Their creative offerings show how kitchens on wheels can enhance the diversity of Portland’s dining options.
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Can the curse be broken on these high-turnover Old Port restaurant spots?
A new crop of occupants believe they’ve figured out how to break the pattern in these challenging locations.
Demand for underused fish species grows slowly but surely in Maine
The trend may have something to do with a three-year-old Gulf of Maine Research Institute effort to get restaurants to serve less-traditional catches.
Boys Club members don their best clothes, manners for a night at Portland’s Chaval
Eleven youths with the local Boys Club get another stamp on their Passport to Manhood.
A week to drink in Portland’s wine scene
The inaugural Portland Wine Week includes a long list of classes, tasting events, seminars and wine dinners.
The Wrap: Mobile Noble food truck to bring barbecue to the Portland peninsula
Other news from Maine restaurants involves sweets, seaweed and more.
To cook up a real taste of Maine, some chefs find it takes Moxie
Chefs enjoy the challenge of cooking with the love-it-or-really-hate-it, quintessentially Maine soda.
The Wrap: Lots of ‘news’ for Portland consumers – the eating kind, that is
Lio, Duckfat Frites Shack and the second Elsmere open.
Dine Out Maine: Front Room’s delightful service mitigates sometimes uneven meals
More than a dozen years on, the restaurant still packs the house with lovers of meatloaf and macaroni and cheese and other comfort foods.
Why Maine’s chronically crowded restaurants won’t take reservations
While such policies can infuriate customers, local restaurateurs counter that hospitality doesn’t mean taking a reservation – it means treating customers well.