Winterguide 2015 | view this story as a .pdf
Careful, it’s hot: Your 2015 Foodie Calendar is served.
by Claire Z. Cramer
Tracking local food trends is getting tougher all the time–so many new restaurants, craft breweries, distilleries, tasting rooms. Will that fleet of exotic food trucks return with spring?
The new year promises Honey Paw (noodles where once stood the great Pepperclub), an expansion of the Hugo’s/Eventide hegemony on Middle Street. Tiqa is due in the brand-new Marriott on Commercial Street; new owners of the Danforth Hotel are to debut a deluxe Southeast Asian restaurant; and the Public Market House will add a Dominican cafe.
There doesn’t seem to be any excuse left to stay home, ever.
But, what’s this? A seasoned chef from the Hudson Valley, Natalie diBenedetto, is installing a take-out food shop/catering concern called Figgy’s on Walker Street in the West End, behind Yordprom Coffee. She’ll turn out hearty family meals and sides like fried chicken and potatoes and slaw. Likewise, the former Miyake Diner on nearby Spring Street has been leased by Home Catering Company to sell prepared food to go with beer and wine. Rosemont Market, already a force in take-home food, opens a shop this spring in the new multi-use high-rise under construction at the corner of Pine and Brackett streets. Factor in the two prepared-food shops already established in this neighborhood–Aurora Provisions and Fresh Approach–and you have to wonder if anyone on the peninsula will ever make dinner from scratch at home again.
Even if Maine is the greatest place on the planet for home cooks to find fresh local produce, meat, poultry, seafood, and artisinal everything.
OK, 2015, let’s see how this goes…
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