Cava Wine Bar & Restaurant
Written by Elise Maclay
February, 2010 - Come with me to the Cava. If you dig architecture and design, this subtle but striking transformation of a storefront restaurant in New Canaan has a message for you... In the coolest way imaginable, the sleek premises evoke the subterranean charms of a wine cellar in Tuscany...
I’ve never had a better [Pane Cotto] outside Italy...
I am equally enthusiastic about the Northumberland oysters. Briefly wood-fired, they emerge warm and still redolent of the sea, their tangy flinty flavor enhanced by a smidgen of aged white balsamic-lime mignonette...
Other highlights included grilled fresh Montauk calamari, osso buco with saffron-scented risotto Milanese, and oven-roasted Long Island duck with cherry demiglace.
Cava opened in October, but owners Vicente and Kleber Siguenza, natives of Cuenca, Ecuador, have lots of local experience — Da Pietro’s in Westport, Barcelona in South Norwalk, Quattro Pazzi in Fairfield, Paci in Southport.
The chef, Scott Eckenrod, has an impressive résumé and a distinctive way of cooking that caught my attention when he was the opening chef at Liana’s in Fairfield.