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Mariner's Church (also known as the Old Port Tavern and Mariner's Church Banquet Center) is a historic church and commercial building at 366–376 Fore Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1828, the Greek Revival building historically served as both a church and marketplace. It was for many years the city's largest commercial building, and ...
The vessel viewed from Portland Pier in 2024. The restaurant was established in 1982 by Tony DiMillo (1933–1999), who reused the name of his previous business, a lobster restaurant located on the opposite side of Commercial Street. DiMillo's Lobster House opened in 1965.
The Old Port district is located on the southeastern side of the Portland peninsula, overlooking the wide mouth of the Fore River and the Port of Portland.It is bounded on the east by Franklin Street (U.S. Route 1A), with Commercial Street running southwest along the waterfront, and 19th-century buildings on its north side as far west as Maple Street.
Fore Street is a restaurant at 288 Fore Street in the Old Port neighborhood of Portland, Maine, United States. Owned by Dana Street and Sam Hayward, the restaurant opened in 1996. It was named one of Gourmet magazine's top 50 restaurants in the United States in 2002, being placed 16th on the list.
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Fore Street was the original waterfront of Portland's Old Port, [2] prior to the reclamation of land which resulted in today's Commercial Street in the early 20th century. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The street was laid out in 1724 to the foot of Exchange Street on the west side of Clay Cove, [ 5 ] the location of the Nathaniel Dyer Shipyard. [ 6 ]
The Portland Phoenix named it the Best Greasy Spoon of 2008. [3] In 2016, the diner was featured in the Guy Fieri Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Thanksgiving episode. [4] Rand made her sausage stuffing. [5] In 2024, the opening scene of crime writer John Connolly's book The Instruments of Darkness was set in Becky's Diner. [6]
The Port of Portland is a seaport located in Portland, Maine. It is the second-largest [3] tonnage seaport in New England as well as one of the largest oil ports on the East Coast (the second-largest prior to 2016 [4]). It is the primary American port of call for Icelandic shipping company Eimskip. [5]