GORHAM — The grain tank outside Lone Pine Brewing Co.’s new location features a big logo on its side – the one used by the building’s previous occupant, Sebago Brewing. But the owners of Lone Pine are too busy managing their company’s skyrocketing growth to worry about those kinds of details. Lone Pine’s production grew […]
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Uh-oh: Study says more than 1 alcoholic drink a day can shorten your life
A glass of red wine a day keeps the doctor away, right? Not so fast. A large-scale European study recently published in the journal Lancet says the heart-healthy benefits from moderate drinking are slight, while the risk of stroke and other fatal heart conditions are significant. “These data support limits for alcohol consumption that are […]
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Why chronically crowded restaurants won’t take reservations
I have no data whatsoever to back me up on this, but I blame Anthony Bourdain for what seems to me the rush of restaurants (that I want to get into!) that refuse to take reservations, either altogether or for smaller groups. My theory is that the name alone of his television show – “No […]
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Study: We order burgers instead of salads because of loud music
Noisy restaurants are a source of perennial complaints, but it’s not just diners’ ears that are affected – it’s their waistlines, too. A new study published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences has found that if ambient music played in a restaurant is louder, the customers are more susceptible to choose unhealthful […]
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The Buzz: Portland Pie Co. coming to Lincoln Street in Lewiston
This week the Buzz is ready for lunch, and just in time. Lewiston is getting a Portland Pie Co. The pizza shop and pub has signed a letter of intent to go into the shuttered Lincoln Street firehouse that developers Kara Wilbur and Paul Peck saved from demolition last year and hoped to bring back to […]
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On-street dining? Latest restaurant trend can put diners in the streets or parking lots
A new dining trend is coming to Maine: street food, literally. Restaurants may soon serve meals and drinks on patios that take the place of street parking spots or other public spaces outside of their regular dining rooms. The trend, well established in other U.S. cities, was made possible by a new law allowing restaurants […]
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Planning Board approves fusion cuisine restaurant application
NORWAY — The Norway Planning Board has voted unanimously to accept an application for a fusion cuisine restaurant at the former C&C Meats building at 495 Main St. Planning Board Chairman Dennis Gray said that Deivid Miranda Da Silva brought his completed application before the board Thursday evening and answered questions from residents during a […]
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Auburn man sues KFC over bone in pie
AUBURN — A local man filed a lawsuit Wednesday complaining he found a bone in his chicken pot pie at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Scarborough. Willie A. Blanchette sued the American restaurant chain’s store at 400 Gallery Boulevard where, he claimed in his complaint, he had bought a chicken pot pie on Oct. 28, 2015. […]
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Central Maine Meats lawsuit details flawed partnership of Gardiner business
What Davis alleges he found were longstanding fraudulent dealings by Lovely against him, according to a civil lawsuit filed Monday in Augusta District Court. Lovely would take money out of the company in several ways, using company resources as collateral for loans taken out on his own behalf and on behalf of Lovely’s construction company […]
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The Boston restaurant where robots have replaced the chefs
The debate about whether cooking is more art or science is a never-ending one. But at Spyce, the latest culinary experiment in automation, that debate feels pretty well settled. Started by a group of 20-something robotics engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who partnered with Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud, the new restaurant in downtown Boston […]