Category: Openings

Jager (website, instagram, twitter, facebook) is now open. The Bavarian pub and beer bar is located at 41 Wharf Street in the space formerly occupied by Ollo.

Jager is owned by Justin O’Connor and chef Paul Kirschbaum.

Two new businesses open today:

• Vieux Port Creole – A Movable  Feast at 431 Congress Street has launched a Cajun and Creole lunch cafe, open 11 – 2:30 Monday through Friday
• A & C Grocery – Rosemont alum and co-founder of The Farm Stand is launching his new neighborhood market today at 131 Washington Ave, 9 – 7 Monday through Saturday

LB Kitchen (instagram, facebook) is now open at 249 Congress Street. The breakfast and lunch cafe is the creation of Lee Farrington and Bryna Gootkind, and is located in the former Figa space.

Urban Eye reports that Taco Trio has reopened in South Portland.

“We appreciate all the support from customers and people we didn’t even know. They offered their help,” he added. “The people of South Portland and Portland have been very supportive and are excited we are reopened.”

Trattoria Fanny, David Levi’s new restaurant in Bramhall Square, has opened, according to a report from the Press Herald.

The restaurant’s chef is Siddharta Rumma, whose family had a restaurant in Italy. Rumma has also worked at The Corner Room in Portland, and he helped open Eataly Boston.

Here’s a link to the menu on Facebook.

Izakaya Minato (facebook, instagram) is scheduled to open today. The 36-seat Japanese restaurant is located at 54 Washington Ave next to Terlingua.

Owners Elaine Alden and Thomas Takashi Cooke moved to Portland from San Francisco where Cooke had been the head chef at Tsunami, a sushi restaurant. The couple also spent 3 months in Japan where he staged at an izakaya in Tokyo also called Tsumamina.

Here’s a look at the menu:

A second Other Side Delicatessen (website, facebook, twitter, instagram) is set to open this morning  in the West End at 235 Vaughan Street in the space formerly occupied by the Vaughan Street Variety.

As at the original Veranda Street location, the West End Other Side will be a combination butcher shop and deli selling sandwiches and deli meats and charcuterie by the pound as well as “prepared meals to go, hand made pastas and other sundries to round out a full meal to take home.”

The West End location will be open Monday–Friday 8-7 and Saturday 8-6.

Coffee Me Up (instagram), a new coffee shop and cafe located in a newly renovated building at 221 Cumberland Ave, is now open.

The Press Herald Has published the second installment of two articles by Krista Kern Desjarlais on the opening of The Purple House.

The sun has started to rise in earnest as I greet a few more customers and thank them for their well wishes. Its warm glow mimics that of the flames in the oven. And just like that, after many months of hard work and preparation, The Purple House is open. Day one is underway, full of hope and my quest to find my baker’s circadian rhythm, which beats against the 9 to 5 workday norm.

Sichuan Kitchen (website, facebook) is now open and will be serving dinner tonight until 8:45 pm, and plan to open at 5:30 on Monday.

The Chinese restaurant is located at 612 Congress Street in the space formerly occupied by Anna’s Used Furniture and Collectables.