We were tipped off that Thomas, the French guy in the kitchen, makes a great pomme de terre. They were thin, greasy in the best possible way, and topped with a casual slab of Muenster. The crab and avocado salad offers lots of both, along with bits of parsley and thick bacon. Sweet, crunchy carrot salad sneaks into all sorts of dishes, just as it did at 158. We found it cuddling up to our potato pancakes, and hiding under a very nicely done, very light, oven-roasted white fish.
In the meantime, the poor folks in South Portland don’t even get quite the good breakfast and lunch they used to enjoy, since 158 seems stuck in a post-partum funk in which things have gotten slower, sloppier, and less friendly. Having all that talent move a couple miles north must have been disorienting. No one said giving birth was easy, even when what’s born is delightful.
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