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.
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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.
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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.
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The Wrap: Mobile Noble food truck to bring barbecue to the Portland peninsula
Other news from Maine restaurants involves sweets, seaweed and more.
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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.
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The Wrap: Lots of ‘news’ for Portland consumers – the eating kind, that is
Lio, Duckfat Frites Shack and the second Elsmere open.
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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.
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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.
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To retain workers, one Chick-fil-A owner is starting to pay $18 an hour
In a tightening labor market, he says it’s worth it to have consistency for his employees and their relationships with customers.
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Latest Maine dining trend: Eat in a seat at a table on the street
A change in law will allow restaurants to serve alcohol in areas not physically connected to their buildings – such as on a platform built over a parking space – which some think adds to the vibrancy of a downtown.