Restaurant Real Estate Listings: December 2020

Welcome to the December edition of the Portland Food Map restaurant real estate listings sponsored by The Boulos Company. This monthly column gathers in one convenient place the spaces available in Portland that could be potential sites for restaurants and food producers/retailers to locate their next business. Even in these tough times for the hospitality […]

Winter Business Sustainability Grant Program

The city has announced a grant program to help businesses with costs for outdoor operations during the pandemic. The application deadline is December 9. The City of Portland’s Winter Business Sustainability Grant Program (WBSG) is being launched today, November 19. Offering grants of up to $10,000, the Program’s purpose is to assist Portland businesses with […]

Restaurant Real Estate Listings: November 2020

Welcome to the November edition of the Portland Food Map restaurant real estate listings sponsored by The Boulos Company. This monthly column gathers in one convenient place the spaces available in Portland that could be potential sites for restaurants and food producers/retailers to locate their next business. Even in these tough times for the hospitality […]

Restaurant Real Estate Listings: October 2020

Welcome to the October edition of the Portland Food Map restaurant real estate listings sponsored by The Boulos Company. This monthly column gathers in one convenient place spaces available in Portland that could be potential sites for restaurants and food producers/retailers to locate their next business. Even in these tough times for the hospitality industry […]

Beer and Beards

Today’s Maine Sunday Telegram includes articles on the stickiness of new curbside beer pick-up and beer delivery services post-pandemic, Though curbside pick-up and delivery were forced upon brewers by the pandemic, many have discovered how much customers like these services and may keep the systems in place for the foreseeable future. Sullivan surveyed more than 70 […]

Brewery Extrava Launched

Brewery Extrava held soft openings Friday and Saturday (they’ll be there until 7 pm Saturday) to introduce their line-up of Belgian style beers. They’ll be back open Friday and Saturday (and perhaps Sunday) next weekend, noon to 8 pm. The current beer list includes Little Dark (3.8%, dark session ale), a 6% Saison, and B […]

Coals Pizza Opens Today

Coals Pizza (website, instagram, twitter) is scheduled to open today at 5 pm. Coals is located at 114 Preble Street in the former Portland & Rochester space. This is Coal’s only location outside of New York. They specialize in grilled pizza. You can see their full menu online. A 2015 review in the New York Times sums up Coals this way, The atmosphere […]