The Lost Kitchen has released details of their 2019 reservation process. It follows the same pattern as last year, so dust off your stack of 3×5 cards, find an envelope and a stamp and get your letter ready to mail on April 1st.
Month: March 2019
Reviews: Piccolo, LB Kitchen
The Maine Sunday Telegram has reviewed the Piccolo, and
The new Piccolo still holds a maximum of 20 diners at a time, but it feels (and is) brighter, more colorful and best of all: more accessible. With the addition of half-portions of pasta to the menu, it is easy to imagine stopping in for a weekday meal of phenomenal Funghi (a stealth salad with a runny egg that creates its own carbonara-like dressing), a plate of pork-sugo-dressed strascinati pasta, and a half-dessert, half-digestif fior di latte gelato slowly melting into a fruity, herbal shot of Pasubio amaro. No special occasion required.
The Bollard has reviewed the LB Kitchen.
It’s definitely possible to make healthier choices than we made — the menu includes several whole-grain bowls, vegetable-heavy sandwiches and the like — but to me, LB Kitchen shines brightest when they put a healthyish spin on traditional breakfast fare. The prices aren’t the lowest in town, but the quality of both the ingredients and their preparation made the cost seem totally reasonable. I can declare without shame that I’ll be back soon.
Bird & Co Opens Tuesday
Bird & Co. (instagram), the new Mexican restaurant that’s been under construction in Woodfords Corner, has announced plans to open on Tuesday, with the Grand Opening for the restaurant scheduled for Tuesday March 19th.
Bird & Co. is located at 539 Deering Ave in the space formerly occupied by Abilene.
Speed Rack
Five bartenders from Portland are competing in the Northeast regional Speed Rack competition:
- Liz Smith from Lio
- LyAnna Sanabria from Chaval
- Sylvi Roy from Hunt & Alpine
- Kristen Mixter from Hunt & Alpine
- Charlotte Stanton from Little Giant
Speed Rack is a charity female bartending competition that raises money for breast cancer research. The winner in the Northeast will go on to keep in the national competition in NYC this May.
Tickets for the Northest regional competition taking place March 11 are available online.
Elise Miller, Chopped Champion
Rosemont Butcher Elise Miller beat out the competition to become a Chopped Champion this week, reports the Press Herald.
Maine Beer Co. Tasting Room
Both The Blueberry Files and Mainebiz have published reports on the new Maine Beer Company tasting room in Freeport.
Fortunately, the tasting room expansion is complete, with a 6,000 sq. ft. light-filled space with a wood-fired pizza oven and a water fountain. The new space is open to the public now, but the official grand opening is Saturday, March 9th.
Rabelais Books
Life & Thyme has published a profile of Rabelais Books and its owner Don Lindgren.
For Don Lindgren of Rabelais, an antiquarian bookshop in Biddeford, Maine, these culinary texts serve a purpose even more expansive than the preservation of recipes. Widely considered a leading buyer and seller of antiquarian cookbooks and culinary ephemera, his work consists not just in seeking out rare material, but in helping others understand the role those books played in the lives of both their individual owners and society at large.