Fore Street (restaurant)

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. Its former chef Hayward was named the top chef in the Northeastern US in 2004 by the James Beard Foundation. In 2002, The Atlantic magazine named Fore Street a "restaurant to build a trip around."[1] In February 2011, Fore Street was nominated by the Beard Foundation for the award of 'Most Outstanding Restaurant'.[2]

Fore Street
The restaurant's entrance (2023)
Restaurant information
Established1996 (1996)
Owner(s)Dana Street
Sam Hayward
Head chefTony Pastor
Street address288 Fore Street
CityPortland
CountyCumberland County
StateMaine
Postal/ZIP Code04101
CountryUnited States
Coordinates43.658123°N 70.25100°W / 43.658123; -70.25100
Websitewww.forestreet.biz

Dana Street owns three other businesses in the city: Street & Co., Standard Baking Co. and Scales.[3][4]

Interior

References

  1. Fore Street The Atlantic, April 2002
  2. Maine chefs, restaurants are Beard semifinalists Archived 2011-02-21 at the Wayback Machine Kennebec Journal, February 17, 2011
  3. "Fore Street Restaurant". Fore Street Restaurant. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  4. Callaghan, Adam H. (2014-12-18). "Dana Street, Sam Hayward Inch Closer to Total Domination of Downtown Portland". Eater Maine. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
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