Gross Confection Bar will also serve cocktails and dessert wines.
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Ri Ra restaurant group to open barbecue restaurant in Portland
The founders of the Ri Ra Irish Pub and Restaurant in Portland plan to open a barbecue restaurant in the city. Whole Hog will be located at 480 Congress Street – at the corner of Congress and Center, just across from the Time & Temperature Building – and serve “authentic East North Carolina style” barbecue. […]
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For diners in southern Maine, gourmet burger trend sizzling hot
First came Five Guys. It was 2011, and the fast-casual restaurant wave that spans Panera Bread to Chipotle hit the Old Port with one of several national chains built on elevating the fast-food-style burger with fresh ingredients and custom toppings, but served just as quickly. Next was B.Good, a smaller, Boston-based chain that opened a […]
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Boba chef on 'Chopped,' opening larger restaurant in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Boba chef Zachary Pratt will be on an episode of the Food Network’s “Chopped” next month. Pratt, 26, filmed it in New York in January, his first time applying to the show. “The experience was intense,” he said Friday. “I was going up against a lot of people who were older than me […]
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Planning Board approves fusion cuisine restaurant application
NORWAY — The Norway Planning Board has voted unanimously to accept an application for a fusion cuisine restaurant at the former C&C Meats building at 495 Main St. Planning Board Chairman Dennis Gray said that Deivid Miranda Da Silva brought his completed application before the board Thursday evening and answered questions from residents during a […]
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More Maine restaurants have reached for the last straw (plastic)
Mark Hibbard wasn’t even thinking about the environment when he decided he’d had enough of plastic straws and cocktail stirrers. The bar manager at Bramhall Pub on Congress Street in Portland has lost count of the number of sinks he’s had to tear apart to clear up a clog of plastic stirrers. As for the […]
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Auburn Wendy’s set to reopen on Center Street
Jeff Marshall is hoping for a reopening early next week. He is the director of operations at Restwend LLC and overseeing the massive remodeling of the Wendy’s on Center Street in Auburn. The reopened restaurant will have less seating but more booth space, two pickup windows, bigger, newer bathrooms with baby-changing stations added and a vastly […]
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Maine chefs serving their cuisine on social media
During his first week as executive chef at Evo Kitchen + Bar in Portland, Matt Ginn fed an old high school buddy, who scolded him for ignoring social media. “He said ‘Dude, you’re not on Instagram? What’s wrong with you?’ ” Ginn recalled. The friend explained how showing off his food would benefit his business, […]
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47 years later, Roland Nadeau is closing the kitchen at Rolandeau’s
AUBURN — At age 23, with five years of restaurant experience under his belt, Roland Nadeau bought the closed Phil-O-Mar on Washington Street, remodeled, renamed the place, and started serving escargot, beef Wellington and, the dish he’d become known for, prime rib. Forty-seven years of working 14-hour days later, he’s coming out of the kitchen. […]
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The Buzz: New speakeasy-style bar bound for downtown Lewiston
This week The Buzz is marking the calendar and picking out a speakeasy outfit. You may have caught a few teases on Facebook in the past week for Sonder & Dram coming to Lewiston. Just what is it? And what’s the name mean? Turns out Sonder & Dram is a new bar coming to 12 […]