For many Maine-based producers and restaurateurs, the month of October has been associated with Maine’s largest food festival, Harvest on the Harbor since 2007. Aiming to create a chance for attendees to meet many of the hardworking folks who have helped gain national acclaim for the Portlan…
2018 is already more than halfway in the books, and it’s been yet another year of explosive growth for the Portland dining scene. While there’s no shortage of splurge-worthy area meals to sink one’s teeth into, the hunt for cheap eats is as challenging as ever.
“Where should I go for a lobster roll?”
On the morning of Friday, June 8, I woke up in a shitty hotel room in Ellsworth, Maine with a pounding headache from the previous evening’s excess. I was on the road filming two episodes of my web series, Food Coma TV, and it hadn’t taken long for things to plow off the rails. I rolled over …
Loyalty goes a long way in a town with as much restaurant turnover as Portland, and the food truck-to-restaurant transition is becoming more common amongst mobile kitchens. Small Axe, a well-loved food truck, started the trend when they took over East Ender. More recently, C.N. Shawarma beca…
Walk into a Rosemont Market today, and it'd be difficult to imagine a time not long ago that farm-fresh vegetables and local meats and cheeses were the exclusive domain of farmers' markets.
Of all the cuisines to have emerged, developed and propagated throughout the world, it is the French that most often get associated with culinary arts. Chalk it up to stereotypes, countless televised hours of Julia Child on The French Chef, groupthink or any combination of the above — we are…
Pete Sueltenfuss is the owner of the Other Side Delicatessen and the first thing he wants you to know is that his Deli is not a Jewish Deli. Not that he has anything against Jewish delis, this just isn’t one of them. Pete and I sat down for coffee at Yordprom Coffee Co. and he told me exactl…
A new Portland delivery service launched last week called Snacks on Snacks which — you guessed it — brings popular snack foods right to your door.
With over 600 food establishments in greater Portland, deciding where to eat can be daunting. To get an idea of folks' true opinions, I canvassed five knowledgeable and respectable individuals in the food industry and asked them a number of questions about dining out.
How to make sense of the chalkboard menu at Island Creek Oysters, a new restaurant and shop on Washington Avenue? One side is fresh and accessible, with varieties of local oysters cold and alive for $1.50 a pop. The other side is the opposite, with an assortment of expensive fish, sealed up …
Years ago, the running joke around town was that the best Chinese food in Portland required a drive to Boston, which actually held some weight until Empire Chinese Kitchen brought its take on traditional Cantonese cuisine to the city in 2013. Then came Bao Bao’s addictive dumplings just one …
“For me, baking bread and pies is the culmination of my life’s journeys.
Neighborhoods change slowly and if you’re not looking closely, you may not even notice. Until now that is.
Restaurateur Jordan Andino (of the Filipino taquerias Flip Sigi and 2nd City, both in Manhattan) has landed what many would call a “dream job” in hosting Cooking Channel’s Late Night Eats, a new series chronicling after-hours dining and imbibing throughout North America. Portland joined Mont…
In the new film The Trip to Spain, the British actor/comedian Steve Coogan carries a book as he travels from Cantabria to Andalusia, on assignment reviewing restaurants for the New York Times. The book is Laurie Lee’s chronicle of traveling Spain in the 1930s, just before the fascists overth…