It isn’t necessary to walk far from the waterfront to eat amazingly well in Portland, Maine. From a Titanic omelet breakfast at Becky’s Diner or potato dough donut at Holy Donut to Indian pudding ice cream at Beal’s Ice Cream or sea salt chocolate pecan cookies and insanely elegant sticky buns at the Standard Baking Company, Portland’s waterfront is an eager appetite’s playground. But there’s more in this city rich with history and blessed with constant incoming fresh seafood. Among Roadfood favorites are Belgian fries at Duckfat, chili-cheese omelets at Marcy’s Diner, lobster grilled cheese sandwiches at Highroller Lobster, and whoopie pies at Two Fat Cats Bakery. And if you are a hero-sandwich fancier, look in corner groceries for what’s here known as a real Italian — a unique Portland take on the sub.
By Jane and Micheal Stern On a beautiful Portland, Oregon, spring day, Gretchen Eichentopf described the scene at Otto’s Sausage Kitchen just a few months earlier. In mid-January, snow and ice had...
We’ve never met a cooked potato we didn’t like. Baked with butter, salt-boiled, fire-roasted, puréed with cream, au gratin, dauphinois, frittered, and french fried—all are surefire transformations of the homely...
Thirty years ago, when we started writing about the colorful, cheap, and unpretentious restaurants that anchored communities across the country, we suspected we were documenting the end of an...
We love hoagies, heroes, grinders, blimps, zepps, wedges, po’ boys, and submarines. But until recently, we were ignorant of one of the genre’s best regional variants, the Italian, which...
To say Becky's is a friendly place only hints at its sociability. If you are a newcomer and walk in the door after 5 A.M., by which time the...
Pancakes make people happy. Arriving at the table in the form of short stacks or lofty towers, or fanned out like a haul of soft gold medallions, they are...
The only possible happy exclamation incited by corned beef hash spooned from a can is "Arf!" But freshly chopped and sizzled to a crisp, crowned with poached eggs eager...
