The city's brewery and warehouse district north of Marginal Way: Bissell Brothers, Lone Pine, Goodfire, Rising Tide and Oxbow Blending and Bottling. Industrial blocks turned taproom row.
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Order The full chef's tasting; choose the supplement courses if the kitchen is running uni or sea urchin.
Twelve at Portland Foreside since 2022, now led by Chef Hannah Ryder, runs a Maine-ingredient tasting menu around an open kitchen on Thames Street.
Order The pho ga chicken broth, then banh xeo with shrimp and pork.
Cong Tu Bot on Washington Avenue opened 2017 from Vien Dobui and Jessica Sheahan, a tight Vietnamese menu of pho ga, banh xeo and cha gio in a small space.
Order A flight of yakitori from the charcoal grill, then the chicken karaage.
Izakaya Minato on Washington Avenue opened 2017 from Chef Thomas Takashi Cooke, with binchotan-grilled yakitori, donburi bowls and a deep sake list.
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Order Filter coffee from house-roasted single origins
Tandem Coffee Roasters on Anderson Street, since 2012 from Will and Kathleen Pratt, is the working East Bayside roastery and cafe with espresso and filter.
Order Rebel Blend espresso
Coffee By Design on Diamond Street is Portland's flagship coffeehouse and roastery, since 1994 from Mary Allen Lindemann and Alan Spear. Tours by appointment.
Order Wood-fired bagel and a flat white
Forage Market on Washington Avenue in East Bayside, a wood-fired bagel cafe with all-day Speckled Ax-roasted coffee, schmears and brunch sandwiches daily.
Order House masala chai with Speckled Ax espresso
Moonday Coffee at the Black Box on Washington Ave in East Bayside, a shipping-container roastery cafe pulling Speckled Ax and pouring scratch-made masala.
Order Wild Maine blueberry pie
Two Fat Cats on Lancaster Street, founded 2005 by the Fore Street team and bought 2012 by Stacy Begin, runs whoopie pies, fruit pies and cakes.
Also on this listForage Market
Tandem Coffee Roasters on Anderson Street, since 2012 from Will and Kathleen Pratt, is Portland's flagship third-wave roastery and East Bayside cafe.
Coffee By Design on Diamond Street, since 1994 from Mary Allen Lindemann and Alan Spear, is Portland's longest-running independent roastery.
Lay Day Roasters on Preble Street in Bayside Portland, a small-batch micro-lot specialist with a rotating single-origin program and a quiet roastery cafe.
Maine and Loire on Washington Avenue, from Peter and Orenda Hale, is Portland's natural-wine flagship with Loire-led pours and counter charcuterie.
Try Belgian frites in duck fat
Duckfat Frites Shack on Washington Avenue is the takeout sibling to Duckfat, serving duck fat fries, fried snacks, milkshakes and beer at a shared patio.
Try Salvadoran pupusas
Tu Casa on Washington Avenue runs a Salvadoran kitchen with hand-made pupusas, curtido, fried plantains and tamales de elote in a tight East Bayside room.
Goodfire Brewing on Anderson Street in East Bayside, since 2017, runs hop-forward IPAs alongside crisp lagers and a German Kolsch (Dizzy Spell).
Lone Pine Brewing on Anderson Street opened 2016 from Tom Madden and John Paul, with core IPAs (Portland Pale, Tessellation) and a pilot system for one-offs.
Oxbow Blending and Bottling on Washington Avenue, since 2014, is the Portland blending and bottling outpost of the Newcastle, Maine farmhouse brewery.
Rising Tide Brewing, founded 2010 by Nathan and Heather Sanborn and at 103 Fox Street since 2012, anchors East Bayside as a Portland craft pioneer.
Austin Street Brewery on Industrial Way, since 2014 from Will Fisher and Jake Austin, runs hop-forward IPAs and a clean German-style pilsner.
Definitive Brewing on Industrial Way, since 2017, runs a clean lager-forward program from a warehouse-and-patio taproom with rotating Fri-Sun food trucks.
Maine Veg Fest is the Maine Animal Coalition's free plant-based food day, now in its 21st year, at the East End Community School with thirteen vendors, three food trucks outside, samples and meals for sale indoors, speakers and live music at noon.
Try Wood-fired bagel sandwich
Forage Market on Washington Avenue runs wood-fired Montreal-style bagels and bagel sandwiches under twelve dollars from the East Bayside counter.
Try Salvadoran pupusa plate
Tu Casa on Washington Avenue griddles Salvadoran pupusas to order, with revuelta, loroco and chicharron fillings, in a small East Bayside room at low prices.
Also on this listDuckfat Frites Shack
Order Breakfast sandwich on Standard Baking biscuit; the bloody mary bar.
Bayside Bowl on Alder Street runs weekend brunch from the kitchen of the downstairs bowling alley, with a rooftop bar that opens at noon through summer.
Also on this listForage Market
The rooftop at Bayside Bowl on Alder Street is Portland's flagship summer rooftop bar, atop the downstairs bowling alley, with city views, a long drinks list and Standard Baking biscuit sandwiches from the kitchen.