Every year I take a handful of trips up to Portland, ME. It’s one of my favorite places to visit. Winter, Summer, Spring – there’s no wrong time to go. You can spend a day, or five, and still leave wanting more.

Most of my trips to Portland turn into never-ending restaurant crawls. The maze of streets in between Commercial and Congress are flooded with incredible places to eat, drink and shop. And every time I return, there’s a number of new places that have been added to the roster as independent business owners continue to open up shop.  An inexpensive hospitality oasis less than 2 hours from Boston? If you haven’t made a trip yet you should seriously start asking yourself “Why?”