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Evangeline
(207) 791-2800
190 State Street, Portland
Open Monday to Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
www.restaurantevangeline.com
Hospitality- Growing ever more congenial
Entrées $22 to $30
A destination for Francophiles and food lovers
Erik Desjarlais opened Evangeline in 2008 with a vision of impeccable ingredients and classic presentations. Where else can you enjoy canard presse, or pressed duck ($60 for two, and requiring a 24-hour advance order)? Tour d'Argent is just so inconvenient when you live on the coast of Maine, but this handsome boite is close at hand in Longfellow Square.
While you are working yourself up to that ultimate meal, however, you can enjoy clabber-fed chickens with a succulent meat you just might never have tasted, along with crisp sweetbreads, fresh mussels, frog's legs and much more on a seasonal menu that won't ignore spring, summer, winter or fall. If you are in luck, you will find profiteroles on the menu for dessert.
A three-course prix-fixe meal is served on Monday night, usually for $35, and is a way to enjoy a variety of items from the regular menu without spending as much as you might otherwise. The bar menu, offering tartines served with the kitchen's excellent frites for $12 and a Spanish omelet for $9, is another economical option.
Special event meals like prix-fixe Mother's Day, Father's Day and Bastille Day meals, are served. Twenty percent of the proceeds of the Bastille Day meal go to Share Our Strength Maine, a nonprofit organization that supports soup kitchens and food banks statewide.
Updated July 7, 2010