http://www.primorestaurant.com
2 S. Main St
Rockland, ME 04841
207.596.0770
Ingredients:
Most of the produce, dairy, and even MEAT come from their own farm. Lettuce likely picked that day. Hyper-local, sustainably caught fish. Pesticide-free/ pastured/organic everything. Other ingredients largely regional.
The Details:
$$$-$$$$
Reservations: Highly recommended
SUMMARY:
They raise their own pigs, people. Redefining “made from scratch,” this is unquestionably one of the best restaurants on Planet Earth, and it has been doing the farm-to-fork thing better (and longer) than nearly anyone else.
When I grow up, I want to be Chef Melissa Kelly. She’s whipsmart, talented, and, dammit, downright gorgeous. She also graduated top of her class at the Culinary Institute of America. She was trained in far-flung parts of the globe, so she’s fluent in numerous cuisines. The chef is so very deeply committed to real food, raised right that she grows and harvests most of the ingredients that she then cooks up from scratch at her wildly successful Maine restaurant.
She and her husband/cohort/sometime pastry chef Price Kushner have created something truly here in this renovated coastal Victorian home, making it a destination worthy of the great trek. As in, from Los Angeles. Or Vladivostok. Or from either Portland. Primo is cozy, homey, and sensational, a restaurant that celebrates green pastures by creating some of the best food you’ll ever put in your mouth. Want proof? Here’s a sample menu.
Not making the trip to the frigid East Coast anytime soon? You’re in luck: Melissa has opened two more Primo locations one in Orlando and one in Tucson. Both are in the full organic restaurant guide, to be released for cheap on Kindle shortly.
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