This Week’s Events

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Tuesday — Jon David Headrick Selections will be at Rosemont on Bright Ave for a wine tasting in the afternoon and will be at Hugo’s for 6 course a JD Headrick wine dinner.

Wednesday — there will be two wine tastings at RSVP and Old Port Wine Merchants.

Thursday — the Maine Writer’s & Publisher’s Alliance is coordinating a series of dinners with 10 authors at Portland area restaurants.

Friday — Rosemont Market on Munjoy Hill is holding a wine tasting.

Saturday — the 2010 Backyard Locavore Tour will give you a chance to tour a number of gardens in the Greater Portland area, St Peter’s Church on Federal Street is holding their 85th Annual Italian Bazaar, Wine Wise is teaching a class at The Wine Bar, and two wine tastings at Scarborough Wine Outlet and Black Cherry Provisions.

Sunday — the 2nd day of St Peter’s Italian Bazaar.

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. Winter is still many months away but the Winter Farmers Market is planning for a second season and is looking for a new home. If you have any suggestions contact them at www.portlandmainewintermarket.com.

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.

Mike's Profiled in the Sun

| Posted in Under Construction, Profiles

Mike Fink, owner of Mike’s the new sandwich shop that soon to open on Congress Street, was the subject of an article in the Saturday Portland Daily Sun.

A few weeks ago I took a quick walk through the restaurant with Mike. I could see how comfortable this spot will be when it opens. The room is bright and has an easy in-and-out sandwich shop feel. The selections will be many. According to Fink, they will offer not only sandwiches, but paninis, salads, burritos, quesadillas, smoothies, floats, as well as a variety of soft drinks and take-out beer.

Mike’s Profiled in the Sun

| Posted in Under Construction, Profiles

Mike Fink, owner of Mike’s the new sandwich shop that soon to open on Congress Street, was the subject of an article in the Saturday Portland Daily Sun.

A few weeks ago I took a quick walk through the restaurant with Mike. I could see how comfortable this spot will be when it opens. The room is bright and has an easy in-and-out sandwich shop feel. The selections will be many. According to Fink, they will offer not only sandwiches, but paninis, salads, burritos, quesadillas, smoothies, floats, as well as a variety of soft drinks and take-out beer.

Smiling Hydroponic Tomatos

| Posted in Farming

According to a report in the American Journal, Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook is planning to get into the hydroponic tomato business. (via Westbrook Diarist)

The hydroponic vine-cluster tomatoes Smiling Hill would grow would be red and ripe when they left the greenhouse to go to customers in Maine and places like Boston and New York. But they would be “green” in the sense that they would be grown in an environmentally friendly way, according to Warren Knight, president of Smiling Hill.