Dutch’s (facebook, instagram, twitter)is now open. Owners Lucy and Ian Dutch are serving breakfast and lunch from their cafe at 28 Preble Street. I’d recommend the brioche cinnamon bun.
Month: November 2014
Thanksgiving Resource Guide
Portland area restaurants, bakeries, and kitchens are starting to announce their Thanksgiving dinners and related services. Here’s what I have so far. I’ll update the list as more info comes in.
Restaurants:
- C2 Restaurant, 12 – 8, $65
- Eves at the Garden, 12 – 6, $49 for adults
- Five Fifty-Five, 1 – 8, 4-course dinner, $80; wine pairings and children’s menus available
- Harraseeket Inn serves Thanksgiving dinner
- Miss Portland Diner serves Thanksgiving dinner
- Saltwater Grille, buffet, 12 – 5, $44.99 for adults, $15.99 for children
- Sea Glass Restaurant at the Inn by the Sea, 11 – 9, 3-course, $62 per person
- Timber, 3 – 9, 5 courses, $69
- Twenty Milk Street, 12 – 8
- Zackery’s, noon – 4, buffet, $27 for adults
For those of you hosting your own gathering:
- You can pre-order your free-range turkeys from Aurora Provisions or Rosemont Market. Between the two of them you can source also the pies, rolls, quick breads, side dishes and just about other item you might need for your Thanksgiving dinner. You can also get turkeys direct from the farm from Frith Farm or Wolfe’s Neck Farm.
- Be sure to check out this handy Turkey Buying Guide put together by The Blueberry Files which includes per pound pricing details for 18 different options available from local farms and markets.
- Standard Baking, Scratch Baking, Tandem Bakery, Two Fat Cats, Foley’s, Ten Ten Pie and many of the other bakeries in the area are good sources for pies, breads, etc.
- Check-out these wine suggestions from Wines;Tasted! and the weekly Joe Appel wine column in the Press Herald.
Community Dinners & Donations:
- The Wayside Food Programs is serving a free Thanksgiving community dinner 11:30 – 1 to an estimated 400+ people. You can make a donation or volunteer.
- To help fight hunger across the state and all year round, make a donation to the Good Shepherd Food Bank.
This Week’s Events: Dutch’s, Alton Brown, Bitters Workshop, Rosemont/Piccolo Class
Tuesday — it’s the opening day of Dutch’s located at 28 Preble Street.
Wednesday — Alton Brown will be at Merrill Auditorium, orchardist Waite Maclin will be giving a talk entitled The Seven Secrets to Fruitful Fruit Trees, there will be a wine tasting at Rosemont on Brighton, and the Monument Square Farmers Market is taking place.
Thursday — Engineers Without Borders’ is holding Uncorked, their 3rd annual beer & wine tasting and silent auction.
Friday — there will be wine tastings at the Rosemonts on both Brighton Ave and Congress Street.
Saturday — Veena’s Fizz House is holding a bitters workshop, Dobra is offering a course on the 6 types of tea, Rosemont and Piccolo are collaborating on a cooking class, and the Deering Oaks Farmers Market is taking place.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.
Crown O’Maine
Today’s Maine Sunday Telegram includes an article about Crown O’Maine.
Crown O’ Maine helps farmers and food producers get their product in supermarkets, company cafeterias and hospitals.
Pocket Feast Game Dinner
Pocket Brunch and Family Feast collaborated to produce a Maine game dinner last night in collaboration with the Maine Brewers Guild and Down East. 6 courses, or perhaps 8 depending on how you count, utilizing more than a dozen different game meats. The game bird ragu served with spelt/rye bucatini, the hare pie, and the panacotta with autumn olive sorbet were my favorites from the menu. There was a standing ovation at the end of the dinner for the kitchen crew.
100 Best Beers: Mo, Substance, Dubbel
Men’s Journal has included Bissell Brothers The Substance, MBC Mo and Allagash Dubbel in their list of the 100 Best Beers in the World.
To ensure you can actually find and enjoy these heavenly brews, we eliminated one-off batches and limited the list to beer sold in America and available on shelves and taps beyond the brewery. Our team also balanced entries from the stylistic families of beer — pilsners, wild ales, stouts, to name a few of the 23 official, judged styles — to ensure this wasn’t just a list of IPAs, America’s most popular craft brew. Consider this a to-drink list for year ahead.
The Salt Exchange Closed Permanently
Owner Charlie Bryon announced yesterday that due to the departure of some key staff he’s decided to close and sell The Salt Exchange.
With very short notice and based on the totality of our circumstances, I must close and sell The Salt Exchange Restaurant. It has been my sincere honor to serve the community of Portland and every guest that has graced our threshold. My time working with the very talented and supportive staff through every iteration of the restaurant has been a growth experience that I will always be grateful for.
He goes on to write,
The landscape of Portland is thickly populated by many good restaurants and I am very fortunate to have been counted among them, even if for just five years. I wish my peers the very best of luck and great fortune in their futures. To my guests I humbly thank you for your friendship, support, honesty, and kindness. I owe you my success and will look forward to seeing you soon. Cheers!