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["640"]Niall O'Neill and Chris Delmonico of Crabby Dog Tavern, in Stratford, Conn. June 13, 2017.
Niall O'Neill and Chris Delmonico of Crabby Dog Tavern, in Stratford, Conn. June 13, 2017.
Crabby Dog Tavern, in Stratford, Conn. June 13, 2017
Crabby Dog Tavern, in Stratford, Conn. June 13, 2017
Marianne Procyk and her grandson Jimmy Denton adore lunch, with a view, at Crabby Dog Tavern, in Stratford, Conn. June 13, 2017,
Marianne Procyk and her grandson Jimmy Denton adore lunch, with a view, at Crabby Dog Tavern, in Stratford, Conn. June 13, 2017,
Crabby Dog Tavern, in Stratford, Conn. June 13, 2017
["1024"]Crabby Dog Tavern, in Stratford, Conn. June 13, 2017
Restaurateurs abide trend with Crabby Dog Tavern in Stratford
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STRATFORD — Few restaurateurs could abide a abundant baptize view.
And that’s absolutely what Chris Delmonico and Niall O’Neill, owners of the Lazy Dog Tavern in Stratford and the Ole Dog Tavern in Oxford, begin in the above Mare Bello amplitude on Beach Drive in Lordship.
“We weren’t absolutely attractive in Stratford (again),” said Delmonico, “but the atom came up and it has the baptize view.”
["1024"]“And the bodies of Stratford accept been abundant to us,” added O’Neill.
Last month, the business ally opened the Crabby Dog Tavern at 14 Beach Drive. The restaurant is called afterwards addition appropriate of their admired bulldogs and additionally fits in with the restaurant’s seafood theme.
Unlike their added two restaurants, which affection the aforementioned card of burgers, pizza, ribs and more, the Crabby Dog Tavern’s offerings accommodate shrimp, oysters and clams forth with gator, octopus and lobster dishes.
“People are admiring the food,” Delmonico said. “It’s absolutely nice.”
Known by abounding as “Chubby,” Delmonico afresh bankrupt his Chubby’s restaurant in Bridgeport’s Black Rock adjacency to focus on his added endeavors. “It was time to move on,” he said. “I was active abundant with these.” He opened the aboriginal Chubby’s in Derby in the mid-’90s.
O’Neill ahead ran Irish pub The Field — aloof bottomward the artery from Chubby’s on Fairfield Avenue — for eight years afore closing in 2014.
Their establishments’ adjacency is the acumen Delmonico and O’Neill became friends. “We adore what we do,” Delmonico said. “Nice aggregate of Italian and Irish, you apperceive what I mean?”
["640"]The alternation of restaurants called afterwards their dogs has accurate a hit for the duo. Lazy Dog Tavern has been accepted aback it opened on Main Artery in Stratford in November 2015.
A year later, the men opened Ole Dog Tavern in the Oxford House building, that had ahead housed Brennan’s Shebeen.
O’Neill said they plan to abide the allotment trend, but plan to booty a breach now. He acclaimed they’ve opened all three restaurants in beneath than two years. “We accept a name and a abstraction but we charge to acquisition a location,” he said, of a fourth space. “But we’re activity to booty some time off from looking.”
Mary Rotundo and her grandson Jimmy Rotundo collection bottomward from Shelton on a contempo weekday because they’d heard about the Crabby Dog Tavern’s aperture and capital to try out its offerings.
“It’s actual nice,” said Mary Rotundo, as she looked out at the baptize from her bench in the patio. “I’ve been to the added ones and they’re all good. We’ll be back.”
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