But the family-friendly, farm-to-table restaurant can wobble when it stretches to global cuisine.
Food
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Green Plate Special: An empty nester brushes up on cooking for 2
How to avoid overeating, over-shopping, wasting food, wasting money and eating a joyless diet of leftovers.
Maine Gardener: Enjoy leaf-peeping season in your own backyard
These shrubs produce beautiful fall colors and berries, extending the garden season.
Cookbook review: Please give us more of the excellent writing in ‘Extra Helping’
Along with the prose, Janet Reich Elsbach’s new cookbook contains recipes intended to sustain new parents, new neighbors, ill and recovering patients and the grief-stricken.
The Wrap: A shot at free pizza for a year, and a steep dinner check for 65
The new owner of Pat’s Pizza plans to open a speakeasy and give away lots of pizza, and a fundraiser for hungry youths is looking for benefactors who will pay handsomely to feed them.
Sweet Justice: Ice cream for criminal justice reform
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has unveiled Justice ReMix’d, a new flavor to highlight what it calls racism and a broken criminal justice system.
Tap Lines: Baxter says goodbye to founder and shifts focus
The Lewiston brewery plans to tweak its branding and beer lineup.
Before you recycle that jar, reuse it
Rather than waste water to wash used food jars and tubs, first make vinaigrette, dessert sauce, sweetener for tea and more right in the containers.
At USM’s renovated Brooks Dining Hall, vegans will eat better
The cafeteria heard student complaints about the lack of options – and took a big step forward.
Volunteers hope to restore the original Peary gardens on Eagle Island
But it’s not as straightforward as weed, till and plant.