Run & Eat: Rover Bagel is back in Biddeford, with a better pickup system
The beloved bagels are worth the cost and the drive, from wherever.
Photos by Bob Keyes
BIDDEFORD Isn’t it great when systems work as designed? Cooking and selling bagels isn’t rocket science, but I imagine it can be tricky and challenging to make everything come together smoothly so it functions like clockwork.
IF YOU GO
WHERE: 10 W. Point Lane, Biddeford, roverbagel.com
WHEN: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon Sunday
WAIT: None for pre-order
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.