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Bar Guide: Via Vecchia crafts inspired cocktails around Italian liqueurs
The Old Port restaurant has a weekday happy hour menu with drink specials and small plates.
By Angie Bryan
Photos by Angie Bryan
Located in the former site of Vignola & Cinque Terre, Via Vecchia (Italian for “old street”) is the kind of place where no detail has been overlooked. The atmosphere commands your attention before you ever enter, with ivy-covered brick walls and a cozy patio, but the décor once you come inside is absolutely breathtaking.
IF YOU GO
WHERE: 10 Dana St., Portland, 207-407-7070, vvoldport.com
WHEN: 4-9:45 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 4-10:45 p.m. Saturday, 4-8:45 p.m. Sunday; apéritivo (happy hour) 4-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday
Portland won’t close iconic Old Port street to traffic this summer
While some side streets in the Old Port will again be closed to support outdoor dining and shopping, Exchange Street will remain open to traffic.
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Portland plans to close some Old Port streets to vehicle traffic again this summer, but Exchange Street will remain open.
The barricades last year allowed some businesses to expand outdoor seating or shopping into the empty street, so customers could avoid coming indoors and practice social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some businesses, especially restaurants, took advantage of that option. Others, particularly retailers, said their foot traffic dropped. The city reopened the streets when the temperatures dropped in November but allowed outdoor dining to continue.
Updated on January 29, 2021 at 6:57 pm
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Next week, Maine will follow Massachusetts in allowing businesses to stay open past an early closing time for the first time in months.
Maine s 9 p.m. business curfew has been in place since before Thanksgiving, when Gov. Janet Mills implemented it as a way to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading over the holidays.
“The early closing time was aimed at reducing the higher rate of COVID-19 transmission,” she said Thursday, adding that “Maine is beginning to round that corner on that post-holiday surge.”
As of Thursday, the state’s seven-day PCR positivity rate was 3.64%.