The Old Port restaurant has a weekday happy hour menu with drink specials and small plates.
Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Run & Eat: At Dina’s Cuisine, the name has changed but the food has not
The menu at the former Ameera Bread in Portland offers a tour of the Middle East and parts of the Mediterranean.
Green Plate Special: New UMaine program helps towns to turn food waste into ‘black gold’
At home, you can put sour milk to use in pancakes.
Grow: onions
Onions are a wonderful plant to grow because, if things go well, you can eat them beginning in June and keep eating them all the way to March. People who start their seeds inside can start them as early as February. Now is the time to plant seedlings or onion sets – which are dried […]
Maine Gardener: Plant sales have returned
And more farmers are getting in on the action, offering their own seedling sales. But take care you don’t transfer any pests — plant or insect — with your new plants.
Dine Out Maine: A once and future critic
What was, what is, what will be. Critic Andrew Ross ponders how to return to restaurant criticism after the pandemic convulsion.
The mothers of the baking world, sourdough starters worth celebrating too
Meet the cultures, also known as ‘mothers,’ that are behind the local breads you love.
Republicans are pulling out the steaks as they turn culture war into a food fight
Already, in farm states, meat eating has joined abortion, gun control and transgender rights as an issue that quickly sends partisans to their corners.
The Wrap: Openings, reopenings and renovations
Camden pop-up serves smoked eel dirty rice, Portland restaurants reopen, and a second helping of Maine recipes.
Tap Lines: Surprise, brown ales don’t have to be boring
Maine breweries are playing with the old style in new ways.