With right attitude and outerwear, the fun of dining outside in winter outweighs the drawbacks
The pandemic has led some restaurants to extend outdoor dining long past the usual season, appealing to diners with heated patios and private chalets. We explore the al fresco experience when the temperature dips.
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Dine Out Maine: Behind the scenes of a coronavirus scare
Restaurants complain they aren't getting enough guidance on what to do when staff test positive for COVID-19.
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Green Plate Special: Grass-fed beef is better for you and the environment, even from Australia
But getting it from local farmers is always best.
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Business
The Wrap: A restaurant residency, Taco Tuesdays and a farewell to Bill’s Pizza
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Local & State
Maine Maple Sunday is coming back this spring
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Local & State
Bill’s Pizza in Old Port will close for good, be replaced by Holy Donut
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Food
Run & Eat: Whatever your diet or desire, it’s on a menu at Gorham ghost kitchen
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Do This
Bar Guide: Despite opening during a pandemic, there have been bright spots for the new Batson River
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Maine Gardener
A new rose book by Maine rose expert Peter E. Kukielski is a stunner
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Food
Sauce, gravy or stew too thin? We’ve got 3 ways to fix that
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Recipes
Chili-tinged sweet potatoes are loaded in all the right ways – flavor, nutrition and satisfaction
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Recipes
Bacon and egg fried rice is the back-pocket recipe you need for busy weeknights
Dine Out Maine: Best of 2020
Even in the midst of a pandemic that has felled many restaurants, points of light remain.
Mulling over what made Drifters Wife and Piccolo so special
The two restaurants have both closed for good, casualties of the pandemic. Our restaurant critic reflects on their legacy of trust.
Rice makes the world go round, but at high environmental cost
Researchers are working on projects all over the globe to figure out how to grow it more sustainably and equitably.
Landscape with native wild edibles
Humans get something to eat and attractive plants for their yard. Wildlife gets a share of the food, plus comfortable places to live and breed.
A 19th-century Portland newspaper an early advocate for a vegetarian diet
'The Pleasure Boat" also supported abolition, women's rights and temperance. Its founder, Jeremiah Hacker, said he lived in a 'plain simple manner from necessity, choice, and principle.'
Run & Eat: Rover Bagel is back in Biddeford, with a better pickup system
The beloved bagels are worth the cost and the drive, from wherever.
If loving a piping hot chocolate lava cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right
Two versions. We went with the easier one.
