Jasmine Thai
470 Bank St., New London
(860) 442-999
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Even if we wanted to forget Jasmine Thai which we don’t both my wife Eileen and I pass it at least twice a day en route.
It’s been almost three decades since Stephanie Hayes Houlihan and Walter Houlihan opened their Water Street Cafe in Stonington borough, and the restaurant is more popular than ever these days.
Locals.
Stonington Water Street Café co-owner Stephanie Hayes-Houlihan was glad U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal visited her establishment Wednesday afternoon.
As a way to both better understand the struggles of business owners during the COVID-19 pandemic and promote how a new stimulus package can help restaurants such as Hayes-Houlihan’s, Blumenthal went to Match Restaurant in South Norwalk and Water Street Café on Wednesday. He met with the owners of each restaurant to discuss maintaining their businesses amid a downturn caused by the pandemic.
Blumenthal and Hayes-Houlihan said they’d talked early on in the pandemic about the challenges facing restaurants. He spoke of the need for funds among small businesses throughout the state and country.
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CT restaurant owners consider loans, house sales to keep afloat
Over 600 restaurants have closed since the pandemic began, according to the CT Restaurant Association, which says it could be thousands without more government help.
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Gina Legnani-Pellrine, owner of Rodd s Restaurant, holds a sign she made in protest to limiting indoor dining capacity to 50%, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in Bristol, Conn. Small restaurant owners in Connecticut are taking out loans, forgoing their paychecks and charging on credit cards to remain in business as the coronavirus pandemic continues. But with winter putting an end to indoor dining and increased cases scaring off customers, some are uncertain what other financial tricks they can turn to. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)