Winter Market Aims for Irish Heritage Center

| Posted in General News

The Winter Farmers Market is working with the city to get a zoning change so they can operate this winter out of the Irish Heritage Center, according to an article in today’s Press Herald.

[Councilor David] Marshall, who facilitated a meeting last month between the organizers of the farmers market and the city staff, said he expects the council to support the zoning change.

Last winter, the market operated at 85 Free St. Organizers said the space was too small and there was not enough parking for customers. “We wanted a better and a bigger space,” said Lauren Pignatello, one of the market’s coordinators.

This Week's Events:Allagash Dinner, Brewer's Festival, Rwandan Cooking Class, Chimay

| Posted in Events

Wednesday — the Monument Square Farmers Market is taking place, Vignola is holding their 5th Annual Allagash Beer Dinner, and both Grace and Wine Wise are holding wine education events.
Thursday — The Great Lost Bear will showcase brews from all of the Portland breweries and Downeast Beverage will hold a beer tasting.
Friday — The first night of the 17th Annual Maine Brewer’s Festival (more info), a Rwandan cooking class is taking place, the West End Deli is holding a wine tasting and the First Friday Art Walk is taking place which usually kicks the competition for a table at your favorite restaurant up a notch (more than 60% on OpenTable are already booked solid for the 7 pm time slot) so make your reservations early.
Saturday — LeRoux Kitchen is holding a wine tasting, the Deering Oaks Farmers Market is taking place and it’s the last night of the 17th Annual Maine Brewer’s Festival.
Sunday — Novare Res is holding a Chimay beer event.
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:Allagash Dinner, Brewer’s Festival, Rwandan Cooking Class, Chimay

| Posted in Events

Wednesday — the Monument Square Farmers Market is taking place, Vignola is holding their 5th Annual Allagash Beer Dinner, and both Grace and Wine Wise are holding wine education events.

Thursday — The Great Lost Bear will showcase brews from all of the Portland breweries and Downeast Beverage will hold a beer tasting.

Friday — The first night of the 17th Annual Maine Brewer’s Festival (more info), a Rwandan cooking class is taking place, the West End Deli is holding a wine tasting and the First Friday Art Walk is taking place which usually kicks the competition for a table at your favorite restaurant up a notch (more than 60% on OpenTable are already booked solid for the 7 pm time slot) so make your reservations early.

Saturday — LeRoux Kitchen is holding a wine tasting, the Deering Oaks Farmers Market is taking place and it’s the last night of the 17th Annual Maine Brewer’s Festival.

Sunday — Novare Res is holding a Chimay beer event.

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.

Maine Beer & Mead Tasting

| Posted in Beer

Portland magazine has published the notes of a tasting of 13 Maine beers and 1 mead.

Clever. European. Sexy. Diabolical. SoCal cool. If the words used to describe Maine beers at a local tasting are any indication, it would be safe to say that we’ve left behind our staid reputation for tweedy, English-style ales, emerging as the New World birthplace of world-class brews like Allagash’s lusty Belgian whites, Sebago’s breezy IPAs, Marshall Wharf’s maniacally hopped classics, and Shipyard’s pop-culture seasonals.