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By Hilary Nangle on December 4, 2012
I’ve always enjoyed Sunfire Mexican Grill, but with so many restaurants in the area, I don’t get to go often. After a few years absence, I finally returned with my friend G the other night, and the experience lived up to my memories. Sunfire occupies a double store front on Rockland’s lower Main Street. It’s [...]
Posted in Food, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged restaurant, review, Rockland, Sunfire Mexican Grill |
By Hilary Nangle on August 2, 2012
I’m traveling along the Maine Coast this summer researching a new edition of Moon Coastal Maine. I’ll be posting updates every now and then on where I’ve dined and stayed. Here are a few morsels from recent forays in Greater Portland to whet your appetite. Local 188, Portland: Portland has so many restaurants and with [...]
Posted in Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Caiolas, Cape Elizabeth, Local 188, Portland, restaurant, review, Sea Glass |
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 18, 2011
I began researching a new edition of my Moon Acadia National Park guidebook with an overnight at Maine’se Bass Cottage Inn, in Bar Harbor, and dinner at its new restaurant, 10 Tables. Kudos to innkeepers Jeff and Terri Anderholm for this nice addition to the Mount Desert Island dining scene. 10 Tables fills a niche. [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged 10 Tables, Bar Harbor, Bass Cottage Inn, new restaurant in Bar Harbor, restaurant, review |
By Hilary Nangle on May 16, 2011
Two of my favorite Maine oceanfront inns—Grey Havens and the Blue Hill Inn—have big news for the 2011 season. Grey Havens, Georgetown, Maine After a few years of stormy seas, Grey Havens is open as a full-service inn with restaurant, under the new ownership of experienced innkeeper Eve Roesler, with her husband, Dick, and cousin [...]
Posted in Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Deals, Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Mid-Coast, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Blue Hill, Blue Hill Inn, Devin Finigan, dinner, Georgetown, Grey Havens, restaurant |
By Hilary Nangle on November 16, 2010
Early report: “It was very good, but also very crowded.” Yup, sounds like Hug’s. This new Falmouth restaurant, which replaced beloved Johnny’s Bistro, is an offshoot of the eponymous restaurant at Sugarloaf. The cuisine is Italian. While I haven’t been to this new one, I’m a huge fan of the one at Sugarloaf. Love the [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Black Cherry Provisions, Falmouth, Hug's, restaurant, Sugarloaf |
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 August 19, 2010
It’s always pleasant to return to a place and find that it’s far better than previously experienced, and that was the case with the Craignair Inn Restaurant. This tucked-away oceanfront dining room, in an old timey inn, surprised us with excellent fare at a more than fair price. Earlier this year, the Craignair, which tips [...]
Posted in Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Woof | Tagged Craignair Inn, restaurant, review, Spruce Head, St. George Peninsula |
By Hilary Nangle on June 30, 2010
Whenever traveling between Maine and Quebec City, instead of stopping en route for that ubiquitous fast-food cheeseburger, I savor a taste of Quebec at Père Nature (Father Nature), just off the main highway in Saint-Georges. Fresh, flavorful foods with an authentic regional accent fill this combination market, gelato bar, café, and fine dining restaurant housed [...]
Posted in Beyond Maine, Eastern Canada, Food, Quebec | Tagged cafe, Canada, fine cheeses, Food, gelato bar, market, Pere Nature, picnic fare, Quebec, restaurant, Saint-Georges, St. Georges |
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