“How are you going to review a burger?” asked my colleague as we squished around a grouping of tables after escaping the office to farewell a friend with carbs and milkshakes. The greatest kind of send-off, if you ask me. Great question, I thought, while watching everyone dig into their lunch with gusto. What makes…

I’m always up for a challenge. Unfortunately. Can’t say no to a broigus. Utterly incapable of responding to the faintest assertion that I am in any way weak, timid, wrong, silly, entitled, dim, underqualified, ungenerous, small, ugly or less than perfect in every possible way with anything but a “Come on, then!” and a preposterous…

Owners of the Solo Cucina Market in South Portland have announced that the market is for sale. The announcement on instagram reads in part, To our dear community: we have some challenging news to share. After a very positive year for Solo Cucina, we have had to make a difficult choice of putting the market…

We began with that namesake dish: two, puffy fists of fryer-bronzed dough each filled, in our case, with thin, leathern strips of braised ox cheek, and then, chopped, grill-striped lobes of Orkney scallop in a dribble of rich, peanutty sauce. The latter was far more successful than the former (which I had imagined more as…

Rosmarino Osteria Italiana has received an average rating of 4.9 stars PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As the year comes to a close, OpenTable is giving diners the scoop on the most in-demand restaurants across the country. In mid-November, the online reservation platform released its annual list of the top 100 restaurants in the U.S. This…

SAUGUS, Mass. — After a bloody brawl broke out at the packed Kowloon Restaurant on Thanksgiving Eve, the Saugus Board of Selectmen is awaiting receipt of a police report detailing the violent melee. The board is waiting to get a look at a report on the incident from the Saugus Police Department, the Boston Herald…

When I first heard that Delray was getting a new restaurant called The Hampton Social earlier this year, I must admit its “rosé all day” lifestyle conjured a trendy bar with mediocre food that one would ingest for the sake of not getting terribly tipsy on the blush wine. I get it: Rosé is cherished…

Editor, Just want to say thank you to Mark Saleeb for his consistently enjoyable and thoughtful restaurant reviews. He does a great job of providing background, setting the scene and making the reader feel like they are along for the meal. But there is one problem. Upon reading his descriptions of the food and drink…

Forget a good meal. We want a great meal. And Yelp is here to deliver.  The user-generated review site released its first-ever Best New Restaurants of 2023 list. And it’s highlighting some seriously fantastic meals from coast to coast.  “To create this list, we looked at full-service restaurants that opened after January 1, 2022, and…