Haute dining, good value
No matter what your budget, getting good value for your buck makes a difference. In a town where $40 entrees aren't unusual, the White...
Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free fare fills the plate at these Maine restaurants
Health food stores and natural foods groceries, along with Asian, Indian, and Mexican restaurants, are the usual go-tos for on-the-road vegetarians and vegans. While...
Chocoholic’s choice
Just back from nibbling my way through the first Mid-Coast Maine Wine and Cheese Festival, held at two Rockport locations, Cellardoor Winery's retail shop...
Southwest Harbor restaurants play muscial chairs, and old favorites return
But of course! As soon as the new edition of Moon Acadia National Park is on the printing press, the changes begin rolling in,...
These Maine farms serve farm-fresh meals and more
Farm-to-table is so yesterday; in Maine, you can enjoy farm-fresh meals right on the farm. These farm-based Maine restaurants, cafés, and pizza ovens serve...
Grazing through Portland: Breakfast at the Porthole
I love the Porthole, a retro, unfussy dineresque joint hanging over the Custom House Wharf: faded signs, more-faded linoleum, an old pot-bellied...
Way downeast, way rustic escape
When the world, technology, and the buzz of civilization become too much, consider unplugging and rediscovering life's simple pleasures at this one-bedroom housekeeping cottage...
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.
It’s all Greek to me
...and to anyone else at Portland's annual Greek Heritage Festival, June 25-27, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church.
Food, dancing, food, crafts, food, music, food......
Bourdain in Maine 3
Best story on Bourdain's Maine tour I've seen yet is in today's Bangor News. It details his visit to a baked bean suppah in...
Conte’s: Master of pastabilities, especially with seafood
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...
Utah? Colorado? Nope, Maine
Don't know that I've ever experienced better snow anywhere than what's at Sugarloaf right now. Light, dry, fluffy, not a sign of ice or...
CalMex in Maine done right
Our plan was dinner at anneka jans,an upscale bistro in downtown Kittery. Foolish me, I thought: rainy, Wednesday night, no prob. Hah. That local...
Love Maine lobster? Enjoy it now and help Maine lobstermen
Love Maine lobster? According to a Maine lobsterman I just interviewed, due to coronavirus, the influx of Canadian lobsters (if you check the bands...
The Muffin Recipes Revealed: A Maine innkeeper tells all and shares recipes
I'm always on the lookout for inexpensive accommodations that I can recommend, especially along the Maine Coast and even more especially within easy reach...
