Category: Openings

Food Coma TV has released the first of twenty 5-minute episodes they’ll be putting out this season. This is the first new content from Food Coma since they disbanded in 2012.

Crown Jewel (website, facebook, instagram) is set to open later this week, the specific date and time are still TBD.

The 35-seat restaurant is on Great Diamond Island. Owner Alex Wight was the organizer of the highly regarded Flanagans Table series that ran for several years in Buxton.

Crown Jewel will be open seasonally through Columbus Day. Rocky Hunter is the chef for the restaurant; Hunter was formerly a co-chef de cuisine at David’s Opus Ten. Here’s a look at the opening menu he’s put together for Crown Jewel:

 

Heritage Seaweed (website, facebook, instagram) opened Sunday at 61 India Street. Heritage Seaweed sells specialty seaweed-based foods and other seaweed products such as: skincare and bath products, candles, tinctures, tea, cookbooks, ID guides and art.

Poké Pop (facebook, instagram), the new poké shop under construction in Longfellow Square at 658 Congress Street, is set to open on Friday July 6th.

Both Mainebiz and The Forecaster report that Brickyard Hollow brewery and brewpub is scheduled to open on Monday in Yarmouth.

 

Eating Portland Alive reports  that the new Noble BBQ food truck launched yesterday.

Clam Digger, the new seafood restaurant on West Commercial, opened yesterday. The Clam Digger is located in the building formerly occupied by Benny’s Famous Fried Clams.

Waypoint Provisions (instagram) got under way this weekend. Waypoint is a food delivery service to boats in Casco Bay.

Chef Cara Stadler‘s new restaurant, Lio (instagram) had their soft opening last night. The wine bar/restaurant serves ‘modern European food and wine’. The main room features a large side looped counter as well as more traditional tables. Friends and I tried the Tortellini en Brodo (bottom right), Chicken Galantine (upper right) and Strawberry Semifreddo (bottom left).

Lio is waiting to receive their liquor license (expected Wednesday) and in the meantime is BYOB. The restaurant is located in a new restaurant space at the corner of Spring and Cross Streets.

The Uncle Billy’s Bar-B-Que (website, facebook, instagram, twitter) Pop-up in the former Abilene space at 539 Deering Ave in Woodford’s Corner opened for business last night.

Uncle Billy’s plans to operate this pop-up restaurant through the end of the Summer while their permanent location 166 Cumberland Ave is under construction.

When I spoke with Uncle Billy’s back in April, the plans were for a scaled back version of the menu that will eventually served on Cumberland Ave.