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By Hilary Nangle on October 10, 2011
Maine’s Blue Hill Peninsula exudes the essence of what what many people picture when they dream about the Maine coast. It’s off the beaten track, a rolling landscape carved in granite, fringed with spruce, splashed with ponds, sprinkled with galleries, salted with farmsteads, and peppered with those classic big house-little house-back house-barn houses that art [...]
Posted in Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Maine Made, Moon guidebook updates, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged bagaduce forge, Bagaduce Lunch, bakeries, bets's sunflower, blossom studio, Blue Hill Peninsula, Brooklin, brooklin inn, Brooksville, buck's harbor market, bucks restaurant, Eggemoggin Textile STudio, fourseason farm, galleries, good life center, Handmade papers, Hiram Blake Camps, holbrook island sanctuary, mainehooked rugs, Mermaid woolens, Oakland House, paul heroux, Puschart Press Bookstore, Reach Road Gallery, restaurants, scott goldberg, sedgewick antiques, Sedgwick, sow's ear winery, the cave, tinder hearth bakery, Wooden Boat |
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 July 17, 2011
Recently, I spent a few days in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine, and I made an effort to visit a few of the newer places in the area, those with updates, and a few favorites. The Tides Beach Club: Located in the completely renovated and elegantly updated former Tides Inn by the Sea on Kennebunkport’s Goose [...]
Posted in Food, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Biddeford, brandy's on the rocks, Cape Porpoise Kitchen, Earth, Goose Rocks Beach, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Old Vines Wine Bar & Tapas Restaurant, Pedros Mexican Restaurant, Pier 77 Restaurant, restaurants, reviews, The Ramp, Tides Beach Club |
By Hilary Nangle on November 15, 2010
… at least for now. Erik Desjarais’ popular French restaurant, Evangeline, has closed its doors. Desjarlais has opted to be a full-time stay-at-home dad with his infant daughter (and who can blame him for that?). I just spoke with Erik, who confirmed the restaurant has closed its doors for good. “The past six months have [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Moon guidebook updates, Where to go | Tagged Evangeline, Portland, restaurants |
By Hilary Nangle on September 10, 2010
Recently, I dined with friends at the new incarnation of take-no-prisoners Conte’s Restaurant in Rockland, Maine. Devotees of John Conte’s infamous seafood-and-pasta dive were thrilled to see it reopen on South Main Street, after evacuating its waterfront digs earlier this year (after celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain featured it on his No Reservations show). But could [...]
Posted in Food, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Contes, restaurants, review, Rockland, seafood |
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 June 15, 2010
The Berwicks aren’t on the regular tourist loop. Snugged against the New Hampshire border in southwestern Maine, these communities are less than a half hour from the coast make a nice rural ramble, especially for those who appreciate historical homes and literary heritage (authors Gladys Hasty Carroll and Sarah Orne Jewett). Another plus: Because they’re [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Sightseeing, Southern Coast/Beaches, Where to go | Tagged Academy Street Inn, Angel of the Berwicks, B&Bs, Hamilton House, Historic inns, Historic New England, Inns, inns with great architecture, Maine, North Berwick, Pepperland Cafe, Relish, restaurants, Sarah Orne Jewett House, South Berwick, The Berwicks, Vaughn Woods State Park |
By Hilary Nangle on June 9, 2010
Maine is renowned for its lobster shacks, but its fried fish joints are equally tasty finds. At these 10 coastal gems—a mix of sit-down restaurants and take-out shacks—the fish is ultra fresh and moist and the coatings are flavorful and crisp. Expect big portions, low prices, salty gossip, and homemade desserts that are as alluring [...]
Posted in Acadia, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Food, Greater Portland, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Southern Coast/Beaches, Where to go | Tagged Anglers, Bagaduce Lunch, Bet's Famous Fish Fry, Boothbay, Chester Pike's, fish joints, Fisherman's Catch, fried fish, Harraseeket Lunch & Lobster, Just Barb's Stockton Springs, Ken's Place, Penobscot, Portland, restaurants, Scarborough, Sea Basket, seafood in Maine, Searsport, South Freeport, Sullivan, Surf Side, Susan's Fish-N-Chip, Vinalhaven, Wells, Wiscasset |
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 |
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