Roustabout(twitter, instagram) has applied for a liquor license. The draft menu (page 40) included in the application includes items such as Smoked Baby Back Rigatoni, Roasted Char and Roasted and Dressed Mushrooms.
The restaurant, which includes a private dining room, will seat a total of 75. Owners Kit Paschal and Anders Tallberg hope to open the restaurant this Fall. Roustabout will be open 7 days a week, 11 am to midnight.
Dana Street and Sam Hayward have submitted a liquor license application for their new restaurant, Scales. The draft menu (page 61) includes classic New England seafood dish such as Clam Chowder, Finnan Hadie and Baked Stuffed Lobster. Scales is located on Maine Wharf. When it opens later this year it will serve lunch and dinner 7 days a week.
A new restaurant called Woodford F&B(facebook, twitter, instagram) is now under construction at 660 Forest Ave. Owner Birch Shambaugh is planning an 85-seat restaurant with a full bar,
Woodford F&B will be a neighborhood restaurant and bar serving dependably delicious Food & Beverage. We’re inspired by classic neighborhood eateries where you can count on having a reasonable, simple meal or, when you feel like it, something a bit more special. Our goal is to make Woodford F&B the kind of welcoming, local spot you’ll want to visit regularly.
The draft menu submitted with the Woodford liquor license application includes items like Radicchio Salad, Fisherman’s Stew and Fried Chicken. Shambaugh hopes to open Woodford F&B this Fall.
660 Forest Ave has a claim to local restaurant fame as the location of the original Valle’s Steakhouse.
The Forecaster has published an article about Fore River Brewing(twitter, facebook, instagram) and the new brewery they’re building in South Portland.
Anastasoff, the former landscape contractor, owns the property and used to store up to 1,600 tons of salt during the winter. After selling his business and repurposing the space, the garage will eventually serve as the brewing area, which will be fronted by a large sliding barn door, in keeping with the “rustic, industrial look,” he said.
According to the article, Fore River hopes to open in October.
A new food cart called BP’s Shuck Shack(facebook, instagram, twitter) has launched. BP’s serves fresh shucked oysters, singly or by the half dozen. Yesterday they were serving Wiley Points and were located down on Commercial Street in front of the Custom House.
A second new food cart, the Brûlée Bike(faccebook, instagram, twitter), will be launching tonight at Flea Bites in West Bayside. Owner Charlie Compton successfully completed a kickstarter campaign earlier this year, exceeding his goal of $1,500 goal to fund the cart.
A third new food cart, LemonCycle(facebook, twitter), which had its own successful Kickstarter, is in the final stages of development and should launch later in July.
A new restaurant called Abilene is under construction at 539 Deering Ave at the former location of Tipico in Woodfords Corner. According to the sign in the window they plan to serve lunch and dinner, and hope to open on Friday.
A new sandwich shop called Pockets is under construction at 363 Fore Street, on the corner of Market Street in the space formerly occupied by Orange Leaf and Dunkin Donuts. The tag line on the temporary sign reads “natural tastes better”.
Maine a la Carte has posted an update on Forq Food Lab.
Forq Food Lab, a Portland-based business now in the fundraising stage, hopes to give small food producers all the tools they need to make, package and market their products. Launched by Neil Spillane — CEO of Portland’s Urban Farm Fermentory (UFF) — in partnership with restaurant consultant Eric Holstein, Forq will have a fully equipped commercial kitchen and a tasting room open to the public when it opens early next year.
A new bar called The Drink Exchange is under development at 43 Wharf Street in the former Merry Table space. Owner Tanner Herget is planning a “Stock Market themed establishment for the enjoyment of both locals and visitors”. Herget is also the owner of two other bars on Wharf Street: Bonfire and 51 Wharf.
A draft drinks menu can be found on page 209 of the City Council materials for Monday night’s meeting.