An array of small plates, served with careful attention to flavor and texture. Local, seasonal ingredients used to maximum advantage. Well-balanced cocktails and a confident, savvy wine list. The ...

I remember the first time I went to an old-fashioned soda fountain as a kid. I was maybe 12 or 13, and new owners had just reopened a 1920s drugstore not far from where my family lived, in Pittsburgh.

Rowman & Littlefield [A] good lobster stew has a divine color, and it is good to make it ahead. A young Canadian friend visiting in the States a few years ago ordered a lobster stew at a diner and ...

Chefs thrive on the daily chaos and pressure of the kitchen. Hunting, on the other hand, involves a quiet chaos that centers me. It allows me to slow down, breathe deeply, and spend time with my dad, ...

When you’re seated at a picnic table next to a lush field of flowers at Jordan’s Farm in Cape Elizabeth, you can almost forget that you’re not at home. The sun is setting, the kids are playing happily ...

Everyone has a different idea of the perfect Maine summer — one man’s breezy beach day is another’s mountain climb or demolition derby. In our May 2015 issue, we assembled an oversized guide to ...

One of the strangest parts about being famous in the particular way that Nirav Shah is famous is that strangers often approach him and burst into tears. That and the Diet Cokes, cans of which get tied ...

Monday, July 27, 2020, dawned sultry and bright on Bailey Island, a village of about 400 full-time residents in the midcoast town of Harpswell. Early that morning, lobsterboats sputtered out of ...

If anyone could appreciate a good road, it was Adrian Brochu, who kept motorcycles stashed in Florida and Nevada so he could ride in warm weather year-round. He also appreciated the Maine woods and ...

The hegemony of the lobster roll, the unassailable position of Maine’s most iconic food, has an unfortunate side effect: another classic seafood sandwich, the sort that’s graced with fried fish, is ...

Sears Island is a wooded, egg-shaped piece of land in Penobscot Bay, about the size of New York City’s Central Park. Connected to the mainland via causeway, the island could provide commercial access ...