Cava Wine Bar & Restaurant
Written by Melanie Barnard
December 2, 2004 - This lower level space home to Cava Wine Bar & Restaurant is New Canaan’s equivalent of a downtown flatiron building, and it does look a bit like a cave... the new owners have made dramatic improvements in the place whose claim to fame used to be a big motorcycle inside the door...
A small wine bar tucked in the rear is notable for its attractive, comfortable and intimate feel, and for the fine and diverse wine list available both by the bottle and the glass. The pizza oven remains, but the pizzas emerging from it are fewer and more polished, with crispy thin crusts for the three cheese, artichoke and chicken; the pancetta-laced white clam and shrimp with caramelized garlic; and the classic rendition of a Neopolitan pizza with a light tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella and basil, and sliced fresh tomatoes.
Like the pizzas, the rest of the menu is completely new, fresh, upscale...
The owners of Cava are brothers Vicente and Kleber Siguenza, whose impressive credentials include managing a stellar list of of local restaurants including DaPietro in Westport, Barcelona in SoNo, Quattro Pazzi in Fairfield, and Paci in Southport. Thus it comes as no surprise that the presentations and service are outstanding here...