The Golden Dish has reviewed Timber.
The double-thick (huge) pork chop had a wonderful glaze of Maine blueberry sauce, more pungent than sweet. It’s local pork, too, though not pastured but corn fed. It had great flavor and was exceedingly tender for such a thick cut. It’s flash-grilled at very high heat, the secret to making cuts like this buttery soft.
Wednesday — the Monument Square Farmers Market is taking place.
Thursday — several Maine restaurants will be in NYC competing in the Lobster Roll Rumble, and the Great Lost Bear is showcasing beer from Smuttynose.
Friday — CN Shawarma (facebook, twitter, instagram) is launching their new food truck, the movie Craft is being screened at Allagash, and the first Flea Bites food truck street festival in is taking place at the Portland Flea for All.
Saturday — the 10th Annual Vegetarian Food Festival is taking place as is the Deering Oaks Farmers Market, it’s the 3rd Annual Maine Open Winery Day and Leroux will be having a wine tasting.
Sunday — the 41st Annual Parking Old Port Festival is taking place.
Negroni Week — the Hunt & Alpine club is participating in Imbibe magazine’s Negroni Week charity event. As part of the program Hunt & Alpine will be donating $2 to Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Southern Maine for every Classic Negroni, Barrel-Aged Negroni, and Sbagliato (bubbly negroni) sold June 2-8.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.
Lolita (facebook, website) is now open at 90 Congress Street. The restaurant is a partnership between Guy and Stella Hernandez, formerly of Bar Lola, and partner Neil Reiter. The restaurant serves a Mediterranean menu, and has an extensive wine list.
For more on the restaurant check-out Blueberry Files, Urban Eye, Spoon & Shutter and Eater Maine for photos from the press event last week.
The 10 eateries looked up most often on Portland Food Map in May were:
The numbers in parentheses indicates their rank last month.
Today’s Maine Sunday Telegram includes an interview with Kristen Bartlett, the Whole Foods staffer who tracks down locally made foods for the store’s shelves,
Is this a problem for her at parties? Is she swarmed by local farmers, waving organic broccoli and apple butters? Not yet, she says, though she wonders what will happen after her photo is published in Source.
and an article about Uni being declared the “new bacon” by Food & Wine magazine.
High-end restaurants in major cities have been experimenting with uni for a while, Branchina said. What’s more interesting to him is the big jump Browne Trading has seen in retail sales online: a 54 percent increase between 2012 and 2013, and so far in 2014, up 93 percent from the previous January to May.
