The Wrap: New hires, Italian truffles, and a beer barrel to call your own
Chef Cara Stadler makes some changes at Bao Bao Dumpling House in Portland, and Tao Yuan in Brunswick.
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Looking for a fun road trip to kick off summer? How about a drive-in movie in a lovely coastal Maine town?
Nine June, an Italian restaurant in Rockport, is co-hosting, in partnership with the Camden International Film Festival and Points North Institute, a screening of “The Truffle Hunters,” a documentary about the lives and culture of the elderly men who hunt for white Alba truffles in the forests of northern Italy. The film will be shown at 8:30 p.m. June 3 at the Shotwell Drive-in Theater, 40 West St., a new Rockport drive-in. Tickets cost $20 per car. Buy them online at shotwelldrivein.eventive.org. Check out the trailer at sonyclassics.com/film/thetrufflehunters/
Portland’s hard-won identity as a food city is here to stay
An abundance of local food, eager diners and ambitious chefs built the city s restaurant scene, and they re not going anywhere.
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Bernard Cabrera of Portland warms his hands by a fire in the Oxbow beer garden in Portland on a Friday evening in early February. He and his wife, Jennifer Wolcott, were enjoying dinner at the brewery. They love Portland s food scene and are hopeful it will survive the pandemic. I have faith, seeing the entrepreneurial spirit in this town, and the creativity, and the incredible talent of the chefs here, Wolcutt said. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
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