{"id":16593,"date":"2019-08-28T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=16593"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:24:31","slug":"repast-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/repast-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Repast Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 500px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f5f5f5&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23f5f5f5&amp;d=september_2019_pm_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;hideShareButton=true&amp;pageNumber=80&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCharm beats trendy.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sept19-rest-rev-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"sept19 rest rev\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sept19-rest-rev-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sept19-rest-rev-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sept19-rest-rev-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sept19-rest-rev-200x136.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sept19-rest-rev-515x350.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sept19-rest-rev.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">n November 1980, Nancy and I stopped for supper at the endearing and fun <strong>Old Village Inn<\/strong> in Ogunquit during our honeymoon. What I wore that night is thankfully lost to time, because she wore a vivid garnet shade that flashed like the dazzling beaches on Prince Edward Island. During our fabled first visit to this inn, we sensed the future watching us (\u201cNow wait a minute. Isn\u2019t that <i>presque vu<\/i>?\u201d). Five years later, we would take another plunge. We launched <i>Portland Monthly<\/i> in 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Tonight, just four short decades later, we\u2019re back for dinner before a show at <strong>Ogunquit Playhouse. <\/strong>Seated near the brick fireplace (<i>is this where we sat before?<\/i>), we sip Monte Antico Sangiovese red wine ($6 per glass) while we enjoy the feeling of \u2018then\u2019 cutting in for a romantic dance with \u2018now.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">A charmed attraction on the King\u2019s Highway (U.S. Route 1) since 1833, this lucky spot has been a favorite stop for travelers including <strong>Paul Newman<\/strong> and <strong>Joanne Woodword<\/strong>, <strong>Kitty Carlisle<\/strong>, <strong>Maureen O\u2019Sullivan<\/strong>, <strong>Sally Struthers<\/strong>. The Inn is so romantic it made the front cover of the <i>Saturday Evening Post<\/i> in 1947. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">When Nancy says, \u201cI always wanted to run away with you and still do,\u201d I admit I\u2019m having a great time! The bacon-wrapped scallops are delicious over a salad served on a six-inch scallop shell. A <i>real<\/i> shell. \u201cIt\u2019s a diver-scallop dish we got from friends in Gloucester,\u201d says our server <strong>Marcia Goodman<\/strong>, a member of the ownership team who\u2019s worked here for \u201c37 years. The bar is in a different position from when you came in the first time, but everything else is very much the same.\u201d I\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">know we\u2019ve stumbled into Shangri-La (except there\u2019s <i>parking<\/i> here out back!) when she says, \u201cWe don\u2019t embrace change here.\u201d What a place to shoot a Quentin Tarantino film. Remember those wonderful days of d\u00e9cor when using a ship model as a room divider was the style? More magic: Tonight\u2019s special is a Twin Lobster Dinner ($28) for the price of a single lobster roll outside these doors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIs there such a thing as neo-retro?\u201d Nancy asks. \u201cAll these things like blue-cheese and bacon-stuffed mushroom caps\u2013nobody serves mushroom caps!\u201d I order them instantly and savor them. They\u2019re served piping hot in a steel <i>au gratin<\/i> dish\u2013straight from the 1970s. Our entr\u00e9es are Prime Rib served with horseradish and a heavenly popover ($23) and Seafood Stuffed Haddock ($22) with green beans and carrots. A lemon slice tucked in a cheesecloth sachet to catch the seeds still says \u201cwe care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We finish by splitting the Chocolate Lava Cake. Cost for the entire meal is $103\u2013a pomegranate cocktail, two glasses of wine, two appetizers, two entr\u00e9es, a shared desert, and coffee with refills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We almost order a split of Cliquot as a toast to 39 years but decide to do that the next time we\u2019re here. Believe me, we won\u2019t wait so long for our next visit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date night revisited at Ogunquit\u2019s Old Village Inn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[127,376,439,339,154],"class_list":["post-16593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-maine","tag-ogunquit","tag-old-village-inn","tag-restaurant","tag-restaurant-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18639,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593\/revisions\/18639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}