Bresca has announced the start dates for their highly anticipated lunch service,
Beginning Wednesday December 7th, at 11 am, Bresca will be offering a take away and sit-down cafe style lunch. Look forward to pastry, sandwiches, salads and soup. The opening hours will be limited to 11 am to 2 pm, Wednesday and Thursday.
LiveWork Portland has put together a select list of coffee shops in Portland.
Perhaps the current epicenter of Portland’s Coffee Universe is Bard, at the corner of Middle and Exchange streets. Here’s where budding entrepreneurs set up shop early in the morning, laptops open and buzzing, conducting business all day long. There are some obligatory sofas at Bard, but the crackle of commerce (or, at least, intense discussions) is in the air. If Bard were a movie actor, it’d be George Clooney.
Roma Pizza opened for business on Friday. They’re located at 10 Exchange Street.
They join a crowded field of pizza shops in the Old Port: Flatbread, Joe’s, Portland Pie, Pat’s, Anthony’s, Bill’s and Pie in the Sky.
Roma will be closed Tuesday through Thursday this week in observance of Thanksgiving and will hold their Grand Opening on Friday.
This week’s Food & Dining section in the Press Herald features an interview with Phil and Meghan Gaven, owners of The Honey Exchange on Stevens Ave.
“This is a spring honey from a hive in Ferry Village, and this is the fall honey from that same hive,” Meghan Gaven said. “So the same bees in the same place, just different times of year, made these two different colors and flavors of honey.”
A recent selection at the tasting bar included a honey made by a police officer/beekeeper in Wells and a basswood honey from Pennsylvania that is “everything I like about honey but with the volume turned way up,” Phil Gaven said. “It’s real crystalline and brilliant.”
The latest issue of Portland magazine includes a guide to 10 new(ish) spots in Portland: 15 Exchange Grille, Cobblestones, Cranberry Island Kitchen, East End Cupcakes, East Ender, Exchange Street Cafe, Figa, The Thirsty Pig, White Cap Grille, Zapoteca.
Today’s Press Herald featured a front page story on the Miss Portland Diner.
In the three years since Tom Manning rescued and reopened the Miss Portland Diner, he has come to appreciate the many challenges of running a restaurant.
A change in the weather, good or bad, can draw a crowd to the old Worcester Lunch Car on Marginal Way or leave his staff with plenty of time to fill salt and pepper shakers. A spike in gas prices can drive up supply costs and make it tough to keep meatloaf and hash browns affordable.
The Maine Travel Maven has published a profile of Jordan Farm and The Well.
His goal was to be on a farm. “The whole idea was to be the town cook,” he says. He says he overbuilt the kitchen (complete with wood-burning oven), but it allows him to make everything from scratch. He can walk outside and handpick fresh vegetables, so diners are truly getting farm to table fare.
Mainebiz has published a profile of Ned Wight and his new company New England Distilling.
Ned Wight comes from a long line of distillers. His forebears made whiskey for about 100 years in Maryland until the 1950s, when the Wight family distillery was finally sold. Now, more than half a century later, he’s returning to the family trade and opening a small craft distillery in Portland, hoping to profit from a reawakened thirst for artisanal spirits, or what is sometimes referred to as boutique booze.
For Episode 4 the Maine Culinary Podcast visited the Urban Farm Fermentory for a very interesting tour of the facility with permaculturist Dave Homa.
The August issue of Maine magazine includes:
The articles aren’t online but you can find a copy of the magazine at your local newsstand.