The Wrap: A new whiskey bar, bagels are back, and more sushi
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The Portland Regency Hotel & Spa at 90 Milk St. in the Old Port has opened a whiskey bar.
Michael Silver, the hotel’s food and beverage director, says Ironside Whiskey Bar was part of a multimillion-dollar remodel of the lobby. The bar stocks well over 100 whiskeys, as well as a few high-end sipping tequilas and cognacs. Can’t make up your mind? The bar sells flights.
And if the pandemic has made us all start a bucket list, Ironside may be able to help whiskey lovers with theirs. One of the whiskeys the bar stocks is Double Eagle Very Rare, which costs $2,000 per bottle. Aged 20 years, only 199 bottles of this whiskey were made, Silver says, and just two bottles are in Maine. A one-ounce pour will set you back $400. The bar served its first glass weekend before last, Silver said.
Need something to look forward to? Mark your calendar with these winter events
From full-moon adventures to food-centric happenings in Freeport, there s plenty of fun to be had.
Jill Brady/Staff Photographer
In past years, putting together this roundup of winter events meant previewing things like outdoor festivals celebrating the snow, ice bars at restaurants and resorts, and the annual U.S. National Toboggan Championships at the Camden Snow Bowl. And then the pandemic came knocking, putting our ability to gather on ice. But there are still plenty of ways to make the most of winter.
Many of those events have been postponed for a year, which means this year’s slate looks a lot different. But will that stop us hardy Mainers from celebrating winter? Heck, no! Pandemic or not, we’ve still got full moons, starry skies and other reasons to skip in our Bean Boots (though some more snow would help a lot). So, let us forge ahead (safely) with what’s left of winter and make the mos
Need something to look forward to? Mark your calendar with these winter events
From full-moon adventures to food-centric happenings in Freeport, there s plenty of fun to be had.
Jill Brady/Staff Photographer
In past years, putting together this roundup of winter events meant previewing things like outdoor festivals celebrating the snow, ice bars at restaurants and resorts, and the annual U.S. National Toboggan Championships at the Camden Snow Bowl. And then the pandemic came knocking, putting our ability to gather on ice. But there are still plenty of ways to make the most of winter.
Many of those events have been postponed for a year, which means this year’s slate looks a lot different. But will that stop us hardy Mainers from celebrating winter? Heck, no! Pandemic or not, we’ve still got full moons, starry skies and other reasons to skip in our Bean Boots (though some more snow would help a lot). So, let us forge ahead (safely) with what’s left of winter and make the mos