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			<title>Restaurant menus soon may include calorie data</title>
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			<description>Restaurant menus soon may include calorie data

State House: The House passes a bill to require that some chains carry the information to help people choose healthier foods.

By GLENN ADAMS

The Associated Press 



AUGUSTA — Maine took the first step Tuesday toward joining other states and cities that require restaurant chains to post calorie counts on their menus.



The House of Representatives voted 88-56 in favor of a bill applying to chain restaurants doing business under the same  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:57:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Bingham restaurant awaits decision from liquor board</title>
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			<description>Bingham restaurant awaits decision from liquor board

BY LARRY GRARD

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

 

BINGHAM -- Two and a half months after they appealed to the state regarding the town's denial of their liquor license, the owners of Antler's Inn and Restaurant are waiting for a decision.



Attempts to contact Aaron Sorenson or Steve DiPietro have not been successful. But their restaurant/bar has been closed since September.



Jeff Austin, supervisor for the Department of Public  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:57:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>'Tutto bene' at Oakland eatery</title>
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			<description>'Tutto bene' at Oakland eatery

BY COLIN HICKEY

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

 

OAKLAND -- Loredana Betti is not a professionally trained chef, but her skills in the kitchen were abundantly clear Wednesday as she gave six local people a lesson in Italian cooking straight from the old country.



Betti conducted her culinary workshop at Riverside Farm Market &amp; Cafe, the Route 23 business that in less than 13 years has evolved from a standard New England farm stand into a place of  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:20:04 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>'Environmental leader' restaurants show the way in Maine</title>
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			<description>'Environmental leader' restaurants show the way in Maine

By MEREDITH GOAD

Staff Writer Portland Press Herald

 

About two dozen Maine restaurants have won certification as “environmental leaders” in a program run by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Here’s a sampling of the restaurants and a taste of what they’re doing to make their restaurants environmentally friendly:



• At the Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, the chef purchases organic produce from local farms, then  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:10:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>MADISON: 'Everybody knows everybody'</title>
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			<description>MADISON: 'Everybody knows everybody' 

Town honors local restaurant to commemorate National Entrepreneurship Week

BY SCOTT MONROE

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

 

MADISON -- In the back of the River's Edge Restaurant, a quilted sign hangs on the wall. It says, &quot;The Gathering Place.&quot;



For owner Bert LaRose, that phrase captures what the restaurant is all about. He can often be found mingling with -- and waiting on -- customers. 



&quot;I feel when customers come through  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:51:45 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>PITTSTON: Dining in elegance -- on a budget</title>
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			<description>PITTSTON: Dining in elegance -- on a budget

BY MECHELE COOPER

Staff Writer Kennebec Journal



PITTSTON -- It wasn't the best time to open a restaurant in a small rural community. 



But Rick Bauer fell in love with an architectural wonder -- a Queen Anne-style mansion in East Pittston listed on the National Register of Historic Places.



Bauer turned the old home at 1135 East Pittston Road into a restaurant last October. He called it Moody Mansion Country Dining &amp; Spirits. 



The  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:17:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>BINGHAM: Restaurant owners appeal denial of permit</title>
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			<description>BINGHAM: Restaurant owners appeal denial of permit

BY DOUG HARLOW

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

 

BINGHAM -- Town officials sent a letter to the new owners of a Main Street restaurant in September 2008, detailing why they had denied the establishment's license to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises.



Antler's Inn and Restaurant had changed, Bingham selectmen said, from a quiet restaurant to a bar atmosphere, with breaches of the peace, public intoxication and disorderly conduct.



Besides,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:14:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Snowfall forces eateries to improvise</title>
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			<description>Snowfall forces eateries to improvise

BY VALERIE TUCKER

Correspondent Morning Sentinel



WATERVILLE -- In the restaurant world, adversity breeds creativity.



Jobi Culver, owner of the Bread Box Cafe on Main Street in Waterville, is one who has made adjustments in the face of the persistent snowstorms of the past two winters.



The angle: Draw a new audience.



&quot;We've added a Saturday and Sunday brunch that's been very successful,&quot; Culver said as snow pounded the city  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Former Farmington Diner waits in Wilton for new home</title>
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			<description>Former Farmington Diner waits in Wilton for new home

BY BETTY JESPERSEN

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

 

WILTON -- The old Farmington Diner, now boarded up and mothballed, awaits a second chance to become known as a place to go for a good meal at a good price.



In March, its owner, Rachel Jackson-Hodsdon of Wilton, had it hauled to Wilton from Farmington on a flatbed at a cost of &#36;15,000. It now sits on metal beams, covered in plastic and boarded up, on land she owns on Cemetery  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:25:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Turning the tables on a familiar figure</title>
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			<description>Turning the tables on a familiar figure 

Server can make or break customer’s day 

By Diana Bowley

Staff Writer Bangor Daily News



“Hi, gorgeous,” Theresa Spelios called out in singsong to Bob Shapleigh as the man inched his way into the Bear’s Den in Dover-Foxcroft on a recent day.



Before the Dover-Foxcroft resident and frequent customer could sit down, Spelios had a mug of hot coffee waiting for him on the table.



The sprite of a woman, who looks like a teenager but is actually  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:49:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Diner's owner back home with a dream</title>
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			<description>Diner's owner back home with a dream 

Sentimentality and the desire to escape big-city life spurred him to action. 

By TOM MANNING

Newsweek Magazine

 

It hit me one day in 2005 walking up Eighth Avenue on my way to work at Newsweek. During my bus ride from New Jersey, I'd been reading the online edition of the Portland Press Herald, the paper from my hometown in Portland, Maine. For months I'd been following the story of a local landmark diner, closed for several years, that was being  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:26:04 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>A Spirited Comeback</title>
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			<description>A Spirited Comeback 

Newly legal in the U.S., Absinthe, the libation of lore and legend, makes its initial forays into local bars and markets 

By Jessica Bloch

Staff Writer Bangor Daily News



You have to be quick if you want to catch the green fairy, the mythic creature that supposedly appears to those who drink absinthe. When the liqueur is poured correctly, however, the green fairy will show herself, if only briefly, in the pale green swirls of liquid that form when the herbal-infused  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:19:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>White Flour starts to rise</title>
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			<description>White Flour starts to rise

 BY MEGHAN V. MALLOY

Staff Writer Kennebec Journal

 

HALLOWELL -- A little taste of New York will be swapped by the taste of appetizers, wines and desserts when White Flour Catering takes over the storefront formerly belonging to Eloi's Delicatessen. 



Eloi's opened in November 2006 under the ownership of New Jersey natives Kevin and Kitty Peek; the deli's doors closed about two weeks ago.



&quot;The equipment and the space became available at the same  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Tea room evokes Victorian era's genteel customs</title>
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			<description>Tea room evokes Victorian era's genteel customs

 BY SCOTT MONROE 

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

 

BURNHAM -- &quot;I thought those were ice cubes!&quot;



Taylor Whalen, 5, marvels at a container full of small sugar cubes placed in front of her, beside her cup of hot chocolate. Her mother, Michelle Whalen of Monmouth, smiles and adds, &quot;I had forgotten about those.&quot;



After the hot chocolate and tea, it's time for a nine-bean soup, followed by salad and dessert.



On  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:03:48 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>WATERVILLE: Italian fare on menu</title>
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			<description>WATERVILLE: Italian fare on menu

Kennebec Journal



WATERVILLE -- Lovers of Italian cuisine will have plenty to tempt their palates later this month when Cacciatore's Restaurant opens in JFK Mall.



Owner Travis Lopes says the menu will feature meals made with freshly-made sauces and pasta.



&quot;Obviously, chicken cacciatore is one of our signature items,&quot; Lopes, 40, said. &quot;We'll have chicken parmigiana, veal dishes, veal marsala -- definitely we're doing the fresh steaks,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:23:43 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>AUGUSTA: Downtown eatery is extending its hours</title>
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			<description>AUGUSTA: Downtown eatery is extending its hours 

Java Joe's will offer Friday night dinners along the riverfront

Kennebec Journal



AUGUSTA -- Downtown restaurant Java Joe's is expanding its food offerings and hours of operation to include Friday night dinners.



The 287 Water St. business, starting tonight, will offer a four-course, gourmet meal by candlelight, on fine linen, with a &quot;relaxing, riverfront ambiance,&quot; according to owner Fran Jurczak, Friday nights only. Reservations  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:14:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>UNITY: Multi-ethnic eatery to open this month</title>
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			<description>UNITY: Multi-ethnic eatery to open this month

 BY LARRY GRARD

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

 

UNITY -- Nearly four months now since this town on the western edge of Waldo County lost one of its calling cards, a new kind of restaurant will replace The Homestead.



New, that is, for Waldo County.



The Italian/Greek/American restaurant that will be known as &quot;Zaharias Place,&quot; named for Zaharias Menoudarakos, a first-grader at Mount Merici School in Waterville. Zaharias in  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:53:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>AMERICANA ON TAP</title>
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			<description>AMERICANA ON TAP

 BY CRAIG CROSBY

Staff Writer Kennebec Journal



WINTHROP -- Hybrids may represent the future of the auto industry, but the Toyota Prius parked at Fast Eddie's Drive-In restaurant last week was as out of place as a pair of tasseled shoes at a construction site. 



At Fast Eddie's, where Americana is always on tap, Wednesday nights are devoted to classic cars and their growling engines, glittering chrome and American steel. 



&quot;It's just getting together with  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:09:13 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>'Flavors of the farmlands'</title>
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			<description>'Flavors of the farmlands'

 BY KEITH EDWARDS

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

  

RICHMOND -- Bread baked in Litchfield. Meat cut in Bowdoinham. Coffee roasted in Newcastle. Produce grown in Woolwich, Thomaston, Dresden and farms in other local towns. And pies and pastries baked on site in Richmond.



Those are the foods the owner of a new cafe and market in downtown Richmond is looking to bring together at The Garden of Eatin'.



Dresden resident Jim Peterson said he's trying to stock  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:38:59 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Review: BETTY'S HOMESTYLE COOKING</title>
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			<description>Betty's in Bath does basics well 

Portland Press Herald



The longtime Kitchen restaurant on Front Street in Bath was for a short time the Prodigal Sun Cafe, but that establishment closed recently and a new restaurant has taken its place.



Like its predecessor, Betty's Homestyle Cooking is low-key. With a home-spun feel encouraged by soft yellow walls, the restaurant also trumpets the city's ties to shipbuilding with maritime prints throughout.



The restaurant is small, and has a  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:15:14 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Review: For a hot dinner date, Burrito would be primo</title>
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			<description>For a hot dinner date, Burrito would be primo 

By N.L. ENGLISH

 Portland Press Herald



WESTBROOK — At Burrito the guacamole is fresh, the lime juice is freshly squeezed, and the salsa is chopped up every day.



&quot;Everything is made here except the hot sauce, and that's made in Westbrook,&quot; said Dan Hobbs, our excellent server.



I'll get back to the hot sauce later, but after a refreshing drink of the &quot;perfect margarita&quot; ($7.50), perfect indeed but for slightly  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:59:33 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Bangor to get new eatery</title>
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			<description>Bangor to get new eatery 

By Nok-Noi Ricker

Staff Writer Bangor Daily News



BANGOR, Maine - Locals will soon be able to pay a visit to &quot;the authentic West&quot; when a new LongHorn Steakhouse opens at the former Hogan Road location of Smokey Bones Barbeque &amp; Grill.



&quot;We’re looking to spend about eight weeks to change it from a Smokey Bones to a LongHorn,&quot; Bruce Peck, construction engineer from Darden Restaurants Inc. of Orlando, Fla., said Tuesday.



Darden Restaurants  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:19:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Review: Nakornping, if you've a hankering to try Thai</title>
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			<description>Nakornping, if you've a hankering to try Thai 

By N.L. ENGLISH

 Portland Press Herald



In a space that has housed several restaurants over the last few years, Nakornping Thai, owned by Chanint Hanjitsuwan, is serving its own take on chicken sate, spring rolls and coconut milk curries.



It can be a challenge to stand out among the dozen Thai restaurants in Portland, but Nakornping's appetizers, like the sate and the &quot;shrimp in a blanket,&quot; are excellent, and some of the entrees  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Spurwink Country Kitchen a delicious throwback</title>
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			<description>Spurwink Country Kitchen a delicious throwback

By N.L. ENGLISH

Portland Press Herald 



SCARBOROUGH — For years I have searched Maine for the restaurants that would make sense of the past. Surely Maine's inexpensive restaurants once served good food, or no customers would have flocked inside.



Since I couldn't figure out how to travel back in time to taste pie in diners before the delivery trucks took over, I have wandered into inexpensive places up and down the state in hopes that  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:23:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Lakewood Inn has a history of both ups and downs</title>
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			<description>Lakewood Inn has a history of both ups and downs

BY DOUG HARLOW

Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

 

MADISON -- The present Lakewood Inn Restaurant was built in 1927. During the winter of 1938-1939, the terrace dining room, formerly an outdoor eating place, was closed in. Later, the kitchen doubled in size.



In a far corner is the Bette Davis table. Davis never performed on the Lakewood Theater stage as far as anyone knows, and while she is believed to have visited friends at the theater,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:39:25 GMT</pubDate>
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