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Our Woven Community Sells Handmade Accessories while Supporting Refugee Artists

Artists with Our Woven Community speak with customers at the Wakeman Town Farm Sustainable Goods Market this afternoon. The Bridgeport-based Burroughs Center, who organizes the program, describes it as “a Burroughs program that provides local resettled refugee women the opportunity to become self-sufficient leaders and become empowered with entrepreneurial skills and economic opportunity.” Handmade goods included purses, laptop cases, wallets, and clothing items - with 100% of the sales going to the artists and program expenses. More information or goods can be found at their website: burroughscenter.org. WestportLocal.com photo

Artists with Our Woven Community speak with customers at the Wakeman Town Farm Sustainable Goods Market this afternoon. The Bridgeport-based Burroughs Center, who organizes the program, describes it as “a Burroughs program that provides local resettled refugee women the opportunity to become self-sufficient leaders and become empowered with entrepreneurial skills and economic opportunity.” Handmade goods included purses, laptop cases, wallets, and clothing items - with 100% of the sales going to the artists and program expenses. More information or goods can be found at their website: burroughscenter.org. WestportLocal.com photo

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Ice Cream Float: Cockenoe Island Ice Cream Boat Sails Again for Summer 2021

Fairfield residents Tobey Sappern, Matt McManus, and Jon Morris float through Cockenoe Island Lagoon as hands and shouts of boats anchored nearby hail the floating ice cream barge for a frozen treat. The boys pilot their center console with on-board ice cream storage through the lagoon each weekend; grabbing an ice cream quickly becoming a newly found tradition for many of the families enjoying the island. WestportLocal.com photo

Fairfield residents Tobey Sappern, Matt McManus, and Jon Morris float through Cockenoe Island Lagoon as hands and shouts of boats anchored nearby hail the floating ice cream barge for a frozen treat. The boys pilot their center console with on-board ice cream storage through the lagoon each weekend; grabbing an ice cream quickly becoming a newly found tradition for many of the families enjoying the island. WestportLocal.com photo

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Pick Up Hand-Crafted, Asian-Inspired Food at Little Dumpling House 

Little Dumpling House team with co-owners Healey and Gilhuly (third and fourth from the left).

Words by Cami Vynerib.

Photos by Cami Vynerib and Little Dumpling House.

Molly Healey and Charlie Gilhuly bring Little Dumpling House to Westport, featuring Asian-inspired food-to-go. Run in the same kitchen as Grammie’s Donuts & Biscuits, Little Dumpling House is a ghost kitchen where you can pick up hand-crafted food to bring home, or maybe to Compo Beach for an evening picnic.

Molly Healey has been a chef for almost 10 years and owned a catering company for some time. After opening Grammie’s Donuts & Biscuits with her partner, Charlie Gilhuly, the pair decided to open up another restaurant using the same kitchen space in the evening. They found that there weren’t a lot of good takeout restaurants anymore, so they “wanted to make something that people could pick up and take home to enjoy.”

Almost immediately, the kitchen picked up momentum, and they’ve gotten amazing feedback. Some customer favorites include dumplings (shumai, potstickers, and rangoon), crispy duck buns, and chicken katsu.

To order, check out the Little Dumpling House’s website.




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New Neighbors: Salsa Fresca to Post Road East

Salsa Fresca has claimed its stake at 275 Post Road East, with the fast-food Mexican restaurant quietly announcing last week its future opening. The chain was founded in 2008 with one location, and now has 11 locations throughout New York and Connecticut. The location will be the first for Fairfield County. According to their website, the restaurant describes “With no freezers in our restaurants, we take the freshest ingredients and prepare them on site, following recipes that were exclusively developed by our in-house culinary team, and serve food we serve our own families …and that you will be proud to serve, too.” Prior to Salsa Fresca, Qdoba - another fast-food mexican restaurant chain - occupied the space until their closure in 2018, around the same time that the Qdoba brand was sold from Jack in the Box to Apollo Global Management for $305 million.

Salsa Fresca has claimed its stake at 275 Post Road East, with the fast-food Mexican restaurant quietly announcing last week its future opening. The chain was founded in 2008 with one location, and now has 11 locations throughout New York and Connecticut. The location will be the first for Fairfield County. According to their website, the restaurant describes “With no freezers in our restaurants, we take the freshest ingredients and prepare them on site, following recipes that were exclusively developed by our in-house culinary team, and serve food we serve our own families …and that you will be proud to serve, too.”

Prior to Salsa Fresca, Qdoba - another fast-food mexican restaurant chain - occupied the space until their closure in 2018, around the same time that the Qdoba brand was sold from Jack in the Box to Apollo Global Management for $305 million.

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