food trucks

Duo’s Takeout

by Malcolm Bedell July 31, 2012

The section of north Main Street in Rockland between the Dunkin’ Donuts and the McDonald’s isn’t exactly a world-renowned culinary hotspot. It’s an area of town that has seen plenty of businesses come and go, attracting the kind of hardscrabble retail endeavors that never seem to last long. The strip is now mostly a string [...]

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JJ’s Snack Shack

by Malcolm Bedell July 4, 2012

Tater Tot Poutine. That’s right, I said it. This menu item, served at JJ’s Snack Shack in Rockport, is as appropriate a lead-in for a review of the restaurant as any. Why? It’s a good barometer; your overall opinion of JJ’s is probably going to run in parallel to your gut reaction to that phrase. In [...]

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The Food Trucks of Brunswick

by Malcolm Bedell August 19, 2011

Outside of Portland, Maine, food trucks have exploded into a national trend. Like fixed-gear bicycles and the inexplicable spike in sales of Pabst Blue Ribbon, we probably have the hipsters to thank, who transitioned the lowly mobile catering truck from “roach coach” status, suitable only for selling food outside of factories or at carnivals, into [...]

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Don’s Lunch

by Malcolm Bedell June 23, 2011

In the 1940′s and 1950′s, small diners and family restaurants were popping up along major highway routes and in the suburbs of every major city, turning out inexpensive, fast food, to serve a post-WWII economy. It’s easy, then, to see where McDonald’s got its start, assembly-lining identical copies of small, simply-topped, diminutive little three-ounce hamburgers [...]

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