Hartford's Front Street arts and entertainment district stirring from COVID-19 doldrums

Customers poured through the doors of Bear’s Smokehouse for a 90-minute lunch break during the Mary Kay cosmetics convention at the nearby Connecticut Convention Center in March.

“We had three to four hundred come in that hour-and-a-half,” said Tyler Burrill, director of operations for the restaurant. “This place was packed.”

That’s a refreshing difference from the past couple years, when COVID-19 shut down entertainment venues that fed restaurants and shops in the Front Street District.

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