How we spot Connecticut openings

What we read

• Connecticut DCP liquor licenses
• Connecticut Secretary of the State business registry

Connecticut's Department of Consumer Protection publishes every restaurant, café, tavern and package store liquor license, including pending ones and 90-day provisional ones.

How we decide what's new

We read them every day and keep the ones that say pending, or provisional with a final inspection still required. Then we sort them into five regions by town.

What can go wrong

A provisional license with a final inspection due is about as close to opening day as public data gets. Volumes are small, because Connecticut is small. We never count a company filing as an opening.

A record is a signal, not a promise. Some businesses open late, rename or never open. If a listing about your business is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.

What this doesn't cover

What this covers. Places that will sell alcohol. It's a small list: Connecticut publishes no list of new shops, and no food-license data we could find. New company registrations are listed separately and never counted as openings. Pending applications carry no date in the state file, so they show the day we first read them, not the day they were filed.

Sources: Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection liquor license records. Written from the public records themselves; check with the agency for anything legal or binding.

More guides

• What a Connecticut provisional liquor license tells you
• Why a Connecticut company filing isn't an opening