Portland, Maine Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from Casco Bay
Stretched along the shore of picturesque Casco Bay, Portland, Maine boasts an astonishing concentration of outstanding restaurants and a food community with a sense of camaraderie and purpose. The restaurants here span a diversity of flavors, enthusiasms, and price points. The reasons for this culinary convergence are many. Portland’s geographical location— water on both sides and close proximity to the farms of southern Maine—provides chefs with access to a large variety of local ingredients, from grass-fed beef to farmstead cheeses to the daily catch coming in on countless fishing boats. It’s a city of creative chefs with a commitment to using local ingredients.
Featured restaurants include: Artemesia Cafe • Aurora Provisions • Back Bay Grill • Bar Lola • Bayside Bowl • Bintliff’s American Cafe Blue Spoon • Boda • Bresca • Brian Boru • Caiola’s • Cinque Terre • David’s Restaurant • Duckfat • East Ender • El Rayo Taqueria • Emilitsa • The Farmer’s Table • Figa • Five Fifty-Five • Gorgeous Gelato • Grace • Green Elephant Vegetarian Bistro • Havana South • Hot Suppa! • Hugo’s • Local 188 • Local Sprouts Cafe • Maple’s Organic • Nosh Kitchen Bar • Old Port Sea Grill • OTTO Pizza • Paciarino • Pepperclub/Good Egg Cafe • Petite Jacqueline • Ribollita • Rosemont Bakery • Safari • The Salt Exchange • Schulte & Herr • Silly’s Restaurant • Sonny’s • Taco Escobar • The Rooms • Vignola • Vinland • Zapoteca Restaurante & Tequileria
