Breakfast at Lenora, a new Mexican avenue foodstuff cafe that opened Monday in Old Port. Courtesy of Lenora
Lenora, a taco bar specializing in Mexican-inspired avenue food, opened this 7 days in Outdated Port.
Following considerable renovations, the 115-seat restaurant introduced Monday at 2 Portland Square, in the place formerly occupied by Walter’s, which closed in 2019. Co-operator Jen Wyllie stated that when she and her spouse, Chef Rian Wyllie, initially moved to Maine from Boston 5 a long time ago they noticed that Portland’s Mexican food stuff scene seemed lacking.
Wyllie and her partner – previous chef at Very little Huge and Maine Beer Firm – preferred to open up a cafe serving best-top quality agave-primarily based beverages, some Mexican-fashion little plates like street corn and tostadas, and a range of tacos served on property-produced corn tortillas.
“Once you have tacos on handmade corn tortillas, it’s a total various ball game,” Wyllie said, noting that Lenora will also give eight salsas in several designs to pair with the tacos.
Rian Wyllie experienced been chef-partner at the Lone Star Taco Bar and Deep Ellum, extremely regarded Mexican dining places in Boston. The Wyllies partnered with 3 Boston-centered co-house owners from individuals places to eat to open Lenora.
For now, Lenora is open for breakfast from 7 a.m. till 11 a.m. 7 days a week, featuring goods like seize-and-go breakfast tacos and bodega sandwiches, pastries, fruit-and-curd parfaits and a total espresso bar. Jen Wyllie reported Lenora will roll out its lunch and supper menus by the end of the month, and stay open up right until midnight.
“I enjoy that Portland appears to be to be a huge morning city. But there are no breakfast tacos or bodega sandwiches in the metropolis,” Wyllie explained. “I considered for the Aged Port, breakfast could seriously provide that group and be that detail that is steady for everybody.”
BREA LU Move SCUTTLED
Breakfast incredibly hot location Brea Lu Cafe is eyeing a new place on Most important Road in Westbrook soon after their strategies to shift to Larrabee Road this spring fell by means of.
Brea Lu proprietor Christian DeLuca mentioned they experienced prepared to relocate to 100 Larrabee Highway by Could. The new spot would have seated up to 170 individuals, a big maximize from the cafe’s present 45-human being potential. But late last 12 months the Brea Lu workforce figured out that the home, at first a tire warehouse, experienced no basement stage in the back 50 percent of the constructing, earning it unattainable to put in successful cafe plumbing.
“It was a nightmare. Sadly, we figured that out the tough way,” DeLuca stated.
DeLuca explained he then thought of one more space on Larrabee Road, but learned about two months back that the zoning would not allow Brea Lu the driveway obtain it desired.
DeLuca mentioned Tuesday he’s at this time in negotiations for a room on Primary Road. He stated it’s however way too early to disclose aspects about the area, but he hopes to understand as shortly as this week whether that new venue will operate.
The Major Avenue spot, like the Larrabee Street areas, will demand a whole establish out, and DeLuca said he hears the clock ticking louder all the time now: Brea Lu’s lease on their current place at 9 Cumberland St. operates out in 80 times, and the construction operate on your own will acquire lengthier than 80 days.
“We’re heading to have to near for a while (prior to reopening in a new place), we’re just attempting to continue to keep that time to a minimum,” DeLuca said. “We have 10 employees who rely on us. We’re in a authentic terrible location, and we’re hoping to get out of it.
“We’ve been in a difficult spot before and we designed it by means of that,” he added, noting that Brea Lu was pressured to shift from its primary locale at 428 Forest Ave. since of a fire in their developing in 2016.
“I never treatment if we have to wait a few months to open, we will open. It’s nothing at all we cannot do the job out,” DeLuca stated.
NEW FARMERS Industry FOR WOODFORDS CORNER
Thanks to the efforts of a nonprofit community team, a new farmers current market is scheduled to start in Woodfords Corner this June.
The industry is slated to open up June 1 and operate via Thursday, Oct. 5, according to Current market Manager Martha Lefebvre. She stated about half of the expected 8 suppliers have currently signed on for the time.
The vendors will present deliver, eggs, cheese, meat and poultry, Lefebvre mentioned, while occasion organizers strategy to present dwell new music and more enticements to make the market as spouse and children-helpful as achievable. The sector will be primarily based in a private parking lot in Woodfords Corner, the exact locale still to be finalized.
Lefebvre is a member of Pals of Woodfords Corner, the nonprofit corporation guiding the market that aims to make the region a “sustainable, thriving village hub.”
Lefebvre explained about 9,000 people today live within just half a mile of Woodfords Corner, and 20,000 folks drive by way of the intersection each individual day.
“Woodfords Corner is the measurement of a modest town,” she reported. “We want this to be a place, not just someplace people go via.”
LINDEMANN ON ‘TALKING FOOD’ Sequence
Mary Allen Lindemann Ben McCanna/Employees Photographer
Mary Allen Lindemann, co-founder of Portland’s Espresso By Layout, is the showcased guest for the Feb. 16 installment of “Talking Meals in Maine: Personal Conversations at the Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta.”
Espresso By Design, a community mainstay considering the fact that 1994, has very long had a commitment to functioning a sustainable business focused to social modify. Lindemann will be chatting with Talking Meals sequence host, Cherie Scott.
Lindemann has been a founding member of several companies, which include Portland Purchase Nearby, Ladies Standing Collectively, and the Olympia Snowe Management Institute. Most not too long ago, her emphasis has been on asylum seekers and immigration legal rights in Maine.
The 7 p.m. event is open to the general public, and no tickets or reservations are required. Find far more facts on the Speaking Food stuff sequence at lincolntheater.web.
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