The Press Herald has published an interview with Dan Zarin, the longtime restaurant critic who’s been writing The Breakfast Serial series for The Bollard for two decades.
How has Greater Portland’s breakfast scene evolved over the last two decades?
What has changed is its volume and variety. There are certainly dozens more places now, and a lot more variety of approaches to breakfast. You’re always going to have your diners and your standard hotel brunch places, but then you get places that show up doing something unexpected like (Balkan-inspired) Nom Café. Nobody’s doing that. Wakie Wakie’s (Thai fusion) in Westbrook is fun, and something I haven’t had before.