Category: Reviews

Portland Bar Guide has reviewed the North Star Music Cafe.

If you want to meet with your fellow humans in a spot that celebrates the primal, the raw, and the unadorned, come to the purist’s paradise at the North Star Café.

Type A Diversions has published a brief review of Paciarino.

Paciarino is my absolute favorite Portland “cheap eat.” Whether dining in for lunch or dinner – or grabbing pasta from the cooler to cook at home, time and again, the pasta does not disappoint.

Type A Diversions endorses the lobster roll from the Falmouth Sea Grill as her favorite this summer, for comparison you can find her 2008 thoughts here.

The best lobster roll I’ve had this season was at the Falmouth Sea Grill. It’s hard to beat the oversized high quality, toasted, buttered bun filled with an abundance of fresh lobster and a view of Casco Bay.

Portland Food Heads has published a review of  Blue Spoon.

In summation, I’d like to give a formal apology to the chef, cooks and staff of Blue Spoon: I don’t know why I haven’t patronized you for dinner as of yet, and feel that I may be missing out on something wonderful. I vow to stop by in the near future for a casual dinner, during which I will likely eat more than I can stomach, drink more than I can afford to and hopefully not pass out on your bathroom floor.

Portland Food Heads has published a review of lunch at Borealis.

Overall, I think I can confidently say that Borealis Breads is a nice addition to Portland’s food community, especially if you are looking for a quick sandwich on-the-go.

Chow Maine has published a review of a recent meal at Bar Lola.

With a friend in town, I had dinner out for fun — and Bar Lola made the evening something to write about even if I didn’t take any notes. The dishes were memorable without them. For $36 each, we enjoyed a five-course meal that was simply terrific.

El Rayo received 3½ stars in this week’s Taste & Tell review in the Maine Sunday Telegram.

BOTTOM LINE: Most items at this vibrant Mexican taco place, or Taqueria, cost $6 or less, and better, are great to eat – and the more expensive, delicious drinks, spiked with good liquor, reveal the owners’ roots in fine dining.

In addition to reviewing the restaurant, the article provides details on the owners plans for the old Popeye’s location “a long-term plan to demolish the old Popeye’s building up the street and build a Mexican dinner restaurant” and a mobile home now parked at El Rayo. “An Air Stream trailer is undergoing renovation and was intended to serve as a bar area for the outdoor seats, but it could be incorporated into a new addition” .

Taste & Tell has moved back to the Sunday paper after a few weeks in the new Wednesday Food & Dining section in response to requests from MST readers.

Siano’s Pizzeria received 4 stars from the Eat & Run column in today’s Press Herald. “Siano’s is a neighborhood restaurant that rises a notch above.”

The article also mentions that “Siano’s has done so well in this part of Portland that the owners, Joseph Pompeo and Chris Grant, are opening a second restaurant, double the size, in Freeport in September.”

The blogger at Where is Jenner’s Mind has published her take on two restaurants that are “guarenteed good meal[s]”. The Porthole and Caiola’s.

there are two places that seth and i go to on a regular basis and we know we will always get a good meal. and i have never written about either of them! in the portland food blog-o-sphere, both restaurants have gotten their fair shares of reviews, but let me tell you why i love caiola’s and the port hole.