A yr to the month since opening in The Black Field on Washington Avenue in Portland, the fermentation market Onggi is transferring down the road to a brand new location 4 occasions greater than its unique store.

Onggi will reopen its expanded retail choices at 131 Washington Ave. on Saturday. The brand new 1,300-square-foot Onggi – its earlier house in a repurposed transport container was simply 300 sq. ft – will characteristic a pastry and lunch service led by Onggi co-founder Amy Ng.

Co-founder Marcus Im stated Onggi will proceed to serve buyer favorites like sourdough chocolate chip cookies, brown sugar milk iced espresso and vinegar shrub sodas. However the menu has been bolstered by new objects like kimchi handpies, and Basque-style cheesecake with strawberry shrub topping.

“We’re very enthusiastic about how our first yr in enterprise has gone,” Im stated. “It additionally feels nice that each one 4 of us can work within the new house with out bumping into one another on a regular basis.”

The homeowners stated they’ve additionally elevated their product line by including in-house ferments, proprietary tools and ferment-forward alcoholic drinks. The shop additionally will carry seasonal kimchis alongside bottles of makgeolli (Korean rice wine) and sake, and earthen crocks to assist clients make those self same ferments at dwelling.

The second ground at Ongii’s new location will likely be used to host fermentation lessons, workshops and collaborative occasions.

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Maine Grains founder addresses UK grains convention

Amber Lambke, founder and CEO of Maine Grains in Skowhegan, is the keynote speaker for the annual UK Grain Lab convention this week in Nottingham, England.

Lambke flew to London on Tuesday for the three-day grain convention that gathers farmers, millers, plant breeders, bakers, cooks, scientists and teachers to debate methods to strengthen and diversify the grains economic system in the UK. Lambke’s keynote speech, scheduled for Sunday, will cowl her expertise making a grain mill from a Nineteenth-century jail home, and in addition to constructing the infrastructure for a grain economic system in central Maine by shopping for wheat, rye and different grains from space farmers and making them into flour and oatmeal.

“A mill has actually opened up the probabilities in Maine,” Lambke stated, noting that Maine Grains will focus in coming years on increasing the area’s grain farmer community and rising the variety of grains and grain merchandise it sells.

Lambke defined that the founding father of the UK Grain Lab convention, Kimberly Bell, was the keynote speaker on the 2019 Kneading Convention, hosted by the Maine Grain Alliance.

Maine Grains additionally provides many Maine breweries with native grains for particular craft brews. Maine Brewers’ Guild Govt Director Sean Sullivan has referred to as Lambke one of many driving forces behind the farm-to-beverage motion.

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Yarmouth, Brunswick farmers markets launch new seasons

Robin Beckwith of Beckwith Farm helps a younger buyer on the Yarmouth Farmers’ Market final season. Courtesy of Yarmouth Farmers’ Market

The Yarmouth Farmers’ Market is scheduled to open for the 2022 season on Could 5 on the Bickford Pavilion at 1 Railroad Sq..

The market will likely be open Thursdays from 3-6 p.m. by means of October. Market supervisor Amy Sinclair stated 15 seasonal distributors and a rotation of visitor distributors will supply items this yr. Due to robust neighborhood help, practically all of final yr’s seasonal distributors will return to the market this yr, Sinclair stated.

“We’re psyched to be reopening,” she stated. “The market is rising yearly.” Sinclair stated market distributors are excited to reconnect with “the two-tote bag clients, whom we particularly love, as a result of they arrive to fill up for a number of days.”

The Yarmouth 2022 distributors are Andrews Farm, Tender Soles Farm, Beckwith Farm, Liberation Farm, Niyat Catering, Empanada Membership, Counterpoint Bread, Hailey’s Kitchen, Noisy Acres Farm, Nonetheless Brook Acres, Alchimia, Conscious People Farm, Liquid Riot, Artascope and Chef Paul, Sinclair stated.

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As well as, a number of meals vans and carts will likely be available at this season’s market, together with Snöbirds Shave Ice, Zephyr Ice, Giuseppe Roasters, Greeks from Peaks, Mainely Meatballs, Fortunate Lou’s, The Pink Waffle and The Large Dangerous Meals Truck.

On Could 7, the Brunswick-Topsham Land Belief Saturday Farmers’ Market returns to Crystal Spring Farm at 277 Nice Hill Highway in Brunswick for its twenty third season.

The Brunswick market will likely be open each Saturday from 8:30 a.m. till 12:30 p.m. by means of Oct. 26. The market is certainly one of Maine’s largest, with greater than 30 distributors, a few of whom have participated each season for the reason that begin.

Parking on the farm is proscribed, and fallow fields surrounding the market can’t be used for further parking as a result of it could degrade the land high quality, organizers stated, including that they encourage carpooling and bicycling to the market when doable.

Loss of life & Co employees at Portland Hunt + Alpine Membership

Workers from the Manhattan-based craft cocktail hotspot Loss of life & Co will take over the bar at Portland Hunt + Alpine Membership to showcase drinks from the bar’s new e-book, “Loss of life & Co: Welcome Residence.”

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Tickets are $60 and might be bought on-line. The elite cocktail bar Loss of life & Co launched in New York Metropolis in 2006 and now has places in Los Angeles and Denver, together with its flagship bar within the East Village. Gin & Luck, the dad or mum firm of Loss of life & Co, plans to open a brand new restaurant and bar this spring in Portland referred to as The Danforth within the former Little Large location.

Visitors on the occasion can mingle with Loss of life & Co staffers and e-book authors, get pleasure from handed appetizers and featured cocktails and can obtain a signed copy of the brand new e-book.

Occasion organizers stated 100% of the proceeds from the bar takeover will go to the nonprofit group One other Spherical, One other Rally, which gives monetary help for hospitality trade employees within the wake of the pandemic.

Crispy Gai profit dinner

To mark Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, Crispy Gai at 90 Alternate St. in Portland will host a collaborative profit dinner Could 11 at 6 p.m.

Seats for the five-course dinner are $85, and might be reserved by calling Crispy Gai at 207-536-1017. The restaurant will accomplice for the occasion with six different Asian-owned native food-and-beverage companies: Little Brother Chinese language Meals, Norimoto Bakery, Indy’s Sandwich, Ghee, Pho Huong and Golden Wat.

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Occasion organizers stated the dinner will profit Unified Asian Communities of Maine, a volunteer group dedicated to connecting and empowering Asian communities.

Casa Novello to reopen

After saying on Fb April 3 that they have been being compelled to shut due to staffing points and that “the legacy of Casa Novello has ended,” the Westbrook traditional Italian-American restaurant will reopen Tuesday with a brand new chef and different contemporary staffers becoming a member of their crew.

“We’re excited to announce that we’re reopening on Tuesday 5/3,” learn a Monday submit on the Casa Novello Fb web page. “We nonetheless have our two unique (kitchen) employees, and they’re excited to coach our new chef and new crew members so there aren’t any adjustments in any of the recipes!” The submit didn’t disclose the title of the brand new chef, and proprietor Hope Lawler couldn’t be reached Tuesday for an interview.

“We hope for a miracle,” Lawler wrote on the Casa Novello Fb web page in early April after declaring that the restaurant would should be closed indefinitely. Within the following weeks, Lawler reportedly heard from greater than 100 job candidates.

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