The West End News Food & Travel section. Local reviewer James Fereira visits your favorite local eateries and shares all the good with a little snark. And West End independent travel agent Nancy Dorrans takes readers around the world in search of adventure.
The Portland Palate Bonobo Wood Fire Pizza by James Fereira Before we get to the Bonobo review… One activity I find myself in as a newly-out writer is collaborating with my handful of... Read more
Bucket Lists and Travel Tips What is on your bucket list? Or maybe I should start with, “What is a Bucket List?” According to Travis Bell, the Bucket List Guy, “A bucket list is, by de... Read more
The Portland Palate West End Markets Part II: The New by James Fereira I set out on a quest, visiting five local markets to ‘get my picnic on’ in the interest of invoking and welcoming a spr... Read more
Picnic, Anyone? West End Markets Part I: The Overlooked This month’s review deviates from the previous two in that, honoring WEN’s May theme of “gardening, spring and urban agriculture,” I w... Read more
by Nancy Dorrans Last month I traveled south just before Easter. While it was still cool, damp and gray/brown in Portland, where I was headed spring was in full bloom. My sister had invited... Read more
by Nancy Dorrans Earlier this winter I was invited by the Bermuda Tourism Authority to learn more about the island as an “Adventure Destination.” This is the tale of my Bermuda adventu... Read more
The Portland Palate Artemisia ‘A Good Choice Off the Beaten Path’ by James Fereira This cozy restaurant, hidden in plain sight in Portland’s “studio district,” is a great small find. Were it... Read more
The Portland Palate An Introduction to WEN’s New Food Review Ask and you shall receive… After our 2016 Reader Survey, the results were undeniable that West Enders want food reviews. So, I pu... Read more
Travel with Nancy Dorrans Sunny Side Positive Posts One of my Facebook friends posted this plea in late January: “Stop POSTING POLITICS EVERYONE!!” Okay I get it. Although I’m excited that s... Read more
From Maine to DC We got they-ah from he-ah! Nancy charters a bus to the Women’s March by Nancy Dorrans While in Iceland last November, days after the election I heard the low rumbling across... Read more
