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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Portland Press Herald and The Forecaster. Updated August 2026.
Nura Hummus, Falafel, and Shawarma · Downtown
Nura, the Portland Press Herald's Best New Restaurant of 2020, builds its menu around Levantine staples: hummus with just the right dose of tahini, shawarma-spiced French fries, and pita sandwiches stuffed with crunchy falafel and slathered in garlicky toum, a menu it has largely left alone since opening.
Jaffa Mediterranean Grill · Falmouth
Jaffa Mediterranean Grill brings Arab cooking to a Route 1 storefront in Falmouth, opened by two owners with family roots in Jordan and Palestine who met in Old Orchard Beach before deciding together to start a restaurant serving the food of their childhoods.