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Urban Eye has posted an article about Eighteen Twenty Wines which is producing rhubarb wine and cider in East Bayside and set to launch early this summer.

“We are over excited to have a good Maine-based wine. We’ve had wine professionals try it and they don’t think it tastes like a fruit wine, they think it tastes like a good white table wine. That is a major opportunity,” said O’Brien, who grew up on Peaks Island and is the director of business development at flyte new media in Portland. She calls their rhubarb vino “crushable porch wine.”

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Knack Factory has produced a video shot at the Gross Confection Bar dessert pop-up event that recently took place at The Honey Paw.

Gorgeous Gelato will be launching a second food cart this summer. In addition to the cart located in Fort Williams Park, they’ll have one on Commercial street located on Widgery Wharf.

Boston Magazine has interviewed the owners of Eventide about the plans for their new restaurant in the Fenway neighborhood,

The Fenway project, their first outside of Portland, will not be an oyster bar, they say, but a quick-service seafood spot with a high-tech digital menu board and a pared-down selection of “Eventide favorites,” including Maine and Massachusetts oysters, a peekytoe crab roll, and green-curry-flecked lobster stew. In contrast to their full-service Maine restaurants, diners will wait in line to order, pick up food on compostable plates, and then clear their own tables.

Portland Pulp (website, facebook, instagram) is now under construction at 116 Free Street. It will be co-located with Head Games.

Portland Pulp promises a menu of juice, smoothies and chopped salads. They hope to open this Spring.

Rose Foods (website, facebook, instagram) will be the name of Chad Conley’s new bagel shop and cafe in Portland, slated to open this summer. As reported back in February, Conley has leased the former Brea Lu space at 428 Forest Ave.

A press release from Rose Foods describes the concept as a,

counter-service bagel shop, neighborhood cafe, and retail store, featuring food from New York Jewish cuisine. Smoked seafood and other specialty products will be featured for retail sale and on bagel sandwiches, alongside deli classics like sour pickles, pastrami sandwiches, matzo ball soup and a variety of salads.

The space will have a dining room for eating in-house and Conley plans to expand to selling bagels wholesale and to offer catering services starting in the winter. His inspiration for Rose Foods dates back a few years to a bagel shop he visited in Toronto. The business is named after his wife Rachel’s great-grandmother.

Conley is the co-owner of Palace Diner.

Little Bee Ice Cream will be launching a food cart this summer.

Urban Eye has posted an update on Maine Craft Distilling’s plans for their new space on Washington Ave.

He plans to curate a craft whiskey collection from around the world and showcase his small-batch booze the way its meant to be imbibed: as classic cocktails. Because you can’t concoct a sidecar without cognac, or create a killer cocktail without access to absinthe, he had to apply for a lounge license. The distillery will also serve food and feel more like Liquid Riot on Commercial Street.

 

A new food truck called Falafel Mafia (instagram) is under construction. Owners Dylan and Cameron Gardner hope to launch in May serving falafel and gyros.