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New food and dining developments are taking place all across Maine. Here are some recent updates to keep you in the know:
- Chloe’s Cafe is under construction at 30 Water Street in Ellsworth. The Bangor Daily News reports that owner Gabrielle Conners hopes to open the bakery cafe in January serving breakfast and lunch.
- Brunswick’s Great Impasta is moving down the street to the space formerly occupied by Maiz at 11 Pleasant Street (right). They expect to reopen by the end of the year. Maiz opened their Brunswick restaurant in 2022 and closed it in August of 2024. The Great Impasta has been in business since 1984 and it was previously located at 42 Maine Street.
- A new business called Barco Provisions (instagram) recently opened in Damariscotta. Owners Jamie and Penn Way have stocked the shelves with specialty foods from around the globe like Vietnamese fish sauce and panettone from Italy. For more information see this article from The Lincoln County News.
- Pine Tree Bakery in Westbrook has permanently closed (left). Baker/owner Lesa Beck opened the business earlier this year in April. A message posted on facebook explained that “difficulty in finding staff and rising costs” made it “no longer feasible to continue operating the bakery.” The property is now for sale for $470,000.
- Owner Billy Nichols has announced he’s searching for a new home for his company Downhill Bagel Company (instagram). Nichols opened his cafe in March and launched weekend wine bar hours later in August. Downhill will be open at their current location through the end of the year.
- Dizzy Bird Rotisserie has announced they’re closing their Biddeford restaurant at the end of this month. Owner Tom Peacock plans to take some time in the new year to consider how he might restructure the business and space with hopes there might be a way to reopen Dizzy Bird in the future. Dizzy Bird opened for business in March 2019.
- Waxwing Bakery (website, facebook, instagram) in Windham is set to open this morning at 7 am. Waxwing is being launched by baker Hannah Buoye and chef Billy Hager. Buoye is the former kitchen manager at Tandem Coffee and Hager had been the executive chef at Helm.
- Down East has published an article about Linden + Front, a restaurant that opened earlier this year in Bath.
For a statewide guide to eating and drinking see the Maine Food Map—a growing list of coffee shops, bars, restaurants, bakeries, cafes, and other food and dining businesses in all of Maine’s 16 counties.