If you’re looking for a good workout, stop in to Exhale Stamford and you’ll be put on the right track. This multi-purpose exercise facility specializes in core work that will strengthen and tone your full body.

The core fusion workouts here are fast-paced, intensive programs that use weights, balls, bands, and your own body to develop flexibility and muscle strength. Exhale also boasts a solid program of yoga classes targeted to practitioners of all skill levels. Finally, cardio freaks rave about the studio's cycling class, which mixes high-intensity spinning with a closing segment of mat work.

The space is clean and minimal, and instructors are all very skilled. Exhale offers an incredible deal for new guests where $99 buys you a month of unlimited yoga, cycling, and core fusion classes. It’s a great deal that will whip you in shape faster than you can believe! Note that the studio can get crowded on Saturdays.

Exhale Stamford
2200 Atlantic Street
Stamford, CT 06902
(203) 391-5350
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If you’re looking to eat some awesomely fresh fish, locals will steer you towards the Darien Seafood Market. First opened in the 1980s, this place has been an institution for more than a generation. The owners source their product from the best regional fishermen and sell it at a fair price, even giving you tips on how to cook it.

If you dig lobster, you can get great ones here in season. If you don’t feel like sweating in the kitchen, there are chefs on-site who will fry up your choice expertly. Th market even sell pre-made meals that you can heat and eat later. Go for the great clambake in a box, the shrimp platters, or the stuffed clams. Darien Seafood Market also sells high-grade sushi and sashimi, depending on what the daily catch is. If you feel like dessert, it even has ice cream.

Darien Seafood Market
1941 Post Road
Darien, CT 06820
(203) 655-9124
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Splashy abstract paintings from Massachusetts-born Frank Stella. Bronze sculptures of the human form by Colombian Alejandro Hernandez. Mixed-media portraits of modern-day scenes by Brazilian painter Fernando Ferreira de Araujo. The art collection at Stamford's Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery is an eclectic mix of contemporary masterpieces, and that's just the way founder and namesake Fernando Luis Alvarez envisioned it.

A contemporary artist himself, Alvarez never quite found a gallery space that adequately catered to his works. That's why he decided to open his own gallery, giving the creations of other modern artists a home. His gallery features the cream of the crop from the U.S. and abroad in an effort to bolster the artistic community in Stamford. In fact, the gallery has gained such popularity among artists that it's completely booked up with international artists—many of whom have had their works showcased at various venues scattered all over the globe. However, Alvarez always reviews new submissions so as not to let any masterpiece slip through his fingers.

Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery
96 Bedford Street
Stamford, CT 06901
(888) 861-6791
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