Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of things I love about Portland, but one of my least favorite things is this: it’s really hard to pick up a pie (not made at the supermarket) at 6 pm on your way home from work. Foley’s closed at 5, and Two Fat Cats is always [...]
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Read Part I Here. Given that Portland has no shortage of places to eat lunch, it might seem kind of odd that I’m spending two entire days talking about the food options housed in one building. But part of the beauty of the food scene at Public Market House (beside its pure deliciousness) is that [...]
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Situated on Monument Square, it might be fair to say that the Public Market House symbolizes the heart of the local foods movement in Portland. Opened in 2006, following the collapse of Betty Noyce’s visionary-but-doomed Public Market project, the current public market opened in a converted Army-Navy store as a partnership between four of the [...]
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With its unique architecture, and its prime position on Commercial street, Farmer’s Table has to be one of the most attractive restaurants in the city. I don’t mean that glibly – regardless of what dining establishment has its home there, the building itself always enticed me. “Come in, eat here,” it seems to say, “with [...]
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So, Friday night, what with it being Restaurant Week and us having some foodie friends in town, my husband and I took the rare opportunity to go out for a totally grownup dinner. I’d been wanting to visit The Salt Exchange for quite a while, and this seemed like an excellent opportunity to visit a [...]
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Valentine’s Day, at our house, means something a little different than it does for the rest of the country. Sure, my husband gets me flowers, and now that we have a kid we do spend time making cards and getting ready for the inevitable classroom Valentine party (which includes watching Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, [...]
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Port Bean in five words: Sunny, Bright, Warm, Tasty, Surprising. Sometimes, on a winter’s day, that is exactly what you need. I wasn’t planning to visit Port Bean. I’d walked by it about a hundred times, but on this particular Maine winter day it was slushy and icy and I was hungry, and suddenly the [...]
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I was going through shops in the East End, and at ever single one, I had the same conversation. “Have you checked out Bakery on the Hill yet? It’s amazing.” When your neighbors consistently talk you up so highly, what can a poor blogger do but follow their advice. Bakery on the Hill did not [...]
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Let’s imagine you want to open a frozen yogurt shop. In Portland, Maine. Great idea, right! Your shop is the third in a tiny chain of well regarded shops dedicated to making a delicious, locally-sourced product. Terrific – a perfect fit for Portland. But, here’s the catch … you have your grand opening in October. [...]
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There is a quote in the window of Cobblestones, from the local food blog From Away, which reads: “A workaday sandwich shop as designed and imagined by people who clearly think about and care a lot about sandwiches.” We stopped in Cobblestones on a whim last week, and I have to say that the From [...]
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