The Golden Dish Blog Archive February, 2012

Portland's Only True Blue Spoon

Submitted by John Golden on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:47pm.

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Small restaurants annoy me, especially those cramped 20-seat rooms where sitting down at a table is like putting a square peg into a round hole.

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Comfort Fare at El Rayo Cantina

Submitted by John Golden on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:18pm.

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What appealed to me so much about the newly opened El Rayo Cantina is its unyielding charm as a casually elegant venue for inventive Mexican cooking that’s typical of cantina-style fare. Call it Mexican comfort food.

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Middling Fare at Romano's Macaroni Grill

Submitted by John Golden on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:41pm.

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Take Two: Dinner at Schulte & Herr, Portland's German Standout

Submitted by John Golden on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 2:41pm.

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When Chef Brian Davin and his wife Steffie opened the exceedingly engaging Schulte and Herr restaurant on Cumberland Avenue in Portland last fall serving breakfast and lunch, word spread fast that we had a culinary wunderkind in our midst. This was no doppelganger for heavy Germanic cooking, but rather the chef showed an exceedingly light touch in his interpretation of his homeland’s classics.

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John Golden has written about food and dining for Gourmet Magazine, Cuisine Magazine, the New York Times, New York Post, and, most recently, wrote the blog Food for Thought on the Portland Press Herald’s MaineToday.com. He was also the NY editor of Cuisine Magazine and Publisher/editor Great Foods Magazine. In his highly opinionated blog, John reports on his experiences dining out all over Maine and on his visits to the many farmers’ markets throughout the state.

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