click to enlarge Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Ricotta tortelli with confit tomatoes Three years after the original Hen of the Wood opened at Waterbury's 92 Stowe Street in 2005, Mark Bittman of the New York Times penned an effusive love letter to what he declared "among the most beautiful little restaurants I know." Bittman detailed the setting "in a former mill next to a rushing stream" where "outside seats, on fine summer nights, are downright Arcadian." He described the dining room, in which "layered slate walls are graced by votive candles, and the main structural supports are century-old beams.

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