Rick’s redefining the familiar in impossible-to-resist style

Rick Barbata

We recently enjoyed a very fine dinner at Rick’s, the new restaurant in Portland’s East End.

This renovated storefront is now a pretty cafe, freshly painted and cleverly partitioned to maximize what had been little more than a large square room. The track lighting is dim and glowing, and the antique desk used for reception, the wooden sideboard used to store table settings and condiments, and the old pine swinging doors to the kitchen add warmth and charm to the atmosphere.

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