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reviewed by Diane Hudson October 2006 When you’re stricken with a maki attack, we know where you can go to satisfy a major yen for sushi: Miyako, upstairs on Main Street in Freeport. On our recent visit, we savored a very good, traditional miso soup ($1.75 bowl) and...

reviewed by Diane Hudson September 2006 You can dine like a rajah at Hi Bombay! at 1 Pleasant Street. Eager to get into the spirit of things, we sailed into Nizam’s Choice ($5.95), a mixed platter offering Vegetable Pakora (fried in chick pea batter); Gobi Pakora...

reviewed by Diane Hudson July/Aug 2006 You wouldn’t expect to find a four-star restaurant with delicate flavors, stunning presentation, an enormously creative menu, and a shimmer of nostalgia tucked into the desultory retail pur-ga-tory that includes Bedderest and The...

Reviewed By Diane Hudson June 2006 A favorite summer outing for us has long been a day trip to the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, de-scribed by Francis Henry Taylor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as “the most beautiful little museum in the world.” But where to...

reviewed by Diane Hudson May 2006 When young people leave the nightclubs in Saigon–our family has never called it Ho Chi Minh City– the whole city smells like pho," says Lien Luong, 37, cook at Thanh Thanh 2, a Viet-namese restaurant on Forest Avenue in Portland....

reviewed by Diane Hudson April 2006 Artemisia, like its namesake, 17-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, the first women member of Florence’s fabled Academy of Design and the inspiration for the controversial film Arte-misia and Susan Vree-land’s The Passion of...