The Distracted Wanderer

People traveling to Windham, Connecticut to take a look at the four whimsical eight-foot high bronze frogs that sit atop concrete thread spools on the Thread City Crossing bridge  now have a new destination to point their cars towards, a place that will probably have all of the frog-seekers hopping over to check it out once the word spreads about Willimantic's new cupcakery at 798 Main Street. A Cupcake For Later opened a mere three weeks ago but they've already become quite the popular spot not just in real life on Main Street but also in the virtual world on Facebook where they've gotten over 600 "likes" as of this writing.  No doubt that number will be climbing up and up as people discover the new shop that offers gourmet cupcakes as well as full-size cakes for all occasions and made Willimantic a go-to destination for this cupcake-loving wanderer on a beautiful Friday morning. Having heard about the new store via a lot of friends on Facebook and being s...

Distracted wandering can sure make a gal hungry sometimes or at least that's the excuse I'm going to use for taking a drive down to Olde Mystic Village on a beautiful March day in search of comfort food at the Bleu Squid Bakery, Cheese Shop, & Take-Out Grilled Cheese Café . Bleu Squid has been a part of Mystic for over three years now and tout themselves as "not your typical bakery" which stands to reason as they are also a cheese shop and maker of some mighty fine grilled cheese sandwiches plus their name is a bit, well, odd   for a bakery!  When the shop's owner, Connie Carocari, picked a name for her business she chose a word that would represent Mystic's nautical roots (Squid) and combined it with another word to represent the cheeses that she sells (Bleu) and hence Bleu Squid was born!     Even though the shop had been designated "Best Cupcake" in the  Best of Connecticut 2011 Guide  that Connecticut Magazine   publishes, I didn't k...