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New Canaan Restaurants Prep for Al Fresco Dining Season

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Despite rainy days forecast for the week ahead, New Canaan received true, prolonged tastes of spring with picture-perfect weather the past two weekends. With Spring at long last arrived in earnest, local restaurateurs such as Henry Rosenbaum of Boulevard 18 began preparation for the resulting demand for outdoor dining. “We are thrilled,” Rosenbaum said on a recent evening at Boulevard 18, also a top-5 most romantic New Canaan restaurants selection. “We had people out on Friday and Saturday night on the patio, which was the sign for spring.”

In addition to the idyllic al fresco dining on Main Street at Boulevard 18, New Canaan’s “Restaurant Row” has several options, including Cava, Tequila Mockingbird and the soon-to-be-reopened Farmer’s Table where chef Robert Ubaldo and partner Lucia Leone are working nonstop to get the former Bistro Bonne Nuit space ready for business. NewCanaanite.com received an impromptu peek at the new Farmer’s Table space, which will feature an open kitchen and rustic design in addition to the sidewalk patio.

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Farmer’s Table To Reopen with Expanded Seating, Menu in New Forest Street Space

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The Farmer’s Table restaurant on Forest Street on Tuesday closed its doors at number 21 as it started moving equipment and furniture across the road to number 12, where it’ll open within a couple of weeks, its chef and owner said. “That ought to be confusing enough, flipping those numbers around,” Robert Ubaldo said with a smile from the sunny sidewalk of New Canaan’s “Restaurant Row.” Ubaldo said a part of him is sad to leave the spot where the restaurant started three-plus years ago—formerly the Lindner motorcycle shop located next to the old Griffin Ford dealership. “It still had parts in the basement when we moved in,” Ubaldo recalled. A mixed residential-and-retail space is planned for the second half of the downtown Forest Street block.