Internet Swoons As TikTok Stars Nara & Lucky Blue Smith Visit Danbury

DANBURY, CT — A couple of Hat City hotspots got some international attention this past week when a top social media influencer shared her Danbury day with her followers.

The 23-year-old TikTok phenom Nara Smith and her husband, model Lucky Blue Smith, rolled into town at the start of their hunt for a new home in Connecticut.

The fashion model couple rose to TikTok stardom on the back of videos which record her making elaborate meals from scratch, usually while wearing high-end couture. The video of her visits to local eateries, posted on Sept. 2, was the latest in her popular "What I Eat In A Day" series, in which she records for her 9.5 million followers …what she eats in a day. It's all quite simple, really.

The globetrotting couple began their shared day with breakfast at Arden's Rowayton, a Norwalk café.

"I need multiple beverages," Nara confesses on the vlog, "so I had a matcha latte, orange juice, hot chocolate and some tea."

She also ordered mushroom toast with over-easy eggs: "They weren't quite perfect, but it still worked."

After a visit to an unnamed stable and orchard to pick apples and plums, it was time for lunch.

"Pizza seems to be a staple around here," Nara muses to 6.2 million viewers as of Thursday morning, "so we went to this pizza place that looked really good."

Good call. That "pizza place" was Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana at 59 Federal Road in Danbury. After a l'il something to start ("just a simple salad, nothing groundbreaking…"), the couple ordered slices of margherita pizza, as well as pepperoni pizza with some peppers and onion.

This time, the praise was not faint.

"Obviously, had to top our slices with some Parmesan cheese and chili flakes. And this was actually really, really good. I ended up having half of the pepperoni and half of the margherita one," Nara said.

No visit to Danbury would be complete without checking out the Danbury Fair Mall, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith were the perfect tourists.

She did have one not-so-small dust-up with mall culture, however. After sinking her perfect teeth into a Cinnabon roll, Nara declared the suburban staple "vile," wondering "why these are so popular."

Next, the South African-born German supermodel, "craving some meat," dined at the LongHorn Steakhouse, which sits in the mall's parking lot. Her husband ordered a spinach artichoke dip, while Nara caved to her hankerings with a "classic steak and fries."

The whirlwind tour of Fairfield County comfort food go-to's came as the couple began their quest for a new place to live. They have recently decided to move here from Texas, where they have resided since 2022.

"We want a slower life, being in a more quiet area, having more space, being able to get some chickens and start gardening," Nara said in an earlier TikTok video, which showed her and Lucky house hunting.

The power couple apparently doesn't play when it comes to real estate, either.

"We're so picky with our houses," Nara admits, explaining to viewers that she knew she would have to renovate whatever house they ended up buying anyway. "So we're looking for a good layout … that feeling of knowing that this is our home."

The model gave a walkthrough of one of the contenders, with an indoor pool that she "absolutely loved." She didn't name the town, but it appeared deep in the woods and about as conceptually far away from Downtown Danbury as it could be.

"There was plenty of space to garden in the back and put in a basketball court, since that's one of Lucky's priorities," the celebrity "tradwife" said in the video, which has earned 14.7 million views.

Nara told her viewers that she "loves an historical home," which should have made the one she walked through on TikTok a slam dunk. Unfortunately, there was one deal breaking problem.

"Even though I adored this house, we were just too tall to make this work."

It's not easy being a fashion model in architecturally historic Connecticut.