• 630 Forest Ave Portland,ME 04101 • 800.773.4154 • www.phoenixstudio.com • Custom Designs, Restorations and Repairs, Windows, Doors, Lighting, Kitchen and Bath, Fusing, Painting, Sandblasting, and more... Custom art glass for any application. Port Mag_Ad 26.indd 1 3/4/18 9:05 PM hungry Eye 44 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine meaghan maurice BAKERY SORCERY As soon as you get in line at Tandem Cof- fee at 242 Congress Street, you’ll realize you’re not leaving without one of baker Bri- ana Holt’s divine pastries. By the time I’m handed my 10-ounce cup of drip-brewed Ethiopian ($2.75), I’ve chosen the blood-or- ange scone ($3.50). You are a good person, reads the sans- serif type wrapped around the paper cup. Nice to know. The double-o’s of good are the wheels of the shop’s signature tandem bike logo. The coffee’s good, if a bit weak– but that’s just me–and the flavor improves as it cools. The scone is a masterpiece. “It’s not the brew method, it’s the roast- ing,” says Tandem co-owner Will Pratt lat- er on the phone from his roastery on An- derson Street. That subtly fruity quality of the coffee? “Coffee should taste fruity. It’s a fruit. If you’re just roasting darker, you’re just tasting carbon. I love talking about this–we do tastings at the shop on Ander- son Street,” which he recommends to dis- cover the variety and nuance among light- er-roasted beans. BOHEMIAN BEANS Arabica’s big café/roastery at 9 Commercial Street is a casual Central Perk kind of hang- out with a sofa and easy chairs, a crackling fire on chilly mornings, and plenty of table and bar seating. There’s a raffish, industri- al-warehouse charm, with brick walls, high ceilings, and a big roasting area way at the back. The original Arabica at 2 Free Street is equally boho, if smaller. “All our coffee is brewed in a drip ma- chine,” the barista says. My 12-ounce cup of French roast is $2.45. No pour-over here. “Pour-over is a whole other theory of mak- ing coffee,” he says. “You pour a little wa- ter, you wait, you pour more. It’s supposed