Listicles

With Maine Restaurant Week on her mind, Meredith Goad of The Portland Press Herald queried local food experts about their favorite dishes from the past year for her Soup to Nuts column. It's a wide-ranging list from a knowledgeable bunch: burger with pimento cheese at LFK (Kate McCarty, The Blueberry Files); "lobsters cooked outside over a wood fire" at Abel's (right) on Mount Desert Island (chef Harding Lee Smith, The Rooms); tacos from Chase's Daily in Belfast (chef Melissa Kelly, Primo). [PPH]