This week’s news includes four of our favorite food groups: chicken, salsa, lobster and coffee.
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Posted inFood, Restaurant reviews
Dine Out Maine: At Portland’s Empire Chinese, big is not always better
The bloated menu offers excellent choices – and some duds.
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Customers flock to new rotisserie chicken restaurant in Biddeford
Dizzy Birds’ menu includes rotisserie prime rib and leg of lamb as well as chicken.
Posted inFood, Vegan Kitchen
Vegan cakes have come into their own in Maine
What? No butter, no eggs, no milk, no buttermilk? No problem.
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New culinary knife shop is a perfect fit for Portland’s booming food scene
Evan Atwell cuts through the confusion and offers sharp advice on buying and caring for kitchen knives.
Posted inFood, Life & Culture
Cafe serving Latin street food coming to Portland
Quiero Cafe, a restaurant in Saco, will open a location on Deering Avenue this spring.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Local & State
The Wrap: Summer treats arrayed before you
In a favorite harbinger of spring, ice cream and pi, errr, pie offerings make you forget about winter.
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You have a 2-week window to get a table at The Lost Kitchen. But it’s not that easy.
Diners all over the world can gamble a postcard and a stamp in hopes of getting a table at the restaurant in Freedom.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Food, Restaurant reviews
Dine Out Maine: Portland’s romantic, intimate Piccolo showcases a more playful, experimental side
And it’s seeing stars – 4.5 of them.
Posted inFood, Life & Culture
Maine’s traditional red-sauce Italian places are islands of comfort food in sea of new eateries
These restaurants have been dishing up chicken parm for decades, using old family recipes.