Savoring art, antiques, and the art of breakfast at Portland’s Pomegranate Inn

NOTE: As of January, 2025, The Pomegranate Inn is part of the West End Inn. It's currently under renovation. Updated June 19, 2025 Every morning,...
Fresh seafood plus Grindstone Neck of MAine smoked seafood products are served at Fisherman's Inn REstaurant. Courtesy photo

Fisherman’s Inn Restaurant in Winter Harbor, Maine, shares recipes for Thai-style mussels and finnan...

Restaurants come and go in Winter Harbor, Maine, but Carl and Kathy Johnson's Fisherman's Inn stood the test of time. Although closed (now, the...

For a topnotch fare, find The Lost Kitchen, in Belfast, Maine

CLOSED. Chef Erin French has taken her show on the road with an Airstream food truck.  For too long, Belfast, Maine, had only one restaurant...

Nibbles and bites in South Portland, Maine: Taco Trio and Scratch Baking Co.

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...
Chef William Howe's fish chowder aboard the Maine windjammer Angelique. Hilary Nangle photo

Nothing better than fish chowder on a Maine windjammer: Here’s the recipe

“I don’t really use recipes,” says William Howe, chef on the traditional Maine windjammer Angelique as he peels potatoes for the day's fish chowder...
When you're ready to enjoy a lobster, skip the fancy restaurants and choose a Maine lobster shack. ©Hilary nangle

Maine’s Best Lobster Shacks: Maine Travel Maven shares her favorites

Maine's best lobster shacks, according to the Maine Travel Maven, who shares her favorite Maine lobster shacks, from Kittery to Eastport.
Craving tortierre or pot en pot or raisin pie? Check out Bouchard Family FArms new French-Acadian Cookbook.

Bouchard Family Farms cookbook preserves Maine’s French-Acadian recipes

Ployes! Pot en Pot! Tortierre! Creton! Raisin Pie! If you've ever had the good fortune to travel in Maine's St. John Valley, you're likely...
Penny Jordan and her siblings and dad saved the family farm by working with the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust. Hilary Nangle photo.

All is Well at Jordan’s Farm, in Cape Elizabeth, thanks to development easements—and don’t...

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...
Maine Restaurant Week's guide to how to choose where to dine with your valentine.

Where to dine on Valentine’s Day in Portland

I love this flow chart, created by the good folks at Maine Restaurant Week, detailing suggestions for where to dine with your loved one...
Maine's oldest diner has new chefs at the helm and plans fancy dinners on weekends.. @Hilary Nangle photo

Biddeford’s Palace Diner reopening on March 12, 2014

I mourned when I learned that the Capostoto family had sold Biddeford's Palace Diner, a classic 1926 Pollard towed to Maine, from Lowell, Mass.,...

The Maine Travel Maven shares her Best of Maine picks for Yankee Mag on...

One of my more fun and challenging assignments for the best few years has been picking the Best of Maine for Yankee Magazine. (I...

Kudos to Maine’s 2016 James Beard Award semi-finalists

The James Beard Awards have released the semi-finalists for the 2016 restaurant and chef awards, and once again, Maine is well represented. Here's where...
Make breakfasts like those served at the Pomegranate Inn, in Portland, Maine, with innkeeper Dana Moos' new cookbook, The Art of Breakfast.

Dana Moos, innkeeper at Portland’s Pomegranate Inn, defines The Art of Breakfast

Yesterday, I had the good fortune to attend a brunch at Portland's Pomegranate Inn launching Dana Moos' new cookbook, The Art of Breakfast: How...
Chef Bryan Dame prepares fresh and local fare, served in the ocean view dining room at the Tides Beach Club, overlooking Goose Rocks Beach, in Kennebunkport, Maine. Tom Nangle photo.

Nibbles and bites: Grazing through Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine

Recently, I spent a few days in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine, and I made an effort to visit a few of the newer places...
Members of the Maine Windjammer ASsociation fleet parade by the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse during the annual Parade of Sail in 2011. Tom Nangle photo.

A day aboard America’s oldest working schooner: Rockland Parade of Sail and the recipe...

I had the good fortune to sail aboard American's oldest active commercial schooner, the Lewis R. French, during the Maine Windjammer Association's annual Parade...