The January/February issue of Imbibe magazine list Reno, Austin, Atlanta, Minneapolis-St Paul and Portland as their Fab 5 of America’s emerging beer mecca’s. Portland beer blogger Luke Livingston from Blog About Beer is quoted in the article which calls out Allagash, Geary’s, Gritty’s, Maine Beer Co, Sebago, Shipyard, Downeast Everage, RSVP, Great Lost Bear, Novare Res, and Three Dollar Deweys as evidence of Portland’s beer meccaness. The article isn’t available online but you can pick-up a copy of the magazine at Longfellow Books.
Month: January 2010
Review of Bull Feeney's
Bull Feeney’s received 3½ stars from this week’s Taste & Tell column in the Maine Sunday Telegram.
Familiarity with a certain number of Maine’s brew pubs might give you the impression that they can’t be trusted to make especially good meals. But a dinner at Bull Feeney’s will change that misapprehension.
Review of Bull Feeney’s
Bull Feeney’s received 3½ stars from this week’s Taste & Tell column in the Maine Sunday Telegram.
Familiarity with a certain number of Maine’s brew pubs might give you the impression that they can’t be trusted to make especially good meals. But a dinner at Bull Feeney’s will change that misapprehension.
Down East: Is Maine Screwing Up its Wine Industry?
Down East has published an in-depth look at the convoluted and complex set of laws governing wine sales, production and shipping as well as wine tastings in the state.
Yet even such codified situations seem to have exceptions. Winterport Winery, for instance, had a liquor license for three years by virtue of maintaining a restaurant next door (separate door, separate corporation) where it conducted wine pairings with meals and cooking classes. Owner Michael Anderson was surprised, therefore, when he was told that he would not be able to renew his license in 2009.
“Mike, we’ve got a problem,” a state liquor inspector told him. “I want you to become a brewery.”
“You what?”
Photos of Sonny's Opening
PortlandTown has posted a set of photograph’s from yesterday’s opening night at Sonny’s.
Chef/owner Jay Villani is shown here plating up some Brazilian Style Mussels.
Photo Credit: Michael Barriault
Photos of Sonny’s Opening
PortlandTown has posted a set of photograph’s from yesterday’s opening night at Sonny’s.
Chef/owner Jay Villani is shown here plating up some Brazilian Style Mussels.
Photo Credit: Michael Barriault
Sonny's Opening
Sonny’s is scheduled to open for business today. The restaurant is in the space off Post Office Park formerly occupied by O’Naturals. It is the creation of Jay Villani, the chef/owner of Local 188.
Sonny’s Opening
Sonny’s is scheduled to open for business today. The restaurant is in the space off Post Office Park formerly occupied by O’Naturals. It is the creation of Jay Villani, the chef/owner of Local 188.
Immigrant Food System Knowledge
The Portland Daily Sun has a report on a United Way program taking place on Friday to educate immigrants about “avoiding unhealthy foods, how-to’s on using kitchen appliances and even an explanation on following a recipe”
The 90-minute forums will be held at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. at United Way headquarters at 400 Congress St. The morning session will focus on adult nutrition while the afternoon session will center around adolescent and teenage nutrition. Both events are free and open to the public.
Theater/Food Collaborations
There’s a report in this week’s Portland Phoenix about the Of Farms and Fables collaborative effort between farmers and theater to “foster a civic conversation about local agriculture, farming, and the future of small family farms in Maine.”
Over 12 weeks starting in May, Open Waters will bring three artists to three Maine farms — Wm. H. Jordan Farm of Cape Elizabeth, Broadturn Farm of Scarborough, and Benson Farm of Gorham — for residencies that will engage artists in farm work and farm workers in acting and storytelling. The cultural exchange will culminate in the summer of 2011 with an outdoor performance by both theater artists and farm workers, which will draw its audience into a conversation about our land, agriculture and food, those so basic and so sublime elements of how we live.
For those of you looking for a food/theater fix now check out this month’s “psychogeographic dinner theater” taking place at The Whitney Art Works.