Zao Ze Café has temporarily taken over the kitchen at Tao Yuan.
Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine Gardener: These Maine-designed dresses give a whole new meaning to floral pattern
Just don’t put these outfits in the laundry.
Bar Guide: Get in the spirit with no-fuss infusions
Making your own flavored alcohol is surprisingly easy.
Run & Eat: Minato Express offers Japanese in a jiff
Popular Portland restaurant Izakaya Minato is making inexpensive bento boxes and more for pickup.
Dine In Maine: Dinner Plus One explores restaurant-grocer hybrids, beginning at Local 188
Order a prepared meal for one night and pick up the ingredients for a second for the next.
Our dads and granddads were an undemanding lot at the table
As an entire generation of fathers and grandfathers leaves us, we remember the food they loved (American chop suey, pup-gullion, biscuits) and the experiences that shaped their palates.
Green Plate Special: Eat more lobster — this is the kind of ask we really like
The lobster industry has been hit hard this year. Here’s a recipe to help you do your bit to help them.
Vegan Kitchen: The new ‘Maine Bicentennial Cookbook’ reveals the state’s vegetarian flavors
While by no means a vegetarian cookbook, a number of the recipes have a vegetarian or vegan bent.
Maine Gardener: It’s not too late. Plant now, eat later
Borrow a technique from farmers called succession planting.
As strawberry season begins, pick-your-own farms adjust to coronavirus guidelines
The restrictions will sound familiar – wash your hands, wear a mask, keep your distance and more – with a few rules specific to berry picking.