The Press Herald has published a bar review of Mama’s Crow Bar,
The bar itself only serves beer — American craft beer, to be exact. There are six brews on tap and a slew of bottles available.
and a review of Vespucci’s.
While the market itself is shabby in its appearance, I would rate the counter food as above average to excellent.
Eater Maine and Maine a la Carte posted reports today about two Damian Sansonetti projects:
The Food & Dining section in today’s Press Herald includes an article about two local food authors and their books.
In “The MILF Diet,” former full-time Portlander and current summer resident Jessica Porter presents a beautiful cookbook that shows women how to use the techniques of macrobiotic cooking to bring their bodies and lives back into balance.
In “Food Fix,” Falmouth resident Susan Lebel Young provides an accessible self-help guide based on personal experience and the principles of mindfulness to lead readers out of the junk food abyss and into a real food oasis.
The Huffington Post has calculated that “Portland-Auburn” has the 8th highest ratio of eateries per capita in the nation.
HuffPost Food used data from The NPD Group’s annual ReCount survey, which takes a yearly census of the number of restaurants in the country, to rank United States metropolitan areas by the number of restaurants per capita.
The Root has published an interview with Don Lindgren, co-owner of Rabelais.
What is the root of your selection criteria for books?
Well, we have many different types of cookbooks and other food and drink books, so the selection criteria vary. There are tens of thousands of cookbooks in print, and hundreds of thousands of titles printed throughout history, so even the largest store can’t handle it all, but the bottom line for us is that a book needs to treat its subject with respect, and be written by someone who brings knowledge and some skill to the task. In terms of rare books, it’s all about what we find, whether it’s an individual item or a whole collection. I love buying collections formed by chefs and food historians because they often contain obscure books on really specific subjects, like Papaya Culture in Hawaii, or a 19th century Goan cookbook, published in Bombay.
Map & Menu has published a review of Schulte & Herr.
Right as the noon rush hit the restaurant, Meredith and I were paying our bill and putting on our coats, but now we’re faced with another problem – we’ve added yet another restaurant to chose from on our Portland go-to list. Such a tasty tragedy!
The Munjoy Hill News has posted article about the new Katie Made.
“This place is everything that the old place was not and never could be,” said Katie Capron co-owner of Katie Made Bakery of her new location at 181 Congress Street on Saturday morning. Katie and her sister and business partner Jennifer were holding an open house for the neighborhood to get a look at the sisters’ new Bakery.
Edible Obsessions has published a review of Sea Dog Brewing.
If their bare minimum attention to the quality of their breakfast, which they serve daily, is any indication, the only draw to actually darken the door of Sea Dog Brewing may be for a pint and their multiple big screen TV’s in the bar area. Just eat before hand.
The Insurance Guy Beer Blog has put together an interesting list of all the breweries he knows of that are under development in Maine—20 in all.
In the Portland area, in addition to In’finiti, he also lists Austin Street Brewery, Bissel Brothers Brewery and Brasserie Ici.
The Golden Dish has posted some suggestions on improving the winter farmers market.
The market needs to reinvent itself, creating an exciting environment that includes an expanded marketplace of farm-related products beyond what comes from the field. More variety would fill in when the natural demise of produce finally takes a rest for the winter. More baked goods, prepared foods, seafood, crafts and the like would be vital additions.