ZaoZe Café & Market, located behind Tao Yuan Restaurant in Brunswick, has new hours and offerings this fall. Sande Updegraph / For The Forecaster

Cara and Cecile Stadler, the owners of Tao Yuan Restaurant, BaoBao Dumpling House and ZaoZe Café & Market, have new schedules and formats to announce:

• ZaoZe Café & Market, 5 Abbey Road, Brunswick, will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and will offer an expanded list of Asian specialty foods.

Sande Updegraph lives in Brunswick and is a longtime food writer. She can be reached at sandeupdegraph@gmail.com.

ZaoZe Café will offer an à la carte lunch service from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, but will no longer offer dinner service. They are, however, offering a dinner takeout option every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Order in advance and pick up between 5 and 6 p.m. The four-course dinners serve two and are $50.

• BaoBao Dumpling House, 133 Spring St., Portland, is open from 4:30-9:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

• Tao Yuan, 22 Pleasant St., Brunswick, remains closed at this time due to insufficient staff.

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