Won't you join them at the table?Watch This Lobstering Family Start A Kelp Farm. We’ve got you covered with a broad list of options.Slowly but surely, more West African dining options are opening shop (and opening pop-ups) in Portland. #14 of 38 Food & Drink in Portland "Speaking as a brown ale fanatic, Foundation's Burnside is one of my all-time favorites, with its notes of burnt..." Learn More The Agora – the Greek marketplace features imported merchandise, clothing, jewelry, icons, flokati rugs and cookbooks. Producing large volumes of seaweed for human food would change the global food-security equation.Growing seaweed requires no land, no fresh water, no fertilizer and no pesticides. Here’s a roundup of Portland food news, including the ninth annual weeklong celebration of Oregon’s finest handcrafted ciders—socially distanced, of course. Sunshine Noodles 3.

PORTLAND NEEDS WILLAMETTE WEEK. St. Jack’s confit pork shank with bacon choucroute, new potato and grain mustard jus and Alter Ego’s “The Brut” cider,A global pandemic hasn’t stopped everything. St. Jack and Alter Ego Cider An ode to the bouchons of Lyon, St. Jack’s rustic French selections are the result of years of culinary study, passion, and mastery. Naturally, chef Vince Nguyen's year-old fine dining spot has been slow to adapt to the takeout era. Oh, and it's where fish get their omegas.Seaweed creates habitat for baby lobsters and other marine life, sequesters carbon, creates oxygen, and reverses ocean acidification.Oyster and mussel growers are adding kelp farms to their operations because beneficial halo effects make their shellfish stronger, healthier and tastier.At a time when Maine's traditional waterfront jobs face multiple pressures, lobstermen and others are turning to aquaculture, a way to augment their unsteady income.Maine is leading the way in a trend that saw US seaweed products increase by 76% between 2011 and 2015. IMAGE: Abby Gordon.St. It's a way of life that goes back thousands of years along this coast.Maine's top restaurants, bars, breweries and distilleries are bringing their passion and skills to local sea vegetables. Last week, Portland game designer Neven Mrgan shared an ad on Twitter for a restaurant called Francine's Pizza Jungle from the Feb. 7, 1957, edition … Langbaan 5.

Thank you, pandemic?Aaron Barnett's baby gained acclaim for its rich and hearty French country-style classics as interpreted through the eyes of a Canadian living in the Pacific Northwest. At Anthony Brown's garishly teal-colored food truck, Mexican favorites get hitched to Southern food and... 3. The corn pudding is a candidate for the city's best new dessert, but the lime pepper wings are the breakout hit—spicy and complex, they want for nothing except a beer, and perhaps a napkin.A meal at Berlu is a fully formed experience.

Let's champion this zero-input crop that's a true sustainability superhero.With 30+ kelp farms and growing, Maine leads the nation in seaweed aquaculture. What better time to explore Portland’s thriving East African cuisine and culture?We want to highlight some restaurants who creatively fuse their flavors, and also a few whose traditional cuisines *are* cross-culturally “fused.”.What's for dinner? Taquería los Puñales 2. It used to be that you had to make a reservation a year in advance to get a table at Langbaan—now, you can just walk up.

Enjoy flavors of Jamaica, Haiti or even the root influences from W. Africa.Thursday is Soul Food & BBQ day of Support Black Owned Restaurants Week, so save room. 100+ of Maine's top chefs, mixologists, brewers and distilleries feature native seagreens on the menu during this harvest festival and restaurant week!