Category: Events

Tuesday – Chef Paolo Laboa from Solo Italiano will be teaching a sold out pasta making class.

Wednesday – The semifinalist list for this year’s James Beard Awards are due out; check back here midday for a full list of the Maine chefs and restaurants that were included. Andrew and Briana Volk will be speaking at the Public Library about their book Northern Hospitality.

Thursday – The Maine Restaurant Week Incredible Breakfast Cook-off competition takes place, Liquid Riot is hosting chefs from 6 restaurants for a Chicken Wing Challenge, and Maine & Loire is holding a Women Winemakers wine tasting.

Friday – Both Three Dollar Deweys and Giant are opening on e Friday. It’s the first full day of  this year’s Maine Restaurant Week. The New England Craft Brew Summit is taking place, and Giant is holding a wine tasting.

Saturday – the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

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.

Wednesday – Eaux, Good Fire Brewing and Mr. Tuna are collaborating on a Prohibition-themed dinner.

Thursday – This month’s edition of the Bibliophile Adventurer’s Supper Club will be at Schulte & Herr.

Friday – Solo Italiano and Allagash are teaming up to put on a special menu with matched beer pairings.

Saturday – Swallowtail Farm is serving a 4-course Polish dinner, there will be a wine tasting at Browne Trading, and the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

Sunday – Cong Tu Bot is hosting a Queer Soup Night.

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.

Monday – Rosemont Market is opening their new store in Falmouth today. Chef Krista Kern Desjarlais is the subject of a segment on the show 207 airing today at 7pm on Channel 6 in Portland and Channel 2 in Bangor.

Tuesday – the February edition of Hush Hush is taking place.

Wednesday – Sur Lie and the Portland Chamber Music Festival are collaborating on a sold out salon series dinner, and there will be a wine tasting at the RSVP.

Thursday – A little holiday called Valentines Day is taking place. Consult the social media accounts for your favorite restaurants for V-Day special events.

Friday – Black Tie is holding a Graze farm dinner is taking place in Yarmouth, and there will be a wine tasting at the new Rosemont Market in Falmouth.

Saturday – the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

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.

Wednesday – There will be a wine tasting at the Old Port Wine Merchants.

Thursday – Maine & Loire is holding a Sangiovese wine tasting.

Friday – there will be a wine tasting at the West End Rosemont, and Foundation Brewing is teaming up with Winter Hill Farm for a beer and cheese event.

Saturday – there will be a wine tasting at LeRoux Kitchen, Tipo is holding a Winter Carnival all day with a cocktail ice luge, hot chocolate and more. The Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

Walkers Maine – Chef Justin Walker will be teaching a set of cooking classes starting in March. The series kicks-off March 24th with a class on Hearth Cooking.

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.

Monday – the 2019 Chef’s Summit kick’s off today. You can see the full 6-day program of activities on the MSC  website.

Tuesday – Chef Paolo Laboa will be teaching a pasta making class at Solo Italiano.

Thursday – Petite Jacqueline will be holding an Alsatian wine dinner, and The Great Lost Bear will be showcasing beer from Definitive Brewing Co.

Friday – there will be a wine tasting at the Brighton Ave Rosemont.

Saturday – Central Provisions is celebrating their 5th anniversary with a special menu with guest chef Brandon Rice from Rich Table in San Francisco and an Allagash tap takeover, and the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

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.

Chefs Christian Hayes (The Garrison) and Matt Ginn (Evo Kitchen + Bar) will be the featured speakers at an upcoming Maine Voices event on April 23rd.

Tickets are now on sale.

Monday – Foundation and Sur Lie are collaborating on a beer dinner at the brewery’s Industrial Way location.

Tuesday – Two Fat Cats is kicking off their 2-day pie buffet in honor of National Pie Day (January 23rd). The next dinner in the Leeward series is taking place at The Honey Paw.

Wednesday – Evo is holding a 3-course cocktail dinner, and there will be a tasting at Old Port Wine Merchants.

Thursday – Bao Bao is hosting Maine Mead Works for a tap takeover.

Friday – Black Tie is holding a Graze Dinner in Yarmouth.

Saturday – Novare Res is holding a launch party for Hermit Thrush, and the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

Sunday – Liquid Riot is holding the first of their Back Door Dinner series, and The Good Table is holding a Maine Honey and Wine Dinner.

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

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Tuesday – the January edition of Hush Hush is taking place at the Little Giant Market, and bartender  Patrick McDonald is teaching a Barrel-Aged Cocktail class at New England Distilling.

Wednesday – Maine & Loire is celebrating their 4th anniversary with a wine tasting, the Independent Ice Company is hosting a hybrid one-man show and whiskey tasting by Robin Robinson, and Eaux and Bissell Brothers are collaborating on a crawfish boil.

Thursday – members of the Silent Book Club will be meeting up at Evo for the first edition of the Bibliophile Adventurer’s Supper Club.

Saturday – Foulmouthed is launching their new Russian Imperial Stout Egregious Cosmonaut, and Allagash is releasing Coolship Clermont, the opening of Flavor Profile is tacking place at the Border Patrol gallery in the State Theater building, and the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

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.

The Portland Chamber Music Festival and Sur Lie are teaming up to present Music Be the Food of Love, a salon concert and dinner on February 13th,

“Music Be the Food of Love” is designed to showcase the shared intimacy of chamber music by entwining performances with family-style food and drink pairings inspired by the music on the program. The Valentine’s Day Eve event features four internationally renowned chamber artists performing music for various combinations of flute and strings by French composers including Ravel, Debussy and Francaix. Elegant, colorful, and intriguing, it’s the perfect complement to chef Emil’s sophisticated, boldly flavored small plates that critics have declared “brilliant” and “a kind of alchemy.”

Tickets are available on the PCMF website.

Wednesday – Old Port Wine Merchants is holding a Cru Beaujolais wine tasting.

Thursday – the former Aurora Provisions building is getting auctioned at 11 am, Time & Tide is holding coffee roasting seminar/tasting, and The Great Lost Bear is holding the Industrial Park Challenge.

Friday – the A&C Grocery Luncheonette is launching their Counter Culture pop-up dinner series with a “casual pan-Asian 3 course meal celebrating Maine’s edible bounty” by guest chef Will Gibney, and Rosemont is holding a wine tasting in the West End.

Saturday – there will be a wine tasting at LeRoux Kitchen, and the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

Sunday – The Purple House is holding a sold out Quebecois Dinner.

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.