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Restaurant Reviews PEACHES SOUTHERN PUB & JUKE JOINT Norwalk, CT What do you do with a middle name like Peaches? Embrace it! And use it to name your southern inspired dining and music

Specialty cocktails using fresh juices and housemade infusions, over 200 wines by the bottle, and 20 outstanding wines offered by the glass make up an extensive beverage list. Pranzo veloce (quick lunch) weekdays includes soup of the day or mixed green salad plus main plate. Lunch and dinner daily, Brunch Saturday and Sunday. 3 Big Shop Lane, Ridgefield. 203/438-5352 TerraSoleRidgefield.com

night every Thursday. Live music Thursdays and Saturdays. Open Tuesday through Saturday. Sunday brunch coming soon. 7 Wall Street, Norwalk. 203/831-0399 peachesnorwalk.com

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TerraSole Cheese, WineBar, Ristorante in Ridgefield is the place for all your favorite Italian delicacies. A lavish list of Salume e Formaggi includes excellent cheeses from Italy and the Mediterranean as well as dried and cured meats such as duck prosciutto, wild boar salami and sopressata with black truffles. From the sea, fresh horseradish and paprika crusted wild king salmon poached in prosecco and served with organic red quinoa and baby vegetables; and fish stew with branzino, prawn, calamari, wild king salmon, fresh Maine lobster, bay scallops and little neck clams (available with pasta) pair new world ingredients with stellar old world recipes. Pastas are housemade and include oversized ravioli; pillow soft gnocchi, and al dente linguine, bucatini and cavattelli. Owner Pietro Polini’s signature bistecca alla griglia is an aged 12 oz. prime New York strip, crusted with walnuts, gorgonzola dolce & parsley, served over broccoli rabe, roasted marble potatoes, and drizzled with a Barolo wine reduction. Enjoy both the taste and aesthetics of gold infused extra virgin olive oil, and finish your meal with a housemade “cello” – lemon, melon, or espresso-chocolate.

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establishment. Greer Peaches Frederick’s bar and restaurant on the first floor of a handsome 1905 brownstone serves “classic pub fare with a southern flare.” Upstairs, the “juke joint” in the second floor loft and outdoor rooftop deck features great local bands, a full bar and room for dancing. Available for private parties. Start your meal with Carolina pig tails, fried green tomatoes, pickled deviled eggs, or redneck charcuterie. You can balance that out with an excellent chopped kale salad with charred corn, beets and a housemade green goddess dressing. Moving on, roll up your sleeves for Panhandle shrimp ‘n’ grits with Andouille sausage and okra; an enormous pork shank over black eyed peas, with pickled veg and onion jam; or the not-to-be missed bucket o’chicken pickle-brined fried chicken with cornbread, coleslaw, collard greens and mac ‘n cheese (for 2; comes regular or “Nashville Hot”). Finish with a wonderful, not too sweet deconstructed peach cobbler. Carefully crafted specialty cocktails include the Peaches’ Painkiller: white rum, coconut cream, charred pineapple puree, fresh OJ, and nutmeg; the Flaming Dr. Pepper Shooter: Bacardi 151, Luxardo Amaretto, Thimble Island Lager; and for those who like their martinis dry, the Spicy Okratini: Oola Aloo vodka, dirty okra juice, pickled okra. Happy hour Monday – Saturday 4-7pm; Ladies

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