Angela Baldanza

New Canaan Restaurants: Summer Theatre Partnership Helped Business

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The owners of local restaurants that partnered with a theater group that performed in downtown New Canaan through July said the effect on business was largely positive. Angela Baldanza, co-owner of and chef at Baldanza Café, described the restaurant’s partnership with the Summer Theatre of New Canaan as “a very positive experience.” She said that many diners had come into the restaurant to take advantage of a special fixed-price menu, and that she “would do it again.” Asked whether the theater’s impact was noticeably different from previous years, when it had been located further away from the downtown area, Baldanza said “definitely.”

Previously located in Waveny, STONC on Sunday finished its final show on New Canaan Library’s property. The organization partnered this year with a number of local restaurants, which offered special deals for theatergoers.

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FIRST LOOK: Remodeled Cava Restaurant To Reopen Thursday on Forest Street [PHOTOS]

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One of New Canaan’s most popular restaurants is scheduled to reopen this week after more than one year. Closed for a major remodeling following an upper-story fire in its building last September, Cava Wine Bar & Restaurant will be open for dinner starting Thursday and will open for lunch soon after, said Nube Siguenza, executive chef and owner. “I am so excited,” she told NewCanaanite.com. The newly renovated space at 2 Forest St. now includes a bigger bar, private room and wood-fired grill.

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‘Cava’ Italian Restaurant on Forest Street To Reopen Next Spring after Major Remodeling

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Closed for more than three months following an upper-story fire in the downtown New Canaan building that it occupies, Cava Wine Bar & Restaurant is on track for a spring 2017 reopening, officials said. The popular Italian eatery, for 11 years an anchor of New Canaan’s “Restaurant Row” on Forest Street, is undergoing extensive interior demolition now as part of a comprehensive remodeling, according to Executive Chef/Owner Nube Siguenza. She described the planned renovated space as “warm” and “cozy.”

“I want our customers to feel as though they’re coming into their own house,” Siguenza told NewCanaanite.com. “We are going to change the whole restaurant.”

It will continue to create its signature Italian dishes, though the menu also will see some updates, she said. Its brick oven will remain, she said.