Salvage BBQ & Smokehouse (facebook, twitter, website) is now open for business. Portland’s newest restaurant is located at 919 Congress Street near the intersection of Congress and Saint John Streets. Salvage is being launched by chef/owner Jay Villani and the Local 188/Sonny’s crew.
Villani also is working on launching Ideal Bakery further up Congress Street near Rite Aid.
Update: For more info on the menu at Salvage see this blog post from The Golden Dish.
The 10 eateries looked up most often in August on Portland Food Map were:
The numbers in parentheses indicates their rank last month.
A pair of Boston Globe reporters have written about their experience on a Maine Foodie Tours walking trip in Portland.
We were on a culinary walking tour in Portland offered by Maine Foodie Tours. The 2½-hour jaunt through the historic Old Port and along the working waterfront introduced us to some of the city’s best purveyors and took us to its liveliest markets. Along the way we learned a little about the city’s unique and colorful history.
Living, Eating and Aging in Portland Maine has published a review of Blue Rooster.
I never meant to become a regular, it just happened. It was unexpected and quick. It literally took one bite from my first Red Eye Breakfast sandwich and I was hooked faster than a drug addict and his first crack experience. Pork belly, hash browns, “red eye” mayonnaise, fried egg, all on a buttermilk biscuit. The perfect breakfast sandwich even if they don’t open until 11AM…
Living, Eating and Aging also published reviews earlier this year of Po’Boys and Outliers.
Megan Bedford, author of Megansmark, has written a post about the Portland Food Swap for Livework Portland.
Recently, one of my favorite food community events was the Portland Food Swap, a locally organized shindig that welcomes anyone to come swap homemade, homegrown, or foraged foods. Food swaps are growing in popularity throughout the U.S., and have a strong foothold in the Pacific Northwest (particularly in the other Portland) where they are known for high standards of creativity in both content and design.
For more information on the Portland Food Swap visit their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/portlandfoodswap
The Portland Phoenix has published a review of Enio’s,
Enio’s may be run by veterans of the Maine restaurant scene, and be rooted in traditional strengths of Italian cuisine, but thanks to its imaginative menu and bright interesting space, it feels new and fresh.
and posted a double review of Local Press and Crooked Mile on Brighton Ave.
Two new lunch spots in the Rosemont neighborhood — a second location for local fave The Crooked Mile and the first for panini specialist the Local Press — offer a brighter fate to folks who lunch and labor off-peninsula.
Maine is in 2nd place on the 2013 Locavore Index (behind VT and ahead of NH) moving up two spots from last year. Sustainable America calculates the index based on the number of farmers markets, CSAs and food hubs per capita.
Salvage BBQ, the Portland Hunt & Alpine Club and Omi’s Coffee Shop all plan on opening in the next week:
For those of you keeping score that means in one week there will have been 2 tv crews filming restaurants in Portland, 2 national press articles about Portland restaurants and the chance to try 3 new venues. Yes, restaurant life is good in Portland.
A new food vendor called Azure is under construction on the 2nd floor of the Public Market House. Azure “a salad company” is taking over the space formerly occupied by Pie in the Sky Pizza.
The Portland Daily Sun has posted a profile of Black Cat Coffee.
Black Cat Coffee owner Keith Dunlap had no intention of opening and running a coffee shop. Instead, the former attorney, along with wife and co-owner, novelist Jenny Siler, saw an unfilled need.
Black Cat is located at 463 Stevens Ave.