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Biz on Biz: Life Aquatic on Station Eats Cheeseburger (Extra Hot Peppers)

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For this installment of Biz on Biz, we asked Bobby Johnson, livestock manager at Life Aquatic on South Avenue (across from the Mobil, near Mackenzie’s) to tell us about a favorite item or service at another New Canaan business. His answer: cheeseburger from Station Eats down the street, with lettuce, pickles, extra hot peppers and fries on the side. “I like the burger, they make it well,” said Johnston, a Fairfield resident. “It’s made in front of you and all natural. Just a very well-taken-care-of place.”

The cheeseburgers are popular and getting extra pickles is “fairly common,” Station Eats line cook Cesar Suero said, “because they give you a kind of spice, because the cheeseburgers have a kind of mild cheese.”

“When I first tried one, it’s like I can’t eat them anywhere else anymore.

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Biz on Biz: Pimlico Owner on Walin & Wolff’s Jimmy Choo Shoes

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For this installment of “Biz on Biz,” we visited Jill Saunders at Pimlico, her home furnishings, fixtures and accessories shop on the corner of Elm Street and South Avenue. Asked for her choice of a favorite item, service or anything else at another New Canaan business, Saunders responded: “I would probably point you in the direction of Walin & Wolff.”

And what’s her favorite item there? “Everything, really. It’s quite the problem,” Saunders said. “Their Jimmy Choo shoes are kind of nice.”

At Walin & Wolff, Assistant Manager Lisa Mancini used this word when NewCanaanite.com asked about the popularity of the Jimmy Choo shoes: “Unbelievable.”

“People come in looking for them,” she said.

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Ceramic Dish Set Catches New Canaan Olive Oil’s Eye

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For this installment of “Biz on Biz”—where we cold-call a downtown shop to ask an owner or worker to tell us about another business’s product, service or something else they absolutely love—we visited New Canaan Olive Oil on Elm Street (here’s their Facebook page), a fellow New Canaan Chamber of Commerce member. There, owner Heidi Burrows told us about an item that had caught her eye while browsing for the first time in the new Ten Thousand Villages shop down on Main and East Avenue. “They have so much stuff, but what caught my eye were the ceramic dishes,” Burrows said. “They have them in so many different sizes and different sets and they were gorgeous. They were glazed, on the outside they were brown and on the inside it was sort of a cream color.

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Benefit on Baldanza: Mixed Bag Salad ‘Delicious’

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On a tip that they were good to “New Canine-ites” (that’s the dogs of our town), we went for this installment of “Biz on Biz” to Benefit cosmetics boutique on Elm Street. There, we asked aesthetician Kim Slater what was her single favorite service, item or anything else from another New Canaan business. Her answer: The organic mixed bag salad with a simple lemon dressing, from Baldanza Natural Market and Café across the street. “It’s delicious,” Slater said. “They’re the only organic restaurant around, open for breakfast and lunch, and they’re great people.

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New Canaan Biz on Biz: Candy Nichols on Caren Forbes

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[Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of “Biz on Biz,” where New Canaan business owners or employees from one place tell us what they like about a shop somewhere else. Here’s the first installment.]

By Michael Dinan

There’s one item available in New Canaan that Elizabeth Correa gives as a gift more often than any other: a stone necklace from Caren Forbes & Co. Correa owns Candy Nichols, an independent children’s clothing and accessories store that moved form Elm to Main Street last summer. The necklaces from the nearby “boutique at the top of the stairs” (Caren Forbes, a few doors down on Main) are simple and elegant, Correa said. “It’s a long necklace, usually with multicolor stones, just to dress up, say with a T-shirt,” Correa told NewCanaanite.com. “I give it as a gift all the time.