Portland indoor farmers market returns. Send us your favorite recipes for our virtual cookie swap.
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Maine restaurants wary of more COVID shutdowns
Restaurant owners say they are being unfairly labeled as ‘super-spreaders,’ and if the state orders them to close, they will need some financial relief.
The Wrap: Burgers from Big Tree, restaurants get winter relief
Luke’s Lobster starts a ‘New Maine Food’ promotion that features recipes from new Mainers, and a workshop teaches holiday piemaking.
Run & Eat: When one seafood shop closes, a paella place opens
Paella Seafood replaced Miller Brothers on Forest Avenue, bringing a new type of fish dish to the Portland food scene.
Dine In Maine: Bringing the Beard awards home with Drifters Wife
Part 3 in a series in which we share a recipe from a 2020 Beard Award finalist.
The Wrap: A reopening, a closing and a pivot
Speckled Ax plans a new coffee roastery, Cong Tu Bot reopens a wee bit, and MOFGA opens a holiday shop in Freeport.
Run & Eat: At Speckled Ax Waterfront, the food is as good as the coffee
And that’s saying something.
Rising career in food world brings Lidey Heuck back to Maine
The food blogger and recipe developer, who worked for Ina Garten after graduating from Bowdoin, spent the summer cooking at The Lost Kitchen in Freedom.
The Wrap: New seafood market, new Turkish bakery, new dessert shop
SoPo Seafood plans a retail shop in South Portland, Turkish coffee and pastries come to Freeport, and pies where doughnuts used to be in the Old Port.
Dine In/Out Maine: An East End recharge
Before winter closes in, we take a tour of the good food still to be had (and the places we still miss) in Portland’s East End.