If you are dining with a large party and do not see availability, please call the restaurant.   When chef-owner Galen Sampson and his co-owner wife, Bridget, renovated their Hamden restaurant a few years back, they decided to personalize it with murals. But instead of hiring an artist and stepping back, they went a different route by bringing the staff to a farm to sketch, and having a local artist take those doodles and create large stencils of them, which the staff then painted on the walls. Chef Sampson says he likes that former servers can come into the restaurant and point out their contributions to the distinctively decorated restaurant, which also features mismatched tables and chairs, Christmas lights, star-shaped paper lanterns and wine racks. This is the backdrop for Sampson’s artistic and ultra-local cuisine, for which he enlists sustainable and organic ingredients whenever he can. Wild Maryland rockfish is here today, gone tomorrow – available only when in season. And Big City Farms must have had a bumper crop of kale, its leaves gracing many of the dinner plates one late-summer night – including the Local Kale Caesar topped with a lovely (and vegan) horseradish Caesar-style dressing. For those who want a personalized experience, diners can call the restaurant and request that the chef create a tasting menu for groups small and large. It’s generally six courses in tasting-sized portions for $150 with wine pairings, $95 without. But we’d happily return just for a big plate of his beef brisket sided by green-chile cornbread – a plate that is anything but “tasting-sized.”