Category: Events

Monday — Baker Stephen Lanzalotta is teaching a Piatto per Tutti cooking class.

Wednesday — Black Tie Bistro is teaching a cooking class.

Friday — the West End Deli is holding a wine tasting.

Saturday — an onion and garlic jelly making workshop is taking place at Wolf Neck Farm, Leroux Kitchen is holding a wine tasting and the Port Clyde Fresh Catch shrimp CSF is doing their biweekly Portland drop-off.

Sunday — Po’Boys and Pickles is holding their Grand Opening,  Sweet Marguerites will be at the Toby Rosenberg Gallery for a tasting of their gold dusted dark chocolate hearts, Toni Fiore from Delicious TV will host a showing of the movie Big Night at the Museum of Art.

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.

A Blog About Beer has published a report on the 2010 Beer and Cheese Festival at Vignola.

Last weekend marked the fourth annual Beer & Cheese party at Vignola restaurant here in Portland’s Old Port. As I mentioned before, this has quickly become one of my favorite annual Maine beer events. You can literally pig out on some of the best cheeses and beers in the world until you feel like you’re going to burst — in the best possible way — for a mere $25.

PortlandTown made a return trip to the Ice Bar with his camera and has published a new set of photos and The Examiner also made a visit,

Hip, happening and hypothermia; all three can be found here at The Ice Bar. The Portland Harbor Hotel is a gracious glacier, hosting an annual magnificent and crystalline fundraiser for many a cool cause. Proceeds benefit The Center for Grieving Children, Share Our Strength, Junior Achievement, and now Haitian help as well.

PortlandTown has published some photos from his Friday night visit to the Ice Bar.

As I walked up to the Portland Harbor Hotel just after eight O’clock the crowd was spilling out of the lobby.  The restaurant dining room was filled with people standing,  drinks in hand and the corridor leading to the food was packed. I unpacked my gear and grabbed a camera and flash then headed to the outside Ice Bar.  Good vibes were apparent everywhere and no one seem to notice the 15 degree weather.

Local restaurants continue (see prior list here) to line-up to help with Haitian relief efforts:

• O’Naturals will be donating 10% of sales on February 5th to Partners in Health
• Chefs Kaldrovich and Matthews from the Sea Glass Restaurant and The Back Bay Grill will be collaborating on a February 11th meal at the Inn by the Sea in Cape Elizabeth.

PortlandTown has published a set of photos showing chef Earl Morse hard at work crafting this year’s Ice Bar. The bar will be open tonight through Saturday at the Portland Harbor Hotel. Proceeds from the $10 entrance fee will go to support charitable organizations.
Photo Credit: Michael Barriault

Plating Up has posted a reminder that Rob Evans’ appearance on the Martha Stewart Show is set to air tomorrow when he will make “prosciutto consomme with shrimp and bacon-poached egg”. The show airs at 10 am on WMTW Chanel 8.

Several Portland restaurants are raising money for the relief efforts in Haiti.

• Five Fifty-Five – 10% of dinner sales on January 22 will be donated to Partners in Health
• The Front Room, The Grill Room, The Corner Room – 5% of lunch and dinner sales on January 25 will be donated to Partners in Health
• Grace and the Foreside Tavern – $10 from every bottle of wine ordered from a select list during the month of February will be donated to Partners in Health or Yele Haiti.

Today’s Press Herald reports on a new indoor Winter Farmers’ Market for Portland. According to the article, it’s scheduled to open on February 13 it will be located at 85 Free Street and will take place on Saturdays 10 am to 1 pm.

…it won’t be bound by city restrictions that prevent vendors such as bread bakers and fishermen from selling at the summer markets in Monument Square and Deering Oaks, said Larry Bruns, who coordinates the Portland Farmers Market.

“It’s going to be a very different market from what Portland’s used to,” said Dean Zoulamis, who runs the Mother Oven Bakery in Bowdoinham and is part of the group that’s organizing the Free Street market. “This will be a much more diverse market.”