Category: Events

The Maine Brewer’s Festival is taking place today at the Portland Expo. 16 Maine brewers are taking part including small-scale Portland newcomer Maine Beer Co. The Portland Daily Sun published a piece earlier this week on the Festival:

Brothers David and Daniel Kleban’s tiny brewery is one of four new additions to this year’s event, and they have generated some buzz despite their size — or maybe because of it. They run a one-barrel system, borrow equipment when it comes time to unload supplies and occupy a space slightly beyond homebrewing on the route to the big time.

“I don’t know how much smaller you could possibly get,” said David Kleban. “We don’t even have a forklift, we just borrow one from the folks down the way.”

Here are a few additional events taking place this week that weren’t on the list published earlier today:

• Tuesday—Flatbread and Rippling Waters Farm are teaming up to raise money for a elementary school garden. Fo every pizza $3 goes to the project.
• Thursday—The Great Lost Bear weekly showcase is featuring beers from Unibroue.
• Friday—Devenish Wines is holding a wine tasting at the West End Deli.

For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

Monday—The weekly Piatto per Tutti cooking class and the Foodie Trivia Contest are taking place this evening. As is the Full Moon Cask Beer Night at Sebago Brewing.
Tuesday—Bar Lola is holding a beer dinner featuring brews from Belgium and France, and there’s a Japanese cooking class taking place at SMCC.
Wednesday—The Monument Square Farmers’ Market takes places in the morning. I the evening, The Salt Exchange is running their weekly wine and canapes event, and Black Tie Bistro is holding a cooking class.
Friday—First Friday Art Walk is taking place. Restaurants tend to be very busy during FFAW so make your reservation early.
Saturday—The Deering Oaks Farmers’ Market takes places in the morning. The Maine Brewer’s Festival has sessions planned for both the afternoon and evening at the Portland Expo.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

The blog, I Love Portland Maine, has published an overview of Halloween-themed events for adults and children taking place this weekend.

According to a tweet from Amy K. Anderson, a segment on Duckfat will be featured on the November 6 episode of the Rachel Ray show.

If you weren’t able to make it to Harvest on the Harbor, check out this post from PortlandTown to see photos from the event. PortlandTown has also published a number of additional photos on Flickr.

The weekly Piatto per Tutti cooking class and the Foodie Trivia Contest are taking place this evening. Bar Lola is holding a wine dinner on Tuesday featuring Cotes du Rhone. On Wednesday, The Salt Exchange is running their weekly wine and canapes event. Halloween parties are on the calendar at both Frog & Turtle and Grace. Portland’s weekly Farmers’ Markets are being held in Monument Square on Wednesday and at Deering Oaks Park on Saturday. Hood’s New England Dairy Cook-off is taking place on Sunday. For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

Out Going has published a report on this past weekend’s Wine Flight 5k.

The race kicked off a wee after 9:30 am, after some delays at the registration counter. Runners and walkers followed a one-mile loop around the base of Munjoy Hill, then returned to the Pier for a fill up. Then a second loop and a second table o’ edibles. After the third jaunt along the East End Trail, participants came back to the Pier for a tented Wine Tasting.

This week’s calendar is packed with food events, starting with today’s anticipated release of Vagabound Ale by Allagash as well as the restaurant worker art show tonight at One Longfellow and closing out on Sunday with a book signing/Goastravaganza at Rabelais Books for Margaret Hathaway and her new work Living with Goats. The weekly Piatto per Tutti cooking class and the Foodie Trivia Contest are taking place this evening. On Wednesday, there will be a macrobiotic/raw vegan potluck at GRO Cafe, Black Tie is teaching a class on the basics of making sushi, and The Salt Exchange is running their weekly wine and canapes event. The 2009 Harvest on the Harbor is taking place Thursday through Sunday. The Great Lost Bear is showcasing beer from Andrews Brewing Co and Sheepscot Valley Brewing on Thursday. Eve’s at the Garden is hosting the 5th Annual Caviar Dinner Friday evening. Also on Friday, a NERAX cask ale event is taking place at Novare Res, and O’Naturals in Falmouth is screening the movie Food Inc. Rabelais Books is holding back-to-back book signings on Saturday with Peter Berley and Lucinda Scala Quinn. Portland’s weekly Farmers’ Markets are being held in Monument Square on Wednesday and at Deering Oaks Park on Saturday. For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

The Portland Daily Sun has published a report on the art show taking place next Monday at One Longfellow Square. The show will feature creative work produced by Portland area restaurant workers.

Local waitstaff, bartenders, chefs, cooks, bussers, dishwashers, prep cooks, hostesses and hosts will present their photography, sculpture, ceramics, paintings, drawings, sketches, films, music and more. The gallery segment of the event will start at 6:30PM and feature over a dozen visual artists from the southern Maine restaurants. At 8 p.m., various documentary presentations, performance art and musical performances will begin featuring local favorites Brenda and Over a Cardboard Sea.