Lilee’s Public House
On a wildly inappropriately hungover weekday, I didn’t walk into Lilee’s Public House expecting greatness. As attractive and well-done as the restaurant’s exterior may be, on Maine Street… Read More »
Ribollita
Everything you need to know, is in the name. Ribollita is unselfconsciously rustic, simple, and satisfying. In short, everything we like in a neighborhood restaurant. This never was… Read More »
Opening: Sista’s BBQ
When “The Udder Place,” the purple-painted drive-through coffee shop in Brunswick with the rooftop sculpture of an enormous fiberglass anthropomorphized cartoon cow bathing itself in a giant coffee… Read More »
Bombay Mahal
I love living in Topsham. It combines pastoral beauty with small town convenience, and Portland is thirty minutes away. We have goats, our neighbors have chickens, there’s a… Read More »
The Thirsty Pig
My aversion to Linda Bean’s particular brand of Maine runs deep. Maybe it’s the way she has been buying up St. George, my former hometown, dividing the fishing… Read More »
Trattoria Athena
At Trattoria Athena, you sit by the kitchen, you sit near the windows, or you sit at the bar. Despite the cozy space, each table feels private and… Read More »
Granny’s Burritos
I’m probably one of the few people in the area that doesn’t have a Granny’s Burrito-related anecdote. The fact is, I never ate at one of the original… Read More »
