The start of Maine Restaurant Week just a couple days and news coverage continues to be strong. Today there were a pair of articles in the Portland Daily Sun on the Bartenders Bash cocktail competition, and about the origins of MRW,
…the event is owned and operated by a private public relations company with deep connections into the high-profile eateries that made the promotion almost instantly credible when it launched last year.
and a piece in the Examiner which sets a list of 10 recommendations in verse. Here’s the first of 2 stanzas,
Bar Lola, Blue Spoon, or Brian Boru
That’s no Bull Feeney, we’re telling you true
Three courses of food – a bargain at that…
Five Fifty Five or the oddly named, Duckfat.
Restaurant week started in new york in 1992. Britt doesn’t own it. There was restaurant week in Maine before the Britts.