By Hilary Nangle on October 13, 2011
Portland, Maine’s, annual Harvest on the Harbor food and wine experience has become the culinary event in a state renowned for its locavore culture, in the town named “America’s Foodiest” by Bon Appetit. Since it’s inception in 2008, the October food-and-wine celebration has grown each year, fed by locals who seem to have an insatiable [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Harvest on the Harbor, Portland |
By Hilary Nangle on September 20, 2011
Barak Olins is passionate about bread. Every Friday, he handcrafts 200 loaves, using traditional French bread-making methods and certified organic ingredients, including whole grains that he mills just prior to mixing the dough. Then, he bakes them in a brick oven he built on his South Freeport, Maine, property. Olins’ Zu Bakery breads are as [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged artisan bread, artisanal bread, Barak Olins, Brunswick, Brunswick Farmers Market, Crystal Springs Community Farm, Freeport, Zu Bakery |
By Hilary Nangle on September 19, 2011
Last week, I had the good fortune to visit a number of Maine farms with the Maine Farmland Trust, an organization that’s working to preserve Maine’s working farms and agricultural landscape and support farming’s future. Some of the farms I visited are supplying restaurants, such as Fore Street, in Portland, and the Harraseeket Inn, in [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Cape Elizabeth, farm stands, Jordan's Farm, restaurants, The Well at Jordan's Farm |
By Hilary Nangle on August 18, 2011
On a lark, I had lunch at Fez, Portland, Maine’s, new Somalian-Moroccan Restaurant on Washington Avenue. Loved it! That’s the short story, now let me tell you the rest of it. My plan was to eat at Silly’s, one of my favorite cheap-but-damn-good-eats spots, but I landed a parking space in front of Fez. So [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Fez, Mediterranean, Moroccan, Portland, restaurant, review, Somalian |
By Hilary Nangle on July 22, 2011
Miyake has barely been in its new location in the Portland Harbor Hotel building on Fore Street for a week, but judging from my lunch there earlier this week, Chef Masa Miyake and his staff are already feeling at home. I met two friends (a food writer and a newly minted culinary school grad) there [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Miyake, Portland, restaurant, review |
By Hilary Nangle on July 20, 2011
Psst: Seeking Maine’s best bagels? Hankering for a taste of the Southwest? Mosey over the Casco Bay Bridge to South Portland (SoPo, if you’re feeling trendy), and check out these two spots. Scratch Baking Co: Bagels! Getting decent bagels in Maine is a challenge (whenever New York friends visit, they know the perfect hostess gift [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Maine's best bagels, Mexican food in southern Maine, reviews, Scratch Baking Co., South Portland, Taco Trio |
By Hilary Nangle on July 12, 2011
The annual Yarmouth Clam Festival is more than a seafood celebration, it’s a full-blown festival, with entertainment, crafts, a parade, and more. Events include bike races, foot races, and canoe and kayak races, as well as concerts, children’s activities, a diaper derby, and, of course, plenty of clams and other Maine seafood. Highlights include: • [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged fireworks, parade, seafood, Yarmouth, Yarmouth Clam Festival |
By Hilary Nangle on July 3, 2011
Opera in Maine? You bet! PORTopera’s Young Artists Program is presenting the first-ever performances of Café Vienna, an opera by American composer Richard Pearson Thomas. And it’s not too soon to purchase tix to this year’s Mainstage performance, either. Café Vienna Set in a Vienna coffee house circa 1907, Café Vienna tells the story of [...]
Posted in Events, Greater Portland, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Cafe Vienna, Daughter of the Regiment, Farmington, Old Orchard Beach, Opera at the Mansion, opera in Maine, Portland, PORTOpera, Victoria Mansion |
By Hilary Nangle on May 25, 2011
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to attend a brunch at Portland’s Pomegranate Inn launching innkeeper Dana Moos new cookbook, The Art of Breakfast: How to Bring B&B Entertaining Home (Down East Books, May 2011). Dana made putting together a nine-course (!) meal look easy, and she says it is, explaining how in this book. [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged breakfast recipe, cookbook review, Dana Moos, fiddlehead recipe, lobster recipe, Pomegranate Inn, Portland, The Art of Breakfast |
By Hilary Nangle on May 24, 2011
Maine is world renowned for its lobster, and there are plenty of ways to enjoy it. Eating it, of course, is one way, but you can also enjoy a festival celebrating the bugs, or watch races between lobsterboats (fierce competition), or go out on one and learn about and perhaps take part in how the [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Down East Coast, Events, Food, Greater Portland, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, When to go, Where to go | Tagged Capt. Jack, Frenchboro Lobster Festival, lobster, lobster festivals, lobster shacks, lobster tours, Lucky Catch, Lulu, Maine Lobster Festival, Winter Harbor Lobster Festival |
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