Category: General News

In recognition of yesterday’s launch of the new wi-fi enabled Apple iPad, here’s a list of local spots that provide wireless internet to their customers:

• Arabica Coffee Co.
• Bard Coffee
• Bill’s Pizza
• Binga’s Stadium
• Bull Feeney’s
• Coastal Maine Popcorn
• Coffee by Design (ask the barista for the password)
• Crooked Mile Cafe
• Dobra Tea
• Dock Fore
• Down Home Cookin’
• El Rayo Cantina
• El Rayo Taqueria
• Gorgeous Gelato (ask cashier for password)
• Grace
• Gritty McDuff’s
• Hilltop Coffee Shop
• In’finiti
• Joe’s New York Pizza
• Local Sprouts
• Mesa Verde
• Morning in Paris Cafe
• Museum Cafe
• Others! (ask cashier for password)
• Otto Pizza (East End)
• Pepperclub (ask cashier for password)
• Po’ Boys & Pickles
• Pom’s Thai Taste (ask your server for the password)
• Port Bean
• Public Market House, 2nd floor
• Sonny’s (ask server for password)
• Spartan Grill (ask cashier for the password)
• Speckled Ax (ask barista for password)
• StarEast Cafe (ask cashier for password)
• Taco Escobarr (ask server for password)
• The Great Lost Bear
• The Salt Exchange
• The Works Bakery Cafe
• Whole Foods (limits ability to send email)
• Yordprom Coffee Co. (ask barista for an access code)
• Zapoteca

Post a comment if you know of any others that are missing from the list.

MPBN issued a report yesterday on a scam that’s targeting Maine restaurants.

The scammers claim to be bail bondsmen seeking bail for employees that have been arrested. A big red flag: Maine doesn’t have bail bondsmen.

According to a report from The Forecaster, the Portland City Council voted on Monday night to approve a slate of recipients for Community Development Block Grants. As part of that program, Hot Suppa! is receiving a grant of $66,200 which will they will use to update their facilities and start serving dinner.

Today’s Press Herald includes a Maine at Work article filed from the B&M Bean plant in Portland,

I mean, he was taking me through the B&M Baked Beans factory on the edge of Casco Bay in Portland. How dangerous could baking beans be?

But within minutes, I saw a 900-pound bean pot, full of freshly baked beans, flying toward me. Literally.

and a front page article about the bluefin tuna fishery.

Today’s Press Herald includes a Maine at Work article filed from the B&M Bean plant in Portland,

I mean, he was taking me through the B&M Baked Beans factory on the edge of Casco Bay in Portland. How dangerous could baking beans be?

But within minutes, I saw a 900-pound bean pot, full of freshly baked beans, flying toward me. Literally.

and a front page article about the bluefin tuna fishery.

Yesterday’s episode of Maine Watch took a look at the origins, nature and sustainability of the Portland food scene. Host Jennifer Rooks talks with Maine Foodie Tours, Dean’s Sweets and Harbor Fish Market before having a chat with Meredith Goad and Sam Hayward in the studio.

North Star Music Cafe owner Kim Anderson sent out an email earlier this week to the cafe’s mailing list to raise funds to keep the North Star afloat. The Portland Daily Sun followed up with Anderson and filed this report,

Facing mounting financial frustrations, North Star Cafe owner Kim Anderson turned to her 1,400 email address and about that many Facebook friends. Monday morning, she posted her appeal. In 24 hours, she’d already raised $1,000 toward a $6,000 goal – and the request had, in the jargon of out times, “gone viral.”

According to the article, “Donations are also being accepted old school, in person at the cafe.”

The Portland Daily Sun has a report on the single-origin organic Thai coffee on tap at Yordprom Coffee Company.

“It’s unique, the coffee bean that we’re introducing to Portland, Maine,” said Yordprom Coffee Co. owner Thomas Yordprom, who opened in the old Congress Street home of Portland Magazine last Friday.

Canada is the primary market of Doi Chaang Coffee, which is sold as an exclusive single-origin, certified organic Arabica, according to Doi Chaang.