Category: Openings

2 Beer Releases: Imperial Stout, Oat IPA

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Mast Landing and Battery Steele are releasing Ice Cream Imperial Stout, a new collaboration between the two breweries. The beer is brewed with “[h]undreds of waffle cones in the mash, lactose and a bucket of sprinkles in the boil, then conditioned on vanilla beans.”

Battery Steele also plans to release Onsight #3, which they describe as an “Oat IPA (6.5%) heavily hopped with Galaxy, Nelson and Rakau. Very soft, almost no bitterness and busting with notes of passion fruit, pineapple, mango and hints of pine”.

The Proper Cup Now Open

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The Proper Cup (website, facebook, instagram) opened for business this morning. The new coffee shop is located at 500 Forest Ave on the corner of Noyes Street.

Owners Rachel Kreie and Zachary Figoli are serving coffee from Flight Coffee Company and baked goods from HiFi Donuts in their “quirky, professional and industrial themed cafe“.

The Proper Cup brings a third option for specialty coffee—Parlor Coffee at Rose Foods and Vivid Coffee at Little Woodfords being the other two—to a section of Forest Ave that just a year ago had none at all. I expect we’ll continue to see rapid change in the retail food scene on Forest from USM to Woodfords Corner in the next few years.

Drifters and Maine & Loire Opening in February

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Owners Orenda and Peter Hale have announced plans to open Drifters Wife and Maine & Loire at their new location, 59 Washington Ave, on February 9th. The new space will provide chef Ben Jackson with use of a full kitchen and that the restaurant will feature a full bar. You can see a few photos of the construction on instagram.

Drifters Wife was a semi-finalist for a James Beard award for Best New Restaurant and recognized by Bon Appétit as one of the 50 best new restaurants in America in 2017.

Drifters will be open Tuesday through Saturday, 4 – 10 pm, and Maine & Loire will be open 7 days a week opening at noon.