From Away has published a lunch review of Ohno! Cafe.
The food was good: simple, homey and filling. The shop/restaurant is adorable. The guy who took my order sang to himself while filling a giant grinder with coffee beans, and the grill guy was quiet and pleasantly Mobyish, albeit with fewer qualms about meat. A few other customers rang in an out, I read the Phoenix and assorted flyers posted, and felt at home right away at the Oh No Cafe.
Tuesday’s Portland Daily Sun included an interview with John Dennison, a longtime member of the Portland food community and creator of Portland Cooks.
In 2004 Dennison began blogging about Portland food on the international culinary site eGullet,( http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?/topic/73102-eg-foodblog-johnnyd/) pushing Portland’s potential as a town on the edge of great culinary things. In some weeks, he did as many as 200 posts, informing the avid food community that reads eGullet about the seafood, local produce and hard-working chefs that Portland can rightly boast.
The Food & Dining section in today’s Press Herald includes a report on slow money and progress on bringing that concept to Maine.
Slow money brings together socially-responsible investors with proponents of local and organic food, in a collaboration aimed at fundamentally shifting how money moves through the economy and where it gets invested.
ILovePortlandMaine.com has published a profile of Pat’s Pizza in the Old Port.
The Old Port location is wonderful; slightly off the beaten path of Fore Street, features a well done dark wood interior and full length bar separate from the dining room area, and offers a great family dining experience, along with a great place to catch up casually after work for a cold relaxing beverage.
ILovePortlandMaine.com has published a profile of Pat’s Pizza in the Old Port.
The Old Port location is wonderful; slightly off the beaten path of Fore Street, features a well done dark wood interior and full length bar separate from the dining room area, and offers a great family dining experience, along with a great place to catch up casually after work for a cold relaxing beverage.
The Forecaster investigated the factors that influence the price of your morning cup of coffee.
…the cost of a cup of coffee is anything but consistent across Portland’s many cafes. On Munjoy Hill, customers at Hilltop Coffee pay $1.46 for a 12-ounce cup. At Starbucks in the Old Port, patrons can expect to shell out $1.61 for the same size, and the Udder Place near Woodford’s Corner charges $1.75.
What accounts for the difference in price? A lot. Between the straws, the cups, the employees, the milk and sugar, the rent and more, there’s a lot more than coffee in the price of a cup of Joe.
Articles on yesterday’s demolition of the old Red’s Dairy Freeze building in South Portland appeared on the front page of the Press Herald,
Chris Bolling stood in the crowd outside Red’s Dairy Freeze in South Portland early Monday and watched the demolition of his popular ice cream stand.
“It was tough,” he said. “It’s a lot of memories, but it’s a new beginning and we will have a new building.”
and on The Forecaster website. Both newspapers also published video of the demolition.
It took 50 years for Red’s Dairy Freeze to build a fanatical following for its frozen soft-serve treats.
But it only took a matter of minutes on Monday for demolition crews to reduce the building at the corner of Cottage Road and Highland Avenue to a pile of rubble.
“It’s sad,” said Mercedes Vance, who lives a few houses up the street. “It has such a long history and tradition. I just look at all these kids out here sobbing and it makes me sad.”
Articles on yesterday’s demolition of the old Red’s Dairy Freeze building in South Portland appeared on the front page of the Press Herald,
Chris Bolling stood in the crowd outside Red’s Dairy Freeze in South Portland early Monday and watched the demolition of his popular ice cream stand.
“It was tough,” he said. “It’s a lot of memories, but it’s a new beginning and we will have a new building.”
and on The Forecaster website. Both newspapers also published video of the demolition.
It took 50 years for Red’s Dairy Freeze to build a fanatical following for its frozen soft-serve treats.
But it only took a matter of minutes on Monday for demolition crews to reduce the building at the corner of Cottage Road and Highland Avenue to a pile of rubble.
“It’s sad,” said Mercedes Vance, who lives a few houses up the street. “It has such a long history and tradition. I just look at all these kids out here sobbing and it makes me sad.”
Press Herald reporter Ray Routhier spends the day at Snell Family Farm picking squash destined for the Portland Farmers Market in the latest article for his Maine at Work column.
Then, as Snell instructed me, I picked the shriveled blossom off the vegetable and laid the zucchini in a handmade wooden box so it would be “nice and pretty” for customers the next day at farmers markets in Portland and Saco.
Wednesday — Wine Wise is teaching a class at The Wine Bar.
Thursday — wine tastings at Leavitt & Sons and Kitchen & Cork, Cultivating Community is hosting the next in their series of Twilight Dinners, and PortlandTaps.com is holding their monthly Third Thursday event at Brian Boru.
Friday — a 100-Mile Meal is taking place at BiBo’s, and Novare Res is holding their 3rd Annual Roguepalooza – 30 Rogue beers on tap.
Saturday — the 2nd day of Roguepalooza at Novare Res.
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.