restaurants Archives - Lewiston Sun Journal

Eats: Gardiner’s A1 Diner — staying on track with ethnic offerings and daily specials

by Wanda Curtis photo September 21, 2014

One of Gardiner’s most frequented and perhaps oldest restaurant is A1 Diner, located at 3 Bridge St. The diner itself is one of the original lunch car diners constructed in Worcester, Mass., back when diners were just becoming popular. It has six booths and 14 stools at the counter. The structure was transported to its […]

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Lewiston’s Grand Trunk restaurant back on track with new name & owner

by Scott Taylor, Staff Writer July 25, 2014

LEWISTON — Work on a restaurant in the old Grand Trunk depot on the edge of Simard-Payne Memorial Park is back underway with the former owner, Karen Pulkkinen, out and formerly silent partner, Stephen Dick, now in charge. The new restaurant, expected to open sometime this year, will be called “Rails” and will feature farm-to-table […]

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Outdoor dining squeezes Portland’s sidewalks

by The Associated Press June 9, 2014

PORTLAND (AP) — A battle is brewing in Portland between restaurants putting tables on the sidewalks to satisfy customer demand for alfresco dining and those who say the sidewalks are being impeded. Sight-impaired pedestrians, wheelchair users, stroller-pushing parents and other walkers have lodged official complaints about restaurants overextending into the sidewalk space in violation of […]

Lewiston-Auburn

Lewiston might post restaurant inspections on web

by Scott Taylor, Staff Writer January 22, 2014

LEWISTON — The city may post restaurant inspections to its website, councilors said Tuesday. City councilors favored a plan to let residents view and download detailed inspection reports for Lewiston’s roughly 166 restaurants, but Councilor Nathan Libby suggested a change like that deserves a public hearing. “I feel like this is a change of policy […]

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Portland restaurant space becoming rare, expensive

by The Associated Press December 30, 2013

PORTLAND (AP) — Insiders in Portland’s burgeoning restaurant industry are running into a new problem — a lack of affordable space for new eateries. The city’s food reputation was built on the backs of young chefs opening their own places. But as space shrinks and rents rise, some worry that soon the only people able […]