That's the saucy "hump day" 1/2-price drink (for women) night at the Griswold Inn's Wine Bar. A bona fide hot spot, this impressively cosmopolitan lounge draws a sophisticated crowd from surrounding sleepy 'burbs and beyond. We found the last two available seats at the bar on a Saturday night, where our inviting--and quite pregnant--German bartender Ines and chatty, playful locals joined us for a terrific selection of "wine flights" and tasty samplings of micro-sized appetizers. We closed out our evening of great food, drink, atmosphere and jovial, stimulating conversation with an ultra-quiet moonlit walk to Essex's historic waterfront on the Connecticut River, where we dangled our feet off the end of the dock.
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