Fore Street (restaurant)

Restaurant in Maine, United States

Fore Street

The restaurant's entrance (2023)

Restaurant information
Established| 1996 (28 years ago) (1996)
Owner(s)| Dana Street
Sam Hayward
Head chef| Tony Pastor
Street address| 288 Fore Street
City| Portland
County| Cumberland County
State| Maine
Postal/ZIP Code| 04101
Country| United States
Coordinates| 43°39′29″N 70°15′04″W﻿ / ﻿43.658123°N 70.25100°W﻿ / 43.658123; -70.25100
Website| www.forestreet.biz

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]

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

* Interior (2019)

* The lower rear of the building is occupied by Standard Baking Company in this 2024 photograph

## References

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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.

## External links

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* Official website
* Fore Street Boston Magazine

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