Paloma’s Restaurant in Old Orchard Beach is an all-working day, informal Latin-American fusion restaurant with a menu that breaks from the New England seashore city norm. Courtesy of Paloma’s Cafe
Old ORCHARD Beach front — Cafe menus around the seaside have a tendency to be predictable.
Most attribute Maine seafood in different family members-welcoming guises like seafood platters, lobster rolls and fish sandwiches, along with a smattering of acquainted faves like burgers, pizza and wings. You really do not frequently uncover menu products that depart from the tried-and-legitimate adequate to make your day at the beach feel more like an precise holiday vacation.
Paloma’s Cafe at 15B Grand Ave. serves its Latin-American fusion foods all day, providing a refreshing split from customary beach front restaurant foodstuff. The informal restaurant itself is a three-minute wander from Saco Bay, but the menu has the probable to transportation you a great deal farther.
I frequented for lunch on a tranquil Wednesday afternoon. The attentive, smiling staff members seemed to hustle irrespective of group dimension, and I was quickly presented a menu.
I scanned the selections, which include things like American expectations like rooster tenders with honey mustard and fries and a fried fish sandwich, but if you’re just slightly more adventurous, you can go for starters like chicken skewers with chimichurri salsa ($9) or bacon scallops skewers with tomatillo jelly ($11).
Major dishes consist of a Cuban sandwich ($13), taco salad in a fried tortilla bowl ($14), and salchipapa “poutine” ($12), 1 of the town’s most intriguing variations on the fries-gravy-cheese dish so popular with its quite a few Canadian website visitors.
Paloma’s version – a mashup of French Canadian poutine and the South American salchipapa dish of fries and sausage – includes rooster, sausage, garlic aioli, queso cotija and a quail egg. The luxe tiny egg hints at the pedigree of house owners Carlos Guzman and Alejandra Herrera, who also run the upscale Latin cafe Pacifico in Saco and Quiero Cafe in Saco and Portland.
Guzman and Herrera joined with spouse Adriana Garcia to open Paloma’s on July 1. Open all day, Paloma’s also serves omelettes and breakfast sandwiches ($11) in the mornings.
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