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 February 10, 2012
For too long, Belfast, Maine, had only one restaurant worthy of a dedicated road trip, and that one served dinner only on Friday nights. Now it has The Lost Kitchen. The Lost Kitchen began as a secret supper club by Erin French, but word spread and its popularity grew. The Lost Kitchen restaurant occupies the [...]
Posted in Food, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Belfast, review, The Lost Kitchen |
By Hilary Nangle on October 1, 2011
In Maine, eating fresh, local food is easy. The state was farm-to-table in homes and in many restaurants long before it became trend. Now that it’s harvest season, farm stands and farmers’ markets are overflowing with fresh produce, but sometimes figuring out how to prepare those veggies and fruits can be a challenge. Lisa Turner, [...]
Posted in Food, Recipes | Tagged apple cranberry cake, Lisa Turner, pumpking whoopie pies, recipes, review, The EAt Local Cookbook |
By Hilary Nangle on September 13, 2011
Recently, we dined with friends at Fathom, a new-in 2011 restaurant in downtown Bar Harbor, Maine. After one meal, we understood why other guests at the Ullikana, the inn where we’re staying, had returned not once, but four times during their one-week stay. Fathom is located just off Cottage Street in the space occupied previously [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Moon guidebook updates | Tagged Bar Harbor, Fathom restaurant, fine dining, review |
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 10, 2011
I fell in love with the Ocean Point Inn, an oceanfront old fashioned inn, cottages, and motel in East Boothbay, Maine, when I stayed on a great deal late last summer (here’s my review from that stay). Well, it’s not the same deal, but the inn is offering some extremely wallet-friendly Internet specials through mid [...]
Posted in Deals, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Mid-Coast, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged East Boothbay, Oceanpoint Inn, review |
By Hilary Nangle on February 16, 2011
I love the Hartstone Inn, in Camden. It’s not only a delightful inn, but also a culinary destination, with a wonderful dining room and even a cooking school program (Chef/co-owner Michael Salmon just cooked at The Beard House in New York with the chef from the Camden Harbor Inn). Now March isn’t Maine’s finest month [...]
Posted in Deals, Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Camden, Hartstone Inn, March Madness package, review |
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