Month: June 2020

Update: A combined outdoor/indoor dining list has been published. This page is no longer being kept up to date.

The Governor’s office has announced that restaurants can resume indoor dining in Cumberland, York and Androscoggin counties as of Wednesday.

The Mills Administration announced today that indoor dining in Androscoggin, Cumberland, and York counties can voluntarily resume on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 with added health and safety protocols outlined in the COVID-19 Prevention Checklist. The decision to allow inside dining in these three counties follows a plateauing of new cases in recent weeks, based on the 14-day moving average, as well as the stabilization of hospital rates in the same counties. Previously, only outside dining, takeaway, and delivery services were permitted at restaurants in these three counties. With this change, restaurants statewide will now be open to both inside and outside dining with added health and safety precautions.

Restaurants have started announcing plans to restart indoor dining:

• Blue Spoon – June 19th
• CBG – June 18th
• Evo Kitchen + Bar – June 24th
• Fore Street – June 24th
• Hot Suppa – June 19th
• Knitting Nook – June 18th
• Nura – June 19th
• Old Port Sea Grill – June 18th
• Petite Jacqueline – June 20th
• Rosie’s – June 17th
• Scales – June 17th
• Street & Co – June 22nd
• The Roma Cafe – June 17th
• Three Dollar Deweys – June 17th
• Union – June 19th

In addition to the (now sold out) multi-baker cookie box Bakers Against Racism initiative, several other Portland area bakers have announced their own Bakers Against Racism efforts:

• Norimoto Bakery will be preparing a package of baked goods which be on sale at Burundi Star Coffee (Fri – Sun) and Sun Oriental Market (Fri – Sat) with proceeds being donated to The Bail Project.
• Two Fat Cats is taking pre-orders for their Maine wild blueberry pies for pick-up on June 20th with proceeds being donated to the Maine People’s Alliance.
• Belleville is taking pre-orders for pick-up on June 19th and 21st with a portion of the week’s proceeds being donated to  Provost Farms and Angie and June Provost.
• Magdalena Bresson is taking orders for chocolate chip cookies, lemon meringue pie and fruit tarts for delivery on June 20th to raise money for the National Bailout Fund.
• Scratch Baking is taking pre-orders for pick-up on Thursday and will donating “100% of big cookie sales this week” to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Bakers Against Racism is taking place in Mid-June in cities all around the world with thousands of  bakers from hundreds of cities taking part.

A new initiative called Food Industry Action launched on Thursday. As part of the program participating restaurants are raising money on June 27th for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund by donating “5% of sales…on behalf of a united food community”.

Portland area restaurants that so far have announced plans to take part include: A&C Grocery, Bresca and the Honey Bee, LB Kitchen, Market Street Eats, Palace Diner, Parlor Ice Cream, Ramona’s, Rose Foods, Tandem Coffee.

A growing number of bakers are teaming up to sell cookie boxes with all proceeds being donated to Black Lives Matter Portland. The response has been so strong that the cookie boxes sold out in about 24 hours, even after more than doubling the production.

Participating bakers and restaurants include Chaval, Tandem, Gross Confection Bar, Parlor Ice Cream, Primo, The Purple House, Central Provisions, Other Side Diner, Kim Rodgers, Rosemont, Big Tree Hospitality, Twist, A Little Suga, Leeward, Bixby Chocolates, Dutch’s, Mill Cove Baking, Sur Lie, Juliette Riscia, and Donuts & Hibiscus.

Place an order and make a donation on the Chaval e-commerce site. Pick-up is schedule for June 20th.

Bakers Against Racism is taking place in Mid-June in cities all around the world. As of Wednesday there are 2,400 participating chefs from 42 states, over 170 US cities & 15 countries taking part.

Update: The cookie boxes raised over $8,000 dollars for Black Lives Matter.