Ownership of Bridgeport’s iconic Bloodroot announced on its Facebook page the restaurant will close after nearly 50 years in business.
Dear friends,
As perhaps you may know by now, Bloodroot will be closing on December 21, 2025 after 48 amazing and wonderful years in business. This decision, though sad, is also necessary given many factors in our lives at this time.
We’ve chosen December 21st because it is the day of the Winter Solstice (which means sun standing still) and heralds the beginning of the return of the light. The days start to get longer and it is a time for hope and celebration.
We hope you will continue to visit us during our usual business hours in the remaining weeks that we are open.
Selma Miriam and Noel Furie founded Bloodroot in 1977, two culinary ambassadors that made the destination a landmark at the end of Ferris Street along Black Rock Harbor. They touched the pleasure centers of thousands with their groundbreaking feminist-bookstore-vegan restaurant concept enriching both brain and belly.
But it was much more than that, a gathering spot for women to share freedom of expression, ideas and civic points of view that didn’t always sit well with government authority.
I was a raw scribe with the Bridgeport Post and Telegram, predecessor papers of the Connecticut Post, when Bloodroot launched against the odds, financial institutions leery to back a revolutionary concept led by female ownership.
Selma pass away in February.
