Tuesday — Bar Lola is hosting a Piedmontese wine dinner.
Wednesday — Wine Wise is teaching the first of 2 classes on sparkling wine at The Wine Bar.
Saturday — there will be a wine tasting at Black Cherry Provisions.
Sunday — The state-wide Open Creamery Day is Sunday, and Mycologist Greg Marley, author of Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore and Mystique of Mushrooms, will be at Rabelais for a book signing.
Farmer’s Markets — the traditional series of Farmer’s Markets are taking place Monday (Monument Square), Wednesday (Monument Square) and Saturday (Deering Oaks Park). Cultivating Community is running their new series of markets Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at various locations around the city.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.
This Week’s Events
Tuesday — Bar Lola is hosting a Piedmontese wine dinner.
Wednesday — Wine Wise is teaching the first of 2 classes on sparkling wine at The Wine Bar.
Saturday — there will be a wine tasting at Black Cherry Provisions.
Sunday — The state-wide Open Creamery Day is Sunday, and Mycologist Greg Marley, author of Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore and Mystique of Mushrooms, will be at Rabelais for a book signing.
Farmer’s Markets — the traditional series of Farmer’s Markets are taking place Monday (Monument Square), Wednesday (Monument Square) and Saturday (Deering Oaks Park). Cultivating Community is running their new series of markets Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at various locations around the city.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.
Review of Local Sprouts Cafe
Local Sprouts Cafe has received 3 stars from the Taste & Tell review in today’s Maine Sunday Telegram.
With changing entrees nightly, Local Sprouts Cafe presents local produce, meat and more with some panache in preparation — dinner can be quite good.
September 2010 Monthly Stats
The 10 eateries looked up most often in September were:
- Pai Men Miyake (-)
- Havana South (8)
- WhaddaPita (1)
- Miyake (2)
- Walter’s (24)
- Local 188 (13)
- Bar Lola (4)
- Bresca (5)
- Caiola’s (3)
- Otto Pizza (33)
The numbers in parentheses indicates their rank last month.
Korea House Opens Today
Happy Teriyaki has changed it’s name and menu and reopens today as Korea House which will be Portland’s only restaurant to serve an all Korean menu. A press release from the restaurant indicates they plan to prepare “authentic Korean dishes for both the epicure and casual eater”.
Indie Biz Awards
The polls are now open for the 2010 Indie Biz awards. This is the third year that Portland Buy Local has run this program to celebrate the best independent run businesses in the Portland area. Portland food businesses are nominated in nearly every category from Soul of Portland to Global Hero.
Salt Exchange on Fox
Charles Bryon, co-owner of The Salt Exchange, appeared on the Fox WGAN morning show to talk about his restaurant and promote the bourbon tasting that took place there last night.
Review of WhaddaPita
The Portland Phoenix has published a review of WhaddaPita.
Greek food — light, but with rich textures and flavors — lends itself well to the upscale-fast-food concept. The key of course is the quality of the pita, and Whaddapita makes good ones: warm and soft, with some good chew and flavor. They are wrapped around a dignified-sized pile of ingredients, rather than stuffed to bursting.
Review of Otto Pizza
From Away revisited Otto Pizza and has published a second review.
Make no mistake: Otto certainly knows their way around a pizza oven, and offers creative takes on classic pies. The question for next time will be whether the normally friendly staff will have any patience for requested (obnoxious?) customizations to their specialty pizzas. For next time, we’re getting a red pie, heavy sauce, well-done. If that doesn’t make them too grumpy, we may have a winner on our hands.
The Well Farm-to-Table
Today’s Press Herald reports on the one-man farm-to-table restaurant in Cape Elizabeth. The Well is run by chef Jason William who’s resume includes time at Back Bay Grill, Bresca and Grace.
Williams is the culinary force behind The Well, the latest farm-to-table restaurant in southern Maine. But don’t look for the eatery in downtown Portland or any of our state’s trendy coastal villages. The Well is situated on Jordan’s Farm in Cape Elizabeth, on the same patch of earth where most of the restaurant’s vegetables are grown.
The Well was also the subject of an article in The Cape Courier last week.
The chef of Cape’s newest restaurant doesn’t travel far to source his ingredients for the evening menu. “The Well” is located just yards from his produce supplier, Jordan’s Farm Market on Wells Road, and next to the fields from which his vegetables are picked. Fresh, locally raised foods are the essence of Jason Williams’ new eatery, where patrons can enjoy dinner right at the source, overlooking a field of flowers, or take it home to enjoy. “My menu varies from day to day, depending on what inspires me in the farm stand. I am what you’d do if you could live on a farm and cook all day.”