Foliage without crowds: Maine’s Schoodic region delivers big time
Last week I wrote about the Moosehead/Katahdin region as a favorite place to view the leaves but leave the crowds. This week, I'm sharing...
The Muffin Recipes Revealed: A Maine innkeeper tells all and shares recipes
I'm always on the lookout for inexpensive accommodations that I can recommend, especially along the Maine Coast and even more especially within easy reach...
Grazing through Portland: Breakfast at the Porthole
I love the Porthole, a retro, unfussy dineresque joint hanging over the Custom House Wharf: faded signs, more-faded linoleum, an old pot-bellied...
New York, New York…
...it's a wonderful town.
Sorry for the silence, but I've been in the Big Apple attending a couple of conferences. In between, I managed to...
Craving fried fish? These Maine seafood shacks do it right
Maine is renowned for its lobster shacks, but its fried seafood shacks are equally tasty finds. At these 10 coastal Maine seafood shacks—a mix...
Where to dine on Valentine’s Day in Portland
I love this flow chart, created by the good folks at Maine Restaurant Week, detailing suggestions for where to dine with your loved one...
Say it with chocolate
I...am...a...chocoholic.
There, I said it. I've been known to crave dark (only dark, and the darker the better) chocolate at 8 a.m., so you know...
Natalie’s chef shares his recipe for Meyer lemon risotto with Maine shrimp
I convinced another one of Maine's talented chefs to share a recipe using Maine shrimp. A native of Belgium, Executive Chef Geoffroy Deconinck's career...
Having it my way, at Cafe This Way, in Bar Harbor
Thursday night, we went to Café This Way, tucked behind the Alternative Market (follow the painted footsteps), just off Mt. Desert Street, across from...
Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free fare fills the plate at these Maine restaurants
Health food stores and natural foods groceries, along with Asian, Indian, and Mexican restaurants, are the usual go-tos for on-the-road vegetarians and vegans. While...
Golf and sail the Maine Coast
You want to sail, partner wants to golf; not a problem: The Maine Windjammer Association has you both covered with three packages that add...
Brunswick mourning
Economic woes have hit this college town, which is also facing the shut down of its naval air station in 2010.
Grand City, the downtown...
Foliage escapes: Antiquing and leaf-peeping in Cornish
Oh here's a gem, a delightful Maine village that oozes New England charm. Folded in the foothills of the White Mountains, well seasoned Cornish...
Portland to Kingfield food musings
Every ski town–make that every town–should have a cafe like Kingfield's Orange Cat. I never pass it without stopping in, whether for tea or...
Burger queen
Saturday night, a Bagburger. The Bag, at the base of Sugarloaf, has been perfecting the burger for 40 years, and it is a beeyootiful...
