Category: Openings

Paper Tiger (website, facebook, instagram), the new cocktail bar and restaurant on Fore Street, opened for business on Monday. You can see their full drink and food menus on their website.

The Blueberry Files has published a first look report on Paper Tiger.

Paper Tiger is located at 425 Fore Street across the street from Gorgeous Gelato. They plan to be open 5 pm to 1 am, 7 days a week.

A new New York-style pizzeria called Della Terra Pizza (instagram) opened on Wednesday in Saco.

Owner Micah Robinson has put together a menu that includes 16-inch round pizzas (margheritas, white pizzas, etc), 16-inch square pizzas (Sicilians, L&B, etc), a caesar salad and pizza by the slice. There are gluten-free options. The menu will expand to include specialty pies, more salad options, a calzone, and a stromboli roll in the coming days. The menu is available for pre-order.

Della Terra is located at 213 North Street in Saco. They will be open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 am – 9 pm.

The first new food truck of the spring, Eat It & Beet It (instagram), will be launching on March 31st at Goodfire Brewing in East Bayside.

Founder Lea Andrukaitis Verrill plans to serve a menu of beef and house-made beet burgers. All of the sandwiches on the menu will also be available in a gluten-free version, and all of the sides will be gluten-free.

Here’s a look at the starting menu for Eat It & Beet It. All the burgers come with the choice of quarter pound 100% beef burgers or vegetarian beet burgers.

Gorgeous Gelato has opened a new location at High Street Place, the newly launched food hall in Boston. The new spot will have a similar set of flavors and menu, but without the espresso service available in Portland.

The original Gorgeous Gelato shop on Fore Street was opened on December 17, 2010 by owners Donato Giovine and Mariagrazia Zanardi.

Moonday (instagram) soft launched their new indoor coffee shop on Wednesday while the renovations for coffee shop/jewelry store continue. Their hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 9 – 4.

Owner David Kessel originally launched Moonday this past summer as a food cart serving espresso-based coffee drinks prepared with beans from Speckled Ax. With the move indoors Kessel is expanding his menu with a selection of teas.

Kessel and his partner Rebecca Perea-Kane who is the founder of Thicket (instagram) leased the former Ishi Ishi space on Washington Ave to jointly operate their coffee bar and jewelry businesses.

Dila’s Kitchen (instagram) is scheduled to open on Tuesday. The new Turkish eatery is located on the 2nd floor of the Public Market House adjacent to Pho Huong and the Frying Dutchman.

Owner Dila Maloney is tapping into her Turkish heritage and family recipes for the menu. For Tuesday’s opening day she’ll be serving Turkish meatballs, chicken skewers, green beans roasted with tomato and onion, and a savory fried dough.

Dila’s will be open Monday through Wednesday, 11 – 4, and Friday/Saturday noon – 5.

The Grateful Cup (website, facebook, instagram) is slated to open Tuesday at 7 am. The new juice bar and smoothie cafe is located at 46 Veranda Street in the space formerly occupied by Union Bagel Company. The menu also includes coffee, tea and salads such as the Curry Cat Sunflower made with spinach, kale, chickpea curry salad and a creamy curry dressing.

The four founders (Samantha Allen, James and Amy Harder and Jessica Rexford) are owners or managers at the Float Harder Relaxation Center just a block or so away at the corner of Veranda and Washington. They’re launching the cafe to expand the range of “healthy and convenient lunch options” that they were looking for themselves in the neighborhood.

The Grateful Cup will be open seven days a week, 7 am – 3 pm.

Many of Portland’s restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, bars, diners and cafes will be closed today.

But some are opening on Saturday with regular or reduced hours—we’ll be updating this list throughout the day:

• Anoche
• Apres
• Austin Street on Fox Street
• Banded Brewing
• Becky’s Diner
• Black Cow Burgers
• Blyth and Burrows
• Bonobo Pizza
• Bramhall Pub
• CBG
• Cheese Louise
• Coffee by Design – Congress and Diamond Street and Freeport locations open until noon
• Commercial Street Pub
• Dirty Dove
• Dockfore
• Flatbread Company
• Fore Street
• Free Street
• Friends & Family
• Hilltop Coffee
• Hilltop Superette
• Hunt & Alpine
• Jefe Juan’s
• Jing Yan
• King’s Head Pub
• Lazzari
• Local 188 – brunch, 9 am – 1  pm
• Lone Pine Brewing
• Lucky Pigeon Brewing Co.
• Maine Craft Distilling
• Marcy’s
• Mister Bagel on Forest Ave
• Nosh
• Novare Res
• Ohno Cafe
• Oxbow Brewing
• Pat’s Pizza
• Portland Mash Tun
• Quinn’s Bardega
• Regard’s – opening day for Portland’s newest restaurant
• RiRa
• Rivalries – 11:30 am until midnight
• Root Wild
• Rosemont Market – the Munjoy, Brighton and West End store will be open until noon
• Rosie’s
• Rover Bagel
• Sal de la Tierra
• Salt Yard
• Samuel’s
• SoPo Seafood
• Standard Baking Company – open until noon with a limited menu
• Sticky Sweet
• Sun Oriental Market
• Taco Escobarr
• The Grill Room
• The Porthole
• The Sinful Kitchen
• Three Dollar Deweys
• Time and Tide Coffee – open until noon
• Tomasso’s Canteen
• Via Vecchia
• Wilson County Barbecue

Regards (website, instagram) is scheduled to open this Saturday. It is located at 547 Congress Street in the space formerly occupied by Emilitsa. Regards is being launched by chef/owner Neil Zabriskie and co-owners Kimberly Lund and Cameron Lewin.

The menu includes options like a charcoal roasted beetroot with juniper, blackberry & kumquat and macadamia, and a dish of Spanish mackerel prepared with smoked cream emulsion, aji limo and tatsoi. Zabriskie envisions the menu as the melding of Southern Californian inspiration with local Maine ingredients. The beverage program will feature natural wines and agave-focused cocktails.

You can make reservations for Regards on Resy. Proof of vaccination is required to eat at Regards.