<p>Any suggestions for a long May weekend?</p>
<p>There have been several recent magazine articles about Portland’s food scene that describe many of the restaurants. Of the newer places, I’ve only been to Cinqueterre, which was excellent. (I may be spelling it in the wrong language.) I’ve heard very good things about Bresca. If you want something more casual, DuckFat is fun. Hand cut french fries with duck gravy and fresh cheese curds and a draft beer…
(Shameless self-promotion: if you go to Aurora Provisions in the western Prom area or Black Tie Bistro on Commercial Street you can buy on of my truffles for dessert.) </p>
<p>If you are going to be in town the first Friday of the month, I would definitely recommend the Art Walk. All of the galleries in the “art district” stay open until 8 or so and people roam around the streets going from gallery to gallery–often with a glass of wine they got at the last one! 
Otherwise, the Portland Museum of Art is good and both it and the many galleries in town are open during normal hours. I think that the PMA may be free every Friday evening. The Victoria Mansion is interesting to tour if you are into that kind of thing (I am.) The Longfellow House is also.</p>
<p>If you want to go to a classic lobster pound, the Harraseeket in South Freeport village (NOT the Harraseeket Inn on the main drag in Freeport) is good, if rough and ready. The Lobster Shack at Two Lights in Cape Elizabeth is in an amazing location on the coast and you can roam about on the rocks before/after eating. I don’t know whether either of them will be open though: it would be wise to google. People often want to go to Portland Head Light, which is in Fort Williams Park on the way to or from Two Lights.</p>
<p>Wandering around the Old Port in Portland is always fun: a working waterfront, cobbled streets, lots of little coffee houses, shops (not chainstores), restaurants, and Gritty McDuff’s brewpub. The Portland area has a number of really good local breweries and brewpubs, and most of the local places will have at least one of their beers on draft.</p>
<p>What kind of thing do you like to do?</p>
<p>We spent a night in Portland last summer on our way back from Blue Hills. We had the most amazing meal ever at this restaurant: [five</a> fifty-five](<a href=“http://fivefifty-five.com/]five”>http://fivefifty-five.com/)</p>
<p>We might be there on the same weekend - I am already looking forward to a trip to RiRa’s Irish pub, a pizza at Flatbreads and a CascoBay roll at Fuji - these are all in the Old Port area, while I was working there I didn’t get around much unfortunately…but…</p>
<p>…I agree with Consolation about Harraseeket, on nights that we worked late that would be the only place still open, they open on May 1st so you are fine there</p>