Category: Maine

Here are some recent food and dining highlights from around the state:

• The Sun Journal reports that a new brewery called Hazywater Brewery and Taproom is under construction in Turner. Owner Bob Doyon hopes to launch by early October.
• The Bangor Daily News recently reported on a new restaurant under construction in the town of Sherman in Aroostook County. Chefs Jon Purdy and Jenny MacArthur are converting an old Victorian house into the future home of Salted Butter Farm restaurant. They hope to be open by the end of October. You can see a copy of their draft menu on facebook.
• Mainebiz reports that the Rooster Brother kitchenware store in Ellsworth is for sale.

Here are some recent food and dining highlights from around the state:

• • Mainebiz has provided an overview of several new restaurants, bars, coffee shops and food retail shops in downtown Bangor including SugarRay Baking, The Stage Door, Chimera Coffee, Smoke & Steel, Utopia, The Nest Cafe, Tavola, Lazy Hound.
  • Rise Pizza & Pub (instagram) has opened for business in Cumberland.
  • Heather Thompson Paquette will be the new president of the Good Shepherd Food Bank. She’ll be taking over leadership of the organization starting in September. Paquette has had a 24-year career with the parent company of Hannaford.

Here are some recent food and dining highlights from around the state:

• The Pen Bay Pilot reports that a new restaurant called Pottle’s (instagram) has opened in Liberty. Pottle’s is open Thursday through Tuesday, 11 am – 9 pm.
• A new children’s book called Dim Sum Palace by Midcoast resident X. Fang is due out on September 12th. In the book a “little girl’s love of dim sum spills over into her dreams, taking her on a fantastical food-filled adventure…”

Here are some recent food and dining highlights from around the state:

• Rabelais Books owner Don Lindgren has announced he’s shutting down the bookstore’s Biddeford retail shop. Lindgren will continue to operate the rare book component of Rabelais as a virtual business. The bookstore will remain open through the remainder of August, Thursday to Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm with a 30% discount on all books priced under $1,000.
• Wolfpeach in Camden will be closing permanently. The Camden restaurant opened in late 2021 and was a James Beard Awards semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in 2023. Earlier this year Wolfpeach transitioned to a pizza-centric menu and has also been home to Pastoralia Wines which has run a daytime wine shop and wine bar from the restaurant.
• Jodie’s Cafe and Bakery has announced they’ll be moving their operations to 45 Water Street in Wiscasset where they’ll be serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Last month owner Jodie Roquemore purchased the former Sarah’s Cafe from longtime owner Sarah Heald. The new Jodie’s is expected to open sometime in August.
• The Bangor Daily News reported on the use of invasive green crabs on the menu at Must Be Nice Lobster in Belfast.

Here are some food and dining highlights from around the state:

• The new owners of the Saint George River Cafe have launched a new business called the Black Goat Test Kitchen + Supperclub (website, facebook, instagram). Joe Ricchio (aka Food Coma) recently attended a preview of their supperclub. The first public edition of the supperclub is scheduled to take place on  August 5th.
• The Penobscot Bay Pilot has published an article about three new restaurants in Camden: Mosaic, the new wine bar at Goods, and Paper Plane.