A friend suggested that I go to Sonny’s because, she said, “The new menu is terrific.” My first reaction was how different could it be if the restaurant has remained a basic haunt for Latin-inspired cooking? Was there an invigoration of Cal- España -Latin fusion fresh off the plains?
So we went there for dinner earlier this week—the first time in at least a year. I used to go for lunch often, but the restaurant stopped serving during the day.
Sonny’s is prominenly figured along the Old Port’s restaurant row
The room is basically the same: darkened nooks and crannies with banquettes and tables in this historic space, which 150 years ago was the ornately designed Portland Savings Bank that was built after the fire of 1866. The rear dining room is more spacious and brighter. And the bar, as always, was packed–a popular watering hole for the after-5 office crowd. Millennial Central? To a degree.
