By Hilary Nangle on May 24, 2013
Make reservations ASAP if you want to attend one of these specialty dinners highlighting Maine chefs and/or Maine foods. Salt Water Farm Café & Market launches Guest Chef Dinner series On June 7, Kathy Gunst, author of Notes from a Maine Kitchen, will collaborate with Chef Justin at the new Salt Water Farm at Union [...]
Posted in Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Events, Food, Greater Portland, Mid-Coast, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains | Tagged Dining, Guest chef series |
By Hilary Nangle on October 11, 2010
My original plan was to graze my way through dinner by nibbling appetizers or choosing small plates at a handful of restaurants in Bangor, Brewer, and Orono. Based on recommendations from locals, my possibilities included a pulled-pork app at Fiddlehead; fish tacos at Luna; perhaps a return visit to Market Bistro, where I’d had a [...]
Posted in Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Maine Highlands, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning | Tagged Bangor, Dining, restaurant, review |
By Hilary Nangle on September 16, 2010
Want to taste your way through Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and environs? Boothbay Harbor Restaurant Week, Sept. 18-24, 2010, makes that easy. Seventeen participating restaurants in Boothbay Harbor, Southport, and Wiscasset are offering a three-course menu (appetizer, entree, and dessert) for $22.10. You’ll find links to all on the website.
Posted in Deals, Events, Food, Mid-Coast, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Boothbay Harbor, Dining, restaurant week |
By Hilary Nangle on September 9, 2010
YES! Maine Restaurant Week is now offered twice, with a fall session slated Oct. 24-31, 2010, and a spring session March 1-12, 2011. Yes, now you have two opportunities to dine your way through Maine, returning to favorite restaurants or trying new ones.As usual, participating restaurants statewide will offer three-course meals for $20, $30, or [...]
Posted in Deals, Events, Food | Tagged Dining, fixed price menus, Maine Restaurant Week, restaurants |
By Hilary Nangle on July 31, 2010
Since I’m dishing on dining in Aroostook County, Maine, figured I’d share another favorite local restaurant, Grammy’s in Linneus, just southwest of Houlton. Now I’ve been to a lot of home-cookin’ joints in Maine, but I’ve never seen portions as huge as those served in this place. Nor have I ever seen two-fisted whoopie pies. [...]
Posted in Aroostook County, Food, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning | Tagged Dining, Food, Grammy's, Houlton, Linneus, restaurants |
By Hilary Nangle on July 4, 2010
I think you’d be hard pressed to find another town with the variety of ethnic restaurants per capita as Brunswick, Maine: Thai, Chinese, German, Italian, Indian, Mexican, with most packed tightly in the downtown. To those, add some recent additions: Irish (O’Shea’s Irish Restaurant & Cantina), Japanese (Little Tokyo), Greek/Italian (Trattoria Athena), and a player [...]
Posted in Food, Mid-Coast, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Brunswick, Dining, Greek, Italian, Maine, new restaurants, Trattoria Athena review |
By Hilary Nangle on June 15, 2010
I found a few changes and made a couple of discoveries in Kennebunk/Kennebunkport dining scene during my recent visit. In Kennebunk, 50 Local just opened at 50 Main Street (a site that seems to change every year or so). It had yet to open its doors when I passed through, but its menu leans toward [...]
Posted in Food, Moon guidebook updates, Southern Coast/Beaches, Where to go | Tagged 50 local, 95 ocean, brandy's on the rocks, Cape Porpoise, Dining, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Maine, nonantum, old vines wine bar, port bakery, wayfarer |
By Hilary Nangle on May 30, 2010
If you’re in the Greater Camden/Rockland region on Thursday, June 3, consider dining out at a participating Dine Out for Pete’s Sake restaurant (see participating restaurants, below) to help the Humane Society of Knox County. This is a great organization that not only places local strays and unwanteds, but also takes dogs in from overcrowded [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Penobscot Bay | Tagged benefit for dogs, Camden, Dine out for Pete's Sake, Dining, Food, Humane Society, Humane society of Knox county, restaurants, Rockland, shelter event |
By Hilary Nangle on May 3, 2010
Here’s a quick round-up of interesting news bits that have come across my desk: • Chebeague Island Inn reopening under new ownership A favorite destination for travelers and day-trippers since the 1880s, the inn, restored in 2003-04, will re-open May 14 under the new ownership of the Prentice family of Yarmouth, Maine. With the May [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Greater Portland, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Mid-Coast, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay | Tagged Aldemere Farm, Arrows, Best chef in the Northeast, Brunswick, Calf Unveiling, Chebeague Island Inn, Dining, farm activities, farms, Inns, James Beard Awards, Lodging, Maine, meats, Monkey C Monkey Do, No. 10 Water St., Ogunquit, produce, restaurants, Wiscasset, zipline adventures |
By Hilary Nangle on April 8, 2010
Earlier this week, I enjoyed a $30 three-course fixed menu (available only on Monday night) at Evangeline. Easy to understand why Chef Eric Desjarlais (who teams with his wife, Krista Kerns Desjarlais, of Bresca, on this Monday night special) is increasingly gaining national attention for his French-inspired fare crafted with locally sourced ingredients. I was [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Moon guidebook updates | Tagged Arts District, Dining, Eric Desjarlais, Evangeline, Krista Kerns Desjarlais, Maine, Portland, restaurant |
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