Features Openings Pizza Glastonbury Vernon

CTbites Team

A Glastonbury-based restaurant that combines pizza, gourmet food and an arcade is well on its way toward expanding its culinary empire that will begin in Vernon and Enfield and extend through its current location to Orange in partnerships with several of the new and popular axe-throwing venues.

When all is said and done, Square Peg Pizza will have seven new restaurants in Connecticut by next year.

A plan that would extend Square Peg's reach from the north central state border to the New Haven suburbs with eight locations seemed like it could be overly ambitious at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic when owner Jay Maffe first began getting serious.

Read the complete article on The Patch.


Tusk & Cup Coffee Shops Opens in Branchville

Restaurant Branchville Coffee Tea And Coffee Dessert

Amy Kundrat

Bleary-eyed Branchville commuters now have a few more options for their morning caffeine fix. Tusk & Cup Fine Coffee has opened across the street from the Branchville train station at 51 Ethan Allen Highway (Route 7) in Ridgefield. Owners Joe and Laura Ancona, the same family that owns and runs nearby Ancona’s Market and Ancona’s Wines & Liquors, opened Tusk & Cup in November, a fine complement to the family-owned businesses and this burgeoning neighborhood of small businesses.