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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Down East Magazine and Portland Press Herald. Updated August 2026.
Empire Chinese Kitchen · Downtown
Maine's first dedicated dim sum restaurant, pairing a Cantonese wok chef with a dim sum chef for a menu of modern riffs on classic dishes. Down East Magazine has covered the Congress Street kitchen's role blending the past and present of the cuisine, and it has since been named in the Press Herald's takeout roundup.
Sichuan Kitchen · Downtown
Chef Qi Shen cooks a strictly Sichuan menu of numbing, chile-heavy dishes rather than the Chinese-American standards Portlanders were used to when the restaurant opened. The Press Herald has written that locals took a few years to warm to the traditional approach but now brag about the kitchen's focus on authentic technique.