Here are some videos showing houses for sale in Darien, all posted in the last week on YouTube.
These videos of Darien homes for sale were recently uploaded to YouTube. Each listing links to the YouTube video (also attached to this article). Each home is also shown on the map attached to this article: 65 Goodwives River Rd. 164 Old Kings Hwy. S.
La Roue Elayne at Cobb's Mill Inn recently opened.
Last weekend, La Roue Elayne at Cobb's Mill Inn in Weston opened its doors to the public, starting things off with live music and drinks on Saturday night followed by Mother's Day brunch and dinner on Sunday. The restaurant had been closed since 2010. According to The Weston Forum, the restaurant will offer salmon, lobster, ham, lamb, beef and other seafood options. La Roue Elayne will open today with a "limited pub menu," and is scheduled to open on a full scale next week. The restaurant's Facebook page states that live music is scheduled for every Saturday night this month. Elayne Cassara and Drew Friedman are the brains behind the new restaraunt, former owner Domenic Cocchia is the general manager and the head chef is Michael Achille…
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With a couple of trips a year to California's Napa Valley and an on-the-scene consultant to monitor the process, Paola Sordoni runs her own wine business from home here in Darien—winning accolades and selling on the Internet.
A lot of wine lovers visiting California's Napa Valley have daydreamed about starting their own winery, imagining that using their own good taste they could come up with an award-winning vintage. Paola Sordoni, a stay-at-home Darien mother with one toddler and now another on the way, hasn't just daydreamed about it: She's done it. She and her wine-loving husband, who together moved to Darien from New York City in October 2010, enjoyed playing with blending wine at home to get different tastes. "That was the fascinating part for me," she said. "How can we take a group—even one that wasn't so great to begin with—and make something beautiful with it?" Winemaking from a distance Her business, JuneRay Wines, just started selling to customers …
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What's the best place in Darien to get your sushi fix?
Back when, who knew that raw fish wrapped in rice and seaweed could taste so darn good? Sushi has grown to become a staple in the American diet over the past three decades and is showing no signs of turning passé. We continue to explore all of the varieties that Asian restaurants and even supermarkets have to offer. And fortunately, Darienites have several spots in and around town to get quality sushi. So vote in our poll below for your favorite place to eat sushi, but also leave a review in our directory and tell us about your favorite dish or a most memorable visit. If you’re a sushi restaurant owner—or the owner of any business—by claiming your listing here on Darien Patch, you can push out notifications to local customers, update …
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Here's your go-to guide for yoga studios around Fairfield County.
With the stress of this week still weighing on our backs, many of us are heading to a yoga studio this weekend to melt it all away. Here's a quick, go-to guide to the yoga studios in Fairfield County towns, straight from our readers from the recent Readers’ Choice contest. Congratulations to all our winners listed below, and to all of our local businesses for teaching us how to practice yoga in a safe and encourging manner. If you are a Patch account-holder, please find your favorite local businesses in the online directory of your local Patch, and rate/review it for your neighbors and visitors to find. Here’s a roundup of winners:
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For yoga, Darien Patch readers choose Elements Yoga & Wellness Center over other places to get into position and stretch.
Where's the best spot in town to position yourself in yoga? Darien Patch's readers say its Elements Yoga & Wellness Center. The yoga studio in the Noroton Heights Shopping Center received the most votes in our poll (edging out the Darien YMCA). Just as important (and weighted just as much in our contest rules), it had more customer review/ratings than any of our other contestants. A total of 17 customers weighed in on Elements Yoga's directory listing page on Darien Patch. Here's some of what they said: Rose Petrone: Rose Petrone: "Elements Yoga is the perfect place for all level Yogis! It is warm and inviting and the staff goes above and beyond to make you feel welcome. I highly recommend!" Wayne: "I met Bruce (the owner) of the Yoga for …
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These real estate sales videos for homes in Darien were posted in the past week on YouTube.
*** *** *** These videos of Darien homes for sale were recently uploaded to YouTube. Each listing links to the YouTube video (also attached to this article). Each home is also shown on the map attached to this article: 191 Noroton Ave. 26 Barringer Rd. 18 Tory Hole Rd. 34 Hilton St. 10 McCrea Ln. _______________________________________________________________ Editor's note: This article originally was published at 6 a.m. The time stamp has been changed for layout purposes on the Home page of Darien Patch.
Norseland Inc., the company that imports Jarlsburg Cheese, is moving from Stamford into 16,000 square feet of office space at 3 Parklands Dr., in Darien.
The importer of Norway's Jarlsburg Cheese is moving into 16,000 square feet of space at the Parklands Office Park in Darien. The move by Norseland Inc. from its current offices at 1290 E. Main St., Stamford, was just announced by the Signature Group, a commercial real estate firm. Norseland has a total of 29 employees in in Montreal, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, New York and at its corporate headquarters in Stamford, according to its website. Norseland's president and CEO, John Sullivan, said in a news release that his company has made some "key hires" and expects to hire more employees. The expected growth of the headquarters office was one of the reasons for the move, according to the news release from Signature Group. The …
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Dr. James Diette of Darien Family Dental Care says the new x-ray will not only improve the overall patient experience at his office, but also the the quality of the results in procedures such as porcelain veneers or dental implants.
Darien Family Dental Care, located at 722 Post Road, has reportedly purchased a digital panorex device for taking detailed, accurate x-ray images of patients' teeth. The panorex digital x-ray machine takes higher resolution, panoramic images of the patient's entire mouth in one simple step, thus making the process of taking x-rays faster and simpler. Rather than just taking images of the patient's teeth, it captures the entire oral structure, thus greatly aiding dentists and oral surgeons in finding cavities, diagnosing periodontal bone loss, pinpointing dental pain sources, identifying impacted wisdom teeth and placing dental implants, according to a press release. What's more it uses a lower radiation dose than standard x-rays. Dr. James…
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Yoga studios in town are the topic of this week's Darien Readers' Choice contest.
Where's the best place in Darien to stretch your mind and body into the right yoga position? This week's Darien Readers' Choice contest looks into yoga classes offered in town. Vote in the poll (and if we're missing any places, please tell us!) and post your ratings and reviews of our local businesses into our directory by clicking on a link below. Remember: new reviews on directory listings pages count for as much as poll results, and since fewer people post reviews than vote in our polls, your opinion is likely to carry more weight with a review. (See our rules, attached to this article.) Here are the places we know of in town that offer yoga classes: Darien YMCA Elements Yoga & Wellness Center Equinox Fitness Clubs Go Figure Ward …
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Alex Tytler
8:07 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Wow. Self publishing meets the wine business. Interesting idea, but in reality the product is whatever is produced and the rest is marketing. more ›