More Meal Deals

Here are some more Portland meal deals:

  • Evangeline – choose a first, main and dessert or cheese from Evangeline’s regular menu and pay just $30; Tuesday – Thursday, now through the start of Restaurant Week on March 1.
  • Three Dollar Deweys – $2 pints and other items all month in celebration of the 30th anniversary.
  • Fishermen’s Grill – seafood platter for 2 “with haddock, clams, shrimp and scallops”, $18.95.

2010 Best of Portland Voting Now Open

The Portland Phoenix has moved on to Step 2 their 2010 Best of Portland readership poll:

  • Step 1, readers wrote in to nominate candidates that are a good fit in any or all of the dozens of categories
  • Step 2, based on the nominations, the Phoenix has now published a list of the top nominees from each category for us all to vote on.

Portland Food Map is a nominee this year for Best Food Blog along with Appetite Portland, Portland Food Coma, Portland Psst! and The Blueberry Files.
There are also more than 100 other categories and about a third of them fall in the food and drink section (Bagels, Bars, Barbecue, Beer Selection, Brewpubs, Brunch, etc). If that sounds a little overwhelming, don’t worry you don’t have to make a choice in each one to cast a ballot.
A list of the 2009 winners is available online as a reference.

Brunch Review of Vignola

The Portland Phoenix has published a brunch review of Vignola.

So, panic aside, I chose the Vignola omelette with tomatoes, basil, bruschetta, and Vignola potatoes. The potato part alone was worth it. In addition to using a mixture of potato varieties, including purple potatoes, it also had olives, roasted red peppers, and capers mixed in. While these additions certainly added a strong olive-oil component to the dish, frankly, what is an Italian meal without a good dose of olive oil?

The Best Cookie

Appetite Portland shares her struggles in filling out the Portland Phoenix readership poll in a city awash with good food,

I’m telling you, it was epic. Brow furrowed, I hunched over my laptop, punching things in and erasing — sweating over “most romantic restaurant” and “best pizza” as if my opinions meant life and death.

but doesn’t hesitate to endorse Scratch’s as peanut butter cookie as Best Cookie.

Bungling Boonies?

Food for Thought weighs in on the challenges organizers face in launching a Winter farmers’ market in Portland.

The market organizers thought Portland was a natural area of growth for a winter market –set to open next week–a larger venue for farmers to pull in much needed income off season that helps to keep their farming efforts viable year-round…What the city of Portland has done is to impose outrageous fees that the farmers  can’t afford.