Where is the Ur-Connecticut Muffin?....

queencallipygos · February 2009

Okay -- people snark on the Connecticut Muffin franchise before for being a kind of early-gentrifying agent, but I've kind of got a soft spot for them because I actually grew up in Connecticut, a state which honestly was so boring that the thought of it being known for anything just makes me chuckle.

But I recently started wondering -- where was the FIRST Connecticut Muffin? Because, actually, I never even saw a Connecticut Muffin when I was living IN Connecticut -- and come to think of it, I never saw one when I was living in Manhattan. Yet I know of six in Brooklyn. For some reason it seems to be a Brooklyn-only franchise.

Is that just my imagination? Is there really a Connecticut Muffin in Danbury somewhere or something? Or is this indeed a Brooklyn-only thing?

Google only turns up a list of all the Brooklyn CT Muffin shops, and a link to a CT muffin web site which is still under construction.

anastasia beaverhausen · February 2009

I visit my mom in the Danbury area and I don't think I've ever seen one up there...?

jamesburger · February 2009

Subject: Park Slope?

Maybe I'll be corrected, but I had heard years ago that the first one was the one was on 7th Ave and 1st St in Park Slope. Unfortunately, I had read that fact in an article shortly after the founder was murdered in a robbery at his shop on Prince St in Manhattan during the summer of 1999.

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