Hartford's D&D Market Brings Decades-Old Italian-American Grocery To Suburbs

Nov 15, 2014 1086

By Kenneth R. Gosselin

As the third-generation steward of D&D Market in the city's South End, Daniel D'Aprile Sr. keeps close to tradition, right down to using his grandfather's recipe for homemade sausage. But D'Aprile isn't stuck in the past.

On Thursday, the family-owned, Italian-American grocery store — founded in 1932 in Hartford and a landmark on Franklin Avenue since the early 1960s — will announce its first-ever expansion into the suburbs. D'Aprile has an agreement to buy the former Bliss Market property in Wethersfield and hopes to have his second store open before Christmas.

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Source: http://www.courant.com/

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