Talk:The Hollow Reed

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it has six reliable references of continued notability. The restaurant closed in 1981. The Portland Press Herald wrote an article about Portland, Maine's reputation for food when the city became Bon Appetit's Restaurant City of the Year. That was 2018. The reporter interviewed Sam Hayward, the notable chef and owner of Fore Street restaurant, which opened 1996 more than decade after The Hollow Reed had closed. Hayward is quoted in the Portland Press Herald in that 2018 article that the Hollow Reed was an early Portland, Maine restaurant that deserves "credit for the city’s current reputation as a culinary destination." https://www.pressherald.com/2018/08/07/portland-named-bon-appetits-city-of-the-year/ The restaurant was mentioned in 2011 by Colin Sargent, editor of Portland magazine, called The Hollow Reed "beloved vegetarian restaurant on Fore Street."https://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2011/03/whats-25-years-between-friends/ The restaurant was mentioned in 2009 by Maine writer Elizabeth Peavey. She said: "a trip to the very groovy Hollow Reed in the Old Port was a must." http://thebollard.com/2009/11/10/outta-my-yard-63/ --BrikDuk (talk) 22:21, 18 May 2020 (UTC)