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Supper, seven days a week, year-round, from 5:30 p.m.
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From the south: take Rt. 1 N business. When Rt. 1 takes a left onto Main, Oak Street is the second left. We are first building on your right, a green & cream town home w/ a red neon sign.
From the north: take Rt. 1 S business thru Rockland, till you see the intersection of Rt. 1 N & S. Turn left (N) and follow the From the south directions, above.
Café Miranda: As a restaurant that changed the face of food in the Midcoast in 1993, Café M continues to trailblaze new styles, always changing food & procedure, growing our own fuel for our wood fired oven, sourcing local ingredients, hiring and mentoring staff, and retaining staff for long term employment. We do this with a playful, sometimes wacky, yet professional approach to the food with quality & integrity being the overall guidelines.
Café Miranda Foods: A spin off, produced in-house at Café Miranda. We offer retailers restaurant-quality, hand-madepastas, sauces, dip & spreads for home & foodservice use. We feature BIG flavor in soulfully conceived and hand made products. This arm is in a growing stage, sold throughout the Midcoast, to Bangor & Ellsworth, Whole Foods in Portland, and is poised to go regionally into Boston w/ Whole Foods.
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Owners: Evelyn A. Donnelly, Pastry Person, Bookkeeper, Wait person, Fine Leather Craftsperson, Entrepreneur & Co-owner of "The Wine Seller" in Rockland & The Best Mom to Evan. Kerry A. Altiero, Head Cook, Fixit guy, Entrepreneur & Dad to Evan. Evan A. Altiero, Son of the Above & "OFFICIAL CAFÉ MIRANDA VEGETABLE & TOFU TESTER." Karman B. Dawg, successor to Miranda A. Dawg, Company Mascot & Escape Dog.
We began dreaming about Café Miranda in the early '80s while working in a variety of restaurants in Pennsylvania & Cape May, New Jersey. Evelyn was apprenticing with John Bailey at the Bailywicke in Cape May as Kerry was doing the rounds at a good innovative restaurant town & vacation site working to add a variety of new styles to his "Eye-talian"-grandmother (see "I remember Connie" on the menu) cooking style.
We envisioned a small, casual place with a knowledgeable staff, a rather large & daily changing menu, loyal local following with many customers being on a first name basis. We named it Café Miranda after our dog, as a working name to give the yet-to-be restaurant a concrete identity as we developed the style.
By the late '80s it was time to make a move. To where? We cruised the east & came thru Rockland in '88 on a snowy February day & we liked it!
We wanted a place with a year round population, affordable buildings for Café Miranda, an un-tapped market, affordable & safe housing. Rockland & the Mid-Coast was it!
Kerry took a Chef's job at a local inn, The East Wind Inn, where he worked for four years while looking for the opportunity to "do Miranda."
In 1993 we found a building where the "Owls Fraternal & Benevolent Club" (ie: a gambling club) had resided since 1917. After several attempts at buying the building we finally got it on April first (!) & celebrated w/ a nice bottle of Champagne. Nine months later our son, Evan, was born & by that June of 1993 Café Miranda opened.
Our Mission was & is to provide a WIDE variety of hand made soulful ethnic & American styles of food, wine & desserts by a dedicated & professional long-term staff at a fair price. We continue to re-invent Miranda around those parameters and so far it has worked. Come eat. —The Crew.
by phone: 207 594 2034
by email: miranda@midcoast.com
by foot: 15 Oak Street, Rockland, Maine
***CAFÉ MIRANDA FRESH PASTA, SAUCES, DIPS & SPREADS...***
...are available thru
Nova Distributors, Ellsworth, Maine, 800-794-8224
or at these fine retailers:
French & Brawn, Camden; Royal River Natural Foods, Falmouth; Thomaston Grocery; Weatherbird, Damariscotta; Island Spirits, Vinyl Haven; Belfast Co-Op; Good Tern Natural Foods, Rockland; Megunticook Market, Camden; John Edwards Market, Ellsworth; Blue Hill Co-Op; The Store/Ampersand, Orono; UpFront & Pleasant, Farmington; Jess's Market, Rockland; The Market Basket, Rockport; Black Cherry Provisions, Falmouth; Tollman Pond Market, Rockport.
***SEASONAL MARKETS***
Pine Tree Market, North East Harbor; Buck's Harbor Market, S.Brooksville; Beech Hill Farm, MT Desert; Sawyer's Market, Southwest Harbor.
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