Celebrate Earth Day

The Brooklin Inn is part of a nationwide effort to celebrate Earth Day through food. The Earth Dinner is a promotion of Chef’s Collective, whose members focus on local, organic foods. Brooklin Inn’s menu features such ingredients every night, but on Saturday, owners Chip and Gail Angell have invited the farmers and fishermen who supply them to have dinner on the house. There are still a few seats left for paying customers. For more information, visit www.earthdinner.org or call 359.2777.

A new Bear Brew

The Bear Brew Pub in Orono has reopened with a full menu, including burgers, brick oven pizza and steak marinated in Bear Brew’s own beer. The restaurant is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. seven days a week. For information call 866-2739.

G’dinner, mate

Forget shrimp on the barbie. Chef Roger Gelis of Opus will pay tribute to the wines and cuisine of Australia at 6 p.m. Monday, April 24, with a menu of Australian lamb chops, hickory smoked salmon with daikon radish and deviled quali egg, and a mango-lemon cheesecake with spiced cashew crust and coconut froth. Each of the five courses will be paired with a selection from Down Under presented by Ethan Hunt of Old Bridge Cellars. The dinner costs $65 per person. Reservations are recommended. For information, call 945-5100.

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