Inside Maine
DiningThe Protégés
Fore Street-trained chefs get quietly creative at Back Street Bistro in Brunswick.
In the late '80s, Sam Hayward opened 22 Lincoln in Brunswick, a ground-breaking restaurant that brought together the bounty of local organic farmers, foragers, and fishermen with Hayward's back-to-basics, elemental approach to food and cooking. In his restaurants since -- most notably Portland's Fore Street -- he's trained a series of young chefs, two of whom, Chris Pillsbury and Bob Magda, have brought an admirable second act to town in the Back Street Bistro.
