About The Maine Agenda

The Maine Agenda is an independent guide to the best of Greater Portland, Maine: golf, tennis and pickleball, restaurants, the outdoors, and everything worth doing within about 25 minutes of downtown.

We are not a tourist guide and we are not pay-to-play. No venue, restaurant, or club pays for placement, and we have no business relationship with anything we cover. When something is overpriced or overrated, we say so. When something is great, we explain exactly why.

Our research process: every venue in every guide is verified as currently operating before publication, and guides are re-checked and updated regularly. The date on each article tells you when it was last reviewed.

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