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New food and dining developments are taking place all across Maine. Here are some recent updates to keep you in the know:
- The New Gloucester Village Store (website, facebook) is undergoing renovations and the owner Sam Coggeshall hopes to relaunch this local institution in May. It’s located at 405 Intervale Rd in New Gloucester. According to a statement on their website, “We are reviving New Gloucester’s longstanding community hub and marketplace, much as it was 2008-2022, only better. An expanded array of Ready-Made meals, salads, sides, soups, and such will make dinner easy, delicious, and economical. Pizza from the wood-fired brick will be available made-to-order, as slices, and as precooked, heat-at-home pizzas out of the cooler. The kitchen will also serve sandwiches, salads, breakfast and more, as before: 3 meals a day, 7 days a week. The biggest change is that in the dining room and on the deck, you’ll be able to have beer and wine. And in the market you’ll again be able to get meats, cheeses, produce, beer, wine, gourmet groceries, as well as basic sundries. Hopefully you’ll run into a neighbor you haven’t seen lately while you’re here.”
- The Portland-based Nordic candy shop Sodt (website, facebook, instagram) has announced plans to open a second location. The Freeport store will be located at 58 Main Street and they hope to launch it in June. Sodt opened their Portland store on Cumberland Ave in May.
- Lady Oyster (website, instagram) owner Virginia Shaffer is launching her 4-seat raw bar called The Parlor (instagram) today (photos above). It’s located at 1 Shaw Street in Bath. Shaffer envisions it as an oyster tasting room and market where customers can try oyster flights along with a glass of wine and homemade bread, and can also pick-up some oysters and wine to enjoy at home. Each week The Parlor will feature oysters from three of Maine’s 150 oyster farms and a set of three new wines. You can read more about the development of the business on the Lady Oyster website. The Parlor will be open Thursday through Saturday, noon – 7:30 pm. Reservations are strongly recommended.
- The Bangor Daily News has published an article about La Laiterie in Jonesboro. “The cafe offers homemade breads, pastries and classic French dishes — from almond croissants, pain au chocolates and kouign-amanns, which is a type of caramelized butter cake, to buckwheat crepes with ham and cheese and escargot made with local whelks, a type of sea snail native to Maine.”
- The Rockport Donut Festival (website, facebook, instagram) is scheduled to take place June 12th and 13th. According to a report from the Pen Bay Pilot, Ruckus Donuts, Old Time Donuts, The Only Doughnut, Eighty 8 Donut Cafe, Graffiti Donuts, The Donut Grove, and The Holy Donut will be taking place in the event.
- Mainebiz has published an interview with Briana Warner, the president of Oxbow Brewing.
- The Penobscot Bay Press has published an article on Stonecutters Kitchen in Stonington which is celebrating their 5th anniversary.
- The Harpswell Anchor reports that the Harpswell Schoolhouse restaurant will be closing “indefinitely”.
- The Times Record reports that Morning Glory Natural Foods has opened a second location on Brunswick Landing.
For a statewide guide to eating and drinking see the Maine Food Map—a growing list of coffee shops, bars, restaurants, bakeries, cafes, plus other food and dining businesses in all of Maine’s 16 counties.