HRG owns about half the real estate it occupies.īut all restaurants largely offer a similar experience with reasonably priced pub food, party rooms, outdoor patio seating and food, desserts and dressings all made on-site. Some restaurants are in free-standing buildings (Vernon), while others are in large shopping centers (Newington).
Wood-n-Tap locations vary depending on where you’re dining. The partners in 2002 acquired several buildings that included The Keg, a popular Italian-American family restaurant located on Hartford’s Sisson and Capitol avenues. HRG began to form around that time with founding partners Barnett and Quijano, who met at CCSU, and Hamlin and McAvoy. Hamlin and his now wife also lived there. Hamlin, 51, also served as a busboy, cook and kitchen manager for a variety of restaurant chains in Greater Hartford and broke into the mortgage business in the late 1990s.Īt that time, Barnett and his wife, then his fiance, actually lived in a multifamily house Hamlin built in New Britain around 2000. The extensive whiskey selection focused on American varieties, with a few Japanese, Irish and Scottish bottles, along with some single-barrel whiskeys chosen specifically for the restaurant.Barnett, 45, a Windham native, attended Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) for a short stint but ultimately opted for a steady paycheck in the restaurant business moving his way up from a dishwasher, server, bartender and eventually to a partner of The Half Door pub in Hartford in 1998. Que’s menu was centered around dry-rubbed and smoked meats: brisket, pulled pork, pulled chicken, kielbasa, baby back ribs and chicken wings. The restaurant currently seated 135, but had a sizable patio.
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Anyone interested can inquire at the statement says.įormerly home to a sports bar, Que Whiskey Kitchen had a modern rustic decor, with wooden tables and booths, whimsical wall hangings, a collage of old license plates in the shape of a pig) and floor to ceiling chalk murals displaying facts and figures about bourbon and whiskey, along with its chemical formulas. Other Connecticut locations include Vernon, Enfield, Newington, Rocky Hill, Farmington, Hartford, Wallingford and Hamden.īarnett said in the statement that he has received several offers to buy or lease the Que site and is entertaining proposals a he and Hamlin, decide what to do with the Southington property. Hartford Restaurant Group recently opened its first out of state Wood-n-Tap restaurant in West Springfield, Mass.
The Facebook post invites customers to eat at Wood-n-Tap restaurants, including the Queen Street location in Southington.īesides Que, Hartford Restaurant Group operates nine Wood-n-Tap restaurants in Connecticut. For any other questions on gift cards email we are sad to say goodbye, we will cherish the memories and the relationships that we have built during our time in business,” the Facebook post states. Those with Que gift cards can redeem them at any Wood-n-Tap location, the statement says. Yet another wrote, “This was a great place to eat!” One customer exclaimed, “No!” writing that their chicken and waffles were “the best.”Īnother fan on Facebook wrote that the news is “Absolutely terrible/sad,” and went on to say another eatery “can’t hold a candle to Que kitchen!” Lindsay Bukowinski / Hartford CourantQue Whiskey Kitchen cocktails.įans of the restaurant poured out their hearts on Facebook.
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