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Dining Dish: Restaurants and bakeries open for business

Portland's first gluten-free bakery will open next month at 267 Commercial St. Bam Bam Bakery will offer baked goods, coffee, tea and light lunch items. The owner and baker is Bevin McNul...

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 9:50 am
Dining Dish: Taste of Brunswick benefits hunger prevention

The third annual Taste of Brunswick is scheduled for Saturday, June 18, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m on the downtown Mall. More tha...

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 8:50 am
Dining Dish: It's farmers' market season

The Cumberland Farmers' Market Association will kick off its 2011 summer season the week of May 16. The Falmouth market will take place every Wednesda...

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Monday, May 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Dining Dish: Spring has sprung a crop of new restaurants

Siano's Pizza at 505 Fore St. in Portland has closed and Zapoteca is expected to open in its place by the end of May or beginning of June. Owner Tom Bard will serve Mexican cuisine and tequ...

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Monday, April 18, 2011 at 3:30 pm
The Dining Dish: Portland's Desjarlais a Beard finalist for Best Chef Northeast

Krista Kern Desjarlais, chef-owner of Bresca at 111 Middle St. in Portland is a finalist for Best Chef in the Northeast. The announcement came on Monday, March 21, from the James Beard Foundation. Desjarlais wa...

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Monday, March 21, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Dining Dish: South Portland tacos enter south-of-the-border wave

Manuel Peña and Karen Massmussen of Portland will open a new take-out business called Taco Trio at 119 Ocean St. in South Portland's Knightville neighborhood. The business is in the former Zeta Cafe on Legion Square. According to Peña, they will serve traditional Mexican food from...

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Monday, February 21, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Dining Dish: Spring to bring a slew of new restaurants

Steve and Michelle Corry, owners of five fifty-five on Congress Street in Portland, plan to open a new restaurant named Petite Jacqueline at 190 State St., the former home of Evangeline. They were granted a ... 2

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 10:40 am
Dining Dish: New Year's Eve and Otto goes to Harvard

In Portland on New Year's Eve, Cinque Terre, 36 Wharf St., will offer a four-course menu for $50 per person. At Cinque Terre's sister restaurant,

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Monday, December 27, 2010
Dining Dish: Restaurant scene changes with the seasons

Otto Pizza, 576 Congress St. in Portland, is opening a new location at the former North Star Cafe, 225 Congress St. The restaurant will open sometime between Dec. 5 and 10, an employee said.

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Monday, November 29, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Portland restaurant news

The Portland City Council is scheduled to vote on half a dozen restaurant-related license requests Aug. 2. Canelli's Restaurant, an Italian eatery, is requesting permission to open up in the former Betsy's space at 7 Exchange St. Down on Wharf Street, the restaurant and nightclub 51... 1

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Friday, July 30, 2010 at 11:00 am