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Some Portland-area restaurants now requiring vaccinations for indoor diners
They are following a growing national trend as restaurants worry about new COVID variants and rising numbers of cases in their communities.
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Briana Volk is a co-owner of the Portland Hunt & Alpine Club, which has decided not to serve unvaccinated customers indoors. It is one of three restaurants in Portland that adopted such a policy over the weekend. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
Three Portland-area restaurants announced over the weekend that customers dining indoors must be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Little Giant on Danforth Street, the Portland Hunt & Alpine Club on Market Street and Crown Jewel on Great Diamond Island have instituted the new rules: While anyone is welcome to eat on their outdoor patios and decks, customers wishing to dine inside must be vaccinated. The policies also apply to people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, and pe
Some Portland-area restaurants now requiring vaccinations for indoor diners
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Throughout many parts of Europe, tall leaf- and flower-adorned maypoles were raised to welcome summertime and signal hopes for a bountiful harvest. Briana Volk, proprietor of Portland Hunt + Alpine Club in Portland, Maine, remembers seeing a maypole when she attended the annual Scandinavian Festival in Astoria, Oregon.
“As a child, I would go with my Finnish grandparents to watch the crowning of the festival’s Miss Scandinavia, eat baked goods, dance to accordion music and see the maypole be raised,” she says. “The festival was always the highlight of my summer.”
Her homage is a boozy parfait that layers fresh berries with crushed ice and gets topped with vodka, kombucha and peach. For those who seek a project, Volk suggests swapping kombucha for sima, a Finnish fermented drink flavored with lemons.