Monday—PortlandTaps.com has organized a Solstice Pub Crawl. the Maine Ambassadors of Food and Drink are running the weekly Foodie Trivia Contest at Bull Feeney’s, and Stephen Lanzalotta is teaching a cooking class.
Tuesday—Port Sports is facilitating a second Mead Crawl. The event starts with a tour at Maine Mead Works, wends it way through the city and ends up at Novare Res.
Thursday—Cinque Terre is serving a traditional Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner on Christmas Eve. There’s also a Christmas Eve dinner taking place at Grace.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a local area food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.
This Week’s Events
Monday—PortlandTaps.com has organized a Solstice Pub Crawl. the Maine Ambassadors of Food and Drink are running the weekly Foodie Trivia Contest at Bull Feeney’s, and Stephen Lanzalotta is teaching a cooking class.
Tuesday—Port Sports is facilitating a second Mead Crawl. The event starts with a tour at Maine Mead Works, wends it way through the city and ends up at Novare Res.
Thursday—Cinque Terre is serving a traditional Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner on Christmas Eve. There’s also a Christmas Eve dinner taking place at Grace.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a local area food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.
Review of Hugo's
Hugo’s received 5 stars from the Taste & Tell Column in this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram.
If there were a book called “100 Things to Do in Portland Before You Die,” eating at Hugo’s would be at the beginning, because Rob Evans assembles delicious, high-design dinners no one should miss.
Review of Hugo’s
Hugo’s received 5 stars from the Taste & Tell Column in this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram.
If there were a book called “100 Things to Do in Portland Before You Die,” eating at Hugo’s would be at the beginning, because Rob Evans assembles delicious, high-design dinners no one should miss.
No Reservations: Maine
According to Travels with Hilary, Anthony Bourdain will be visiting Rockland and Portland to produce a Maine installment for his popular TV show No Reservations.
The celebrity chef is coming to Maine in a few weeks to film a Maine show. He’ll be visiting four Portland restaurants and two in Rockland
Which four restaurants do you think he’ll visit in Portland?
Review of Five Fifty-Five
Appetite Portland has posted a review of Five Fifty-Five.
Our waiter, Ezra, was attentive, knowledgeable and opinionated (just the way I like ‘em), and the entire service experience was top notch . . . My first experience at Five Fifty-Five gets a first-rate high five from me.
Food Ahead
The premier issue of Maine Ahead magazine includes interviews with Alan Cook, Executive Chef at Twenty Milk Street, and Ron Hodge, CEO of Hannaford, as well as articles on Laughing Stock Farm’s use of recycled cooking oil to heat their greenhouse and on Shipyard Brewing. Be aware that you’ll need to register for a free account to access the articles online.
Down East: Eat Like a Mainer
The January issue of Down East heralds 31 “people, places & dishes not to miss in 2010”. Here’s the list of Portland listings from the article:
- Seafood in the pan from Street & Co (1-4)
- Hot Suppa! (8)
- The BLT at Blue Spoon (9)
- Bob Garver, co-owner of Bard Coffee (11)
- The Corner Room (12)
- The cheese puffs from Hugo’s (14)
- The buttermilk panna cotta from Bresca (17)
- The mac & cheese from Five Fifty-Five (18)
- The Touchable, a cocktail invented by bartender John Myers (19)
- The mashed potato pizza from Otto Pizza (20)
- The mussels at Fore Street (24)
- The farm to table menu at The Farmer’s Table (26)
- Portland’s Dining Scene (31) – a brief look back prior to the current culinary boom at the contributing factors that got Portland restaurant culture to where it is now.
The January issue also includes a Maine Wedding Guide. Leslie Oster from Aurora Provisions and Craig Williams from Churchill Catered Events created the winter and fall wedding menus that appear in the article on wedding eats.
IIK: Bolivian Silpancho
Lindsey Sterling has published another installment of her ethnic co-cooking series Inside Immigrant Kitchens. The recipe and how-to can be found on her blog, and the back story appeared in this week’s issue of the Portland Phoenix.
Alternative Catering
An article in today’s Press Herald surveys local caterers that specialize in vegan, vegetarian and other alternative dietary preferences.
Gone are the days when health-conscious party planners had to worry about whether the event’s caterer knew how to maintain a gluten-free kitchen or spot the myriad foods in which non-vegetarian ingredients lurk. Now local hosts and hostesses have the luxury of hiring an expert.