If I haven’t posted lately it’s not  that the latest version of a lettuce wrap didn’t quite excite.  But, rather, the current flock of restaurants in Greater Portland has been covered so much by others lately that I truly wasn’t inspired to add my two cents.  Yet there were some highlights worth mentioning. Take, for example, my recent visit to Tipo, Chris Gould’s—of Central Provisions renown–new far-flung dining outpost–in an off-peninsula wilderness, a location that’s strictly neighborhood.

The dining bar at Tipo

But on the day that I visited Tipo I had also gone to Gould’s C-P for lunch and wondered why I haven’t been going there regularly, especially in the winter when the crowds are much thinner on a winter’s day lunch hour than at the height of the summer crush.

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